"Conscience" doesn't extend to allegedly handing the alleged weapon to the alleged killer. Why let her drive the radicalization narrative and not call her out on irresponsible gun ownership? A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

/19 Moreover SCOTUS is relentlessly blocking federal courts’ ability to enforce injunctions against the administration, so Carr has that going for him, which is nice. And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.

Last year, when people wanted to talk about Gaza? Definitely the wrong time. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-straight...

The responsible gun owners forgot to lock away grandpas rifle. But there might not have been a serial number, anyway.

Key point about the Trump administration’s military strikes on “narcoterrorists”: Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd. Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians. Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

I am aware Spencer cox is an individual improvement over Darin Hitler or whoever is running other nearby red states but he is a 2024 trump endorser less than four years after saying Trump should resign for getting several people killed during a coup attempt. Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…

My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.

Audacious to say this shit before the shooter has even been caught. We do not know their identity or motive, let alone whether any organization funded their violence. Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder

And on cue, the invocation of "terrorism" in connection with domestic political opponents. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe

My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.

Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to read in our special issue, review by @mepeditor.bsky.social of Reagan by ‪@maxboot.bsky.social‬: “Only if Trump can muster the courage to defy Netanyahu...will he possibly be remembered for achieving anything like Reagan’s deals with the Soviet Union.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My analysis of Woodward's War and Biden’s failures is free for all readers through May 1. "If journalism is the first draft of history [his] books often feel like streams of raw data scrawled across cocktail napkins and the backs of envelopes." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

All readers can access the news issue of Middle East Policy without charge through May 1! Check out analyses of Syria, Gaza, the US-Saudi deal, and reconciliation in conflict zones by @drrmason.bsky.social, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, and many others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval. WITH HIS APPROVAL! www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-r...

An odd choice since others were in the Kremlin.

A mistake I fear many are making right now is assuming that most of America knows about the Signal chat. Studies show most people consume no news at all. Rightwing news—which is biggest—is either spinning or ignoring.

Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution - https://www.972mag.com/starvation-gaza-israel-humanitarian-aid/

Buying votes.

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

the war crime piece of it is being totally underplayed. like yea, the way they talked about it is fucked up. but WHAT they talked about was just as fucked up!!

"Dozens of innocent Yemenis are dead and many more are maimed so that Trump and his allies could congratulate themselves for being “tougher” than Biden." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-s...

This is just one anecdote relating to a common and correct assumption that the United States routinely kills innocent Arabs and Muslims, occasionally even if they are American citizens. It won't be reported because it's not news and we didn't need a "secret" chat to have a ream of evidence.

Necessary for political reasons and to encourage much better future for EVs

Yes, more guardrails from the "big tent" party.

Stuffing America’s retirement plans with illiquid levered shitcos that private equity firms can’t find exit liquidity for, what could go wrong

The party of low-turnout elections needs to take advantage where and when it can.

Distress warning: Jordan’s Looming Crisis www.foreignaffairs.com/jordan/jorda... via Foreign Affairs

Open access from Middle East Policy’s new issue: Yitzhak Shichor examines why China, despite its early pro-Palestine rhetoric, won’t break ties with Israel over the Gaza war. Read the analysis for free! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

"Everyone in the coalition thinks Netanyahu will continue the fighting in Gaza and that the only chance of bringing the hostages home is if the Hamas leadership agrees to go into exile." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

We have two years, maybe four, to exploit it.

While America focuses on the mishandling of classified information, children in Yemen are actually dying. This UNICEF report is worth your time; it puts the recent US “groupchat” bombings (which it says killed 8 children) in the context of 10 years of war.

I think we've proved that Democrats aren't imaginative enough.

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Lots of people on Bluesky are hostile to the petty retaliatory attacks on law firms. The hard truth is that most Americans are fine with it or don't care. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

Not a single US senator in these public hearings about the Signal chat fiasco is raising any question about the legality or morality of bombing Yemen without Cong authorization, and how this is connected to US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Unhinged militarists, every single one.

Remember the patented Trump Admin way to address fuck ups is to follow them as quickly as possible with another fuck up so they can change the subject from the first fuck up(s).

As serious as the Signal story is, let's not lose sight of the rounding up innocent people and deporting them into concentration camps.

Let's summarize what Dems did w/first of 2 hearings w/Ratcliffe & Tulsi. 1) Got both on record w/claims abt war plans (w/one Senate staffer may have known false) 2) Got half agreement for audit 3) Told Kash to report back today 4) Got Tulsi a) traveling during Signal chat b) w/poss personal phone