EU leaders pretend they need unanimity to ban Israeli settlement products. They don’t. My latest @euobserver.com euobserver.com/221647/eu-le...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "I got in trouble for mentioning that 37% of our GDP is female. 50% of Americans -- 52% roughly -- are female. There's a dislocation there. 67% of people who have gone into graduate school are female. These parts of the market are gonna be put under massive pressure."

I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

The first reason I support city-run grocery stores is because if done properly they will help people who need it. But a close second is to see the project’s enemies stomp their little feet like spoilt-milk Rumpelstiltskins

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Trump: "You want to see a stock market go down? Let a couple nuclear bombs be dropped on us, then you'll see a stock market go down. So the stock market has not gone very much at all. It's gone down a little bit. Much less than I thought. And frankly the gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought."

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Two men have been arrested following an arson attack on Jewish community ambulances in London.

The most important part of any law, rule or policy isn't what it permits or prohibits - it's whether you can *enforce* the law at all. 1/

The DOGE assholes saved no money and did a lot of damage to good programs and workers’ lives. And now they want to blow $200 billion on this lunacy?

fresh audio product: • Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes • Natalie Y. Moore on the effects of federal layoffs on black women www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for Iran war supplemental, sources say Some in WH think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress My last story for WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If you want to know how Trump’s war in Iran impacts Ukraine, watch this:

I regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.

what do you use @obsidian.md bases for?

The US intelligence community long ago gamed out all the risks surrounding a conflict with Iran, including the possibility Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz. If the Trump administration and Hegseth are surprised now, it's because they've never listened to, and sidelined, the experts.

We're governed my liars, knaves, and morons, an ongoing series

"Hope is getting a permanent home," Obama says of his imminently opening Center, which looks more like lifeless repression to me.

COMMENTARY: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been the driving force behind military action and sabotage against Iran for years. Now that its leader Khamenei is dead, he’s close to realizing his political ambition by neutralizing the Iranian threat. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/chao...

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

Zelenskyy WARNED Trump — And He Was 100% Right youtube.com/watch?v=vcgI...

This will be unconstitutional, but he probably starts with 3 votes (Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh).

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

fresh audio product: • Tessa West on what kept the Epstein gang together • Nick Srnicek on AI @nsrnicek.bsky.social • Wanda Bertram on the costs of mass incarceration @prisonpolicy.org www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

“I've been censored plenty of times… They've taken down my account completely multiple times…” Digital creator Hamzah Saadah explains how he pushes through censorship and backlash on pro-Palestinian content on social platforms including TikTok and Instagram.

Since his meeting w/ Trump in Washington, Colombian Pres. Gustavo Petro “has been pretty quiet around the issue of Palestine, around the issue of the bombings in his country’s waters & the issue of Cuba,” Drop Site’s José Luis Granados Ceja said, pointing to what he sees as as a lack of regional...

🚨2-year-old Nidal Abu Rabie died in central Gaza after Israeli authorities prevented him from traveling abroad for urgent treatment for severe liver and spleen enlargement. The toddler had been on the medical transfer list for more than 14 months & received an official referral 9 months ago, but...

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Ukrainian forces regained Danylivka, Nechaivka, Stepove and Verbove in the Huliaipole direction. Yehorivka, Kyrpychne, Pryvillya south of Vyshneve and Berezove remain in a gray zone amid ongoing fighting. Clashes continue south of Verbove near Novohryhorivka toward Kalynivske and Zlahoda. #Ukraine

What else are you missing? Have a seat — this is gonna take some time.

Doesn't this feel like they knew all along this would happen? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

I am allowed to destroy a country. I am even allowed to impose a destructive embargo on a foreign country. I can do whatever I want – Trump. Trump is completely insane.

I can remember back when presidents wouldn't steal tankers of oil and put billions of dollars into a Qatar bank account under their personal control. Those were the days

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

'...A report by Public Citizen last year found that the Trump administration had halted or dismissed 90 investigations against lawbreaking corporations within the first 100 days of being in office...'

Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."

The genocide might be out of the great burning eye of the media, but it is still continuing. We need a new UN - one with a standing army and NO vetoes

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I'm stunned these distinguished public servants would lie!

Even the Cliff Notes descriptions are damning. How do these mutants live with themselves? How do they defend this?

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

This is a fascinating graphic, showing how critical non-news elements have been to the NY Times' spectacular growth. You can see why the Washpost, which is basically a single-product new offering, can't begin to keep up. (And then add in those boneheaded decisions by Bezos and Lewis.)

What if we had an entire foreign policy based on the petty resentments and insecurities of mediocre weak men?