dem strategy makes no sense. voters don't like how chaotic trump is. media and dumb swing voters just convinced themselves he would be more normal in round 2. when dems downplay trump latest insanity, it cedes ground and creates the impression that what he is doing is within the realm of reason.

Tough to say given internet outages but thus far I've only seen evidence of FARAJA (local police) and local territorial Basij units (volunteers) deployed to suppress protests across Iran - business as usual in that regard. The Big Q is if Sepah regulars or especially Artesh regulars get sent in.

I’m Iranian-American, speak fluent Persian, have spent most of my life immersed in Iran & its ongoings in both personal & professional capacities. Feels like this is going to be useful the next few weeks as every single white American on this website assumes everyone is exactly like them.

I’m at a rally for Renee Good in San Diego right now.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

Jesus wept. I literally cannot fathom the liberal IR mind. "I totally approve of the fascist regime bombing Iran, because that'll lead to freedom. Wait, the fascist regime bombed Venezuela? That's horrible!"

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

Truly I get more useful, updated information about Iran from Facebook right now than this website

I am getting a different and funny feeling about this round of protests. It’s still very early and I can’t quite figure out why…but it feels different.

See like...if they had just said "everything is on the table" they wouldn't get these headines

My interpretation is that they view "defunding" as unserious radicalism, and increasing funding is how they perform seriousness. It's how they demonstrate to themselves and donors that they're the adults in the room.

Remember when they said Mamdani couldn’t win because he was so anti-Israel? Well now the exact same people are insisting Mamdani’s win had nothing to do with Israel to try to discourage other candidates from running against Zionism. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"hated Hulk Hogan" turning out to be a useful marker of allies in times of trouble

Jesus Christ

i know people like to clown on this place for some of the absurd behavior witnessed on here but it really doesn’t hold a candle to tiktok, where some random guy with a large following is claiming that i stole “abolish ICE” from him, and that no one had said it prior to like 2024.

Number of people shot by Trump's secret police so far: 43. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

They actually did it

beast

Governor I was not familiar with your game

By my count this is the fourth or fifth Jewish Insider article which steelmans the United Arab Emirates and the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, this time by invoking the specter of the Muslim Brotherhood and claiming that MBS now supports it

Indict Jonathan Ross

State Senator Weiner with an interesting response to his non-response to a lightning round question about whether Israel has committed genocide.

People mag

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

If justice isn't available in the short or medium term, you have to shift the timeline, and be willing to reallocate resources on a longer frame. We're in for more years of governmental denial and forgetfulness. It won't be the first time a people's faced that. But you don't have to cede your memory

The thing about saying that this is just the college-educated liberal cosmopolitan urban middle-class is that that's still a pretty sizable percentage of the country, and a political strategy that depends on them not having any kind of active voice or influence is one doomed to failure.

“The American people are starting to see just how far this president and his lieutenants are willing to go to shield their forces from accountability.” @premthakker.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social on how Team Trump was prepared to protect ICE agents at any cost zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...

Sorry to be divisive about this, but it's been irking me. A young mother was killed for her activism in Minneapolis and lots of people are (rightfully) mentioning that, but anyone in the ~*movement*~ knows there's nearly zero political and/or logistical accommodation for young mothers.

Look I'm not like some big Xihead or whatever but we've basically eaten our own lunch at this point but don't even know it wrt Westpac. This current admin is walking itself into a hubris-fueled fucking disaster if we try some shit over there

From a left wing perspective it's worth seriously thinking about how the only time in recent memory that a president's own party base dissented against him on a foreign policy issue was Biden on Palestine. Liberals, actual median liberals that is, are far more free-thinking than conservatives.

I'm a union organizer, Assemblymember, and democratic socialist running for Congress in NY-07. I came to politics through low-wage jobs and the labor movement. That’s the perspective I’ll bring to Washington to take on oligarchy, fascism, and war—and win for working people.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he is willing to not only send peacekeepers to Ukraine, but also to occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem and the West Bank as part of a political process towards a two state solution

Israel, at the height of its hubris, has "proposed" using stolen tax money entitled to the Palestinian Authority by treaty to pay for the operations costs of the killing-fields of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, or to pay for the clearing of some of the rubble from Gaza.

Sorry but truly my feeling with a lot of these self-satisfied, hypocritical european leaders

Pot calling the kettle black

My favorite was when elements of the US federal government alleged that their own agency (USAID) was funding the delivery of bricks to anti-Tesla protesters in February and March of 2025. Like... That's you. You run USAID. You can just check Abacus and GLAAS...

Really underrated that the stupidity of regimes is pretty universal

bluesky has a weird wonky search that breaks inexplicably a lot but they have definitely not earned much benefit of the doubt

Something I missed in the release of Palestinian prisoners last autumn is that one of the released is Nader Sadaqa, the only confirmed convicted Samaritan Palestinian militant in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

By my count this is the fourth or fifth Jewish Insider article which steelmans the United Arab Emirates and the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, this time by invoking the specter of the Muslim Brotherhood and claiming that MBS now supports it

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

Ameen.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

main takeaway from the Fallout show is that the vault suits make everyone's ass look huge

Seems the initial reports from the Financial Times and other news outlets were correct and some Arab states successfully vetoed Tony Blair as the "Board of Peace" envoy to the Palestinian technocratic government in Gaza and it will instead be Nikolay Mladenov

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration