A very good point by Stephen Wertheim: the refusal in Washington to moderately shift on Israel-Palestine in the face of a historic public opinion change is more likely than not going to create an even more dramatic and extreme about-face when the walls finally come crashing down.

BIG RESULT: New York state Senator Jessica Ramos, who gave Andrew Cuomo a surprise endorsement near the end of the mayoral primary last year, has lost her seat. She is ousted in today's Dem primary by Jessica González-Rojas, an assemblymember endorsed by many left figures like AOC.

tucker carlson is lying, he will vote gop up and down his ballot, he will use his platform to promote republicans and he will use this “break” with the gop to lend false credibility to his future endorsements

We hear a lot about how the Chinese government is a threat to the US government, but little about how the alliance of Big Tech and authoritarians in the Chinese and US governments is a threat to people in the US and China.

Our Senior Associate Samhita Saquib dug into Trump's record on Gaza during the ceasefire, and it is bleak. If you're trying to catch up on the situation in Gaza, you can skip Secretary Clinton's piece. Read this instead: winwithoutwar.org/policy/who-p...

Trump's Board of Peace is failing on aid, failing on reconstruction, provides no path to Palestinian self-determination, and leaves Palestinians at the whims of Trump and his cronies. Maybe that's acceptable to @hillaryclinton.bsky.social, but it's not to us. Read our new report below.

"I'd prefer to continue a destructive, wasteful war rather than acknowledge reality" is not the dunk these people think it is. We should never let anyone forget the damage Trump has caused with this war, but pushing to extend it just to spite him? Grow up.

Begging Democrats to resist the urge to bash Trump from the hawkish right, which only reinforces the very stupid discourse that enabled this very stupid war in the first place.

I hope Saidya Hartman comes to this person's house and beats their ass herself

Avril Haines to run Carnegie. Another powerful position for a top Biden aide involved in decision-making on Gaza — per my reporting, one who had concerns & was urged by fellow natsec professionals to be tougher on Israel but who ultimately did not spur a policy shift www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

In the midst of a much-needed discussion about enforcing accountability for bureaucrats who carry forward failed, immoral foreign policy positions, I'm not sure I would have gone with the person who led the coverup of the CIA's torture program, but that's just me. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

More indications of apparent war crimes in the US campaign in Iran.

Either Trump does not want a ceasefire in his illegal war on Iran that Israel and the regime launched. Or Trump is incapable of getting one of America’s supposed closest allies to agree to his ceasefire. Email your Members of Congress and urge them to use every lever available to end Trump’s war.

This is good and right but the problems plaguing the NPT are not to do with its content as much as an overall collapse of belief in the foundational structures of cooperation in international relations—and that's for an comparatively edge, state-level industry with fewer commercial applications

TPAI hive rise up.

Really glad Castro is keeping up the pressure on this issue - it's absurd that the US refuses to publicly acknowledge Israel's widely known nuclear arsenal www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

All public opinion polls should have crosstabs by sign.

DC's Iran hawks got two wars, nearly every conceivable sanction designation, a blockade, threw a wrench in global economy and will still claim that just a little more pressure and a touch more bombing will magically yield the concessions they still won't be satisfied with.

Yet more evidence that the unitary executive is antisemitic

Very glad to have contributed an article to this timely issue. From my perspective, arms control is a predictable outcome of risk-taking at the nuclear threshold, and there are plenty of historical examples to back this up. It doesn't mean it's coming back on its own, though. Quick thread -

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

“Every member of Biden’s Gaza team… continues to make it abundantly clear their solidarity lies with their accomplices, not their victims.” @harrisonmann.bsky.social explains how former Biden advisers are influencing Democrats’ foreign policy as if Gaza never happened. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/biden-geno...

It’s not just Gaza, though that’s enough. It’s how Biden team basically adopted Trump’s entire Middle East policy - embrace Abraham Accords and try to get Saudi in, ignore human rights and democracy, no return to JCPOA - and now pretend to be an alternative. Why in the world let them do it again?

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I got to play this last night and it is Good.

This is our version of service journalism. Save this one as an easy reference for when you’re called upon to address how things got this bad:

NEW: 30 lawmakers led by @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social press Trump to share intel on Israeli nuclear program “The concerns about nuclear escalation are shared by some inside the Trump administration, who say Israel’s red lines may not be adequately understood” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Speaking to Congress last week, Hegseth said that Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will "turn the lights back on in manufacturing towns across this country." Check out the reality of declining job creation and economic mobility in the arms industry here: transitionsecurity.org/labor-of-the...

UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

NEW: The White House has sent Congress a new letter providing more formal notification of its view that the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock for the Iran War is no longer ticking. 1/n

Everything about the GOP’s treatment of the “60-day clock” is pure Calvinball nonsense, but this is a doozy.

If only there was some kind of recent -- even ongoing -- evidence about whether restricting societal vulnerability to assured retaliation promotes strategic stability...

We usually think of the resource curse in terms of oil. But what if compute is the new crude? If AI allows states to generate massive wealth without needing a productive, tax-paying middle class, the democratic social contract starts to look very fragile. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

"The might-is-right attacks by the US and Israel raise profound questions for the world’s non-nuclear nations in the value of adhering to the NPT." Yes - for all their fearmongering about the TPNW, it's the nuclear-armed states that are shredding the NPT. theconversation.com/a-new-nuclea...

I can't remember the last time I was this excited for a book I think will be as silly as this one. Has the potential to be a first ballot "I've got tenure and you can't stop me" hall of famer.

tbh the pope is just one of the roughly 8.3 billion people alive on earth today who don't need to read Michael Walzer.

Mike Johnson thinks "just war doctrine" means doing war and nothing else.

Everyone who wrote "sure Gaza is bad, but the war has massively improved Israel's strategic position" pieces in 2024 should a) donate any earnings from that piece to WFP and b) shut up forever.

These objections are 100% correct, and also the protesters are making a strategic choice! Gaza protests had clear demands about campus divestment from Israel, and there was a theory that the Biden admin was moveable on the issue. (1/2)

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.

If this is going on with business schools — say it with me — policy schools are in deep shit.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today