Expected, but what is more interesting is that he admits that it is impossible to whip against the vote and so his office will not even try.

I hadn't realized that Kiros was a legitimate victim of actual Cancel Culture: she was fired from her Big Law firm for writing a blog post saying that US law firms were too opposed to pro-Palestine student protests

The top 50 donors in American politics have poured more than $1.3 BILLION so far this cycle into influencing the country’s politics. Anyone else think we need to limit money in politics??

Some people's lives and livelihoods are called "litmus tests" by political pundits because they haven't fully accepted those people as human. If you are understood as fully human your safety, dignity, belonging is not something to be contested in the political sphere.

Carville wants to secede and form the Confederate Consultants of America.

@daveweigel.bsky.social is right. The big pitch of the establishment, NYT, Yglesias, etc is that they need the keys to the car because they know how to win (and in the Trump era, winning is existential). But nobody really believes that anymore after 10 years of Trumpism

Dan Goldman did not just refuse to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. He also refused to acknowledge the occupation. Kind of hard to believe that folks are still committed to that extreme level of dishonesty and denialism.

Every victory against AIPAC is a victory for democracy. Excited for a Michigan victory next!

"Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said ‌on Tuesday." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

By what alchemy does “Israel refuses to stop bombing its neighbors despite deal” become this?

The issue of Palestine is like a giant sieve for American liberal ideals. Human rights, democracy, free speech, academic freedom, rules-based order. Almost nothing makes it through. I've never seen anything like it. www.foxnews.com/media/hillar...

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

Fighting and theorizing about epistemic bubbles when the entire material basis for epistemologies has been captured and deliberately fractured is just grief. Annoying but grief nonetheless.

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

Look forward to discussing @ahjohnson.bsky.social's extensive body of evidence documenting the commercial press's editorial double standards, corporate PR tactics, discriminatory labor practices, and outright lies that helped frame genocide as a fait accompli. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-sel...

More to come but I will say this: the liberal institutional infrastructure of mobility is gone. People are mad. Women are people. No one is speaking to that anger. Midterms soon come. But that’s just the start. Here lies the girlboss. First to die but not the last. Good riddance.

“Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.” — www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Insane headline.

Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Stories like this demonstrate why it matters to support independent outlets like @dropsitenews.com. Few mainstream outlets would ever touch this. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Israel Used Bayer-Monsanto Manufactured White Phosphorus Against Lebanon The use of this incendiary munition, that burns people to death from the inside when breathed in, has been heavily criticised by Human Rights organisations, which state that its use

The warning signs have been there for years now. If Democrats keep ignoring their censorship problem around Palestine it’s going to cost them. There’s been a generational shift on this issue. www.dropsitenews.com/p/michigan-d...

This entire interview is Omer Bartov explaining that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza and David Remnick finding various ways to ask “but are you sure it wasn’t something else?” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Truly remarkable night

Huge repudiation of the University’s anti-speech crackdowns. This was improbable.

Israel destroyed every bridge in South Lebanon. Today, some Lebanese created makeshift bridges and risked their lives just to cross into a few parts of the South and see their homes again. Israel has ethnically cleansed a third of Lebanon and vowed that our families will never be allowed to return.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social a gift from the heavens

Amazing that this happened today. Justice for Rachel ❤️

It's long past time we stopped sending Israel weapons to enable war crimes. Tonight's vote shows how fast the ground has shifted - and will continue to shift.

40 Democrats in the Senate voted to block arms sales to Israel. Chuck Schumer voted for the weapons against the wishes of nearly 90% of his caucus. Schumer is voting with MAGA during one of the most grotesque chapters in modern American history. A total failure of a leader.

If you live in Michigan, please call Senators Slotkin and Peters and ask them to support the Sanders resolutions to block arms sales to the Israeli military. So many families' lives depend on it, including my own. Peters: (202) 224-6221 Slotkin: (202) 224-4822

Today Israel Bonds continue to fund the Israeli government’s campaign of displacement, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

I can't fully describe the sensation of watching sentient adults use phrases like "the chief exporter of terror." It's like watching someone bash their head against a brick wall repeatedly. You want to do anything possible to rescue their faculties for them. But alas, you can only watch.

We are in an utterly terrifying moment.

All of this refers to Israel, in case that’s not clear. Israel’s war on Lebanon. Israeli warplanes. Israeli missiles. Fear—inflicted by Israel. In case anyone doesn’t understand NYT English.

It’s just remarkable.

Abdelrahman Mohammed, 24, a Syrian living in Beirut, reacts after he lost 5 members of his family after an Israeli strike on Wednesday, at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. 📸 Emilie Madi

Also, as the Israeli state has become even more violent, racist, and expansionist in recent decades, pro-Israel political orgs in the U.S. have had to adopt ever more aggressive tactics of suppression (e.g. anti-BDS laws, blacklists and firings, etc) that are so obviously against free speech.

Wars abroad are worsening the affordability crisis at home. These wars are also deeply unpopular, and their unpopularity cuts across traditional divides. So why haven't progressives fully embraced anti-war politics? I'm asking sincerely, because I don't get it.

What on earth.

The answer? 1 hour!

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

I simply think that no American President and in fact no human being at all should ever have the capacity to destroy civilization and it is sheer madness that we exist in a world where this is possible even when that isn’t foremost in our minds and headlines