this is classic neera in that it’s extremely racist but also substantively incorrect: bin Laden was interviewed repeatedly pre-9/11.
Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 5h agoAt a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 7h agoBen Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d agoJesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley
If Dems wanted to win huge majorities, they’d be running non-stop ads with Elon Musk, flashing his net worth, with a mash-up of: -how little in tax he pays -how X is the largest CSAM distributor in the world -data centers -all his “predictions” that never came true -sieg Heil -his stupid dances
dr. rich traditions, JD@helldude.bsky.social · 13h agoi assume(?) the right wing is successful in large part because they are naming enemies in a time where people are ready to square up, and the center-left opposition is too paid for to name a much more deserving and widely loathed enemy in the people funding these demagogues
After being forced out of the military, many trans service members have yet to receive tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they are owed, leaving them destitute and homeless. (gift link) wapo.st/4qN0TNq
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
wapo.st
Tomorrow's handout for my Immigration 101 lecture is really throwing the students in the deep end.
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
Easiest general election ads ever: They say you voted for this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoTom Homan on why DHS is sending deportation flights into dangerous condition in Haiti: "We're just enforcing the law, and we're doing it in a way the American people voted for"
Dana Bash. James Carville. Ezra Klein. Hannah Arendt. Many have said some of the same things Hasan Piker said, about how conflating Jewish people with Israel can make them more unsafe. But Piker is the only one being attacked by the entire political establishment for it: zeteo.com/p/elected-de...
another thing I hate about this is people die from bad economic policy, including senseless tariff wars. It’s just a fact that if you fuck with nation’s economies for no reason beyond spite and brain drainage, you are pointlessly causing economic harm & cost of living increases that do hurt or kill
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 6d agoBecome a @zeteo.com if you want and can to read the whole thing here: zeteo.com/p/its-a-huge...
Very gross! If you're being paid by a political campaign, I think you should, you know, tell people that. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. (Gift Article)
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
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Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRFK Jr defends measles: "In 10 years, there have been 3 measles deaths in America. There are now about 1.2 million deaths every year from food-induced illness. The media and certain demagogic politicians are constantly trying to scare us about infectious disease."
the largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
If you're going to give any consideration to the Hasan Piker "issue", please give 15 minutes of your time to listen to Norm Finkelstein's excellent, correct, and complete assessment of the situation, and stick around for some incredibly insightful discussion of what words we should be using and why
Norm Finkelstein RESPONDS to Hasan Piker Outrage
YouTube video by Breaking Points
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Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Gift article on latest piece of Trump’s corruption and attack on your kid’ future wapo.st/4y2xuB4
$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...
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White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person in initial federal support beginning Oct. 1, nearly double the current amount, four people familiar with the change in policy said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees
The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.
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NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
he's an outlier in the party but Josh Gottheimer quite obviously wants Abdul El-Sayed to lose. you don't go on Fox News and campaign for Mike Rogers on accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4TF...
Dem calls out El-Sayed's 'PATHETIC' response
YouTube video by Fox News
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Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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Periodic reminder that in a winner takes all election that does not have ranked choice voting or runoffs, a vote for a candidate who cannot win is a vote for the candidate who can win that you least agree with. That is not a judgment but mathematics. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · 3d agoMS Senate Poll (Data For Progress) 1018 LV August 5-15 44% Cindy Hyde Smith (Republican) 38% Scott Colom (Democrat) 7% Ty Pinkins (Independent)
Something I keep coming back to that repulses me so much about these assholes is they are striking at the foundation of what it means to be *human*. Discovery and knowledge. Collaboration. They enjoy the fruits of humanity while hating all the most basic things about it
Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d agoThese hateful losers are so embarrassing, tearing up the good built by millions of others. You can't call the moment when the tide will turn, but their hopes and legacy will fall to nothing in the end, because ruin is all they are capable of.
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoThe situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
An American from Ohio is currently trapped in his family home in the West Bank, surrounded by Israeli terrorist settlers. In response, Israel declared the area a closed military zone — in which the American can't leave his house, but the Israeli terrorists can roam freely.
‘I Am an American Citizen Under Siege by Israeli Settler Extremists’
Palestinian-American Loui Ridi speaks to Prem from his home in the occupied West Bank, which has been surrounded by settlers for weeks while Israeli soldiers and the U.S. government largely sit by.
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The pitch of the Democratic leadership, Democratic-adjacent pundits like Chait, and Democratic consultant firms touting 'popularism' is that Trump is an existential threat so every Dem must sacrifice to win general elections at all costs. But on this issue, they'd rather lose than sacrifice.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d agoThis only "becomes a political and moral crisis" if reactionary centrists relentlessly frame it as one. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More of your wealth than ever goes to them, less of it than ever goes to you. It's a class war. But only one side is waging it
US corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt
Pre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war
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Regular reminder that the answer to "what happened when we got all these ailments before <insert modern medicine or treatment>" was "they died"
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d agoNewborn baby Malachi, whose parents belong to a faith-healing sect that doesn’t believe in medical care, died of preventable and treatable conditions. Thirteen months later, their next newborn, Liam, died from the same things.
“She wrote that a group of Democratic-led states that had sued “face irreparable harm where they are required to comply with a likely unconstitutional regulation for which compliance is practically impossible as to the 2026 midterm elections, now little more than two months away.”
Judge Once Again Bars Postal Service From Restricting Mail-In Vote
After reviewing the agency’s final plan to comply with President Trump’s demands, a federal judge barred the Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.
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