Kehlani spoke about against genocide, and a congressman—who’s funded by a lobby for the state committing that genocide—used his power to get her concert cancelled. The corruption here is so deep it extends beyond political maneuvering to censoring art.

Gaza is not starving, it is being starved. The World Food Programme says there is over 116 metric tons of food at the border. That’s enough to feed a million people for 4 months. But Israel won’t let it in. Israel is starving people to death. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

The FBI just arrested a judge in Wisconsin. First they ignored a judge’s orders, then they publicly challenged the power of the judicial branch as a whole, and now they are arresting judges. This is authoritarianism. This is fascism.

There have been many aspiring fascists in history. The ones who were successful in implementing fascism were able to do so because those with the power to stop it either joined, appeased, downplayed, or turned a blind eye. Fascism only takes root when people let it. So don’t fucking let it.

The Trump admin sent an innocent man to a torture camp and are refusing to bring him back even though they admit he was sent there by mistake and the Supreme Court ordered he must be returned. Where are the democrats? Why is the gov. still running?

This admin is cutting SNAP, Medicaid, med research, and many public health progs under the guise of cutting waste and fraud. And yet they just announced they have "essentially approved" a military budget of a trillion dollars. $1,000,000,000,000 for the Pentagon, which has failed its last 7 audits.

During his appearance with Netanyahu, Trump said it would be a good thing to have, “a peace force like the United States” in Gaza. Well, this “peace force” has partnered with the “most moral military in the world” to commit one of the worst genocides in modern times. Words mean nothing.

If someone wanted to filibuster weapons shipments to Israel, they could just read the names of the children killed in Gaza and break Booker’s record by many, many hours.

It’s depressing and infuriating to live in a country that can only muster up 15 Senate votes to stop actively arming a state committing genocide. It’s the bare minimum, and yet still a bridge too far for our sacred, imperial empire. Disgraceful.

25 million people do not have health insurance in the U.S. and tens of millions more are underinsured and forced to ration care and medicine. 20 million people have medical debt. And yet, the people behind the Make America Healthy Again movement are going to make all of these things much worse.

If you knew that a journalist was still in possession of the war plans you accidentally sent him, why would you say that you never shared war plans, knowing he could just publish the rest of the messages and prove you’re lying? These people are not just incompetent, they’re dumb as rocks.

It’s so crazy that the richest man in the world took control of our government and gutted medical research, domestic and foreign aid, the VA, the Nat. Park Service, and 10,000 other programs that help people, and we’re all just going on with our lives instead of shutting this entire economy down.

If you’re a journalist and you haven’t reported on the record number of journalists intentionally targeted and killed in Gaza, you should be forced to forfeit your position and give it to someone who cares about the profession, and the people who put their lives on the line to do it.

The vast majority of politicians and powerful institutions in America have made it abundantly clear, time and time again, that a group of zionists being uncomfortable is more of a concern than tens of thousands of Palestinians being killed.

Think local.

Trump cannot eliminate the Department of Education. But since he thinks he just did, I think that all student loans were just eliminated as well—permanently.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire and began bombing Gaza again, at least 436 people were killed, 183 of them children. To add another level of cruelty, many of these attacks occurred in N Gaza, where people had returned only a few weeks earlier to a toxic wasteland filled with mountains of rubble.

The $650 million verdict against @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social for campaigning against the Dakota Access #pipeline at Standing Rock is bigger than the environmental movement—it’s about all of our basic right to protest. #greenpeace

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

413 people were killed in Gaza yesterday. With yet another chance to choose diplomacy and humanity, with yet another chance to get the remaining hostages in Gaza released, the Israeli government has again showed their priority to be obliteration. What more do you need to see to realize what this is?

When asked about Gaza during his NY Times interview this week, Chuck Schumer said, “it is vicious of the opponents to call this genocide.“ So, according to Schumer: Reporting honestly on a genocide is, "vicious." But committing a genocide is not.

Columbia University still has not divested from weapons manufacturers or Israeli companies, and last April they broke their own rules and called the police on student protesters resulting in over 200 arrests. And now, this. Their full capitulation and participation in fascism is disgraceful.

The vast majority of U.S. politicians have a bigger problem with a former college student opposing crimes against humanity, than actual crimes against humanity.

When the state abducts a legal resident with a green card who is married to an American citizen to remove him from the country without any charges being filed, or trial occurring, that is fascism. It’s not a distant threat. It’s here. And while it might not have touched you yet, it will.

Israel has announced they are cutting off electricity to Gaza, one week after blocking all aid from entering: Two brazen war crimes to add to an ever-growing collection. Also worth noting that this starves the hostages in Gaza, the same people Israel has used to justify their genocidal acts.

