Zelensky: Syria deserves the strongest support from the international community.

…..this explanation isnt even an explanation!

My latest examines the Israel–Syria talks, the likelihood of a deal amid rising U.S. pressure, and the challenges any agreement would face – especially as Washington prioritises optics over substance to deliver a deal Trump can showcase at the upcoming UN gathering. en.majalla.com/node/327415/...

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

NEW: Bryan Hooper Sr., another wrongfully convicted Black man in Minnesota, walked out of Stillwater prison last week after serving 9,999 days of a life sentence for a murder charge that was dismissed by a judge on Sept. 4, 2025 after the state's key trial witness confessed to the murder in July.

Union that reps the musicians on Kimmel: “This is not complicated — this is State censorship, happening in 🇺🇸… a direct attack on free speech… we stand with all those who will be out of work because of government overreach.”

Sixteen nations warn Israel not to attack Global Sumud Flotilla - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sixteen-nations-warn-israel-not-attack-global-sumud-flotilla

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

If Andrew Cuomo – who started a pro-Israel group as part of his political comeback, volunteered to defend Netanyahu against ICC charges and accused Mamdani of antisemitism for criticizing Israel – now feels the need to distance himself from Israel, that's the death knell for AIPAC politics.

"I never stood with Bibi."

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8

"With Prime Minister Carney borrowing much of the Conservative policy book, what has Pierre Poilievre decided to do?" "Go even more extreme on immigration." "Progressive movements have to grow to confront this anti-immigrant tide." #Canada #Housing #Healthcare #Deportation

For decades, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social has shown what politics can be: courageous, collaborative, and grounded in the struggle for justice. It was an honor to celebrate them on Wednesday night alongside my friend @bradlander.bsky.social.

Elon is a Nazi.

Please read Ahmad's story in the link. His account has been given the spam tag and that makes it much harder to fundraise. He needs our help. @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social tinyurl.com/AhmadandSamar

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power. Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

Never once giving a shit about what Ezra Klein thinks about a single topic to the point that I don't even know his positions has served me so well in life thus far that i think I will simply be continuing the practice

Choose your fighter.

This is about the US but parallels in Europe are striking. How do you reinvent 20th-century "liberalism"? (probably can't?) What to do about the administrative state and the "veto points"? Questions that receive scant attention even from the serious. www.ft.com/content/dfca...

Weeks ago, Hamas agrees to an Egypt & Qatar deal (similar to a US deal Israel agreed to before). Israel doesn't. This week, Hamas repeats it wants a deal. Trump sends one. Hamas goes to Qatar—where the largest US base in the Middle East is—to hash it out. Then Israel bombs them.

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I’m in Leeds with Baton of Hope, campaigning to raise awareness of suicide and prevent further deaths. I’m walking to promote Alice’s story and the particular risks facing trans people. I haven’t been fundraising but Peter has. If you’ve any spare pennies…

Aamer Rahman - Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds youtu.be/rfXsHbHEQu0

I don’t give a shit if JD Vance doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. Striking civilian boats in international waters is both unconstitutional and a war crime. The party of “law and order” clearly doesn’t care about respecting it.

Great essay by @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social on the possibility of an "Arab Jewish" identity. Well worth reading. www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

If legacy American Jewish institutions lean hard into "Holocaust memory only bears moral lessons for the treatment of Jews, not for anyone outside the community," I do not think they will like the way this will ultimately lead the non-Jewish world to relate to Jews. www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

some personal news: in a few weeks, I, along with my Rolling Stone comrade and editor @andrewperez.bsky.social, will be up and running at the expanding political reporting team at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s outlet @zeteo.com www.semafor.com/article/09/0...

Just saying. youtu.be/S8nM5N4ptkw

We are days away from the Israeli expulsion of a million people from Gaza city The second largest since this Oct 23 This time would be much more violent and deadly It can be stopped It must be stopped

More reminders: - what’s happening in Palestine is unacceptably awful and if you’re afraid to say that, this is a good season to do some soul searching - it is easy to engage in antisemitism while speaking up for Palestine but it is also easy not to if you can please just be a little less lazy

One share can change the direction of our story.🧡 One donation can turn struggle into hope and keep my family fed. gofund.me/6f2ca285

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Does anyone need a reminder that Alex Acosta, who gave Jeffrey Epstein the notorious "sweetheart deal" the first time his crimes were exposed became Trump's first labor secretary (until he was forced to resign when Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald exposed the whole thing in 2018).

White South African male, whose father owned an emerald mine and exploited labor, and who has consistently mistreated his family, colleagues and employees, as well as the environment and animals, and exploited corruption and decadence in America and elsewhere, has thoughts. Shiatty thoughts.

“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)

We are Diana and Mohammad from Gaza, parents to two young girls. Life is very difficult now, and we’re reaching out for support. Any help, big or small, truly makes a difference ❤️ Donation link: tinyurl.com/Hgfkbn Verified by @gazavetters (#312): shorturl.at/gl9b2

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

Words are magic

In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I've recorded a new song for Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axj...

"Every member nation of the United Nations Security Council except the United States on Wednesday affirmed that Israel's engineered famine in Gaza is 'man-made' as 10 more Palestinians died of starvation." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Attn @schumer.senate.gov Attn @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Attn @kamalaharris.com Attn @democrats.org Attn @ritchietorres.bsky.social Did you get the memo? Do you need to hear this much MUCH M.U.C.H Louder LOUDER?