Philip Gourevitch
@pgourevitch.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard"
Breaking news: The Trump administration has removed language criticizing a memorial to the Confederacy formerly located in Arlington National Cemetery, part of its ongoing effort to reshape portrayals of the Civil War.
Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
washingtonpost.com
Alice Weidel, the leader of the neo Nazi AfD party in Germany, is a lesbian woman married to an immigrant woman of color with two adopted kids She is proudly anti immigrant, anti LGBT and anti LGBT adoption and lives primarily in Switzerland. Rights for me, none for thee.
If I were emperor for a day, one change I'd make: In every political race, at every level, at least the *first* debate would be replaced by a simple test of knowledge. How do taxes work? What agency is responsible for what? Is your area growing or shrinking in population? Just basic stuff.
"The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University." via @berkowitzbt.bsky.social
Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers
The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.
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In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.
Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial (Gift Article)
During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.
nytimes.com
A sickening reminder to all who like to imagine that “history will not be kind” to the worst of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...
Thousands of Serbs Gather to Mourn Ratko Mladic, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
The government insisted the funeral was a private affair, even as government ministers attended and state-controlled news media lavished praise on the convicted war criminal.
nytimes.com
In 1917, Frank Little man was lynched in Butte Montana for organizing miners and lumberjacks. Swung from a trestle on the Milwaukee Bridge, an unsolved murder to this day. He should be on the $20 bill. And American labor history should be required in high school. Slainte, Frank 🥃
“A self-described “anarcho-confectioner,” Mr. Godin led the International Patisserie Brigade, a gang of custard commandos who referred to their assaults as entartements. They deployed pies with soft crusts to ensure that their caloric projectiles would only injure pride.”🫡
Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · yesterdayGreat obit of a man with the courage of his confections www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...
I'm stunned to announce that #FreemansChallenge has won the Herbert H. Lehman Award for Distinguished Scholarship. This prize, given by the New York Academy of History, "honors outstanding contributions to #NewYork State and City history." This means so much to me! @uchicagopress.bsky.social
FDR knew that you push to the LEFT and give people real, material benefits if you want to neutralize a rising fascist threat. Sadly, contemp centrists in the US and Europe have not learned this lesson.
Tim Smedley@timsmedley.bsky.social · yesterday"Merz has made the mistake of trying to push what was a popular centre-right party under Angela Merkel much further to the right in an attempt to win over disgruntled voters." This never works. And seemingly politicians never learn. theconversation.com/even-if-it-d...
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)
A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
propublica.org
"What makes the AfD’s rise especially shocking is that it is much more extreme than other European far-right parties… [becoming] more radical over time, deepening its ties to neo-Nazis & promising to repatriate migrants. As it has done so, it has grown more popular." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
Opinion | Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.
nytimes.com
Looks like some kind of body double from head to toe.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agowhat is the world is going on with Trump's hair? (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
Israel completely destroyed Gaza's #water and #wastewater systems and now raw sewage is pouring into the Mediterranean, worsening an algal bloom that has forced the shutdown of 5 of 6 Israeli desalination plants. The unintended water-related consequences of war. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
Editorial | Water crisis triggered by Gaza's ruin: Israel is paying the price of destruction
Israel's desalination crisis exposes the consequences of destroying Gaza's sewage system, refusing to let it be rebuilt and failing to prepare Israel's own water economy for a worsening climate crisis
haaretz.com
the SCOTUS coup rolls on www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in TV Ad Fight
Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms.
nytimes.com
Most of the Blackfeet tribe’s roughly 10,000 members in Montana own or work for businesses dependent on cross-border trade and tourism with Canada. They worry a new trade war will make things even worse. https://wapo.st/4xybpe9
To be clear it’s not like he’s saying that eroding the very foundations of commonality is a bad thing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality."
“Bevin was reportedly arrested while playing an extra on the set of a Christian film production there.”
Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 5d agoBREAKING: Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
This is obscene. No one in the GOP will say a word about it.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d agoNew footage of bulldozers plowing through Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct a border wall.
This is absolutely incredible. Farage thought he was talking to an American and his UK son about funneling foreign donations through the son and instead he was talking to investigative reporters wearing wires.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d agoWell, this is a marmalade dropper
The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.
Bottom 90% of New Yorkers’ Incomes Stagnate As Very Richest See 58% Gain Since COVID
The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.
thecityreporter.nyc
The first sentence of this piece says it all: "After Indiana’s near-total abortion ban, a new study shows emergency room doctors are less likely to treat pregnant women who are bleeding." www.jconline.com/story/news/l...
Indiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
jconline.com
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
sfchronicle.com