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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

It's similar with abortion - they say they want better evidence but they break the systems for building strong evidence and elevate weak systems because they know those systems will empower their allies to inject bias into the "evidence."

“And in the process, John Roberts rubberstamped such corrupt use of DOJ to steal an election, giving the President absolutely immunity for making demands for sham investigations, which the Chief Justice deemed to fit within a President’s official duties.

It would be good if life my own country was not significantly impacted by the GOP vs Dem margins in small counties named after prominent Confederates but unfortunately it is

This story is about the tiny minority of tenants who oppose the city’s plan to replace their crumbling old buildings with new ones—with zero tenant displacement!—because they want the city to spend money it does not have and will not get to renovate the old buildings instead.

Rome has clearly put out word that any clergy who recently appeared with Trump must repent or else. www.archmil.org/posts/a-publ...

Over the last week, Pro-Bolsonaro groups have been telling their members to vote as soon as the polls opened. No one knew quite why they were giving out such instructions, but it’s becoming clearer with every passing minute.

These are historically tight elections in Brazil, with only 1.8% separating the two candidates in the first round, so this level of voter suppression can decide who wins tonight. Political pundits are now saying it is highly likely there will be chaos in the streets tonight following the results.

544 buses stopped in Bahia! Only one bus per line on the streets of Teresina, a capital with a population of almost a million! Metro stoppages in São Paulo with no replacement buses! No buses in São Gonçalo, a city in the state of Rio governed by the far-right!

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Thank you. Here's an example of one of the correct versions: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Another problem: bsky.app/profile/bjke... cc @donmoyn.bsky.social

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

Assholes Usually Drive It

The important thing to remember about this person is that she's selling a book where she talks about Democrats being out of touch

Blanche lies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is heartbreaking thousands were displaced and lost homes. This is what FEMA was created for and Republicans continue to ignore. The video of those suffering shouldn't be ignored. www.koat.com/article/nava...

Previously, Dallas Express publisher Monty Bennett worked with a group called Crowds on Demand to create a hoax BLM group that sent letters to wealthy white families saying not to send their kids to Ivy League schools, spurring a major reaction online and in right wing media

One of the commenters on Zerrusen's posts was Sarah Bennett, wife of Dallas Express publisher and Republican megadonor Monty Bennett. Last year, pseudonymously penned Dallas Express article about Charlie Kirk's impact on churchgoing quoted Zerrusen.

CBS identified Illinois based Three Z Printing as the holder of the permit associated with the fake transgender mailers. One of the owners, Matt Zerrusen, is based in Dallas. His Instagram shows pictures with Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and comments from local Republicans.

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

I have a new newsletter today, about LLMs and interoception and introspection and narrative and definitely NOT consciousness why do you think it's about consciousness I would never write about consciousness buttondown.com/apperceptive...

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

What we said would happen is happening. Republicans ending TPS for Haitians has led to incredible job loss, harming businesses and the local economy in communities like Springfield, Ohio. Scapegoating hardworking immigrants hurts all of us.

NEW: One ICE official declares that another ICE official was contacted today but has not responded and therefore ICE Air couldn't bring Ahmed Soliman back on the ICE Air flight in Equatorial Guinea — despite an Oct. 6 order to facilitate his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“We don’t ride bicycles in Iowa,” Joe Mitchell said to President Trump during a GOP campaign rally. Iowa’s roughly 900,000 cyclists, many of whom have participated in an annual cycling tour that’s made the state synonymous with biking, weren’t amused.

Hello claimants in the Anthropic copyright suit! The parties filed a stipulated agreement asking for an update to the website. In this stipulation, there are two important things (although there are more that might matter for individuals).

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

This is crazy. @gillianbrockell.com found out about an ICE flight headed to Equatorial Guinea, where an immigrant who a federal judge has ordered to be returned home is currently imprisoned. ICE told the judge the Guinean leg was canceled. Flight data shows it wasn't. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

Nice to make your acquaintance, Julie

With the explosive details of Jared Kushner’s staggering corruption it is important that the @nytimes.com has given Kushner favorable coverage for a decade, its journalists rely on him as a source - and as recently as *last week* on the influential NYT #FrontPage referred to him as “peace envoy”.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

The Executive Branch has no authority to regulate states’ election decisions as to candidate qualifications, and the choice to file a lawsuit like this just days before an election speaks volumes about the political corruption festering at the top levels of the DOJ.

Separation barriers that divide communities, and sometimes fully surround a single house. Segregated roads for Palestinians and Israelis. Features of apartheid, as B’tselem, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din and the ICJ rightly identify.

the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

Trump's Justice Department has dropped dozens of cases involving discrimination against Black, Latino, and Native American people, from Voting Rights Act lawsuits and redlining settlements with banks to firefighter and police hiring issues.