David Sanderson

David Sanderson

@dizzylimit.bsky.social

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David Sanderson reposted

No surprise that the Special Envoy for the Israel Lobby would have a tenuous relationship with the facts. #GazaGenocide #auspol

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

The antisemitism envoy told the Royal Commission that Gaza’s death toll was “grossly inflated” and that the UN accepted this. The UN said otherwise. When I asked she said she “notes” the UN’s views.

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

Even from the grave she is sick of Trump.

Jean Rhys@msjeanrhys.bsky.social

You haven't any idea how sick I am of all the phoney talk about Communism - and the phoney talk of the other lot, if it comes to that.

The angry old men party. Men who are affronted by modern Australia.

The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au

“It’s their party again,” a Coalition source tells Jason Koutsoukis. "The real worry is that this time they have enough power, and enough muscle, and enough desire, to actually drive the moderates out of the party altogether.” trib.al/2giTAEA

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Yes, please. Investigate the corruption and crime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

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I'd add that there are lots of Republicans actually taking money from Elon Musk, and they are rarely or never asked about his more radical/racist statements.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

That's just the American way of life, it's been intensifying in this direction for some decades.

Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

“So many systems are not responsive to the needs of Americans,” Anand Giridharadas told me, which creates “the sense of abandonment,” that “no one is listening, no one is coming.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Cryptocurrency and the manosphere…

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com

'The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who only four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now-disabled social media account.' - as.ft.com/r/6656c567-2...

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He puts most 'accessible' histories to shame (they are generally audience pleasing rubbish). The 'Age' series is a magnificent achievement.

Inside Story@insidestory.bsky.social

His latest biographer discerns in Hobsbawm an “apparent talent for always being in the right place at the right time.” He was a skilled networker, adept at identifying useful contacts, and had a keen nose for entrepreneurial opportunities. Andrew Bonnell reviews The Age of Hobsbawm.

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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

"An intelligence explosion could be the most consequential technological development in human history compressing years of progress into months or less, threatening human control over AI systems, and severely eroding checks on power within and between states, companies, and branches of government."

David Sanderson reposted

Xi on track to land in DC tonight with a deceptively modest goal: keep things basically as they are. Extend the trade truce. Push off pressure over Taiwan. Give Trump the cordial relationship he values. Above all, prolong what Beijing sees as a window of geopolitical opportunity.

David Sanderson reposted

The "artist" is Trish Duggan, described in the article as a Trump donor - but perhaps most notable as the biggest donor in history to Scientology. Here she is with David Miscavige receiving one of the ever-larger awards recognizing her extraordinary benevolence.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

What the ever-loving fuck

David Sanderson reposted

The story of Donald Trump is not a political story. It's a crime story.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt

David Sanderson reposted

The United States is preparing to sell Israel 40,000 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (nearly a ton) each in a $2.8 billion sale. IT’S FUNDED BY U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY. The Trump administration has approved the sale, making it among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.

haaretz.comReport: Trump approves $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 one-ton bombs to IsraelIn 2023, Israel reportedly used MK-84 bombs, which reportedly make up half of the sale, in areas of the Gaza Strip designated as safe for civilians, with each strike creating a crater measuring at lea...

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Booker nailed it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

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While warning about communism, Trump vows to bribe Americans with their own money (borrowed from China) so that he can keep control of Congress and get even richer. And he calls this proposed budget-destroying bribe a "dividend". Read David.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social

Elizabeth Kubler Ross would have a lot to say about Trump's state of mind these days. IYKYK. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-80...

David Sanderson reposted

Hi Dems, don’t think that millions of Muslims - & not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal & leftist Americans - don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you as the Muslim Democratic mayor of New York is being smeared and attacked by the GOP and right-wing media over 9/11.

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I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes.

Well worth listening to.

Sarah Longwell@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Had a great time chatting with @eosnos.bsky.social on The @newyorker.com Radio Hour about my upcoming book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time, and how we defeat MAGA-style politics for good. Check it out: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...