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Because ignorant people think 9/11 was somehow “jihad,” I wrote this piece to share what Jihad actually is. Please share with those who might be misinformed. I think people will see its true meaning is a beautiful concept we can all benefit from. islamtoday.substack.com/p/what-is-ji...

Every time you defend a Democrat for throwing trans people under the bus and try and argue it's for "electoral reasons" you're telling on yourself and the fact that you don't think it's worth the risk of protecting them and you see them as ultimately sacrificeable. Repulsive.

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 Help us hit our goal to force a vote on the Bernie/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act! Stop Big Tech from draining the grid. Add your name in exactly 60 seconds and RT to spread the word: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

On May 16th, join civil and voting rights groups in a National day of Action in Montgomery, Alabama. Go to allroadsleadtothesouth.com for more details. #votingrights #50501movement

This country has never lived up to its big words, not even once. Hell, the SLAVE OWNERS were writing "all men are created equal" while they conveniently forgot to give rights to women, too. Imagine owning a shovel, a wagon, a couple acres, Jack, James, Ginny, two mules, and a nice hat. Mind boggles.

What have I been saying.

800,000 people who died because of the lack of lifesaving food and medical aid were unavailable for comment.

April is Arab American Appreciation month. I am proud of my family’ journey, and that of my children raised in the Jewish faith. My work lets me use my voice, regardless of party in WH, to remind us there are people — Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians and Israelis — all impacted by war and terror.

If you ever meet an Air Force PJ, buy them a drink. They’re some of the bravest MFs you’ll ever meet. They’ve been at this all day trying to find the WSO, despite taking fire every time they go out. “These Things We Do, That Others May Live”

YES THANK YOU

The 14th Amendment says “all persons born in the United States,” not “only if Donald Trump likes their parents.” Trump calls it a scam, but that’s the Constitution!

they view the mere presence of nonwhites in positions of influence as “DEI,” regardless of credentials or performance. again, all of this was extremely obvious.

“One trans woman in two decades. A full Olympic podium of DSD [differences in sex development] athletes at a single Games. The headlines went with the first story.”

Big Tech is preparing to spend $500 MILLION IN CALIFORNIA ahead of the elections, buying up Democrats. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Those are their surrogate penises, sir.

People don't realize how common DSDs are, especially chimerism. You can even end up with XY cells floating around you body from giving birth to a boy. So, yeah, Alejandra is absolutely correct.

Murderous neglect. Don’t forget the immigrant who died from an untreated tooth infection

⚖️ A MODEST PROPOSAL: 👉 Everything currently named for Cesar Chavez should be renamed in honor of Dolores Huerta.

Good move.

Speak up, New Yorkers.

Are you a university instructor who would like to support Ukraine? The Flying University for Ukrainian Students organizes remote classes taught by faculty outside Ukraine for students in Ukraine. Those who have done it find it very gratifying. Express your interest here: www.flying-university.org

A terrific conversation from two of the very best academics on how authoritarian regimes take hold. This is must watch. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Love, despite everything.

The average voter doesn't have a clue what's in this bill and doesn't care enough to take a few minutes to find out. Please call your senators.

The vaccines worked

I wrote this essay about the private sector's exploitation of American concentration camps in July 2025. The situation has since advanced much further. snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...

Mahmoud Khalil writing in Fox News one year after his detention: “The right to speak our minds, no matter who holds power, is the foundation of our democracy, and it is in peril. Whatever you may think of me or my views, that foundation belongs to all of us.”

Imagine if $383 million was spent on places to live for those in Arizona who need it instead of for buying and renovating a warehouse for an ICE detention center. This is an obscenity. We have to flip Congress.

Investigators say there are undisclosed detention sites scattered around Colorado, hidden in plain sight between strip malls and office parks. Secret detention centers. In the United States.

Neither. As I've said before, I worry that we ignore the horrors of mass deportation staring us in the face if we jump straight to envisioning them as extermination camps. Mass immigration detention is worth opposing for its ongoing problems, not what might in some uncertain world come to pass.

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

This is the FIRST I am hearing of this. What the actual fuck? How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NEW: We filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to ban police from using geofence warrants, which forces tech companies to hand over location data for everyone in a certain area during a certain time. These invasive searches ensnare innocent people and violate our Fourth Amendment rights.

It’s called a functioning spinal column. Thank you @scoutingamerica.bsky.social.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower

85 girls who would’ve had their own lives and futures. 85 girls who had dreams of their own. 85 families who will never see their daughters alive again.

First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

Something about this murder--that's what it is--feels to me even more awful than the executions we've witnessed. This lacks even the ugly humanity of sadism & rage on display in those murders. This is a kind of absolute indifference to, a disinterest in even perceiving, the realness of another.

Trump/GOP's America: Nearly blind refugee who speaks no English found dead in Buffalo after being dropped off by Trump's DHS agents 5 miles from home--but neither family nor lawyer were notified. Why wouldn't they contact family when a person is this vulnerable?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

Turns out all lives don’t matter to the All Lives Matter people

One way to help is to support trans people escape from states gearing up for anti-trans pogroms by donating to the Trans Continental Pipeline. And, while you're at it, follow @erininthemorning.com & @esqueer.net & support their work covering/defending human rights

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Rakhine state in Myanmar, family members said.

No amount of anger is hyperbolic here.

It was never about women's sports. It was never about American jobs. Never about fighting crime. INever about fighting antisemitism. Never about free speech. It's always been about one thing: narcissistic hate, of the fascist variety.

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

This. 1000 times, this. We cannot be silent or neutral.