Kind of a major problem that the leaders of the opposition party are basically in favor of the war with Iran and find it very convenient that they don't have to do any of the bag holding

Extremely disturbed by the enforced disappearance of Nasrin Sotoudeh in #Iran. She was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on 1 April and her location has been unknown since. (1/2)

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Freed Israeli captive says treatment in Gaza worsened after Ben-Gvir circulated videos of Palestinians being brutalized in Israeli torture camps

Video: B.M. via X (@ireallyhateyou)

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Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

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Just read it.

One of the reasons the right is convinced that violence is only directed at them is their ability to ignore and forget all the acts of violence committed against the other side of the aisle.

Ask Trump about the firebombing of Shapiro's home or the plot to kidnap Whitmer and I guarantee he'd whiff.

Owens claims that Netanyahu called Kirk last month while he was in the Hamptons with Bill Ackman, Seth Dillon and others and offered Kirk a "reeducation" trip to Israel + major funding for Turning Points USA. She claims Kirk declined.

Owens shows a recent clip of Kirk on Megyn Kelly's show talking about the pressure he's been under to unequivocally support Israel. She says Bill Ackman staged an intervention with Kirk in the Hamptons shortly before his death and "threats were made."

220k people are watching this.

pointing out the rights hypocrisy about freedom of speech doesn’t really do too much but i honestly am just stunned how blatantly and quickly they reversed on pretty much every constitutional freedom the moment they gained full power

When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors.

He wasn't disciplined.

Fun fact about this guy: he was a significant influence on Curtis Yarvin.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.

To state the obvious, I was not paid by the Ford Foundation or Open Society to write the column, which is what Vance is alleging and he's saying he is going after those groups. Not the first time he's spouted conspiracy theories involving the Soroses to deflect criticism: apnews.com/article/jd-v...

Study links oil giants' emissions directly to dozens of deadly heatwaves The work "could be very useful for establishing potential liability,” says one of its authors.

“We can now point to specific heatwaves and say, ‘Saudi Aramco did this. ExxonMobil did this.'"

Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice.

People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.

Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.

Speak up now. Press conference today.

Pro tip: Schedule your workout for after the committee meeting.

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

”Black radical thinkers have long sought to expand the historical and political imagination of an anti-fascist left.”

They moved beyond the European analogy and emphasized racial slavery, colonialism, the prison industrial complex, and surveillance technology.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/alb...

I believe in labor unions and am a member. But many romanticize them as if they magically solve things.

In academia, job cuts, restructuring, and political repression are happening at schools with faculty and staff unions. Many union members are racist and anti-leftist. The struggle is constant.

Ursula K. Le Guin said, “It haunts me when people tell me how incredibly farsighted I was to be talking about climate change and climate destabilization and the degradation of the natural world, back in the 60s. I wasn’t! I was just listening to the scientists.”

Watching a video about the Civil Rights Movement and the Freedom Summer and it noted how names of Black people trying to exercise their rights would be published in lists to institutionally punish them. Today’s methods of surveillance and political punishment have roots and not just in McCarthyism.

on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.

Shackled and chained: Mass detention of Koreans fuels criticism of US - The Korea Times Public anger toward the U.S. is intensifying in Seoul after Koreans who returned from mass arrest in Georgia on Friday described squalid detention...

“Public anger toward the U.S. is intensifying in Seoul after Koreans who returned from mass arrest in Georgia on Friday described squalid detention facilities and fear-filled situations.” 9/14/25 www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

A Newspaper Called His Gaza Photos “Hamas Propaganda.” He’s Fighting Back. Photojournalist Anas Zayed Fteiha filed a legal claim against Axel Springer for alleging his photos exaggerate the famine in Gaza.

"Anas Zayed Fteiha, a Palestinian photojournalist in the Gaza Strip, filed a legal claim seeking an injunction against global publishing giant Axel Springer."

"[V]iolating his constitutional rights by falsely portraying him as a Hamas propagandist."
#Germany #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

It wont be until elections are canceled that Americans admit the predicament we’re in

Elon Musk has shared an obviously AI-generated image of the Unite the Kingdom rally in London.

The first AI error is that the Arc de Triomphe is in Paris, not London. And once you zoom in, you'll notice that the Union Jacks and the crowd have other errors typical of AI images.

Are vaccines safe? Let’s ask a guy who has put live animals in a blender to make food for his hawks and injects an illicit tanning drug that the pharmaceutical industry chose not to try to take to market for humans because it caused sexual aggression in rodents.