The White House social media account is currently one of the most hateful things I've seen in my lifetime and I can't believe we have to pretend it's normal

The IDF surrounded, beat, and choked US labor leader Chris Smalls after boarding an aid ship. "Smalls was the only Black person on the flotilla and was punished much more severely than any of the other 20 members," @malcolmferguson.bsky.social writes for @newrepublic.com tinyurl.com/wxt9h3yv

Forcing the Black woman who painted the portrait of the Obamas to cancel for NOT erasing Black Transgender people …..

oh my gosh

With fuel prices exorbitant and road travel treacherous in war-battered Gaza, AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has to walk for hours in the searing heat every day to document the news: "This morning, I walked about a 25-kilometre round trip in search of information." ➡️ u.afp.com/Sgin

"We've learned from their brief messages that they can't hold on much longer, and their courage, dedicated for many months to informing the whole world, won't help them survive."

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

from “student debt forgiveness is tyranny” to “the president is allowed to point at someone and have them summarily executed on the spot” in 2 years

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

wow a concentration camp with showers?

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Christ it's bad. NO UNIVERSAL INJUCTIONS.

Love this totally legitimate and real functioning democracy, where every June our nine wizard-kings descend from the mountain to tell us which laws aren’t real anymore

The freakout about the Zohran government possibly opening some groceries store in food deserts is fascinating because the simplest way for capital to route around it would be for businesses just open up there and obviate the need but they appear unwilling/uninterested in doing so, so govt steps in.

Short read on today at SCOTUS: Good day for inmates. Immigrants stay losing always. Worst day for women since Dobbs.

Punchbowl reports Robert Garcia wins handily, defeating Stephen Lynch 150-63. Robert Garcia will be the top House Dem on the Oversight Committee

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.

Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans

It's not hyperbole to say that corpses have more rights than pregnant women in many US states. Liz Bruenig really said "brain dead people are incubators too"

"Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best." tinyurl.com/3mdybh3y by @malcolmferguson.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

Yesterday I met Assane II, so-called "King of the Corniche," the main highway here in Dakar. "Noble, imposing and perfectly built," he's rumored to be the most expensive ram (2.5 mn XOF / $4,350) ahead of Tabaski (Eid al-Adha), when the animals are sacrificed for a family feast

Missouri voters secured a historic victory for abortion rights in November. The state Supreme Court just ripped it away. tinyurl.com/m26t63nu by @melissagiragrant.com for @newrepublic.com

By far my favorite part of South Korean elections: election night graphics. SBS television station kills it EVERY. TIME. They play these clips all night and they get more and more unhinged and creative as the night goes on.

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

Anyway just poping in to note that the budget bill that will kick millions off of their health care and food assistance programs managed to pass the House today by a margin of 215-214. A margin that would have been impossible if three Democrats had chosen to retire instead of dying at their desks.

This story reminds me of how Hugh Hefner bought the burial plot next to Marilyn Monroe’s: for women, not even death offers an escape from being sexually and reproductively used. apnews.com/article/preg...

I am publishing soon something we were scooped on @theonion.com beat us to it I am not joking

Elena Kagan to Solicitor General John Sauer: "LET'S JUST ASSUME YOU'RE DEAD WRONG."

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

[SHOUTS] SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES ARE THE SAME WHO BURN CROSSES, PARENTHESIS COMPLIMENTARY END PARENTHESIS!!!

100% behind @teotten1.bsky.social's call for Democrats to be hilariously petty and mean at all times newrepublic.com/article/1934...

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.