"From masked ICE agents to threats against an alleged conspiracy of leftist NGOs, a sense of chaos demoralizes opposition and silences critics. American institutions are sorted into those who are with or against the administration. The empire came home." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Trump, Putin, the Internet, social media, democracy, AI, climate change, and basically the history of the last decade - loved this conversation with @jonfavs.bsky.social on Offline.

Trump has not gotten a single concession from Putin - not one. His "deal making" is entirely about Ukrainian concessions.

“My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do… Zelenskyy needs Europe.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hawks have often weaponized "Munich" every time the U.S. doesn't go to war. But they forget the real betrayal of Munich - two big countries meeting to carve up the borders of a smaller one to give to an aggressor without that nation present.

Trump wanting to concede Ukrainian territory that Russia does not even occupy (and that's not his to concede) is just about the worst case scenario. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump’s interview shows just how easy it is for him to get completely played. Putin conceded nothing about Ukraine but repeats Trump conspiracy theories and he calls the meeting a 10 of 10.

So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.

""Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future. It is past time for Democrats to do what Mr. Mamdani did " www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Trump’s DC takeover is not about crime or a distraction it’s a preview of the authoritarian playbook he wants to use in other cities using whatever authority and justification he can find.

New Pod Save the World on Trump's potential capitulation to Putin, Israel's Gaza "takeover" and the 4th anniversary of the collapse of Afghanistan, with @yaldahakim.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRl...

Trump has "embodied a culture in which money is ennobling, human beings are brands, and the capacity to be shamed is weakness." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

"This is no longer a looming hunger crisis – this is starvation, pure and simple." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations released reports Monday that concluded their government’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide

No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

Responding to Trump's absurd attacks to distract from Epstein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5S...

Extra Pod Save the World on latest Iran intel, Syria strikes, Bibi politics, and how some Dems are behind the curve on a lot of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQck...

Always good to see the Democratic Party committed to learning absolutely nothing that could be uncomfortable. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

"“Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage, and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.” variety.com/2025/tv/news...

With each capitulation, Republicans in Congress and the courts encourage Trump to seize more power. Why would anyone count on Trump to stop asserting more and more power before constitutional democracy is unrecognizable?

“It’s sad to see that they left for work, not as criminals but as workers, and now they’re not arriving home,” said Cristina, a Norristown resident from Puebla, Mexico. “They’re hunting us like animals. We’re not criminals. Our crime is to be here as immigrants. But we’re not bad, we just work.”

"“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Donald Trump is the manifestation of the corrupt establishment in this country, which his own supporters are now waking up to.

If your take is "I oppose Trump's fascism but support him lawlessly bombing this other country" maybe pause and give that a think.

Democrats have to oppose the US getting dragged into war with Iran. It's the right thing to do substantively, politically, but above all morally.

Democrats have to oppose the US getting dragged into war with Iran. It's the right thing to do substantively, politically, but above all morally.

Hard to think of a guest more ideal for PSTW than @jacindaardern.bsky.social - check out the full interview (and her book A Different Kind of Power): www.youtube.com/watch?v=faj1...

New Pod Save the World on Israel's attack on Iran, what Trump is doing, and what's next: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAiU...

A real war just broke out in the Middle East bc of his incompetence and recklessness and Trump is going to have a military parade for his birthday.

Actions have consequences and Trump is dealing with the consequences of tearing up the Iran Deal for no reason except his hatred of Obama.

Since Trump inauguration: Gaza escalated, Ukraine escalated, Israel-Iran escalated. Trump is a walking permission slip to every strongman to do whatever they want, and it propelling the world into ever-more violence and chaos

Israel bombing Iran in the middle of US diplomacy is an astonishing and totally unnecessary escalation and humiliating for Trump who said he was ending wars.

My thoughts on the authoritarian spiral that we are currently experiencing.

Trump is trying to normalize the US military in our streets as an extension of his personal power with ever-expanding missions. This is an existential threat to democracy.

It's absurd to debate whether militarized repression is a distraction or how hypothetical swing voters will react in 18 months. This is happening. Now. And we're less than 5 months into this administration. Wake up.

The last time this country had a Gilded Age was in the late 19th century. It gave birth to American populism and, ultimately, a progressive era of politics that transformed both parties and raised people’s expectations for politicians and their government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

"Donald Trump is demonstrating what happens when our sense of ourselves as a singularly exceptional nation, unbound by the rules that govern everyone else, is transferred from the nation to one man." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

"It is basically 100 percent civilian casualties" - Please listen to my interview with Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who was recently in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiN...

What a disgrace. How about: we're living through fascism and we're staying in the United States to fight it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Trump helped make the difference for liberals in Canada and could do the same in Australia. He isn’t building far right momentum globally he’s killing it.

"Our intention should be to return to the world as a different country. That requires something that Americans have not always done well: listening." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

Trump's authoritarian transformation of the US is ongoing and getting worse. Here's what's happening and where it could go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGd...

Thoughts on Pope Francis, including my experience with him supporting the US-Cuba normalization and his unique moral leadership. www.youtube.com/shorts/KfN7k...

Once on vacation I had to drive an hour to an FBI field office just to find a secure phone to call into a White House meeting. Pete Hegseth is an amateurish mockery to anyone who ever actually took security seriously and needs to go.

Pope Francis was a towering moral and spiritual leader. I will forever be grateful for his role in making the normalization of relations between the US and Cuba possible. He believed in showing compassion to the stranger, in caring for each other and the planet. He will be missed beyond words.