He literally beat his wife's attorney who now has a restraining order against him. This level of brazen constant very public assaults and CSAM is literally only possible with a political apparatus protecting him.

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Also true for some of the south Asian communities in NYC where Mamdani is one of the most representative people of this micro trend

And on the flip side there is a narrow but growing resentment that there is a liberal Arab middle class that is actually pretty woke and deferential to Democrats but is increasingly intolerant of just being told to suck it up all the time

Like this ship has already sailed? It's over. This is going to be what more and more people say and believe and they will, statistically, get into office.

This is not going to go away. It is not fringe. It is not even really all that radical. It's much closer to the facts than the mind numbing pablum about two states that every Democrat over the age of 900 uses to avoid saying anything of substance.

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

Yeah im not going outside again

Isaac Bogoch@isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 4h ago

There was just a locally acquired case of dengue fever reported in Virginia, USA. The climate is becoming more suitable, the compatible mosquito species (Aedes) is already there, and we’ll likely see more cases across a wider area. Link: tinyurl.com/2pu4xrc5

all diasporas are alike

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4h ago

Shri Thanedar's politics - broadly left of center on domestic US politics but with a huge carve-out for Hindutva - actually makes him the closest non-Jewish analogue to a certain kind of American Jewish politics.

Back in the 00s, some gas station owners in MI would drive down to NC with their minivans and buy 199 cartons of cigs at a time (200+ had to put information down), fill their cars up, and then pocket the tax difference back in MI in their stores. Cool grift, too bad they sent the money to Hezbollah

Back when I went to Israel in '05 with FDD, one of the lecturers for our classes was an IDF general who, when he found out I went to Michigan, just matter-of-factly told us that "we have people spying in Dearborn". Aaaanyways, Southeast Michigan, always interesting.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

think my prediction that the freakout over Abdul will be 100 times worse than the one over Zohran is going to come true

i would be the Dmitri Karamazov of sniffing Scandinavian male manipulators

Anyway, Scooby-Doo is arguably a Corsican narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the clout chasing femme fatale a French icon.

This is why anti abortion politics is just part of abuser politics.

Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents

About a year of humanitarian food distributions to Syrian refugees in Lebanon

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 22h ago

30,000,000 dollars

Senator is actually one of the jobs where your views on foreign policy matter most and it's a genuinely incredible thing that the Democratic candidate for Michigan is someone who wants to end aid to Israel, Egypt and the UAE and not a mindless drone who wanted to give Netanyahu another $20B.

(the other half is that AG Sulzberger loathes Muslims)

Huh you can just do that???? Financial Times: "China has launched a global hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes going back decades as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich." www.ft.com/content/e179...

China launches global tax hunt going back decades

Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows

ft.com

Wow. Let them fight.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

One thing being in my 20s taught me is that people in their 20s are really stupid

diabetes was a death sentence 40 years ago, now its a thing you manage with a pill or a pump and get on with living a solid 7+ decade life

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

I didn’t know hogs could reason.

Wingofbenu@wingofbenu.bsky.social · 18h ago

somehow weirdly enough even republican voters were like "oh, so us the poorer citizens will have our food go up several dollars and you the rich guys suddenly wont be paying taxes? Go fuck yourselves"

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

the Michigan primary was close enough that you can pretty plausibly say it was the weird voice that lost it for Haley Stevens