Holy shit. Christian Smalls reports there have been multiple sabotage attempts on the freedom flotilla ship Handala, including a tank of *acid* that was delivered to them instead of water for the showers and kitchen which burned two crew members.

The US Defense Department using Musk's pro-Hitler AI to run important US defense operations is so much more serious of a concern about antisemitism in the US than anything that is happening on college campuses.

I cannot think of anything more compellingly negative to say about the capitalist class that they aren't saying loudly about themselves via their attempt to close ranks around Adams and Cuomo

Public education is public health. "Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."

this has one purpose: to rile up the people who already hate mamdani. and if greenblatt's rhetoric leads to actual violence against mamdani/his supporters/muslim new yorkers the way he falsely claims mamdani's views harm jewish new yorkers, greenblatt won't give a single solitary shit.

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

The FDA is going to stop testing milk for pathogens like I DON'T KNOW, BIRD FLU???? These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Everyone associated with trump is some sort of mutant nazi sex offender and those are just the ones you know about. Imagine the state of the ones they decide are actually too unnerving to be public-facing

Mahmoud Khalil today filed a claim detailing the harm he has suffered as a result of his politically motivated arrest and detention. The claim is a precursor to a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, which he will bring under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump's budget increases Pentagon's budget to $1 trillion. The Pentagon is already the biggest institutional consumer of fossil fuels on earth, and this budget will push its emissions to a level on par with Ethiopia. New analysis from me and Lorah Steichen at @cplusc.bsky.social

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it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project

"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.

A likable person who has everyday people excited to meet him and vote for him because they make them hopeful about politics? No wonder the Democratic Party is trying to destroy him!

A blatantly nativist regime, working to remove legal status of immigrants to justify the state-terror apparatus of detention and expulsion

This is the worst possible framing of the past few months. It's fascism, a stacked court, a compliant and spineless Congress, an international mess on the economic side, and an illegal bombing. But sure, a "winning streak." @nytimes.com doing NY Times thing.

ICYMI: A survey of the week’s horrors, and El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ as a model for MAGA fascism — featuring my translations @elfaro.net on prison conditions under the Bukele dictatorship.

Not a good sign when the “paper of record” is worried about being scooped by a racist propagandist

trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states

Israel is blocking the entry of baby formula into Gaza. Why do you think that is? What is it about baby formula that’s so special, so important, that it ends up on Israel’s list of restrictions and confiscations? Is it a dual-use item? NO. So what is it then? What is it?

This line, like so many in that execrable book, perfectly captures Schumer: it uses too-awkward-to-be-true prose to make a too-reprehensible-to-be-believed point

ICYMI: @dnbrgr.bsky.social 's review of Chuck Schumer's Antisemitism in America is still live on our website.

100% For more on this check out @dnbrgr.bsky.social incisive review - he read it so we dont have too! spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

imagining a world where one of the only outlets able to hire journalists without relying on contractors, sub-$45k wages or both focused on the material conditions of the fascist state its readers live in as it ruins its safety net, instead of reporting someone's rejection from an Ivy as "news"

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Taking this story from a Twitter troll white supremacist you keep anonymous should be scandalous even if there was some legitimate bombshell, but this is also just the most nothing story of all time. It’s not even kind of controversial. It’s pure right wing twitter bait.

This is insane anonymity.

This is a season of trench warfare and we have to continue to fight because a law passed is NOT the end and I think we all know this. There will be implementation fight opportunities, there will be constant organizing and pushback. Nothing is permanent. Onwards.

The correct number of people who should are denied health care is zero, which is also the same number of people who ought to be held in cages.

If you missed this discussion with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @tamikamiddleton.bsky.social, @dnbrgr.bsky.social + @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social on the importance of interrupting criminalization and abolitionist organizing to fight against fascism/authoritarianism, check out the recording:

Centrist Dems made basically one promise to voters which is they would make trump go away, and

Moving toward Gestapo Keynesianism.

What is telling in this article about the threat Mamdani supposedly poses to New York Jews is how much emphasis there is on how he will make New York Jews "feel." Feelings of safety are paramount. Everything is affective.

"Beyond the repeated references to his perfect SAT score and his attendance at Harvard, the most curious unhumble brag in the book is of his own political acumen." treat yourself to this wonderful to read, scathing review by my friend @dnbrgr.bsky.social spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

TIL the New York Times has a dedicated podcast for misinformation about trans healthcare

This week, @joshgondelman.bsky.social told us a hilarious story that Goggle AI made up about his personal life and we ended up having a very interesting discussion about the concerning future of AI for creatives! The early access video episode is now up on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/ai-cre...

A very good review of a very bad book

This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.

I’ll be honest. I have a sick feeling in my stomach about this. About ICE’s new budget. About the citizenship database. I just have a really sick feeling. The only way we survive this is together. We need to work together. In ways we never have before. Collective action is the way.

Everyone knew that Schumer's book would be terrible. It is wholly unnecessary to read it to reach that judgment. But I'm glad this reviewer did read it because I rather enjoyed reading this thorough dismantling of it and its author.

Absolute fire from @dnbrgr.bsky.social "In demonstrating that reactionary Jews choose domination over solidarity—even solidarity with “their own kind”—the Rosenberg case is a potent analogue to modern attacks on anti-Zionist Jews."

"The first thing to say about Chuck Schumer’s "Antisemitism in America: A Warning" is that nobody wants this book"

"Two of the founding pillars of Trumpism—conspiracism and Christian nationalism—are antisemitic.... And Schumer has either ignored or looked away from these deadly forms of antisemitism because he agrees with them." @dnbrgr.bsky.social with straight bangers

This is so fucking good. Bonus: learn some useful Yiddish.