Exactly no mention in US/European press of Mona Khalil being targeted by Israel.

stories like the Somali ref being barred are a flex and a call to fellow fash allies to join the crusade - it sends a clear message, esp to European far right parties, that if they adopt similar programs they will receive US support - and - these parties are hearing that call -

these are clear laws being broken and clear harm being perpetrated

I've taught several graphic novels and this one would be an amazing choice for upper level HS or early college - one of those rare pieces that is so good that students would def *want* to learn all the extra context you can give them and then dig for even more.

“Those girls and their babies are now missing”

Been working on this story for a while - it's about pastors who support ICE and immigration enforcement. religionnews.com/2026/06/05/m...

Having spent the weekend in DC, let me assure you that no matter how much you think you hate what he’s done to our capital, you should hate it more. Giant banners of his mugshot, tacky gold paint on the statues, a fucking UFC cage on the White House lawn and armed troops everywhere. (spits)

"You need"

Uber had its first beta launch 2 years earlier in 2010 and it was clear at the time that "uber" was a "cute" "tongue in cheek" Nazi reference. Soon thereafter, Nazi motorcycle helmets were in style. All of this was in the air, even then, and now here we are.

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

Best film adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only

I spend an inordinate amount of time picturing Adam Tooze, teaching as a prof in West Berlin as UK/US/French troops literally made his free speech rights possible just ... sitting at his desk playing with the same Soviet tanks which were terrorizing Budapest, Prague, East Berlin, et al.

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Pulte is set to become the acting director of national intelligence. His father and grandfather had multiple ties to The Family, the secretive Christian group pushing right-wing agendas around the world.

it's one of the most common themes any time you start interviewing older queer people, this dispossession and outright theft via hateful straight relatives

the D Day person used to live in Berlin and yeh ... the worst, weirdest tankie discourse has its global nexus there ... one would think Berlin would be the least tankie city on earth but hey, here we are -

Hegseth is a cartoonish white supremacist, but he knows what he's doing with that D Day speech. He's got two audiences in mind, MAGA & Europe's rising neofascist movements. Short thread. 👇🏽

Platner’s insistence on saying “I used to be bad” combined with “that’s past, and anyone who says otherwise is unforgiving” resonates with many because it’s a very old narrative: “once I was lost, now I’m found.” He then shifts the moral wait of accepting his salvation onto the listener.

You can nuance D-Day however you want professionally, but shitting on the idea of it as antifascist heroism, in 2026, in public history and politics settings and discourse, is fucking stupid.

A real headline in the United States today

Saw a couple of people laughing at Hegseth’s ignorance here about who invaded where. It’s hard to remember because he acts so chudly, but Pete has degrees in politics and policy from Princeton (AB) and Harvard (MPP). This is from conviction, not ignorance. (He has the tattoos to prove it!)

“In the last few days ‘At least 15 people have been accosted on the streets by collectives of white individuals surrounding Sikhs’ Amandeep Singh, a charity educator, told the Guardian.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascism-is-a...

ironically, even as Trump personally becomes less and less popular in Europe, his attempt to make openly white supremacist policy the status quo among allies does seem to, for the moment, be working 😑

worse, Hegseth is playing to a European crowd currently swelling the ranks of far right parties, being trumpeted by many major media pubs, and heavily influencing decisions in Brussels - would be nice to think Europe would recoil in shock with this but ... that just might not be the case ...

where is Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol when you need him

single best thing I've read on the subject (gift link)

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

every minority knows this trick well we live with it daily

Boys will be boys.

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine. For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

Ehemalige Synagoge in Starogard Gdański.

really enjoying this poetic take on a memoir - every now and then there's a sentence that will just make me gasp

every time Europe votes for more anti-immigration policies a fascist gets his wings

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

funny thing about this is that white evangelicals are very aware they are not the majority and that most other Christians in the country hate them - this has fed their persecution complex for at least the last 100 years

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

I don’t think it’s a great use of time or energy to pretend you can reform the president‘s personal militia

Ephesians 6:12 basically sums up all of LOTR: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

thinking a lot about how Gandalf/Tolkien's theory of fighting fascism involved 1, battles determined by arms and, 2 - and most importantly - battles w/out arms, struggles which turned the very idea of "power" on its head; Frodo's quest, in so many ways, was to establish *democratic, dispersed power*

used to remind my students that Homer was "just" a street poet singing for tips -

I'm not saying I'm sitting on some genius strategy, for NJ or anywhere else. But I'm pretty confident that armed conflict with the federal government is as disastrously murderous as Trump himself. I suspect NJ guv, no bomb thrower, knows that, too.

from the same chapter Leo quoted from Gandalf in LOTR yesterday: "Victory cannot be achieved by arms, whether you sit here to endure siege after siege, or march out to be overwhelmed beyond the River"

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

fascist goons answerable only to the President are pepper spraying some of his last remaining opposition

Excellent @kyivpost.com editorial on the need to stand firm in the face of Russia's "gangster diplomacy". The best responses to Russian threats are more help for Ukraine & more military & economic pain for Russia.

the worry is that he is training to some day *be* in a war zone

Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity

I've been reading, studying, and teaching various translations of the Oddyssey for over 20 years and reading Wilson's translation felt a bit like seeing the Sistine Chapel before and after restoration - especially with Odysseus himself, it felt like seeing him for the very first time

from the same chapter Leo quoted from Gandalf in LOTR today: "Victory cannot be achieved by arms, whether you sit here to endure siege after siege, or march out to be overwhelmed beyond the River." - so much of Tolkien's work is infused with the Biblical notion that the fight cannot be won w/ muscle

nobody expects a catholic butlerian jihad

imagine how many ppl will now fraudulently claim they actually *were* at J6 - behold, the new American Woodstock