Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

NYT should respond "come at me, bro. Looking forward to discovery."

NOW: Hundreds of Solidarity Guard activists in Jerusalem to provide protective presence during the notoriously violent Flag March, when extremist settlers flood the city and Palestinian residents close their businesses and hide inside for fear of being spat on, pushed, and called slurs. (1/2)

@kenwhite.bsky.social what is the likelihood of this happening? Can a country even sue for defamation? What is the "actual malice" case here, if any?

Important to know – this is *not* a bluff by Signal. They will leave Canada if it's required for them to comply with this bill. This is the same position Signal has had for years in regard to Europe. It couldn't be more firm.

ok threads it was fun while it lasted

The Gaza Strip after three years of indiscriminate bombing by Israel.

Mayor Mamdani's executive budget brings the $12 billion deficit left by Mayor Adams to zero WITHOUT cutting essential services, AND makes an unprecedented investment in hate violence prevention. Our full statement: www.jfrej.org/news/2025/11...

Spare me the “man of great integrity” schtick. Starmer: - Lied through his teeth to become Labour leader - Defended Israel’s right to commit war crimes - Appointed the friend of a notorious paedophile to high office - Went Enoch Powell on migrants And so on!

Christian Zionism is a political & religious ideology that advocates Jews returning to the Holy Land; to bring about the Second Coming & the End Times. Evangelical Christians believe that once Jews return they must then convert to Christianity - something that many Jews regard antisemitic

There is real rising antisemitism in the US right now, including on the left, as even left-wing Jews will tell you. Meanwhile, this editorial spends most of its time complaining about Democrats voting to block weapon sales to Israel, which is not antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

'why is Iran so effectively using AI for propaganda and the US failing dramatically at it' is a genuinely interesting question

"If you can't draw the line at genocide, you probably can't draw the line at democracy." Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel like the 17th century English space program run by Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law has the potential to become a history meme

Wilkins would speculate about flight to the moon in his later work Mathematicall Magick, which is available to us online via the wonderful people at archive.org archive.org/details/bim_...

Sounds like Israeli SOF may be operating inside Iraq (presumably setting up FARPs and the like for aircraft that en route to/from Iran or ground launched munitions)—and some of them may have gotten into a shootout with Iraqi forces

Iraq’s Joint Operations Command confirms that an Iraqi soldier was killed in an air strike and three others wounded when their Karbala-based unit approached whatever this force in the desert between Karbala and Najaf is (Israeli or US)

ICYMI: We obtained the grand jury testimony of Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, Brian Kemp, Brad Ratffensperger, Cassidy Hutchinson, Marc Short, Greg Jacob, Boris Epshteyn, Michael Flynn, Chris Carr, Lin Wood, Mark Meadows, Cleta Mitchell, and more. You can read & search the transcripts on our site👇

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Out of the dozens of Western states that proclaim support for two states, less than five of them doing all of the following 1) Recognize the second state 2) ban settler goods from trade 3) restrict military support to Israel on IHL

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

To me the most insulting thing about comparing Platner to Mamdani is that there was a nationally visible campaign orchestrated by bad actors saying that Mamdani allegedly makes Jewish people feel unsafe. The Nazi tattoo guy gets NONE of that smoke at all. Please make that make sense.

Seems bad the emerging Sensible line is that hate crimes against Muslims count less because there are more Muslims in the UK. Not a surprise in any way, shape or form, but defintely bad.

Israel illegally abducted these people *600 miles* away from Gaza. And Greece is accused of cooperating. If it did at all, the implications are huge. Would pin one NATO member against several others in the region – including Italy, Spain, and Turkey – who are slamming the attack.

Wow! More than double the volume of gas cut off due to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is being wasted each year because countries are failing to deal with methane leaks and unnecessary flaring, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

What happens if those people also lack self-awareness, Bret?

Horrific. Every feeling human being should be outraged by what Israel is doing in southern Lebanon, destroying it like Gaza. Instead, with this rare and important exception, it’s not even on the radar. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When people talk about Chinese agriculture today, hydroponics and aquaculture often come up, but to me the most fun is the modern revival of the ancient rice-duck and rice-fish-duck systems

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Between medicaid cuts and restricting the immigrant doctors who actually serve rural areas, I've never seen a political movement so laser focused on killing their most loyal voters.

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

READ: While the world is focused on Iran, Israel is continuing the genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra...

Starmer in 2022: "Look, there are only two possible explanations. Either he's trashing the ministerial code, or he's claiming he was repeatedly lied to by his own advisors, and that he didn't know what was going on in his own house and in his own office. Come off it!"

Netanyahu helped 'create a genocide in Gaza', top Biden official says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-helped-create-genocide-gaza-former-top-biden-official-says

if this strait doesn't open soon half of Asia is going to be as hostile to the US as they think Iran is

Another day of the Israeli 'ceasefire': Israel bombed multiple villages and towns in south Lebanon and continued to detonate entire villages

This is sort of insane for a lot of reasons but the biggest one is that CEOs are basically your least qualified to manage people generalists at the company. AI versions even even more so. Middle management has real value because they plan and handle resourcing. www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

Sama'a and her family need our help to access clean water and food. Even a small donation helps. chuffed.org/project/157569

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide UN Report: Israel is committing genocide Genocide Scholars: Israel is committing genocide Biden: Here's another $8,000,000,000 for Israel Democrats: Biden is a decent man

Tribalism

Massive, constant air bridge to Israel and the gulf. Refueling planes (KC-135, KC-46), cargo planes (C-17), spy planes (RC-135). High-intensity war is returning soon.

Trump has repeatedly denied Israel dragged the US into the war. So it's either they want to confuse everyone, or they themselves are confused

The US DOS international law justification for its war on Iran: Israel asked us to do it.

'No', that was Minister Van Weel's answer when parliament asked whether his ministry had used Palantir. Meanwhile, the contract was attached to the very emails used to prepare that answer. The Royal Military Police used the software for six years. Nobody said so. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/eliasrut...

Brian McFadden, The Tech Bro Manifesto

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.