And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

This, by @usempire.bsky.social, especially on Michael Anton of the Claremont Institute, is really a good description of the illiberal worldview at the heart of MAGA foreign policy thinking.

Reveal consistently one of the best investigative outlets uncovering systems of everyday brutality

In related news, Sect State Marco Rubio announced US sanctions on the US for persecuting Christians and preventing them from exercising their faith.

So how is it that Nate the Hoof Guy is all of a sudden dominating Facebook and has millions of social media followers? Maybe its the low-key vibe of someone just competently dealing with cow hoof problems in a world where it seems hard to solve the bigger problems.

"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...

I am 100% convinced that sandwich guy chose his weapon keenly aware of the literary, punny, metaphorical joke possibilities that it would produce. And the people have responded.

Ross Douhat: did the 19th amendment ruin politics?

Mamdani is of course, not the first elected official to call for universal childcare. One of those absolute no-brainer policy stances that the Democratic Party should be promoting in every statewide race, and across the country. Child care is a public good. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Abolishing ice and prosecuting those ICE officials and employees who commit these crimes must be the baseline for the Democratic Party going forward. Anyone who does not adopt this basic stance is OK with you or your neighbors being kidnapped by masked men and must be driven from political life.

Wondering what all the babies conceived in New York City last night are going to be called since Gen Z is already taken.

This case deserves an off Broadway play, a four or five episode mini series. The cross-examination scene alone would linger in the cinematic imagination for years.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

If you want to know what a useless loser Van Jones is he was on CNN last night criticizing Mamdani for being an extremist and saying shit like this in his acceptance speech.

Twitter/X right now is the most insanely racist, white supremacist, anti-Muslim thing I’ve ever seen. Musk has dialed up the algorithm to 99% Nazi and 95% of posts are warning of the apocalypse if Mamdani wins. This is what happens when a racist, eugenicist fascist owns a social media platform.

“A Mamdani victory is a serious problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that they should pay millions for our shitty advice rather than, as Mamdani has, generate unprecedented voter turnout, volunteerism, and youth support across the most diverse democratic coalition ever assembled.

Aragorn: you will not have forgotten this blade, Sauron.

Heinz yellow mustard: If you can’t smell it through your body armor, its not Heinz!

I am officially shoulder arthritis years old.

Its really amazing watching a bunch of rich, hysterical bigots reveal just how much they hate New York. They hate immigrants. Hate the working class. Hate anyone who can’t afford to buy a multimillion dollar apartment. Hate the thought of a mayor who doesn’t treat most New Yorkers as servants.

Expert witness testimony is going to be amazing. The defense should just call every sandwich guy. Iraqi shoe guy, cheesemongers discussing the relative density of sandwich cheese. Bread makers.

Right when he was about to endorse Andrew Cuomo.

"A long-needed revisionist history, the book follows on from a previous multi-year project that culminated in two collections on women’s international thought." Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review "Erased." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-active-project-of-exclusion/

Reading a book about the post 9/11 antiwar movement and reminded that Van Jones helped to found STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a Bay Areas Marxist group founded to oppose the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Been profiting from his embrace of militant CNN centrism ever since.

Wtf is a news doing traveling with a massive security team in SUVs? Next thing you know, she will be demanding a private jet like Kristy Noem.

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Its hard to overstate just how unhinged @postopinions.bsky.social is now. Its always been conservative platforming MAGA ventriloquists like Mark Thiessen. But it historically has had serious liberal, even leftist voices. Now its basically Bezos/Musk/AEI/Trump slop. An embarrassment. wapo.st/3X77tQH

Hakeem Jeffries: “future of our sprinting team isn’t the charismatic fastest man in the world Usain Bolt, who has inspired many people to run, but the slow flabby middle-aged folks who never trained and say racist shit about Bolt in front of the cameras and tell people to stay home on the couch.”

This is the front page of the Chicago Tribune: On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

The Trump administration is performatively committing war crimes and mass murder on the high sea. They have no idea who they are bombing. newrepublic.com/post/202502/...

Headed back to DC after my first round of book talks at Boston University, Northeastern, and Dartmouth. Lots of great questions and discussion, as well as time with friends and colleagues. Thanks to the folks who invited and organized and thought my new book is worth talking about.

Halting US military aid and sales to the world‘s most impressive states remains immoral and political imperative. Aside from Gaza, this may be the worst humanitarian situation in the world, and again the US is making it worse.

The President eats like a 4 year old boy.

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Andrew Cuomo, with his last breath, as he disappears in a pool of quicksand somewhere: “Uganda is full of Muslims!” “Cheese, bacon, egg sandwich!”

We really need a dedicated blue sky account which is just “Mike Johnson hasn’t seen that” and him lying that he hasn’t seen or read about the outrage of the day that he should damn well know about because it’s his job.

The illiterate Trump administration bozos revoking the visa of an African Nobel prize in literature winner because they don’t want black people visiting the US is so comically racist its really hard to know what to say.

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Normally, when people throw feces and other things that I hate at me, I just let it hit me. But when I try avoiding it for 48 hours, it was really hard.

Jfc my daughter calls her mom‘s cousin aunt. Calls her second cousins daughter, her cousin. basically everyone else I know does this. What is she supposed to call this person? “Hey second cousin Lisa”? “Her third cousin Kiersten!” Dumb ass racist losers. Losing big, grasping for a miracle.

This is a terrific interview with one of the leading scholars of modern Venezuela.

For Trump “escalator/teleprompter day” is as important as Washington crossing the Delaware, Lincoln During the Civil War, Eisenhower commanding the D-Day invasion, and other pivotal moments when American leaders overcame adversity.

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This is so true. Biden tried to be Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter, and we needed Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens.

The institutions and media will not save us. They have already capitulated. Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear they will let Trump be a dictator. The Democratic Party is basically leaderless. We must save ourselves. In our communities, in our movements.

So, best name for the new Trump ballroom? The Worst Wing Pedo Prom hall Epstein Ballroom What have you got?

There is by now heaps of really good reporting on this. And Nichols’ “ it’s not secret police unless it’s just like the KGB” BS is bad analysis and worst politics. Maybe he could talk to the folks actually experiencing this in Chicago, LA and other cities. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Racist, eugenicist superbillionaire wants to make sure he can wield absolute control over future robot army. No, nothing to worry about here. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

Jfc fuck Bernie. There are plenty of progressives and socialists out there who don’t praise the racist, fascist, xenophobic immigration and border policy of Trump.

It seems clear enough that Stephen Miller wants to arrest and try and deport legal immigrants to pave the way for trying to deport citizens.