Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

This is cute 🦈

It’s ok, people. The New Yorker will save us all with its private school smarminess.

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

These are the people currently in power in the Israeli government.

Disney/ABC going to try and unfuck the chicken they fucked

Deleting my Academia.edu account in light of their predatory new terms and conditions. There is no way of opting out. It's a shame because it has been useful over the years, but I'm not prepared to give them these rights. Thanks to @downham.bsky.social for highlighting!

Clothing store, Upper West Side.

My passport already arrived. This has been very fast. It took a week.

We just cancelled Disney+ and a few other channels. Good riddance.

"What radicalized you?" Media Literacy

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Thank you, @velazquez.house.gov for voting no on that disgraceful resolution about Charlie Kirk. All vote tallies here (only 58 nays and all Dems):

I was sad to hear @thedailyshow.com parrot the idea that there is a peace deal brokers by Trump between Azerbaijan and A̶l̶b̶a̶n̶i̶a̶ Armenia when there is no real deal, and there is no peace.

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

A large and well-known artist studio building in Brooklyn went up in flames two nights ago. Some lost a lifetime of work.

I’ve tried to call and email @schumer.senate.gov and one gave me a disconnected message and then the online form didn’t work. He’s stopped listening to his constituents.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

When did we get a trap 🪤 emoji?

Has anyone heard from the signers of that Harper’s letter about freedom of speech from years ago? Their silence highlights what they actually believe.

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root. By Orly Noy. www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...

And Bernie’s op-Ed is an embarrassment. I really expected more from him, but …

At this point, it’s not that people don’t know that there’s a genocide in Gaza, it’s that they don’t care.

They’re trying to figure professor Tamar Shirinian at the University of Tennessee for comment she made about Kirk on a non-public Facebook post of a friend. It’s insanity. This college newspaper report tells the administration’s side.

Damien Davis is at it again and I’m so thankful 😌 “Representation without redistribution is just optics.”

Bernie said it.

Interesting development here, a Democratic mega firm affiliated with former Biden and Schumer advisors called SKDK drops its contracts with the government of the State of Israel after Sludge reported that it was making AI driven social media posts with a pro-Israel slant.

So they will provide genocide denial free of charge? Nothing more disappointing that journalism professors pimping out genocide denial.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

What else is new? Another day, another pretext for what they were already wanting to do

ezra klein makes a lot of money comforting rich white men. he knows who his audience is.

It's national voter registration day today, and please register to vote. Today, as a new American I registered for the first time ever.

Ezra Klein shut the fuck up challenge

The UN said Israel is committing genocide. I guess so many of us were right and I’d like to ask those who refuse to believe the facts before them, why are you so hateful?

There were no hate crimes reported in NYC the week of Sept 1–7, a big drop from the previous year. compstat.nypdonline.org

Of course it isn’t …

Fascinating report by France 24 assessing how much damage Iran inflicted on Israel during their 12-day war. Very interesting analysis.

Go see live art, everyone. I guarantee you it will help you in the longterm.

Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

incredible stuff happening

So great to celebrate my friend Dahlia Elsayed’s show at Morgan Lehman gallery in Chelsea #NYC

So the Trump shooter was a registered Republican, the Kirk shooter comes from a Republican family, and it’s quite clear which group is stoking political violence.

I will post this every year until that propagandistic "Tribute in Light" is gone. A monument to unhinged jingoistic nationalism.

Ezra Klein liked and admired Charlie Kirk, who hated my trans child, so I'm going to view this as a display of true Ezra's character. You can apply this to every single centrist/liberal pundit or publication celebrating him. Got it. Message received.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."

This is the only thing I am going to post on the Utah shooting. It’s something worth noting.