About Bernie Sanders: “He brings awareness of what’s going on in the country, and he’s giving voice to those who are voiceless,” Dina Garibay, a teacher, told @megankstack.bsky.social. “He wants to stand up for the rights of everybody, and the Democratic Party doesn’t always stand up for that.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders, A.O.C. and the Surging Politics of Anger

Struggling working-class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of Trump.

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Could she have kept it up if she added a little ^ NOT to it?

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · last yr.

America, 2025

Starvation is not a negotiation tactic. I wrote about Gaza, the faltering ceasefire, human bargaining chips, and the catastrophic cruelty that the world has come, by degrees, to more or less accept. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

Opinion | Palestinians in Gaza Face the ‘Gates of Hell’ as Israel and Hamas Face Off

Lately it feels as if the human beings in Gaza are increasingly lost from our understanding.

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I went to Chicago, which Trump sold as "ground zero" for deportation, & got an earful about migrant bus arrivals; undocumented workers who shore up the economy; politics of resentment; and why some people still support Trump even as they fear deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

Opinion | Why Immigrants Fear Trump Even if They Voted for Him (Gift Article)

Talking to people around Chicago, I heard the word “resentment” over and over.

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There are a thousand reasons Musk& his minions should not legally have access to the social security records, and it’s not just financial/payments. It’s overall privacy rights. For example — just 1 example — these records are the most efficient way to ID/find every trans person.

Hero

Hend Amry@libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is the lash photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, taken as he walks, unflinching, towards the Israeli tanks. An absolutely harrowing image.

President Michael D Higgins has said that to say the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a "deep slander" and it is a very serious business to do so simply because people disagree with the actions of the Israeli Prime Minister.

'Deep slander' to call Irish anti-Semitic, says President

President Michael D Higgins has said that to say the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a "deep slander" and it is a very serious business to do so simply because people disagree with the actions of the...

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Somehow President Biden’s unauthorized, ineffective, and still ongoing conflict with the Houthis isn’t generating the same controversy as his pardon decision. Stronger textual basis for the pardon than this conflict with the Houthis.

Jake Epstein@byjepstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

New: Two US Navy destroyers shot down multiple anti-ship missiles and drones launched by the Houthis this weekend, @CENTCOM says. The warships were escorting three merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden.

Good.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2y ago

Irish language rap group Kneecap has won a discrimination case over the British govt's refusal to award them an arts grant

This either matters or it doesn’t and if it doesn’t then what does.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Biden admin has lied to congress about what it knew, that Israel was in fact blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Two separate government bodies told them. I repeat, in very clear terms: the Biden admin knew that Israel was starving children and lied about it. www.propublica.org/article/gaza...

After nearly eight years of painstaking public records work by Bloomberg's @jasonleopold.bsky.social , the US government has now declassified a closely guarded memo related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin’s political foes. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Phew OK that was my first post here. I’m not sure I have it in me to figure out where all my Twitter contacts are on here, and I have to admit I still love the Wild West of Twitter, but I’m giving it a go.

The US needs a clear understanding of what it's done in, & to, Ukraine. I mean every administration since the Soviet collapse. We pull Ukraine close, make promises we don't keep, dangle NATO perpetually &, ultimately, let Ukraine suffer the ensuring wrath of Russia. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Opinion | Trump Can Speed Up the Inevitable in Ukraine

He should force a settlement to save lives and avoid more destruction.

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