Sigourney Weaver tries out the flame thrower for Alien (1979)

This is high praise coming from one of this era's best reporters on the subject of dark money and corruption.

Art by Moebius for Futurs No 1 (1980)

I don't think DC fully appreciates how its positions over the past 10 months have fundamentally damaged the credibility and authority of international law. The Beltway may not care, but it has serious ramifications for the future. passblue.com/2024/09/03/can…

Correct.

In #Venezuela’s post-election crisis, Maduro is dismissing international concerns just as stubbornly as he is rejecting Venezuelans’ votes and brutally repressing Venezuelans’ voices. Read more in Andrew Stroehlein’s Daily Brief: trib.al/dufKgCq

“The threat of Philadelphi corridor is invented by Netanyahu to torpedo any deal with Hamas. Alon Ben David (senior military correspondent) reported last night on Channel 13 that so far the IDF has not found a single tunnel that crosses the corridor to the Egyptian side”

Israeli activist Gershon Baskin🟣 جرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין has served as a backchannel negotiator with Hamas for many years and secured a historic 2011 prisoner exchange. He says the group has agreed to a ceasefire deal that would release all the Israeli hostages currently held in Gaza, but that Prime

The administration has repeatedly condemned maps that do not show Israel and has expressly conditioned critical aid benefitting Palestinians on their elimination from textbooks. Yet it refuses to even comment when Israel’s Prime Minister uses a map erasing Palestinian territory.

Journalists, please stop saying things like this: “The fact that nobody in their entrenched camps was happy makes me think that I probably was in just about the right place.” Defend the content of your work, but not with mean-nothing silliness like this. thedailybeast.com/cnns-dana-bash…

There must be some responsibility taken by President Biden, Secretary Blinken and others who repeatedly claimed that Netanyahu had accepted a deal. Most importantly, they need to change course and put real, public pressure on Netanyahu to stop blocking a deal from being reached.

Nope. It’s literally just Netanyahu not wanting a ceasefire

In the kickoff of the Cutting Through Interview Series, I speak with Matt Duss about #KamalaHarris, #Ukraine, #Gaza, #Israel, #Iran, and other foreign policy issues VIDEO: Interview With Matt Duss open.substack.com/pub/mitchellpl…

Is the rumbling in the room with us right now

Given Bolton’s long career of pushing boneheaded hawkish policies that end up isolating and weakening the US, I’m pretty sure Putin would be happy to see him back in there too.

Seriously. This is not 5-dimensional diplomatic chess. Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice both Palestinian and Israeli lives to preserve his own power, and will keep doing that until his cost/benefit calculation changes, which only the US can do, and which Biden refuses to.

In the wake of DOJ indictments of Russia-backed influencers, important to note that “friendly” corrupt repressive regimes have all kinds of ways to interfere in our politics, and are spending enormous sums to do so. People should read Casey Michel’s new book!