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We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 19h

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Trump administration's urge to destroy press freedom and keeping up the good fight "until Trump, Vance, and Brendan Carr are consigned to the same dustbin of history that McCarthy so ignobly occupies." shorturl.fm/WXEZQ

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

Israel violates ceasefire with deadly attacks on Palestinians in Gaza

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 21h

A ceasefire -- hey, that doesn't really mean you have to ceasefire, does it? Israel hasn't, it seems. Not yet, anyway. shorturl.fm/qfjNc

Nine Palestinians were killed less than 24 hours after the US and Arab states signed the ceasefire deal in Sharm el-Sheikh

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 22h

Aaron Glantz at the Guardian on veterans who protest the actions of ICE agents being both attacked and charged with crimes. Incredible, really!
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Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

Hamas Agreed To Same Gaza Deal More Than a Year Ago But Netanyahu and Biden Rejected It: Israeli Negotiator - News From Antiwar.com

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

Antiwar.com's Dave deCamp offers a striking bit of information. It seems that Hamas agreed to the same deal now being put into effect to release prisoners, etc., a year ago!
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Hamas agreed to the terms of the current Gaza ceasefire deal more than a year ago, but at the time, the potential agreement was rejected by both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-US P...

A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached to It

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

From TomDispatch this morning: How Washington helped build Israel into a huge airbase with a small country attached to it -- Juan Cole, "A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached to It, Israel and Bomber Harris's Ghost"
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Donald Trump's and Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a dist...

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They're calling it a "Hate America" Rally

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Reich has an important column on the upcoming No King's demonstrations this Saturday nationwide. (I went to the last one, which was memorable, and I'll be there again in my city this Saturday!)
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Rubbish. We’re rallying on Saturday because we LOVE America

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d

Graham Readfearn of the Guardian on the planet heading for its first (but hardly last) dangerous climate change tipping point. shorturl.fm/EzL3k

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached to It

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

From TomDispatch this morning: How Washington helped build Israel into a huge airbase with a small country attached to it -- Juan Cole, "A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached to It, Israel and Bomber Harris's Ghost" shorturl.fm/gqDXv

Donald Trump's and Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a dist...

An American Century of Carnage

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

From TomDispatch last evening: A Best of TomDispatch piece from John Dower - An American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World shorturl.fm/ujVTI

[This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s new book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.] On February 17, 1941, almost 10 months ...

Is American Carnage About to Spread to Venezuela? - FPIF

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

John Feffer at Foreign Policy in Focus on how Trump is likely to (mis)use Venezuela. shorturl.fm/h4JZR

Trump needs an enemy to justify his power grabs, and Venezuela fits the bill.

“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

At the Nation, Marina Magloire on the remarkable Toni Morrison not as a writer but as a book editor at Random House. (I became an editor at Pantheon Books in the same building before she left editing.) Quite a publishing record she had! shorturl.fm/YKjxG

A recent book on her career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Spring of the Washington Post reports, the Trump administration is now into "drill, baby, drill" in a distinctly big-time fashion. “For coal, oil and gas, it’s white glove service. For renewables and storage, it’s freezes, delays and cancellations.” shorturl.fm/mQUKb

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d

Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi on what it means to mispronounce Zohran Mamdani's name.
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When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d

At the New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells on how the the misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made their way here, to a militaristic right-wing President who loudly denounced those foreign conflicts but means to treat American cities as war zones.
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Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d

As Margaret Sullivan of the Guardian writes, the network (CBS) on which, as a kid, I used to watch Walter Cronkite, has just named a frightening new editor-in-chief!
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When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d

In a city (Portland, Oregon) where Republicans are an endangered species, Kellen Browning of the New York Times reports on Mamdani-style socialists already in the local government in the place Donald Trump wants, in essence, to invade. shorturl.fm/Ee1uf

A West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is playing out in Portland. But the socialist city councilors, who say the city has been “run by the rich” for too long, are facing significant opposition.

Something extraordinary just happened

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

As the U.S. pours ever more carbon into the atmosphere and becomes the world's true rogue nation, Bill McKibben at his substack looks at both the good and bad news on planet Earth right now.
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But of course there's a but. Or two.

Trump and Hegseth’s Plan for the “War Within”

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

At the Nation, Michael Klare on preparing for the "war within," Trump's war on America and his message to America's generals: Be prepared for orders to leave your command posts abroad and return home to deploy your forces in American cities...
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‘They spit, we hit.’

U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 – September 2025

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

As William D. Hartung reports at the Costs of War Project site the U.S. has spent staggering sums to arm Israel. (To read his full report, go to that site.).
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In the two years since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. government has spent $21.7 billion on military aid to Israel, according to policy analyst William D. Hartung (Senior Researc...

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and historian Bill Astore on whether any top military figures might consider resigning over Trump's version of (domestic) war-making. bit.ly/4h5DYrT

Should Senior Military Officers Consider Resigning?

Several Coordinated Resignations Based on Principle Could Make a Difference

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d

The Guardian has a truly devastating summary of what the Israeli military has done to Gaza. (Check the original for charts, etc.) It's beyond shocking. bit.ly/42zyy2k

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble

'Trump's Gestapo': Chicago Marches to Resist ICE, National Guard Deployment | Common Dreams

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d

It's good to see people marching in Chicago, as Julia Conley of Common Dreams reports, against Trump's desire to occupy American cities. Remember, next weekend is the No Kings march nationally! bit.ly/3KHMtxe

President Trump's deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago has sparked outrage and protests. Residents are demanding ICE agents leave, calling them Trump's Gestapo. As tension...

‘It’s over! It’s over!’ they shout, but people here in Gaza still fear what the future may bring | Hassan Abo Qamar

TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d

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At the Guardian, Hassan Abo Qamar on what it feels like in Gaza to have the hell stop at least for now, however long this peace plan may actually last, and of course with Gaza in ruins. bit.ly/3IOSYxD

Phase one of Donald Trump’s peace plan has brought joy and relief, yet it’s hard to believe this fragile peace will last, says Palestinian writer and journalist Hassan Abo Qamar