Thank you to the University of Kentucky teammates and NCAA competitors who trusted me enough to speak to me on one of the most controversial topics there is in politics or on the internet today. Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 8/8

UN recorded 10,000 Israeli violations of ceasefire with Lebanon in nearly one year since the deal was signed.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

The crisis remains.

🚨 BREAKING: Families woke up Thu. to find themselves suddenly on the wrong side of Gaza’s “yellow line” as Israel pushed the boundary about 300m further west during a tank incursion in eastern Gaza City. The physical blocks were shifted in Tuffah and Shujaiya, Abd Sabbah (X: @AbdSabbah91) reports...

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

🔴 Human Rights Watch says Israel has carried out largest forced displacement in the West Bank since 1967, emptying the Jenin, Tulkarem, & Nur Shams refugee camps during “Operation Iron Wall” in early 2025. About 32,000 Palestinians were expelled at gunpoint, often w/ drones overhead & snipers...

The NVIDIA earnings mean more of this. 🖊️ @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

Mamdani Suddenly Can't Give a Straight Answer On His NYPD Promises After NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch agreed to work in his administration, the mayor-elect has gotten cagey on disbanding the SRG, scrapping the gang database, and giving the CCRB the final say in police discipline.

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest

As always, a must read with good advice and perspective for folks in struggle all over

Our woes are uniquely American. The call is coming from inside the house.

Still thinking about how it was abortion workers and environmental activists who told me about Fetterman being a reactionary back while he was still a candidate and how nobody believed them because the soc dem bro collective had deemed him cool Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

On case it isn’t already obvious that this tactic of sanctioning individual settlers instead of the entity itself is a crisis management strategy

Alas, to anyone out there hoping @harvard.edu will do anything about racist sex-pest Larry Summers, let’s remember that despite escalating pressure and years of protest, notable anthro sex pest John Comaroff was never fired—his big punishment was not receiving emeritus status when he retired

The anti-vaccination movement is largely to blame for the continuing measles outbreak and the fact that the U.S. is going to lose our measles elimination status. Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse. @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.

Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks. This distribution center is Starbucks’ largest on the East Coast, which is why we’re showing up to send a message. We're ready to continue escalating our ULP strike until Starbucks does the right thing. #NoContractNoCoffee

Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.

"When the agents entered the apartment, they dragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter. “Put your fucking hands up, stupid,” one agent can be heard yelling, in a brief video Jennifer captured before her phone was knocked from her hand." [Me: it was ICE.]

oh my dog ,, please do not use chat gpt to do your taxes holy fuck please no no no

It was Miami Herald local reporter Julie Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social who actually covered the Epstein story and blew it wide open. She cared about the victims and Epstein's crimes, not access. National outlets not only didn't, they refused to. They thought it was tawdry and beneath them.

To that end, in my newsletter — in the “closing my tabs” bonus section for paid subscribers — I shouted out some college student journalists tonight: www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...

"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year | Donald Trump | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... #Epstein

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Found this near USC yesterday. Never forget this isn't just affecting "certain" neighborhoods

It is particularly unconscionable given that LA and SoCal are arguably the second most important and mediatized urban region in the US after New York City

He did literally write the book on manufacturing consent

do you think God hates us

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I will be writing another "Myth of Israeli Military Independence" entry soon. The hits keep piling up, and the more we disabuse the general public of the idea that the US was only indirectly involved in the war Israel unleashed across half the planet, the better.

Totally normal stuff: Unremovable Israeli Spyware Found on Samsung Devices smex.org/open-letter-...

'Barely legal' is a wild and messed-up term with an astounding amount of baggage that I invite people to stop using, especially in the context of the exploitation of children and teens.

Hey Christians, what are you gonna do about this?

It does feel like we're all going insane. We *know* he's implicated in Epstein's abuse. He's lashing out, in a misogynistic way, when questioned about it. We know. Why isn't every news stations 24hour coverage of the president being a child abuser? It should be wall-to-wall

Like if you cannot fire a man who has done horrific things and will get to ::check notes:: be able to live a plush retirement buoyed by his wealth WHO WILL YOU FIRE

Shades of the scam running in Pasadena just after the fire, when tow truck companies were towing cars left in front of evacuated or burned homes, then holding them until the owner paid up.

"top border patrol official was so inspired by hunting magazines that he vowed to hunt immigrants" is really...something.

AP reports that nearly 100 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war began, amid widespread torture and medical neglect documented across multiple facilities. A former guard at Sde Teiman says prisoners were routinely chained, beaten, and left to die in the yard.🧵

Weaponized bureaucracy literally kills people

To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...

No one knows how many people die in Mississippi's jails, in part, because many of the state’s hundreds of local law enforcement agencies find reporting requirements burdensome, state officials say

New attacks near Bethlehem and Hebron underscore intensifying Israeli violence in occupied Palestinian territory.

truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia

Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump

I dare you to read @thellpsx.bsky.social and @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social on their sister crip for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong and not cry llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong...

⭕️ Gaza officials warn of a full shelter collapse as winter hits displaced families Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel’s blockade of tents, tarps, plastic sheeting, heaters, flooring, and mobile sanitation has triggered a catastrophic breakdown in shelter conditions as the first winter...