Proud of the fact that my childhood city of 110k or so in the Deep South had a high school walkout of hundreds in protest of ICE

According to the questionnaire she submitted to WFP, she pledges to cosponsor both the Block The Bombs Act and the Recognizing the Genocide in Gaza Quotes below

Israel killed three Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, including a freelance cameraman who contributed to CBS News. The network's president, Tom Cibrowski, let staff know at a meeting this morning, noting that Abdul Raouf Shaat had just been married. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

I just don’t get this because if Ireland seriously threatened to invade Malta and Maltese people started tweeting “fuck those paddy bastards I wish them a 2nd famine” my reaction would be “yeah fair enough, I’m so sorry” not “how rude, *I* voted for the SocDems 😤”

People are reading centrist Dems unwillingness to take on ICE as an issue as a reflection of tactics or ideological agreement, but tbh I think the largest factors are that they're gunshy and extremely lazy

I’ve never understood why this isn’t a thing. A financial and ethical audit at the end of the term, with penalties enforced right away—something like clearing in high school—makes far more sense than the present combination of scrutiny before office, immunity while in it, and impunity after.

Pleased to see that the Working Families Party in New York asks candidates seeking endorsement if they would support two cornerstone pieces of legislation designed to restrict and curtail military assistance to Israel, and whether or not they'd support Tlaib's reso to recognize the Gaza genocide.

“JD Vance is subhuman and Gavin Newsom mogs” -Clavicular I think the groypersphere obsession with Gavin Newsom is underexamined in Dem discourse

Remember when cable news and people on Capitol Hill clutched their pearls over Rashida Tlaib calling Trump a motherfucker

For all the talk about The Groups and how special interests lobbying can shackle Democrats to unpopular positions, I very rarely hear about this one.

Also, only 4% of Democrats (3% when including Dem leaners) support increasing military aid to Israel

Is there a reason the strategy nowadays seems to be to just not answer the question?

Deleted last bc wasn't clear but obviously asylum is a fundamental right it's just funny who is suddenly considered not due their rights and who isn't based on some, ahem, arbitrary racial classifications

The Clintons' personal legal problems emanating from their reckless pursuit of private wealth should not be a concern of congressional Democrats. Let them twist in the wind.

Shot in the dark, but does anyone read Romanian who can help translate a news article for me?

currently in iowa and loving the whole “$11 for a double of woodford at the hotel bar” thing

Knight of the Seven Kingdoms seems pretty good so far

the discipline of Minnesotans in the face of this assault is really breathtaking

Breaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

there's no reforming ICE, there's no democracy while ICE exists

Lmao

I experimented with the Czech version on a budget and a tiny kitchen years ago (and the company has since slapped someone else’s name on the byline! 👀) www.eatingeurope.com/blog/svarak/

Seems most US assets to MENA are going to MSAB and PSAB in Jordan and KSA respectively. Both w/in the range of Iran's short range missiles (MSAB a little further on avg), both covered by Patriot + THAAD. Still quite vulnerable, esp. given most US assets are just parked on the tarmac

A lot of people get too bogged down in the "is it okay for Europeans to hate Americans right now?" question instead of asking "would it be okay for Europeans to **** **** *** **** * ****** ****"

Earlier this month, I traveled to Palestine for the installation of the new Lutheran archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan & the Holy Land. While we were overwhelmingly welcomed warmly while we were there, there was one interaction I think shows the sentiment below may be true.

I'd like to know this guy still has a job tbh

Professionally known liar Edward Isaac-Dovere of CNN is mad at Peter Sterne of City and State NY for saying what objectively happened.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Apparently Mike Lawler is accusing the Institute of Middle East Understanding Policy Project of trafficking in antisemitic tropes by releasing a cable ad about his votes for funding military assistance to Israel Lawler is an Irish-Italian Catholic

OK Google/Grok/Siri/Alexa/Gemini/Sora/ChatGPT/HitlerAI/YouTubeAI, how to make mulled wine

I'm kinda puzzled by the "I hate that this is true" responses. I mean if someone is handing you a button that lets you overperform with no inherent policy concessions, isn't that something you should be overjoyed about?

What is the point of a tent so big you've got people on the inside letting in the masked goons who abduct children

slave catchers. federally deputized night riders

Laying down my prediction now that if Kamala Harris runs in 2028 all of the Democratic members of the House who are quoted here will call her a far leftist antisemite

Laying down my prediction now that if Kamala Harris runs in 2028 all of the Democratic members of the House who are quoted here will call her a far leftist antisemite

Real talk who is their constituency here. The voters want it. The hotels and agribusinesses exploiting undocumented labor either lean gop or split it 50/50 for security's sake. Who is in their ear besides themselves?

So, 3 broad possibilities here: 1) Rutte agreed to something of substance pre-cleared with Copenhagen & Nuuk 2) Rutte agreed to something of substance *not* pre-cleared with Copenhagen & Nuuk 3) Rutte agreed to something of no substance but that made Trump feel warm and fuzzy and important

Pleased to see that the Working Families Party in New York asks candidates seeking endorsement if they would support two cornerstone pieces of legislation designed to restrict and curtail military assistance to Israel, and whether or not they'd support Tlaib's reso to recognize the Gaza genocide.

#BoycottIsraeliProducts ‘Israeli’ fruit growers report a "looming collapse" of the industry as major retailers in Belgium, Ireland, the UK halt orders, leaving tons of mangoes & citrus to rot due to consumer-led boycotts and ethical concerns over the war on Gaza. en.royanews.tv/news/66875?f...

Just...just cut the funding from ICE. ICE is a nightmare agency we don't need, but giving that money back to local police ignores all the ways in which local police forces across the country protect officers who kill civilians and use their discretion to impose little reins of terror. Just cut ICE.

Has anything been as thoroughly discredited as the "development for peace" thinking that every president from Reagan to Biden to Trump applied to Israel-Palestine

greenlanders are not white they are literally indigenous to north america suggesting that people care more about them let alone for racist reasons is in fact racist

Basically correct I think

"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyhau has agreed to join the so called Gaza Board of Peace, despite facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in the strip"

I'm sure if you were old enough to have watched the Monday Night Wars and the rise and fall of the NWO it seems like most of professional wrestling has never come close since but as someone who didn't and who is going through those via the archives it's sort of funny how disheveled it all was

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

Fucking insane headline lol