70% of all Harris voters in 2024 and 65% of all self identified Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide 60% of Democrats believe Israel kills children intentionally and whopping 77% overall have a negative view of Israel.

Once again: a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now

some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

ICYMI, yesterday I ran down several examples of federal officers who violated state laws being prosecuted. Yes it would likely be removed to federal court. Yes there would be claims that the officer was discharging his duties. So what. If you don't prosecute now you've given ICE practical immunity.

it’s clarifying to know these people would be fine with ICE killing you so long as it was within policy

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

Hours ago:

Turns out Instagram will immediately delete your story if you attempt to write “Fuck ICE,” so that’s fun.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I hate that I feel so certain most Dems aren't specifying what should be done because that means owning that action and chance failing, and that is far worse for them than the country failing. I hope they are remembered as cowards.

Something so deflating to know I can fully expect most Dems to not demand any specific or tangible recourse. At best, some vague notion of consequence, with most prefacing that Maduro is bad, as if there is any purpose in being measured about this.

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

twitter is so awash in AI CSAM right now (which is now a crime in most states) that you risk committing a felony just by opening the app

This isn't a Weiss marching order: it's who Dokoupil is. Watch the Dokoupul interview with Ta-Nihisi Coates interview again, and note how eagerly he projects violent meaning to Coates' words to rationalize his obvious hatred of Palestinians, Arab ethnicities, etc. Bleak seeing him in that chair.

I am in a Albany NY airport bar and everyone is discussing LA traffic from people who apparently don't live in LA. Ergo, this is a national issue.

Someone did pixel art of the current Arsenal squad and it's amazing

I really like the idea of this -- comparing specific issues of political discourse, legislative politics, policy, impact (i.e., costs) -- but CNN/SSRS put their thumb on the scales by including a "general" option for cost of living only which very clearly creates a skew which they then spotlight.

How was the car involved, RTE?

Booing a standard concussion protocol for an obvious head injury. Stay classy Everton.

We have the proven technology to address many of the externalities of driving: -Speed cameras -Congestion pricing -Demand based parking pricing Failure to implement these policies is no longer a shortcoming of knowledge, but rather political will.

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

So glad @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social wrote this piece about the phrase "purity tests," the latest tactic that Dem pols use when asked to take a real stand on anything. And she named the right names: Booker, Buttigieg, Obama. newrepublic.com/article/2039...

the thing which ryan grim, matt stoller and donald trump have in common is a genuine appreciation for and attraction to obvious sex offenders

does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Part of the untold story here is that the middle + upper management ranks of LA city agencies are staffed by a commuter class of people who don’t know & actively disdain Los Angeles. So much money is wasted by our city government because our government doesn’t understand our city & its needs.

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)

Nice of @nytimes.com to make clear that, whenever its dull conservative columnists complain about the evils of "feminism" or "liberal feminism," they of course mean "women."

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

What is the opposite of doomscrolling?

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Shitload of videos left to upload, the crowd at this juncture seems to be thinned out A local bus drops off its passengers directly into the remaining cloud of tear gas—eyes are fucking stinging rn

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office. “The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

My good friend Barbara has been disappeared by ICE. Looking for any contacts or resources to help find her. @laist.com @latimes.com @lataco.bsky.social @aclusocal.bsky.social @nlg.la

one day, everyone will have always been against this

lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

Let's say there had been an attempt to do this. A progressive, perhaps from NYC or Los Angeles, touring conservative communities in a suit and tie to tell people their views on abortion, or trans rights, or racial justice were immoral. How would outlets like the NYT or the Atlantic have covered it?

I warned last October that if Donald Trump returned to the White House, the fate of the free press would depend on the willingness of corporate media executives to fight for it. It's not going well. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

No real reason to do this unless you want to drive Black soldiers out of the armed forces.

Hey look severe drought even in places like Vermont is raising wildfire risk concerns and curtailing the use of water supply for basic firefighting drills. As well as forcing private well owners to rely on water hauling for the first time. www.mynbc5.com/article/verm...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.