Bret Boyce

The president’s recent actions look like an abrupt attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argues:

He lives in a fantasy world

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing.

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

This is aiding and abetting war crimes and complicity in genocide.

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.

Nearly 3,000 Americans died as a result of the attacks on 9/11. Twenty-five years later, the impacts of the post-9/11 wars have reverberated both at home and abroad. A few of the costs: [THREAD] costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/overview

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.

SCOOP: billionaire CEO Marc Rowan, a member of Trump’s Board of Peace tasked with “rebuilding” Gaza, has been funding AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project — $1.5 million this year alone — as it seeks to defeat pro-Palestine candidates in the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/09/03/a...

The Democratic House leadership has nothing but contempt for Democratic voters. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @meeks.house.gov are corrupt, clueless and unfit to lead the Democratic Party.

The Trump administration gives a green light to crooks. Casey Michel explains: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov was upset when Karen Shakhnazarov asserted that Ukrainian people do exist as a separate nationality. Solovyov praised free speech in Russia, but this portion of the broadcast was cut from the program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMD...

"If Abdul El-Sayed can win this fall, he’ll have handed his party a roadmap," writes @peterbeinart.bsky.social. "Democrats across the country should be taking notes."

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

I couldn’t be prouder of the movement we’ve built in mid-Michigan. Thank you, Ambassador Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam, for your years of public service and all your hard work on the campaign trail. While tonight we celebrate, there’s still much more work ahead.

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social joined @akelalacy.bsky.social to talk about the state of the race: youtube.com/shorts/FRzTC...

“we’re replacing the free market with the market for Trump’s affections” In his second term Trump has extorted more than $800 million for pet projects like his ballroom and “library” from corporations seeking regulatory favors from the government.

This is another step towards a one-party state: only give government grants to your political friends www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

1. Trump just signed a landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, paving the way for the Saudis to enrich their own uranium. Meanwhile, Trump's top foreign policy advisor, Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions of dollars anually by the Saudis That fact was IGNORED in almost all the coverage

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My latest for @theatlantic.com on the 10-month boat strikes campaign—and how officials and agencies closest to the action have all but given up pretense that the strikes have reduced drug flow to the US: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows

The Iran War has been a spectacular failure for Jared Kushner—with all of us now paying the cost for his historic conflicts-of-interest. My latest at @motherjones.com on Kushner's central role in this disaster: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As results rolled in Tuesday night in NYC, one message was clear: The left isn’t just having a moment — it’s dictating how Democrats play the game of electoral politics. Read more here: interc.pt/4oSGVQw

The authoritarianism of Starmer’s government should be terrifying in itself. But it is likely to soon lead to an even more dangerous place: His deeply unpopular Labour Party risks being ousted at the next general election by the far-right Reform Party. www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...

Republicans trying to make the world safe for kleptocracy newrepublic.com/article/2118...

As Iran and the U.S. reach a deal to supposedly end this cycle of war, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in Gaza.

To end his war on Iran, Trump was forced to return to the status quo with the Strait of Hormuz open and no nuclear deal in place.

Last year the world’s richest man, now trillionaire Elon Musk, “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” Millions of the world’s poorest people are dying as a result. Musk has blood on his hands.

Shame on Jeffries and Meeks for appointing DWS to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Democratic Party leaders corrupted by AIPAC cash continue backing Israel’s genocide even as Democratic voters have turned sharply against it. They all need to be replaced.

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

1. FYI: Kushner is leading the Iran peace negotiations and now the Trump administration is pursuing a plan to tank the negotiations by transferring billions in frozen assets to the foreign governments that have Kushner on their payroll.

On Jared Kushner's trillion dollar conflicts of interest, from Casey Michel: "His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the diplomatic hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Slap, slap, grab, choke. Shut up, bitch. Sex.” Andrew Tate is MAGA’s favorite pimp. When he was arrested for human trafficking, Donald Trump, Jr., Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk defended him. He was released with help from JD Vance and Richard Grenell.

Israel’s savage war in Lebanon: “Since Israel’s latest assault on Lebanon began this March 2, more than 1.3 million people — nearly one in four of the entire Lebanese population — have been displaced… More than 3,400 Lebanese have been killed and over ten thousand wounded.”

Dr. Adam Hamawy, a pro-Palestine candidate in New Jersey, was bombarded with last-minute attacks. He won anyway. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/n...

Meanwhile in Russia: leading political philosopher Alexander Dugin, described by some as "Putin's brain," lays out his vision of the Motherland's shining future and admits that Russia overestimated its strength in the war against Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOA...

The Trump administration has now killed 200 people in its ongoing spree of boat strikes, which experts and lawmakers have labeled illegal for targeting civilians. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Israel’s foundation was based on horrific crimes, crimes that continue to this day with US support. It was justified with lie after lie. Muhammad Shehada exposes these crimes and lies, revealed entirely in the words of Israel’s founders. Have empathy for Palestine. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qk55...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193