Civilians in Gaza are starving, and airdrops aren't going to solve a humanitarian nightmare. The EU cannot stop funding UNRWA 's vital work on the ground.
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“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and the New York Times Opinion section will say we are all overreacting.”

This is just pure normalization of authoritarian fascism.
NYT readers read this and are asked to wonder: what if Christian fascist theocracy isn’t so bad after all!?

That’s the role Douthat plays at NYT: making extremism seem not so scary. It’s the right’s main move now.

As your constituent, Assemblyman Manny De Los Santos, MSW Robert Jackson, I urge you to support Eliminate Mandatory Minimums (A.2036), Second Look (S.321/A.531) & Earned Time Act (S.774/A.1128). It's time to overhaul NY's racist and unjust sentencing laws.

The thing that infuriates me most about Uvalde (& then I'll let it go) is the *cowardice* of the police. Macho tough guys with tanks & riot gear, posing for cool pics with their big guns & sunglasses, beating up defenseless minorities ... but when kids are getting shot? Cowards.

The Uvalde details just get worse & worse, more & more infuriating. Whatever you think about the kind of policing we do or don't need, I don't see how anyone can defend US police in their current form. They are violent, racist, *and incompetent*. statesman.com/story/news/sta…

Protesters bidding farewell to hate group Moms for Liberty at an event on the Upper East Side tonight

Stop Starving Gaza demonstration at the Irish Hunger Memorial in NYC this morning

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When people start to lose trust in mainstream sources of information, they do not go looking for more trustworthy sources. They seem instead to think: fine, if it's all bullshit, I'm just gonna seek out the bullshit I like. Everybody gets their own bullshit, so I get mine.

In case you missed it. The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000.

$150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year.hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent…

Silent march for those killed in Gaza ending in Times Square Jewish Elders for Palestinian Freedom Jewish Voice for Peace

Hundreds of people forming for silent march and vigil for the dead in Gaza along Bryant Park in midtown NYC

Clarence Thomas threatened to quit SCOTUS unless he could get rich, so Republican politicians arranged for billionaires to start inundating him with money and gifts in exchange for his continued service. He gladly accepted the trade-off. propublica.org/article/claren…

If Senate Democrats don’t subpoena Clarence Thomas right now and if House Democrats don’t pledge to hold an impeachment inquiry into him if they regain the majority next year, then they don’t deserve to be in office tbh.

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary centrism is that it's always a veneer of content-neutral principle overlaid upon a gut-level defense of the status quo. I wish everyone would read up on system justification. volts.wtf/p/why-social-c…

Is there a more annoying, misleading, and useless word in American politics than ‘moderate’? How does cheerleading for the most far-right government in Israel’s history and pushing to bring back Trumpian immigration restrictions make you ‘moderate’? That’s ’moderate’? Really?

Shameful.

The Biden Admin can no longer reconcile their professed concern for Palestinians and human rights while also single-handedly vetoing the UN’s call for ceasefire and sidestepping the entire US Congress to unconditionally back the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

X is broken. This platform has seen a surge of hate speech and misinformation, much of it from verified accounts. Stepping back is difficult as so many trusted voices still prioritize it to break news & discuss real-time events. We need collective action: xlast.org

Hopefully those who fell for it will learn a lesson to be more skeptical in the future, but I won't hold my breath.

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