If this was really about debt and waste, they would have started with the Pentagon budget, which hasn't passed 7 audits in a row and makes up over 13% of the budget. The Department of Education is less than 5% of our federal budget.

Anyone with a modicum of power at a university needs to be condemning this right now—not saying it's upsetting, not telling people to get mental health support if they're bothered by it, but saying it's wrong, and explaining how they will oppose it.

Read this headline if you want to know what total impunity of a genocidal state looks like. There should be wall-to-wall coverage and global condemnations for this horror story.

Seems pretty clear that, rather than marking a turn away from neoliberalism, Trump’s “tariffs” were more like sanctions, used to bludgeon countries into accepting trade deals that are even more predatory. A point David Dayen made here. prospect.org/economy/2025-0…

As someone who spent the majority of my life in Indiana, I couldn’t help but take an interest in a peculiar candidate coming out of nowhere with a fancy introductory video co-opting GOP messaging and it sorta sent me down a rabbit hole. Lot of red flags. Let’s discuss. 🧵

Needs to be said again and again.

BREAKING: After sustained pressure from pro-Palestine students and protesters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has cut ties with Elbit Systems—Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Just this week, Elbit’s drones bombed tents in Gaza, killing civilians. Students vow

The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)

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A portion of the global march to Gaza remains steadfast at the checkpoint despite threats of violent arrest. People are determined to break the siege… Save Gaza, break the siege, let food, water and humanitarian aid enter Gaza ! The whole world is watching !

Seems like a good moment to say Christian Zionist orgs like this are a malignant force in US politics that have been goading for all out war since their inception.

I don’t like how the word distract is being used today. Focus on the US bombing of Iran, Israel’s drive for WWIII, intensified genocide in Gaza, and ICE raids in the US. It’s not a distraction, nor a competition, it’s all interconnected.

cbs sports network is the most dogshit channel that no one can access btw National Women’s Soccer League

So we’ve reached the point where Israel offs 100 ppl a day, mostly as they seek food, which it blockaded. And no one treats this as news. And we’re not allowed to update the death toll because that would be antisemitic, just like hating the army doing this. I’m losing my mind.

The use of “as” instead of “at” here is holding up entire worlds

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Israeli has set fire to Taybeh — a 10,000-year-old village in Ramallah, Palestine. A place where Jesus once walked. Home to the world’s oldest living Christian community. And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration and adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide. His open letter in the The Guardian:

Netanyahu decided on full occupation and conquest of the Gaza Strip. This decision to expand the scale of the genocide will result in the deaths of thousands from an already starving population. Shame on the world for its inability to stop this madman and his deranged regime.