The U.S. ambassador doesn't represent Israel; he barely represents its crazies. But it's definitely possible that he represents an America in the making Gideon Levy www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Gallup had him at 34/62 in January 2021 news.gallup.com/poll/203198/...

X is unsafe for many people, period. I wouldn't post on there any sooner than I'd walk into a Klan convention. Literally not even an option.

I so wicked would!

Mr. Nobody Against Putin wins the BAFTA for Documentary youtu.be/19Px4k3vmEU?...

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Evil.

The defunded programs are defined by the Trump Admin itself as follows: “If we don’t deliver this, people die immediately.” We are living in the Era of Cruelty. When we drive them out, they will have to pay - and so will we. These programs must be restored.

Sociopathic and just, plain cruel and ignorant. The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Good evening:

“… being an algorithmic problem is a commitment to anachronism, to idiosyncrasy. ..putting yourself in situations where you are uncomfortable and engage w content and material that might not be the norm in the groups that you're inhabiting. It's important for a democratic society..”

"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Always be aware of your surroundings, this is no different. Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn Security officials are monitoring increasingly worrisome signs as President Trump considers another military campaign against Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

"Somebody should ask the tens of millions of dollars that were wasted on personal junkets by prior FBI directors before lecturing me on a budget for the Federal Bureau of Investigation." - Kash Patel, May 2025 www.instagram.com/reel/DKNt6bW...

Here is an article she wrote in 2017 attacking a seven year old Syrian child for speaking out against Assad regime warcrimes. The Bana Alabed Psy-Op Proves The West Is Saturated In War Propaganda caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-bana-ala...

A wretched actor. Simply, horrid, and it’s, always, so awful to see how many, otherwise, very smart people fall for her schtick. Know that these folks are making bank being vile disinformation spreaders. 👇🏼

“The Congress shall have power…to declare war.”

Interestingly, the pieces I’ve seen addressing this are from Turkish media. This is one. They’re facing death threats. www.aa.com.tr/en/world/eps...

“Freedom of memory,” wrote the skiier Kateryna Kotsar on her glove. It also works the other way around: we need memory for freedom.

The United States and Iran will hold their next round of nuclear talks Thursday in Geneva, a facilitator said Sunday, as the Islamic Republic faces both the threat of a U.S. military strike and new protests at home. https://to.pbs.org/4cEynbF

My comments on CNN about the impact of additional military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program

If only two years ago today there was some indication of the extreme, police state things Trump intended to do that are now super unpopular, maybe fewer people would have voted for him?

“The hour is getting very late for the loudest megaphones on our side to be in the hands of people so crippled by gender insecurity. Being called a “soy boy” is preferable to dying in a concentration camp, and we resist libs have lost all patience with those who seem to find this a hard choice.”

“And there it is. Female-coded resistance liberalism is too emotional—Nate is riffing off a tweet calling us “hysterical pussy hats”—men like him and Matt are rational. I talk about this symbolic sexism a lot, but then it’s hard not to—it really is gender all the way down.”

23 February 1910 | Jewish woman, Anna Frume Reichmann (nee Jakubowitz) was born in the Russian Empire (today’s Latvia). She went to Norway in 1937. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber together with her 6-month-old son Gerhard Benny.

Gov. Gavin Newsom was a big hit in Nashville yesterday.Went to several gatherings and warmly greeted at all

She shut it down. Reclaiming her time and her victories. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

"Once near-indistinguishable partners, [Saudi and UAE] are now strategic competitors." foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/27/s...

"While Saudi Arabia backs Syria’s new government, Israel and the UAE are reportedly cooperating to support secessionist Druze groups there." foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/29/s...

Gonna leave this here with no comment.

She's got a foundation and she's raising money "to provide free legal assistance to those in detention" in Minnesota. lookingoutfoundation.donorsupport.co/page/immandref

I do love Brandi Carlisle.

Feel the fever?

Annabella is, barely, 7. She’s a hero. Abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, try and convict those responsible for this gruesome policy that makes mockery of our Constitution and makes us a pariah nation. Do it for her and the thousands like her.

Absolutely gutted by this @ahylton26.bsky.social interview with a first grader who was left home alone for hours last month after ICE arrested her father outside their apartment.

USS Ford is a couple more months from breaking the record for longest sea deployment since the Vietnam war, back when volunteering for 330 days underway in the West Pacific seemed preferable to the draft

Accdng to several sources interviewed Khamenei was reportedly the target of an internal offensive w/in the system, led by former President Rouhani, to remove him from power just before the crackdown began on the night of Jan 8-9, when the protests were at their peak www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

This is so horrible.

Great list of follows, serving up good stuff to occupy your time online. Thanks! @americanstudier.bsky.social 🧵

My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority. Sorry.

I can say with a high degree of confidence that Dem party leaders and policymakers do not yet understand the degree to which a major shift in US policy toward Israel and Palestine will be required by the party and its next candidate if the are to be successful now and into the future.

The right kinda life.

It’s all SoMe. Mute, block, move on. Deny the ne'er-do-wells space and energy. Priorities. Stay well. Create the space you want to be in the (net) world.

Again, if you are not familiar with Robin Vos & his authoritarian game, here is a 🧵 & a long list of receipts:

@danshafer.bsky.social, who produces some of the very best journalism on Wisconsin politics, has written the definitive piece on Robin Vos, the one man directly responsible for almost incalculably corrosive damage to our state politics, economy, university system, & polity over the last decade.

Always support Mike, who lost his home in the Altadena fires last year.

Again, there is only one solution for a president who immediately goes to "the constitutional court judges that I appointed are now enemies of the state," & it is neither more laws nor more court rulings. bsky.app/profile/mcop...