When you use AI, you are participating in a system that is being used to automate dehumanization on many levels. It decides where bombs are dropped, who the government should watch, and who should be locked away, or deported. It also steals from billions of artists every minute.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

If protests are illegal, you don’t live in a democracy.

Civil disobedience is the lifeblood of democracy. That's why he's trying to kill it. Anything good in this country, started with protests and disruptions. Change starts at the ground level. Any school that bends to the will of an aspiring neo-fascist doesn't deserve to be an accredited institution.

One more positive note from the Oscars: “Flow” a beautiful film with no dialogue, made in Latvia by a small number of people using free animation software, won best animated feature. It went up against Disney behemoths with budgets in the hundreds of millions, and won. That’s inspiring as hell.

Award shows may seem trivial. In many ways, they are trivial. But “No Other Land” winning an Academy Award is still a big deal. Anything that helps platform these stories and get them out into the world is a big deal.

Israel has announced that they will block all aid into Gaza until their demands for the next ceasefire phase are met. Do what we want, or thousands of children will starve to death. That’s what they’re saying here. There is no clearer war crime that exists.

If NYC trades one corrupt, bombastic, center-right mayor (Adams) for another corrupt, bombastic center-right ex-mayor (Cuomo), the city is hopeless. Imagine if the largest city in the country actually elected a mayor for the people for once? Someone like Zohran Mandani.

Interesting that the same people who scream about free speech all the time also want to destroy the free press when they fail to propagandize to their standards. It's almost as if—and I know this sounds crazy—it has absolutely nothing to do with free speech, and is only about control.

I have seen a lot of depraved things during my time covering politics, but the president of the United States sharing an AI video depicting his plans to turn the site of a genocide into a more garish version of Atlantic City, is up near the top of the list.

Here is free speech warrior and unelected government official Elon Musk claiming that an entire news program should be in prison.

A 2024 audit found that VA medical centers were severely understaffed. In truth, the VA had been understaffed and underfunded since its inception. Hospitals for veterans are severally understaffed, and the Trump admin just fired 1,000 VA workers.

There are many people in the U.S. who think that medical researchers are a larger source of corruption than the richest man alive, who spent $288 million on the election, which in turn yielded him billions, and who has since seized control of the government to enrich himself by billions more.

To look at the site of an ongoing genocide—where tens of thousands of bodies are still buried beneath the rubble—and see a real estate opportunity is truly one of the most deranged things I have ever witnessed.

To look at the site of an ongoing genocide—where tens of thousands of bodies are still buried beneath the rubble—and see a real estate opportunity is truly one of the most deranged things I have ever witnessed.

Trump is going to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under the guise of saving American’s money, when it’s the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that has does precisely that. It saves people money. The CFPB has saved American’s over $21 billion over the last 12 years.

Musk has convinced Trump to halt funds to South Africa to punish them for an anti-apartheid law, and for their case of genocide against Israel. Trump also offered white South Africans (Afrikaners) asylum in the U.S. Musk is trying to turn the U.S. into the apartheid South Africa he grew up in.

Imagine coming from nowhere to write one of the most successful and beloved series of books in human history and then choosing to have "she was a hateful shithead to trans people" be your legacy instead. Truly a wild move.

Trump is presenting his ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza as a simple real estate deal. The whole thing is beyond ridiculous, but it’s important to remember that real estate has always been a tool used to perpetuate inequality, racism, and violence.

Imagine being interviewed about a home that burnt down, standing beside the arsonist who lit the fire using your gas and matches, and stating that the family who lived there cannot return and you and the arsonist now own it. Now multiply that occurrence by 1.8 million.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

Imagine being interviewed about a home that burnt down, standing beside the arsonist who lit the fire using your gas and matches, and stating that the family who lived there cannot return and you and the arsonist now own it. Now multiply that occurrence by 1.8 million.

Now that Trump has sat with Netanyahu and stated his support for Israel’s plan to ethnically cleanse the entire Gaza Strip, can everyone please admit that none of this had anything to do with self-defense or rescuing hostages? It’s all the same colonialism and imperialism we’ve seen for decades.

Instead of deporting people coming to America in search of a better life, or deporting those who protest for human rights, how about we deport the billionaire oligarch who spent $260 mill. on the last U.S. election, and who has now taken control of our government in a corporatist coup?

Over the 22 years it has been open, Guantánamo Bay, an illegal detention camp and a world wide symbol of injustice, has held a total of 780 people. Now, Donald Trump states he is going to somehow pack 30,000 migrants into Guantánamo creating what certainly sounds like a concentration camp.