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Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles.

I was at the October 7 vigil in Union Square. Like many who write and think about defeating political repression, I believe in big coalitions—massive ones. They are our best technology for escaping some very complicated social problems. But we need to agree on the most basic fundamentals. My essay:

“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens

gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

More than 100 Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and soldiers in the West Bank on Monday, preventing the Israeli military from enforcing a court order to ensure a Palestinian family that fled violence could return to their home.

Freezing aliyah for Jewish activists and violating the Law of Return because they stood with Palestinian communities is a betrayal of what Israel should stand for. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.

ask and ye shall receive

It’s pretty wild to compare the campaign against Macklemore to the utter lack of campaign against Kanye West slate.trib.al/qyeLCM8

This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.

trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible

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Rudy Giuliani escaped any sort of consequences for his self-serving behavior and was instead hailed for his response to 9/11. I developed coughing fits and asthma in the aftermath as Giuliani lied and used a tragedy to promote his personal ambition.

This is what Trump did on 9/11.

This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

This framing is disgustingly antisemitic.

One of the many reasons I prefer the Nexus definition of antisemitism to the IHRA is that the former includes "denigrating or denying the Jewish identity of certain Jews because they are perceived as holding the “wrong” position (whether too critical or too favorable) on Israel."

If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"

Also just don't use "inbred" as a slur, it's weird Nazi shit no matter who you're using it about.

This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.

This case proves that Black people don't have the right to "stand their ground" in Florida. slate.trib.al/1CpYUY0

These American Jews are doing what we should want from the next generation: Standing up for justice wherever they see injustice, including against the occupation in the West Bank. A government that treats Jews acting on the values they were taught as the problem has lost sight of its own soul.

As a Jewish American, I’m deeply, genuinely scared about the threat MAGA, Musk, and the neo-Nazis in the government pose to me and my family. The ADL hasn’t done jack shit to protect Jews like me, but has thrown all their weight behind destroying my friends and allies. They have betrayed us.

Really can’t understate how bad this is for Jewish students at Haverford. Nationalism is a political position, and it is antisemitic to treat Jewish nationalism as an element of Jewish identity or Judaism.

WNBA players union leadership released a statement, I suggest everyone read it. This is the message of united union leaders: hate will not be tolerated and trans inclusion IS protecting women’s rights to play sports This is excellently crafted. Proud of Nneka, Phee and the rest of WNBPA leaders

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

Today is August 4th, 2026. mollylele.rocks/track/there-... (read by @unarmedoracle.bsky.social, music'd by me)

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping