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Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

There was no Giuliani "downfall." He was a clown and a fascist his entire career in public life. Eventually it got too much to bear/wasn't worth the trouble for the media to keep inserting the fake moderate problem-solver Giuliani into their stories instead of the evil clown he was in reality.

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market. $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else. They made huge gains. Unusual.

"kind of a moron"

This is not something we can reform. It has to be abolished and everyone involved needs to be held accountable.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Update: they *were* letting people bet on a nuclear attack. It's been removed after backlash!

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Fantastic story by @conordougherty.bsky.social about the conundrum at the center of the housing crisis: people trying to buy a home to build a nest egg need housing prices to come down, while the people who already own need prices to go up so that nest egg can grow. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Big Tech doesn’t need free expression to make billions of dollars in advertising revenue. In fact, a more censorious platform full of only brand-safe speech is infinitely more profitable. Read my latest in @zeteo.com

For Liam.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

F**k. He signed it. New Jersey now has the harshest regulations on e-bikes in the nation. www.insidernj.com/press-releas...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Fuck this. Happy holidays to everyone except the fascists.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Someone died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall. I was there in May when they arrested Mayor Ras Baraka. We stood with hundreds of people demanding they shut it down. Now someone is dead. Enough is enough. We need to abolish ICE, close Delaney Hall, and hold everyone accountable before more people die.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

ok this lady might be legit unwell. she paid someone $500 to get sliced the hell up, trigger warning on the pics in here newjerseyglobe.com/congress/van...

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. This should be a no-brainer. MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.

Every single day ICE agents are threatening people and terrorizing communities. We’ve seen ICE pepper spray babies, disappear US citizens, slam distraught mothers and fathers to the ground—now they’re terrorizing St. Paul. ICE is out of control and should be abolished.

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

I just wish Dick Cheney could’ve been here to see this today 😢 ❤️😢

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

Politically motivated prosecutions violate our Constitution. Looking at the indictment, it is hard to see anything but the weaponizing of the DOJ against a Democratic candidate and peaceful protestors. @katmabu.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.

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