Watch the feet not the mouth: Within 24 hrs of the ceasefire, Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza & wounded 72 more. On Tu morning, the day after Hamas released all living captives, resumed aerial bombardment reportedly killed 5 civilians in Shejaiya & another killed two in Khan Younis.

The nearly 100 medics, journalists, and activists endured intimidation, beatings, invasive searches, and hours of confinement in extreme heat, before being transported to Ketziot prison in the Negev Desert. Detainees faced strip searches, minimal rations, and restricted access to medical care.

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Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power and responsibility in amateurish talks.

Here's an idea: Let's try democracy.

The Trump-Blair plan -- Tony Blair, forgodssake -- for Gaza is colonialism by another name.

“This week, Memphis, Tennessee, has been occupied by the National Guard, FBI, Department of War, and multiple federal agencies under the current administration." -- Justin A. Davis, Scalawag Nuh-uh, Justin, it's still the Department of Defense.

Schumer and Jeffries have been invited to the White House to be "Zelenskyy-ed.' This is the moment to wrest control of the shut-down narrative from Trump's little hands. Can they do it?

This is how corporate Democrats play the game

"Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this." #mustread

A.I. is flexible in the roles it can play for you: It can be an adviser, a therapist, a friend, a coach, a doctor, a personal trainer, a lover, a tutor. -- Ezra Klein Unless you’re desperate, insane, or a New York Times columnist, an A.I. absolutely cannot be any of those things. -- Matt Taibbi

Santa Monica's CA AB43 experiment with lower speed limits failing, mostly b/c lack of enforcement, + stoplights not recalibrated to match the new speeds. More drastic action needed. More stopsigns to keep speeds building over multiple blocks. More speed bumps. Possibly speed bumps at intersections?

Of the resolutions the DNC will consider next week, 2 stand out. One a ban on corporate & super PAC dark money from the party’s 2028 presidential primaries. The 2nd would put the party on record as supporting a ban on the provision of U.S. arms to Israel. Let your local delegate know what you think.

Our other great ally in the Middle East.

Canada is outraged -- outraged! -- at violent enforcement of US immigrations policy, and yet Canadian private security giant GardaWorld is one of the companies that has contracted with ICE and Florida to keep people warehoused in pestilential conditions in Alligator Alcatraz.

The nation’s nine million veterans enrolled in the VA health care system have been largely sheltered from the everyday realities suffered by most Americans from a deeply flawed private-sector market. So: Privatize. Privatize. Privatize.

Got damn

It's not for lack of young talent.

Macron said yesterday he is recognizing the Palestinian state. How much will that mean if the Palestinians are dead?

With smart strategy, organizing and action, movements can harness the momentum to build things faster and ensure it serves the public — not just billionaire investors.

UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year. Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders. This is why we need Medicare for All.

Get on the bus.

Mamdani proposed five city-run grocery stores. Voters loved it. Pundits mocked it. The idea was labeled communist, irrelevant, dangerous and silly. But the mockery missed the larger point: Cities have the power to bring down food prices and bring life to food deserts. They just haven’t been using it

This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population.

The Emscher was the Cuyahoga of German rivers, a foul-smelling open sewer of human and industrial waste. Like Ohio's Burning River, and for that matter the Seine, the Emscher has been cleaned up and partly rewilded.

Rent control isn't possible without freezing rents to start

Hotline callers were saying, “I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it.”

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More accurately, "After Texas disaster, Trump shifts his lying on FEMA."

Pretty much everything is awful today — except for this mockumentary about Bill Ackman’s tennis match, which is kind of perfect. youtube.com/shorts/L7NqT...

The Mamdani meltdown among New York's richest and most powerful continues. But no one can seem to decide what they should actually do

Sure, and have them pay federal, state and local taxes (on real estate, especially) while you're at it.

Immigrant workers are playing a crucial role in the recovery of Southern California after the devastating fires in January. But ICE raids are causing panic, leading many workers — regardless of immigration status — to stay home.

Israeli forces have killed at least nine US citizens since 2022, including veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. None of the incidents have resulted in criminal charges.

The Bank of North Dakota operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. Shouldn't your state have a publicly owned bank?

The military has deployed en masse across multiple cities, from Nablus to Hebron to Tulkarm, conducting violent overnight raids, home demolitions, mass evictions, abductions, and deaths.

When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning.

Is Trump headed for a lamppost?

"Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better ."

The Trump Whisperer has been in town again this week.

How did they get soldiers to do this? American soldiers? We are truly lost. Were they masked too? What happened to their honor? Why the fuck would an American soldier need to hide their identity? Anywhere, but esp in America? Why don’t they put down their weapons?

I did

“I think you hit one,” one soldier of fortune says to another following a loud burst of gunfire. “Hell yeah, boy!” another exclaims.

Current state of affairs

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