"The dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." nymag.com/intelligence...

A grand jury no-bill requires, under what I believe is current DOJ policy, the approval of the “responsible U.S. Attorney” before re-submitting it. ”Responsible U.S. Attorney” is, perhaps, an unfortunate phrase in this context.

"The dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." nymag.com/intelligence...

Court records, police reports and family text chains reviewed by WBUR reveal a bitter custody battle, years-old allegations of a threat to call immigration authorities, and concerns for the well-being of the child when his mother was staying in a vacant mansion.

I'll say this in response to SCOTUS' corrupt TX ruling: Dems in Maryland, Oregon, Illinois, Colorado, New York, and New Jersey are all stuck in the mud when it comes to mid-decade redistricting. The time to act was yesterday. Move your asses, now.

Just looked this up: Palestine tried to join the European Broadcasting Union in 2012 but was rejected because the International Telecommunications Union has not recognised Palestine as a part of the European Broadcasting Area but does recognise Israel. Israel also blew up the HQ of the PBC in 2002.

Useful reminder from @mtkonczal.bsky.social: What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25 years ago, is really just people having children later. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest... (What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)

The Trump team seems serious about saying mass deportation is a housing affordability strategy. I ran their numbers, and, at best, it'll save renters less than $5 a month. RealPage's algorithm, for instance, is estimated to cost impacted renters $70. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

I see the supreme court’s declining legitimacy is back in the news. Time to self promote! Short version: something similar happened after Dred Scott scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

SCOTUS conservatives just blessed the Texas GOP's gerrymander. It'll be used next year. They stay the lower-court ruling, written by a Trump-appointed judge, that found the gerrymander to be illegal. While no clear vote, Alito wrote a concurrence; and only the three liberal justices dissented.

kind of colin powell, second time as farce.

A doctor from Gaza describes 1 year and 7 months of torture and abuse while imprisoned in Israel, including at the notorious Rakkevet underground facility:

The problem is Trump not the pardon power Libs and progs may want to resist the habit of turning every problem into a matter of *procedure*, it’s not nearly as clever as they think

I remember well. that was in the lead up to 2016. One difference now is that she’s not running for anything, and doesn’t need Saban’s (one of the largest Democratic donor/bundlers) or Adelson’s (single largest Republican donor) support or money. she's just that racist.

blood thirsty maniac

Hakeem Jeffries will never lead the Dems where they need to go in order to help the people. He will choose restoration over reform because he has been groomed by the Establishment. I wish people could finally accept this.

"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Under both the Trump & Biden administrations, Washington has never attempted to reduce the huge US military+diplomatic support that enables these Israeli actions — even though government experts have repeatedly told top officials there’s a strong evidentiary basis + strategic argument for doing so.

Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

Reminder that Tom Cotton has been described as "probably the worst, most dangerous vet currently occupying a seat in the United States Congress." www.commondreams.org/opinion/tom-...

The convention of methodological individualism, very strong in angloamerican social science, has made it difficult to properly conjecture and model, and therefore to hypothesize, detect, and observe, differences in quality of collectivities that can't be modeled from "microfoundations". 2/

Israel's chief collaborator in occupied Gaza, the former ISIS member Yasser Abu Shabab, is reported to have been killed.

we need to aggressively rebuild a culture where men like this are afraid to publicly and proudly advertise their psychopathy

There isn't a single young Jewish kid protesting for Palestine who doesn't know which river and what sea...and I can't decide if she is really that ignorant and doesn't know this (which means she doesn't know any Jewish kids) or if she is straight up lying on a public stage

One year since the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu + Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza, a pressure campaign by Trump & Israel has failed to silence the court — and evidence of criminality implicating the US may still be growing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

“We can’t find a bed to put a patient on. We can’t move people out because they have no homes to go to.” #eiGazaDispatches

Fascinating flash-point here, liberal stalwart Senator Chris Van Hollen's office is explicitly attacking the CEO of the "Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington" for being "an apologist for the Netanyahu government".

Israel has continued its drone strikes in Gaza, killing Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi in Khan Younis. This is his father, Issam Wadi. “As a father, I received the news with shock. It was like an earthquake at home.

The pardon power can be sleazily abused but we need governors and presidents to go back to using it more, not less. My American Conservative piece from 10yrs ago on the great U.S. tradition of executive clemency www.theamericanconservative.com/the-case-for...

It was a real pleasure joining @audiecornish.bsky.social on @cnn.com this morning. We discussed why the US is not engaged in an armed conflict against narcos despite the legal fantasyland created by DOJ. And the bigger issues with SignalGate—including a pointless, unauthorized conflict in Yemen.

I think this particular headline speaks for itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The "no ceiling" stuff is third grade crap that would only be taken seriously by newspapers and politicians owned by billionaires. We can structure the market to make clowns like Musk & Zuckerberg incredibly rich, or we can structure it to promote more equality braveneweurope.com/dean-baker-b...

"An NYPD officer violated New York sanctuary city laws limiting the department’s assistance to federal immigration agencies by accepting e-mailed alerts from DHS flagging individuals facing deportation, according to a new DOI report." — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/03/h...

Excited to hear that Seattle e-cargobike freight/delivery initiative has launched. Pumped our new mayor will be pre-disposed to wanting it to succeed, Go @seattledot.bsky.social and thank you for your help, @c40cities.bsky.social #ClimateInfluence will be big. sdotblog.seattle.gov/2025/11/20/s...

Jesus Christ man

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime. nymag.com/intelligence...

Haley Stevens

Donald Trump Jr. has all-of-a-sudden developed a remarkable investing track record. Nice to see the kid find his footing at last. www.ft.com/content/952f...

Black-and-white signs attacking senator follow final state report that dissenters warn could curb criticism of Israel recorder.com/2025/12/03/l...

Given how Senators Schumer, Schiff, Markey, Cantwell, and some other Democratic leaders supported Bush's invasion of Iraq because of supposed "weapons of mass destruction" rather than admitting it was about oil, it raises the worrisome possibility they will support a Trump war on Venezuela as well.

One of the reasons Trump is in the White House is that people think both parties are equally corrupt. They're not, but statements like this make it really hard for people to see that truth.

Do people seriously think this is still a convincing argument

My position all year has been short-term optimist, long-term pessimist, and I don't see any reason to change that. We're still locked in normal thermostatic politics, and I just don't see any indications of a realignment yet.

NEW tonight from @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me: zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Graham Platner is leading Gov. Janet Mills by 20 points in the Maine Senate Democratic primary, per a new poll. That might surprise pundits in DC, but it captures the vibe in Maine, where you might think he was the only candidate running. @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/graham-pla...

Love it when people say out loud what they mean by Arab sovereignty. The only country that occupies Lebanese territory and bombs Lebanese cities is Israel, but a strong Lebanese state is not one that defends itself from this but instead cuts itself off from its sister Syria and helps bomb Iran.

If you don’t fundamentally understand that Israel has no equivalent enemy, there there are no ’two sides’, and that this is entirely due to Western governments like the US, UK and Germany - but also the entirety of the EU - then there’s nothing I can tell you. You’re too brainwashed to get it.