#OTD in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first Black Supreme Court justice. His work as a civil rights lawyer, including in Brown v. Board of Education, reshaped America’s path toward equality. #TheMarchContinues

Four years of decline, with no end in sight. wapo.st/3TZX3Rt

Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya underscore that regime change does not result in political stability. "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace" by @stephanietwilliams.bsky.social documents this reality and the tremendous difficulties in restoring social order to fractured nations.

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

So Trump lied when he said “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated”? No way? He lied?

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

TY to the NYT for unmasking this crude attack on free speech and the academy. Obvs that Heritage is directly hooked into the Trump regime on this & other attempts to crush our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

If true, a deeply immoral and shameful negotiation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland. Highly unlikely even a single Palestinian was consulted. Utter madness. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, & children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies & to stand against autocrats.” www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Expelling Black and Brown people. Importing the White descendants of the people who invented Apartheid. Via a chartered aircraft, of all things. MAGA is all about White Nationalism. They prove it every day.

If true, this is an obscenely sick decision. The U.S. State Department’s own Human Rights Report and Trafficking in Persons Report have documented the absolutely horrific conditions in detention centers and prisons all across Libya. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

👇🏽🎯

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

Shame on Secretary Rubio and the Trump administration for enabling this tragedy. A shocking and repellent abandonment of American values. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

🎯🎯 Important to note: "...Mr. Trump, who is himself a convicted felon, has gone so far as to say that he is contemplating sending violent criminals who are American citizens to be locked up in El Salvador, where prisons are not governed by minimal U.S. standards." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...

On the shelves today in the UK! Forward by Dr. Ghassan Salamé and gorgeous cover art by Libyan artist Hiba Shalabi. All of my own proceeds will go to charity.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

"There should be global moral outrage that the decisions made by powerful people in other countries have led to child deaths in just a matter of weeks," said Christopher Nyamandi, Save the Children's country director in South Sudan. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

America alone, led by the loony isolationist-in-chief.

Arab American history is American history. This National Arab American Heritage Month, we honor the legacy of Arab Americans who have made an impact in activism, culture, science and beyond. Their contributions shape our nation every day. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #TheMarchContinues

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.   It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

More of this please

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

My latest for The Brookings Institution, part of the “Development, governance, and security in the Middle East: Obstacles and opportunities” project, in partnership with JICA. Anatomy of a flood: The Derna tragedy’s lessons for Libyan governance www.brookings.edu/articles/ana...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my book "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace." It will be published in the UK by Hurst Publishers (London) on April 17, 2025 and in the U.S. by Oxford University Press in June of this year. 1/7 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/libya-s...

In January, Osama Al-Masri Njeem was arrested in Italy over alleged war crimes at one of Libya’s deadliest prisons. But within 48 hours, he was released — a move that is turning into a major accountability test for Rome and Tripoli's relationship. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/osam...

I would support this! We need to primary the dinosaurs.

He was always a used car salesman at heart.

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

The Oval Office has just confirmed that it has become an annex of the Kremlin. Seriously embarrassed to be an American today.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

💯💯

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

Read @bijansabet.com: “Public service is not a “lower productivity” endeavor. It is the foundation of our democracy, and its value is incalculable.” bijansabet.com/2025/02/06/p...

We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Demagogues, oligarchs, and literal teenage boys are tearing apart our government. They are fueled by Silicon Valley’s dream of a monarchist network state and blood and soil white nationalism and every day they are in power means years of work required to fix it. www.garbageday.email/p/musk-s-sup...

also, knowing that USAID does democracy promotion abroad, to what extent is Elon sending sensitive information about American workers abroad to rival governments and right-wing political movements?

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"