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This afternoon, we toured the infrastructure of occupation in the West Bank: Settler outposts that uproot groves full of olive trees & steal Palestinian land. Gates arbitrarily closed by Israeli forces, forcing Palestinian villages to transfer construction supplies and bulk goods by hand.

The Mississippi AG says police are justified for killing a baby because someone thought his mother shoplifted diapers that she paid for. The police have refused to release body cam footage. Fuck everything about this story.

NOW IN JERUSALEM: For the second day in a row, Standing Together student activists prevented a member of Ben-Gvir’s party from speaking at a campus event. There’s no room for fascism!

Some corporate Democrats and pundits think the party has gone too far "left" and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

@newyorkjets.bsky.social Demario Davis showing up today in some great PSAs on voting/election safety and breast cancer prevention. Can’t say I love the Jets (or the Saints), but I love seeing great NFL players spreading important messages.

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

“ @nytimes.com casts doubt on the increasingly likely outcome of the midterms so when MAGA baselessly claims election fraud they can pretend they’re being reasonable” challenge:

> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

Important thread. We’re moving backwards on so many things it’s hard to keep up. College is formative for many young adults in the US. For too many women it’s also where they first experience sexual assault and institutional callousness to their trauma.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Today In 1990: Seattle #Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. playfully steals a catch away from his father Ken Griffey Sr. on a fly ball from Chicago White Sox batter Sammy Sosa at the Kingdome! ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #History

Sounds like Bibi has big plans for his time in jail. Good luck with that.

Women have been meeting the standard since day one, that's more than we can say about Pete Hegseth.

@nytimes.com treats insane fantasy as reality to Trump’s benefit, example 9,673,232.

A pastor for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP Senate nominee, opened with a prayer asking God to bestow "integrity and honesty." It was delivered by Pastor Daimon King, a registered sex offender twice imprisoned for convictions involving children. apnews.com/article/what...

There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.

Please be kind to pedestrians and cyclists. Even the ones who act like entitled jerks (admittedly like me when walking in NYC). Otherwise I will glare at you and possibly smack your car. Be warned!

L’shana tova u’metukah. May the new year 5787 bring joy and finally give relief to those in pain, peace to those in conflict, freedom to the oppressed and justice to the victims of genocide in China, the DRC, Myanmar, Israeli-occupied Palestine, Sudan and Russian-occupied Ukraine.

A president desperately stifling the free press in a democracy is inherently weak - afraid that the voters will discover the truth of his failures and turn against him. But @nytimes.com invariably characterizes Trump as powerful. Another way our press distorts reality in service to Trump.

Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.

The good news for Northwest Indiana is that someone might finally care enough to restore their power.

Oh, just a rogue Amazon Prime plane targeting a fleet of Tesla Cybercabs. Probably nothing to worry about. . .

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

I want the good China stuff without all of the horrible China stuff. Is that too much to ask?

It makes me sad that Roberts, a tech and clean energy reporter, has to spend so much time giving civic lessons to allies. But I’m glad he does!

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

“Over the ‘strongest possible’ objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.” www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

There is no bottom for the GOP.

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.

The parties of the Likud, "Jewish Power", Religious Zionism, and the new "People of Israel" party are all running on an explicit, unabashed platform of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza as the "solution". Rabbi Kahane's racist legacy is the Israeli government's policy.

Here’s my first ad. I’m running for Congress to fight for my daughters – and yours. So in my first ad, I decided to turn the mic over to them.

It is *quite* telling that Armstrong thinks it's bad that the Ford Foundation is known for doing all sorts of good things in the world, which would probably make the bigoted, antisemitic, eugenicist Henry Ford upset.

We own every terrible thing this administration does in our name. We cannot let these crimes go unpunished.