“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Is AI More Like a Mind or a Market? A group of scholars argue we should think of it as a “social technology” akin to a bureaucracy, a democracy or a marketplace. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Does the Overton window even exist anymore?

UN report details the asphyxiating impact of Israel’s laws, policies and practices on life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, warning that Israel is violating international law requiring States to prohibit and eradicate racial segregation and apartheid www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Oggi su @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social

Started // Going

I think my head is going to explode.

Whatever wag-the-dog distraction Bondi tries to stage with the Maduri show trial, the Epstein files are still coming. What they're showing so far: 5 decades of an extractive overclass.

There are far more power resources in cities than ICE (even with additional resources) could—if they are engaged—ever hope to contend with. This is of course why every ounce of state/local authority should be used not only to prosecute killers, but to fully mobilize communities against the siege.

It's unfair to say that X is only a site for Nazis *or* porn - it's also a site for Nazi porn.

I suppose the “tipping point” with wannabe fascists is when enough people find preferable to commit further violence then facing some kind of retribution for those acts of violence already perpetrated. #ICE

Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here. Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.

Waiting for the ‘We can’t really call Trump a fascist’ crowd…

De-stressing tip for DHS officials: remember to always take a breath between lies.

in the book I happen to be reading, No Name In The Street, James Baldwin writes about “something exceedingly difficult to capture, which is that some people are liars, and some people are not.” Right now, that distinction could hardly be starker.

I just left the Venezuela briefing. It's worse than you thought. Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people. We need public Senate hearings NOW.

Baby Boomers explaining to the "Sex and the City" generation that they should send their children to die in the next war. What could possibly go wrong?

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Given news that ICE shot and killed an observer in Minneapolis, here is a pattern we've seen before: *DHS say officers were under threat. This justifies to use deadly force. *Subsequent reporting shows such claims simply don't hold up. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

The video shows ICE agents removing the woman's body from the car & carrying her down the road, no ambulance. An onlooker tried to approach to help, identified himself as a doctor & ICE pointed guns at him.

A direct consequence of a culture in which having a gun is understood not as a problem but as the solution to a problem.

Worth listening: open.spotify.com/episode/36x7... @nytimes.com

This is a transcript of a conversation between myself and Katie Bales. We discuss the limitations of law and the law school to end racial injustice as well as the hopes of decolonisation. "We desperately need new ways of thinking, doing and being in the world." folukeafrica.com/in-words-the...

This will devastate millions of families who rely on these services to survive. Make no mistake: this has nothing to do with supposed "fraud" or any other excuse Trump whips up. This is about enacting revenge on states that stand up to him and his cruel agenda.

The current European leadership has lost the plot on Gaza, and is loosing whatever credibility it had on this new crisis.

Didn't the 40 dead Venezuelans deserve some consideration?

In Peru, when Pedro Castillo’s govt fell, the cartels that run organized crime accepted his weakened successor, Dina Boluarte, on one condition: you work for us now. Replace her for Delcy Rodríguez and add US oil barons to the mix and that’s what is happening in Venezuela

They’re going to put Big Balls and Grok in charge of Venezuela, aren’t they?

Worth reading.

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

Following firsthand what is going on in Venezuela. I have family and friends there.

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

It doesn’t matter whether or not it will succeed in the House. They should be doing it. They should do it and they should keep doing it over and over. It’s right and necessary to clearly say “this is what should be happening and if this was a functioning rational country it would be”

“There is something paradoxical, even self-defeating, about an approach to political strategy that takes so much of our political life as fixed & preordained, & thereby minimises the significance of doing actual politics…” How to Lie with (Political) Statistics www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Hakeem Jeffries is mildly put-out that he wasn’t consulted. He tried to rouse himself to a sternly-worded letter, but it was just too impossibly difficult for him.

Relatedly, there are people here who know a great deal about the law of armed conflict and international law and they are using words in technical rather than colloquial sentences and whether someone’s usage is “wrong” is very context-dependent

You really don’t have to know exactly what’s going on here to know that it shouldn’t be

‘Lippmann was early to the table when it came to explaining that reality is not a choice one might make, not a thing to opt in and out of as suits your self-interest, but a bulwark against propaganda and censorship, the essential currency of a free press.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My initial reaction from an IR perspective is: what was the strategic point of this?

I can't wait to see who gets the FIFA peace prize next year. Putin clearly the leading contender.

'Saying that Maduro's status a dictator provides no legal justification for Trump's actions is backdoor justification because you're pointing out that Maduro is a dictator' - is what I'm being screamed at this morning on here, in the most abusive and trollish terms. No, it doesn't. Grow up.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Here's a dangerous effort to carve out a loophole in presidential war powers big enough to drive a tank through. If such an authority existed, the president could invade anywhere, anytime, without involving Congress—just by claiming, without proof, that an attack is "imminent."

Isn’t CBS the BBC’s “partner” in the US?