“We don’t have to imagine what the future will look like because we are already living it every day,” Yassin said, citing “terrorist settlers” who are “killing people, stealing land, cutting off roads.”

the vibes in dc this trip vs my book tour stop here 6 weeks ago are like night and day man. there are so few people on the streets! they want to turn this vibrant, special city into a gated community where merely walking on city streets is probable cause. they want to turn your city into a suburb

A network of right wing “pink slime” faux news sites is targeting “anti-American” classes at colleges & universities nationwide. #DefendHigherEd

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

They joined the government, my dudes.

Basically, poverty dropped a bit at the end of the Trump admin because of anti-pandemic policies, and dropped a lot under Biden b/c of temporary policies like the Child Tax Credit. Biden tried and failed narrowly to extend those policies, and poverty predictably increased. Take that, Joe Biden!

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians. But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

2 books, real policy impact, teaching and advising awards... "No one thinks it’s easy to get tenure at Harvard. Roughly 30 percent of applicants, already the best of the best, fall short." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

He finally found a way to improve Oklahoma’s schools!

NEW: LGBT+ rights leaders held an "emergency" briefing today on reports that Trump may "weaponise" the FBI against trans people. "We need every elected official to sound the alarm with us... to confront the lies that put trans Americans in danger," one said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

"we have this nifty thing, the imperial boomerang. We should use it"

Which is exactly why we don't let up making it very clear that Kirk was a Nazi. Let him be remembered for exactly the way he lived his life. Let Kirk hagiography be an explicit admission of sympathy for Nazism.

A thing about authoritarian information environments is that you definitionally no longer can know what is true based on what the authorities say, and everyone eventually adapts to this

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

Me and like half of the best people I know exist somewhere on the spectrum. Deeply, deeply misguided, this idea that the US should burn down huge parts of its public health infrastructure just so no one should ever be like us.

It's been 1 year and 13 weeks. Casey Goonan is still incarcerated for their brave and unwavering solidarity with Palestinians. Please don't forget them. Also donate to their legal fund: chuffed.org/project/supp...

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

libertarianism has always failed

It really does seem that collegiality in academia parallels collegiality in politics. There’s this weird thing where a rainbow coalition of morally bankrupt powerbrokers define civility in terms of befriending people with horrible politics for the sake of institutional politesse and respectability.

"Tylenol causes autism" is bananas but easy to comprehend from a feminist perspective. They want women* to suffer without pain relief. They want to control pregnant women. But just saw @robinmarty.com point out that it's also to counter the "medication abortion is safer that Tylenol" And oooof.

Decades of research have found that acetaminophen is safe for children when administered as recommended. Misleading claims link the medicine to autism. These false claims send a dangerous message to parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Fuckers www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

Lmaooooooo

I broke down Trump's executive order on "antifa"—which he describes as a “SICK, DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT DISASTER"—for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org” I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Were antifascists supposed to let the neonazi boneheads seize Sacramento or Berkeley? In a moment in 2017 when they felt invulnerable and were excitedly planning RWDS and pogroms? It was *the media* that took antifa fighting neonazis like always and said "terrorists attacking your grandpa"

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

Israelis couldn't care less about the innocents Gaza children and women starving to death Here Israelis are vandalising Humanitarian aid that was on it's way to Gaza. they stopped the trucks on the middle of the road and completely destroyed the aid inside it. Never forgive - Never forget.

Worth reading. "Despite it all, I maintain an ember of hope that the goodwill of people will prevail. No matter what Israel does to us, it cannot extinguish our fundamental goodness, our creativity, our love for our land."

Historic Strike at UMN Earns Wage Increase After a Dozen Arrests The Teamsters Local 320 held a strike across University of Minnesota campuses seeking a wage increase earlier this month. A tentative agreement of a 3.5% wage increase was made after one week & a dozen arrests.

As I have been saying for some time, liberalism nowadays is a conservative ideology because liberalism is what people want to conserve. It was a progressive ideology several hundreds years ago, but it isn't one anymore.

Valdez was "taken into custody by [ICE] agents who abandoned his car with his wallet, ID." "[L]ater stolen." He is "not being provided food" at Broadview. "[S]leeping in an overcrowded room." "[C]apacity of 80 but has over 160 people." #Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I mean come the fuck on

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

"...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

"According to email correspondence reviewed by CBC News, the volunteer campaign work was framed as a component of their digital media course, with one campus director suggesting it would even help them get permanent residency"

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

These Mauser workers in Chicago are not only still on strike, but have extended their picket lines to California and Minnesota. They do the notoriously difficult work of using high-powered tools to clean and repaint drums used to transport chemicals, and they're demanding basic dignity and safety.

The Shining (1980)

At this point, if you do not see what is going on here, you are dumber than a Nazi