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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 40m

Mamdani this morning in the NYT on this very issue

“That exception is one that I believe we should not only take issue with because of what it means for Palestinians and Palestinian human rights,” he said. “But also, whenever you are at peace with the making of an exception, you make it easier to make another exception — wherever, whenever.”

meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 18m

We have a bunch of signs from past protests, including past #NoKings ones. Imma haul them out but we usually make new ones bc it’s fun. And we always have more to yell about!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 26m

Are you protesting this weekend? Or just trying to sow division to the greater good of the Trump regime? Doing the same thing you’re accusing your little boogeyman of doing.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend!

bsky.app/profile/plas...

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 1h

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2h

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric

The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

www.msnbc.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Attend "No Kings" to protest the pro-kings.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 1h

Saying Trump deserves the Nobel peace prize for stopping the genocide he was arming & funding in Gaza as he keeps it occupied is like saying a wife-beater deserves a feminism award for agreeing to stop beating his wife to a pulp every night & locking her in the bathroom instead.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

This is the problem www.reuters.com/world/americ...

US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says

It's the first known operation since the recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.

www.reuters.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

This is the problem

www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee...

www.npr.org

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

This is the problem www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citi...

Americans detained during immigration enforcement speak out about treatment by federal agents

Several U.S. citizens have filed legal claims against the government, alleging they were wrongfully detained and racially profiled — some said they were beaten by federal officers.

www.cbsnews.com

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 8h

this is true across theaters and contexts: the people who commit heinous deeds don’t disappear after the reporting, or after the conflict, or after a few decades, or even after amnesty. The perpetrators of evil will do nearly everything to avoid accountability or discovery, but: they remain.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

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grimely.bsky.social @grimely.bsky.social · 11h

"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 11h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 8h

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 16h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 19h

a screengrab from the above video showing Starmer walking back to his position, back turned to the camera, head bowed

a screengrab from the end of the Blair Witch Project, with one of the protagonists facing a bare brick wall, back turned to the camera, head bowed

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 2h

“But what is clear is that sustained pressure in the streets from young people who are fed up with the failures of their governments has now toppled rich, powerful, entrenched elites in several countries.”

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 4h

The president (or maybe not president) of Madagascar—a radio DJ who overthrew the island’s yogurt kingpin in a coup d’état—just fled the country in a French helicopter after Gen Z protests. I wrote about the most interesting island you know nothing about, with bonus pictures of me with lemurs:

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7h

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 3h

Nice of Caleb to pull his head out of his ass and look around.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen substantially, even as Russia’s aggression has not.

That hard fact, not any “change of tone” or “expression of frustration” or “consideration of sending more advanced equipment” is what matters most on the ground. Moscow surely knows that, and sees encouragement.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10h

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4h

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 4h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 3h

What if, even now, there were infinite possibilities?

open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

So Many Alternatives

There are alternatives to fascism, socialism, and neoliberalism. A near-infinite number.

open.substack.com

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 3h

Glenn Beck too chickenshit to tell feds he makes everything up.