We cannot continue to make peace with a system that tells us that our best use of our tax dollars is to send money elsewhere in the form of bombs and tanks.
Thank you, Michigan Democrats!
Gaza genocide, the broligarchy, corruption, ICE, forever wars..
The DNC's leaders and donors will not change or adapt, folks. They're not made for this moment. They are too ideologically committed to restoring the old ways.
They must be culled and replaced with better leaders.
How the Strokes ended their second Coachella set!
#TheStrokes #Coachella
Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”
America’s Mayor can’t miss.
![The Democratic shift on Israel policy was on full, dramatic display on the Senate floor on Wednesday night as 40 of 47 Senate Democrats voted for at least one of two resolutions to block U.S. shipments of bulldozers and bombs to Israel.
The votes left many pro-Israel Democrats shocked and disillusioned — exemplified in the muted statements, if any, on the vote from key pro-Israel groups — and is being seen by some as the marker of a new era of Democratic policy on Israel, in which critics of Israel are firmly in the party mainstream.
“It’s yet another data point that the bipartisan consensus [in support of Israel] is, at least at the moment, no longer,” a former Biden administration official told Jewish Insider on Thursday. “Democrats think it’s politically advantageous to take these votes that would have been completely out-of-bounds just two-and-a-half years ago. … It’s deeply concerning if you care about the relationship, if you care about the security of [Israel]. But that’s the state of play at the moment, I think until or unless there’s an event that changes the trajectory.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreielvvl5ppqsrfvwezrhhaaczxqgtzvt3ynq7tfybstpdadqd4frfi)
The Democratic shift on Israel policy was on full, dramatic display on the Senate floor on Wednesday night as 40 of 47 Senate Democrats voted for at least one of two resolutions to block U.S. shipments of bulldozers and bombs to Israel. The votes left many pro-Israel Democrats shocked and disillusioned — exemplified in the muted statements, if any, on the vote from key pro-Israel groups — and is being seen by some as the marker of a new era of Democratic policy on Israel, in which critics of Israel are firmly in the party mainstream. “It’s yet another data point that the bipartisan consensus [in support of Israel] is, at least at the moment, no longer,” a former Biden administration official told Jewish Insider on Thursday. “Democrats think it’s politically advantageous to take these votes that would have been completely out-of-bounds just two-and-a-half years ago. … It’s deeply concerning if you care about the relationship, if you care about the security of [Israel]. But that’s the state of play at the moment, I think until or unless there’s an event that changes the trajectory.”
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Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women
This is unambiguously good news, to be clear. But it's interesting that this somewhat weird and arbitrary tax was more politically acceptable than straightforwardly raising the top income-tax rates.
no one will ever throw people under the bus like this guy, the best ever to do it
"Anti-Israel activists such as Piker are calling for more than an end to aid for Israel. They are demanding an arms embargo, which would prevent Israel from even purchasing defensive weaponry from the United States"
hell yeah we are
I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.
It’s time to tell the DNC directly to Condemn AIPAC & End Citizens United.
Because if you take corporate PAC money, whether it’s AIPAC, AI, or Crypto, you don’t represent us.
It’s time to go beyond performative “accountability”.
America should be setting the moral standard for the world in taking down the Epstein Class. @jubileemedia.bsky.social
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
Here's an agenda for a democratic, climate-forward politics, where we build state capacity for investment and regulation in the interest of affordability and public health.
Great work @pmbigger.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social!
stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/
Israel's relationship with Democrats on Capitol Hill is rapidly deteriorating, with a growing number of lawmakers saying they can no longer support U.S. funding for even the country's defensive weaponry. Why it matters: Opposing the use of American taxpayer dollars to fund Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system was "seen as insanely fringe four years ago," Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) told us. No longer. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told us he "cannot support more military assistance" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he has "supported Iron Dome in the past, but there doesn't seem to be any accountability." Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told us he doesn't think that position is "wildly controversial in light of what the Israeli government has said for a long time." "I think many of us are in the place of saying, 'They have enough money to wage the wars they're doing, they don't need our money, period," said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.)
Multiple incumbent members of Congress are saying tonight that they concur with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that US-taxpayer funded military assistance, including Iron Dome and Arrow, should end.
After the last historic vote against weapons for Israel, Biden aide Jake Sullivan said he would have backed the effort (despite overseeing huge arms for Isr).
I twice asked Sullivan before today's votes if he had a position. Crickets.
Curious what tune he'll have after the record is broken again.
*Forty* senators voted against US weapons for Israel tonight.
~1/2 the chamber & the overwhelming majority of Democrats + allies. No such vote had ever occurred in Congress before November 2024.
A sea-change that will resonate in Tel Aviv, dramatically boost calls for a Dem overhaul + reckoning.
Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.
Big. I watched Kelly be one of the few Democratic lawmakers to enthusiastically applaud Netanyahu less than 2 years ago, at the height of atrocities in Gaza. That he - as a moderate with a finger in the wind - is taking this position is bad news for those seeking unconditional support for Tel Aviv.
"The rot in state capacity requires root-and-three-branches reform."
Caravanserai's latest issue is all about bureaucracy—and what it's going to take to fix it once Trump is gone. Streamline executive agencies, redo the APA, and, please, fix Congress.
caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/bureaucrac...
Meanwhile @kaine.senate.gov has confirmed he will vote against weapons transfers to Israel given its wars in Iran, Lebanon & Palestine:
"Democrats should run on affordability! No wait, not like that."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
"When will Democrats finally campaign on economic issues, appeal to swing voters and reject social justice issues!?"
an excerpt from the first 12 pages of my upcoming book 'How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza'. It publishes in a week but evidently copies are already shipping, so
When people are like, "Where is the money for X going to come from?" I'm like, the police budget. The money you are looking for is in the police budget. It's in police contracts (many of which mandate an annual increase--PVD's does) & police pensions, but it's also in things like the supply budget
Exactly what Kate said.
Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.
if the law is actually enforced and US weapons are withheld from Israel, that’s great. But where jstreet’s long-term vision still fails is in preventing the US-Israel alliance from committing war crimes again and again
