Granting ICRC access to detainees was a standard risk mitigation measure I used to recommend for U.S. work with military partners. Israel’s refusal to grant ICRC access after Oct 7th was a major red flag—especially after the Biden administration pressed the issue. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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If it were me, I'd stop everything and call all Dem electeds (city, county, state, and Federal) together over a series of 4 weeks in June in 4 regions of the country to discuss the existential threat (& strategy to resist)... Week 1 - all city/town electeds, Week 2 - all county electeds etc etc etc

The GOP Supreme Court That Gave Us Trump Will Now Try to Save His Sorry Ass

Andrea Pitzer is a leading authority on the history of concentration camps.

nysfocus.com/2026/05/11/b... - this is a victory for the people incarcerated at Bedford. HOWEVER, they transferred him to another prison where he will continue to mistreat people.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

“Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa from the Philippines has taken refuge inside the country’s parliament after the International Criminal Court unsealed an arrest warrant regarding his role in the Philippines’ deadly drug war.” Bato was Duterte’s national police chief and implementer of his killings.

"Just look at what the GOP itself is doing: they reserved millions of dollars in fall ad time in Ohio to defend seats Trump won in 2024 by seven and eleven points. This is not the stuff of a party on offense."

Good debate: "I think the single biggest risk is if China overwhelms our auto industry and becomes dominant here.. China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk" www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

*Gasp* But I was told by Sam Alito that intentional racial discrimination against Black voters remained illegal?!?!?!

Understandable concern about not just the midterms but what comes next, seating the House on Jan 3. It's not as simple as Johnson could refuse members. But there is real potential for mischief or worse. Callais has appreciably increased the danger. So here's what they might try, and how to fight it:

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

New: U.S. commercial satellite imagery companies imposed an indefinite blackout over the Middle East, citing force protection But Iran has its own satellite imagery. I wrote about who's actually affected: The journalists & researchers trying to hold the US accountable: www.cjr.org/feature/blin...

🇺🇦🇷🇺“The Russian regime remains stable for now, but nothing lasts forever.” -Kyrylo Budanov Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

West Virginia Republicans tried to remove all five of their Supreme Court justices in 2018 over alleged corruption (two were convicted of federal crimes). Republicans successfully created three vacancies and flipped the court’s majority

This is about deciding if clown tech oligarchs who’ve metastasized in their own wealth and filth are gonna own our future. The future seems to gets that.

This is what they think they got on AOC. Century-level high on your own supply right now. Those court decisions got them juiced.

So we can pay his war tax forever

Personal question: is that Klaus on the whistle?

"Supreme Court reform is the sine qua non of any progressive reform agenda. Without it, nothing else matters, because this court will use its power to strike down anything meaningful Democrats try to do." @paulwaldman.bsky.social / via @atrupar.com

If your theory of change involves Democrats doing constitutional maximalism and they won’t do it, even after J6 and everything else, you need a new theory of change.

If your idea is to trust the courts... well, we tried it.

I guess Deck Blue just isn't working for me? Any alternatives to Deck Blue you're liking?

saw a trailer for a video game about high schoolers that is so 90's coded one of the comments was "you don't even need to check the early life section in wikipedia"

Hey UK: It's better to fight among friends than to face fascism alone. You can argue later. Now it the time to block Reform. Signed, Ghost of fascism yet-to-come

Of all the horrors inflicted by Russia’s war, the abduction of Ukrainian children is one of its worst. Stealing children is a calculated Russian attack on Ukraine’s future. Bringing them home is a priority. We support this with funding, aid and sanctions.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

Several people we spoke with said that it is just a matter of time before Miller is able to reassert himself with new initiatives inside the administration. archive.ph/jdqo8#select...

📣 PENNSYLVANIA: Effectuated #ACA enrollment drop not as bad as Pennie suggests, but the trend line definitely isn't pretty... Over 600,000 Americans have lost ACA healthcare coverage across just 11 states so far. acasignups.net/26/05/11/pen...

I wonder how much of this is just add spending a general investments going down. And I would expect this all to ramp up greatly the rest this year, but maybe not these sites. One thing the right is really good at, especially with the tech bro contingent helping. is finding what’s next.

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

Nick Fuentes was in DC exhorting his followers to storm the Capitol. Hasan Piker has said some icky things about Hamas and is allegedly bad dog dad. There's no symmetry.

Lots of people like to tell Democratic leaders what we should be doing. I’m not that optimistic. Here’s what I think we can do to win the election that will decide how much the next one will matter. ONLY WE ARE COMING TO SAVE US www.thefarce.org/only-we-are-...

Noncitizens should NEVER purchase or use weed. It's a thing that is incredibly confusing to a lot of people because of course, it appears completely legal. But it remains a deportable offense for any noncitizen to purchase weed, which remains a controlled substance under federal law.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

Almost 50% of Arizonans who had SNAP benefits have been kicked off of the program since last summer thanks to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”. This is an excellent article on the cruelty, which of course is the point.

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

They’re obviously stranded in the Strait of Hormuz

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

"Trump is a bully whose bullying is no longer working. Trump is also a malignant narcissist who will go to great lengths to avoid humiliation. And more and more world leaders are finding ways to manipulate that fundamental motivation."

"Our society is sick. It is diseased."

can't imagine why this wapo opinions video isn't doing well on youtube! (one of them tells us he went to harvard within the first 30 seconds, i shit you not)

This hasn’t just broken containment. It’s reaching escape velocity.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Nearly all Americans are not wealthy and/or are not men. Meaning there was a time when they couldn’t vote, when only wealthy White men could vote. If they think these oligarchs won’t attempt to disenfranchise them again too, then they are as delusional as the judges who say racism is over.

Netanyahu going on American TV to tell us we need to lose this war longer and harder is... not great. I can't say who it's not great for because even the associations emit antisemitism. But it's hard to think of a situation where a US president looks more feckless and snowed by an outside power.