In my first magazine story for Mother Jones, I wrote about the attacks on disinformation researchers, and the ways they echo attacks on climate scientists in the '90s. One person compared it to the Red Scare: “How do we not see the historical parallels?” motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

The kind of terrorizing toll this takes on a city and country is immense

Check all the boxes that show violence against women.

The first attempted assassin was a registered Republican The second one voted for Trump in 2016

one of the fascinating things that happens in analysis of fascism is the treatment of patriarchy and misogyny. ppl sort of nod-and-scroll, searching for something deeper, but like... that's pretty much it right there. that's the core of ultranationalism, etc.

New Behind The Bastards 🤓 Robert sits down with the great Ed Helms to discuss Curtis Yarvin, the American philosopher of dictatorship whose ideas inspired J.D. Vance. Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) Ed Helms Sophie Rae Lichterman iheart.com/podcast/105-be…

Catch me caring about Hezbollah operatives another day

According to a new survey published by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, four out of five British Jews said that they "strongly" or "somewhat" disapproved of Netanyahu / Judy Maltz haaretz.com/jewish/2024-09…

A lot of people who don’t know anything about Hezbollah are outraged that I said that these militants are legally permissible targets for a state they have declared war on. Here is how these people speak about Syrian children. Don’t look away from what you’re defending.

liberals were right about almost all the high-profile leftists of 2016-2020

My god, Phil Williams is now officially a Texas Observer supporter. This is as good as any journalism award.

that whole podcast scene of adults acting like 7th grade bullies but sometimes they talked about marxism or whatever so i guess that was fine

The footage from Lebanon is too horrible to watch, but Israelis are the ones who most need to see it. Israelis should be morally repulsed. Then they should at least be asking themselves: what has this accomplished, and what will be the costs? / Dahlia Scheindlin haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

I know this is shocking but Amy Wax will be addressing the white supremacist American Renaissance conference.

💥#Breaking: Israel police officers throw former IDF Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz to the asphalt and drag him away from anti-Netanyahu protest in Caesarea. (Benny Meshi)

interesting section in Henry Clay's speech On the Spanish Treaty... "[foreign interference] might, in process of time, create in the bosom of our country a Russian faction, a British faction, a French faction. Every nation ought to be jealous of this species of interference"

Israel hit residential buildings to force an evacuation. Doubt the ammos they destroyed is putting much of a dent. A ground invasion will be good for no one if this is where it's going. A million people are now homeless effectively and things are looking to get worse

Speechless at this report of German far-right MP Jörg Dornau from #AfD using political prisoner labor on his onion plantation in #Belarus. This certainly needs investigation by the German press.

Powerful speech of David Lammy of the UK at UNSC on Ukraine: “Vladimir Putin When you fire missiles into Ukraine hospitals. We know who you are. When you send mercenaries into African countries. We know who you are. When you murder opponents in European cities. We know