Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.

New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.

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Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

I dk who still needs to hear this but Israel has had no intentions to allow a Palestinian state for decades. It never stopped building illegal settlements regardless of who was in the White House. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.

newyorker.com

How a normal person would handle this passenger saying he can't get out: 👮🏻‍♂️: Please exit the vehicle. 🧔🏿‍♂️: I can't. 👮🏻‍♂️: Why not? 🧔🏿‍♂️: Inside handle jammed. Can you open it using the handle right in front of you? 👮🏻‍♂️: Why don't you go out the other door then? 🧔🏿‍♂️: Um... you are holding my wrists? 👮🏻‍♂️: Ah!

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 7h ago

ABSOLUTE BARBARITY. An Arkansas trooper smashed a car window, yanked passenger Tedrick Washington OUT BY HIS DREADS, and beat him. Being a backseat passenger isn't a crime deserving state-sanctioned torture. Cops lie in reports, but bodycam proves the abuse. DEMAND BADGES NOW! 🎥 Cap House Media

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

You cannot convince me that a machine, which cannot tell it is being spoken to in complete nonsense phrases, is anything other than a shitty computer program!!

No but I swear it’s sentient!! Don’t laugh you’ll hurt its “feelings”!

This guy has an entire TikTok dedicated to asking AI basic simple questions and showing how completely fucking inept and useless it is. This shit can’t even count to 100. It’s not conscious!

and that seems to be because the purpose of detention isn't to deport people, but to terrify people so no one wants to come here - the risk isn't deportation, it's endless detention in intolerable conditions

Everyone everywhere should be boycotting the fascist US.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 16h ago

‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America

🇨🇦💪

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h ago

“I used to drink US beer, but now I drink Canadian beer, and that costs me an extra C$1,000 (£531/US$720) a year. Likewise, groceries cost about C$50 more a week, but you work that extra hour to pay for it.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ultimately I'm not an autumn person but I do appreciate the opportunity the season affords to take attractive photographs of humpback bridges in rural Britain.

More of this all the time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report

Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year

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Dolly Parton meanwhile represented a fantastic model for an individual doing meaningful direct charitable work with a community focus

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The Dollywood Foundation, which reported $141 million in assets last year, also offers local high school graduates $15,000 scholarships. ‘She gave cash gifts to people in need long before it was popular,’ Ms. Palmer said. ‘She trusted the people that she wanted to help.’”

Unwetter- und Hagelsturm ("nur alle 30-50 Jahre"), der quer durchs ganze nördliche Mittelland zieht. Hat die Alertswiss-App gewarnt? Wir (nicht im betroffenen Gebiet) haben erst um 13:02, 3 Stunden nach dem Ereignis, eine Warnung wegen herunterfallender Äste erhalten.

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

It is literally the most money spent by a single political organization on a single primary race ever lol

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s not conspiratorial or anti-Semitic for Al Sayed to point out that AIPAC spent $30 million to oppose his candidacy. It’s true. And it’s an extraordinary outlier in a primary campaign.

Across a whopping 19 articles published by the New York Times on Mamdani's views of Israel-Palestine since January 2026, Palestinian New Yorkers are quoted twice, a pathetic 3% of the quotes total. Overall, critics of Mamdani's views on this issue are quoted 2x the amount of times as supporters.

Mamdani Is Critical of Israel, and the Times Is on It

Who does the Gray Lady quote on this important issue? Plus, more news for your weekend.

hellgatenyc.com

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...

Flock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models

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The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point

Amazingly, the Trump admin still thinks “Putin is my friend, he’ll help us because he likes me.” No matter how many times that proves false, they don’t accept the idea of national interest, and that the whole appeal of Trump to the Kremlin is he’s venal, easy to manipulate, and weakening the West.

I know I'm a quarter of a century late here but damn Johnny Cash's Hurt is haunting, man

Johnny Cash - Hurt

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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The dangers of squishy toys

WTG MapQuest! ✊

My wife bought new salad cutlery and because of the weird number of arms on the fork my first impulse was "that's AI". Which of course doesn't make sense because I was holding the object in my hands.

"What are the peasants' demands?" the king asked. "Fair taxes, stronger rights, fewer privileges for nobles." "Bollocks! Send knights out to disperse them." "They have dragons, sire." "What?" "The dragons claim a more equal society is more stable and prosperous." "They hoard countries now?"