After the North Carolina Democratic Party passed a first of its kind resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state and demanding a total arms embargo, most people didn't bat an eye. But since then over half a dozen members of Congress have disavowed AIPAC and come out in favor of restricting aid.

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

At this point they need Mamdani’s endorsement more than Mamdani needs theirs

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

PBS News Hour began 50 years ago with a different name. The show launched in 1975 as "The Robert MacNeil Report," and was inspired by MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's gavel-to-gave coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier. Deema Zein explains.

Israeli soldiers were filmed dragging and forcing two young Palestinian children to the ground, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Sky News has verified footage showing an Israeli-linked militia group, led by Ashraf al-Mansi, transporting food, fuel, and water from near an Israeli outpost to its headquarters in northern Gaza.

I asked a polite question. I didn't invite all of the new sh!tlib accounts to chime in. Go kiss Schumer's AIPAC @ss.

📌It is completely ABSURD Chuck Schumer and his Democratic elites pushed Janet Mills into the Maine senate race. I like Mills OK, but she will be 78 when she runs. It's past time to step aside and support new candidates. 📌I've lived in Maine and know Mainers. Mills running is a MASSIVE mistake.

And the sky is blue... The DNC is DOA.

US Senate candidate Graham Platner (I-Maine) posted this today - Karen Heck is the former mayor of Waterville, and she has evidence that the recently resurfaced social media posts designed to bolster Janet Mills were arranged by Chuck Schumer and his team.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

🔥 @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “The great irony is Trump is the son of an immigrant, grandson of an immigrant, married to an immigrant… in fact, 2 of his 3 wives were immigrants— proving yet again immigrants will do the jobs even Americans aren’t willing to do.” 😬🙃

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My full blog post that urges a more complete interpretation of the recent racist and antisemitic chat captures of the Vermont Republican State Senator. #vtpoli www.troyheadrick.com/2025/10/17/t...

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

“You shall be judged by the company you keep.”

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!" Pamela Jo Bondi

Los Angeles has just declared a state of emergency. Not because of wildfires. Not because of riots. But because of an invasion by federal government troops. We can see where this is going.

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Western media would never let something like this make it to print over the past 77 years. perhaps the tide is starting to turn

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

I bet Taylor Swift would be more popular if she wrote her own songs.

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Here's Patricia Routledge being given a Tony Award for Beat Actress In A Musical, which she won in a tie with Leslie Uggams, by Groucho Marx.

WATCH: “if you want to help us, help us.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on MSNBC calls out Donald Trump’s shameless military power play in Memphis, saying the right way to reduce crime is better gun safety laws and community investment.

“They” is not a “made-up pronoun.” It has been in use since the 13th century. And has been used by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. “Them" is also not a “made-up pronoun.” It has been in constant usage since before the 12th century. Chaya Raichik is a dangerous, bigoted fool.

wow.

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down. Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the institute wrote.

Jane Goodall, the influential primatologist who changed how people see chimpanzees and themselves, died Wednesday at the age of 91. She died of natural causes while she was in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on social media. (Photo: Apic/Getty Images)

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created. They’re holding the entire government hostage so they can raise health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throw millions off their health care. NO.

One of the things I love most about Bad Bunny is that he uses his massive platform to be explicitly political about Puerto Rico and its people. He regularly puts up documentaries highlighting how the island is being exploited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCX_Aqzoo4

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Larry Ellison takes control of TikTok, it’s not just a business deal .it’s another step toward authoritarianism. I was able to access truth and history here that mainstream media often avoids because of Trump’s influence. This is about controlling the narrative….

“A common thread through so many of these violent ICE confrontations is how the agents so often appear on the verge of a nervous breakdown or actively in the throes of one. Emotionally unstable ppl carrying a badge and a gun and threatening ppl with impunity is a recipe for heartbreak and disaster.”

It's ok if you say 'on accident' by accident, but 'by accident' is the one you want to use.

it's really disgusting that the same liberals who cheered the authoritarian assaults on protests under biden are complaining about the ice assaults under trump

Israel wants all Palestinians gone - dead or alive, from the river to the sea. That’s their ambition. That’s their plan.

Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert and the parent of a child with autism, notes that increased autism rates are also a consequence of improved diagnostic practices. He discusses the current state of autism research and the Trump administration’s larger attacks on mainstream science.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

None of this shit is ever gonna get better. It’s always just the same drill. America is cooked.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Wondering why the white dems who voted in favor aren’t on this morning show being questioned as to why they voted in favor. Why is the black women up here being questioned, as if it’s even a f*cking question. This country is so sick.