You keep using that word ceasefire. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Im not a lawyer but this rings true Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Great interview of Marc Lynch on how the US has approached MENA "What did we do with our power? (after 1990)... U.S. policy largely succeeded during that period in ... keeping Israel secure, keeping the oil flowing... But this came at the expense of virtually everybody who lived in the region..."

“As Larry Brilliant, who helped to eradicate smallpox … observed, ‘Outbreaks are inevitable. Pandemics are optional.’ The eating of bush meat can’t possibly explain the epidemic, but grotesque and growing disparities in access to care … can.“ By Paul Farmer, from 2014:

No different here.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Democrats can — and should — be both ‘pro-Israeli’ and ‘pro-Palestinian.’ To support both, Democrats must put forward a plan that moves beyond the failures of the past toward a durable peace,” Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic senator from Maryland, writes.

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

Israeli forces killed this young Palestinian in Gaza city.

Charlottesville residents: be sure to visit @jsaahccville.bsky.social this month to see the three finalists' proposals for Swords Into Plowshares art and to vote on your favorite design! @schneidergs.bsky.social in today's @washingtonpost.com details the alternatives. wapo.st/4a7DhvJ

Fascist AND anti-Semite AND white supremacist. The whole trifecta.

My latest ⬇️

“Palestinian neonatalist, pediatrician: in your kin-making, / your life-tending, you frustrate the plan of Generals obsessed / with the metrics of unliving.” New: A poem by Ken Chen. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

At Monday’s 6pm Charlottesville city council meeting, council will act to officially permit future Swords Into Plowshares public art in the park. A show of support will help the @jsaahccville.bsky.social and our community as we move forward to make art that expresses multiracial democracy.

what is the purpose of the democrat

Unbridled capitalism is why you don't have free Healthcare People's health and LIFE should not be monetized #Pinks

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. When I was a little kid, I clearly remember my mom telling me that at some point under oppression, people say, “ I’m not going to take it anymore,” and they rise up. This is how riots are born. Pay attention.

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Biden’s Genocide Squad Must Be Stopped Before They Strike Again From Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan to Brett McGurk and Jon Finer, the advisers behind the Gaza genocide want to return to power. We can’t let them. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Thank you for writing this.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Photo by Nicole Hester. Bull Connor redux.

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absolute heater from @jamellebouie.net one of those pieces where I find myself saying MMHMM repeatedly while reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

UVA, no surprise here.

There was no greater and more effective advocate in the VA redistricting fight. It's 1000% clear what Trump is doing here.

Yes sir.

Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. “Shame on you, Jeff Bezos.”

My piece with @ajvicens.bsky.social on how hundreds of Americans were fired or otherwise punished following the killing of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk is part of a package that has been recognized with the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

On the 70th anniversary of Moshe Dayan’s eulogy for Roi Rotberg, the distance Israel has since traveled appears both remarkably short and terribly long, writes Robert Zaretsky.

Please, Texas! Listen to James Talarico: “We are living in an era of corruption… the rotting of something from the inside.” Politicians serving billionaire megadonors, the top 1% owning more than the middle class, and algorithms dividing us. None of this is accidental.

… OR ARE THEY?

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

"Millions of people have started to recognize what we would need to fight back: a general strike." www.blackrosefed.org/statement-ma...

I feel like as a society, we should give more credence to people who correctly predict the future.

This thread.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Mom: “It almost feels like they just killed Martin Luther King all over again, but metaphorically this time. Almost like its a fun little game for them.”

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Good thread.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.