New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gaza’s economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace fund is empty - www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

Psst. Proportional representation in multi-member districts is the only real answer to the ills of gerrymandering. Pass it on.

your local dsa chapter is probably running at capacity given the rate of growth in the last 2 years and is in dire need of more people who are willing to plan social events and coordinate issues like child care (which makes broader participation possible). do something. act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

This is an article about the hollowing out of government. Particularly government institutional knowledge and expertise, most of which has been contracted out to the corporate sector. It mostly uses the British government as its example, but .../2 www.liberalcurrents.com/the-empty-ar...

Reform are planning ICE-style ethnic cleansing, with no other precedent AFAIK in a peacetime democracy, tearing apart our country & probably causing mass civil unrest. You’d think our national broadcaster might give us a bit more analysis than just “2 fascists have pinsized disagreement”, but

Extreme heat is no longer just a matter of comfort. It is a public health issue, a matter of social equity, and one of climate justice. And pregnant women are on the front line. #heat #publichealth #climatechange Our article in @theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/climate-chan...

'The number of military personnel engaged in peacekeeping operations around the world fell to the lowest in at least a quarter century in 2025'—SIPRI's new peacekeeping data covered in this @defensenews.bsky.social article: www.defensenews.com/global/2026/...

"Brace yourselves,” said Kenyan opposition politician Fred Matiang’i. “The worst is about to come.”

”A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought.”

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Toddler had a gastro thing, I (8 months pregnant) now have the gastro thing, and wow getting kicked by the baby when you're already nauseous is rapidly ascending my list of Least Favourite Health Experiences

Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, new research has found. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

So they'll have to wait in their home country for years, losing their job and will likely be unable to afford to keep a residence here. It seems designed to effectively end immigration to the US.

“As in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has established a no-go zone in southern Lebanon, forcing residents to flee. Satellite analysis by Le Monde reveals that 45% of urban areas there have been razed or damaged since March.” www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Very good, detailed piece about how UK governments have failed to be honest with voters about the need for immigration. Text in ALT.

This is what needs to start happening nation-wide in higher education.

If you think someone is trans, you can ask, however be sure to ask in a say that wouldn't put them at a disadvantage or seem hostile or that is harassment. If they deny it, you can ask them to prove it, however there aren't any documents that would work to prove it. Hope this clarifies things.

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

Can anyone point to a moment in American history where “Instead of prosecuting these people who violated the law to serve their own political ends I think they should face no consequences so we can heal our divided nation” didn’t make things worse

BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-demo...

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee says he won't stop Thursday's scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers, a severely mentally ill man who was forced to represent himself *at his own capital murder trial* because the judge simply got tired of dealing with him

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

In North Carolina, a board was set up to review the sentences of people who were convicted as minors and it provided a rare chance for them to talk about their childhood and what they’d accomplished in prison. The board has since disbanded.

Read @gawattia.bsky.social today

If the warrants are approved, it will mark the first time ever that apartheid as a crime against humanity is charged against an individual at an international court, and will represent a significant step forward in the mainstreaming of the term's applicability to Israel's political and legal state.

Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

JFC There could never be an easier case for impeaching a president. The fact that impeachment & removal is universally acknowledged among the political class to be impossible is the clearest possible sign that the constitutional order has collapsed into some form of dictatorship.

the thing about Trump’s corruption is that it is so staggering it’s basically impossible to comprehend it’s like asking your brain to visualize stellar distances, you can’t do it with a mind built to look at an elephant and go “wow that’s big” there’s greased palm corruption and then there’s… this

With all MRI machines in Gaza "destroyed or rendered useless by Israel’s siege, doctors in the Strip cannot diagnose their patients" and are "forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage." www.972mag.com/doctors-blin...

Not denying the scope for reform but 1) it’s essential, just and inevitable that some are going to get back far more than they contribute 2) the welfare system *is* sustainable already and it’s a libertarian trope that it is not. [Deleted and reposted due to confusing typo].

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

This is true and it underlies much of the climate debate over whether we should have “hope” or whether we should get “angry.” Often people who think innovation is most important want us to feel optimism, and those who want to change how power is distributed want us to embrace moral outrage. YMMV

this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.

Third trimester is so weird. Yesterday I chased the toddler, did yoga, went to the office, worked a full day, and went out for (non-alcoholic) drinks. Today I sat on an uncomfortable chair at lunch and had so much discomfort that I had to lie down for the rest of the afternoon. Sigh.

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Now out in Environmental Pollution! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, concluding that the sanctions violated her right to free speech after she called for Israeli officials to be charged with war crimes.

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says

"Tens of thousands of families have no papers, no childhood photos, no identity papers, no homes, they have nothing" boasted Abraham Zarbib, who led efforts to flatten entire cities in the Gaza Strip. Complete erasure was the goal. That's why saving UNRWA's archives was so important.

Hobbies and aspirations are put on hold as families reconfigure their lives to avoid deportation and familial separation, deeply aware of how ICE targets working class immigrants. The full story: lataco.com/children-of-... By Odessa Hairapetian