US voters can now smell the weaponizing of antisemitism from a mile away and are sick of it.
For years students, teachers, faith leaders and journalists organized around BDS boldly faced this down IRL, including by going to jail.
They still are. Don't let the rage grifters drown out their voices
I'm looking into it!
Chuck Schumer told a dangerous lie that conflates being Jewish with Zionism when he said that Iran's stated policy is to "destroy...Jewish communities around the world."
In Iran, Jews are a constitutionally protected minority. The policy is that the Israeli state is racist/ illegitimate. Many agree
Democrats Reject Resolution Condemning AIPAC Money in Primaries
DNC also tabled resolutions on Palestine and war crimes as public support for Israel plummets.
“The Dem Party seems asleep at the wheel and is not responding to this very quick and very influential public opinion shift on Israel."
Yes cable news is in decline (embarrassingly so at CBS) but it's still a major source of info for millions of people and will be for a while -- especially during war, when corporate TV outlets have the more access than alt news, podcasters etc.
That's why I worry about Trump controlling cable news
Locals on the Kharg Island said that the targets the U.S. bombed hit deep inside the city of Kharg, where most of the population resides, that “the island doesn’t really have a military base,” and that following the bombing of Kharg Airport, there was now no way to evacuate.
Israeli forces killed 3 journalists who were reporting on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. They were in a clearly marked press car when Israel bombed them. Israel then openly admitted to using a photoshopped picture of one of the journalists as supposed evidence that he was affiliated with Hezbollah.
Trump just cracked a joke about the "Straight of Trump"
Ground troops incoming...with 7 percent support
With Trump and Carr threatening cable news, the hypocrisy is nuts!
“Any Republican official who is vocal about Biden’s jawboning but silent now is someone who probably doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously when it comes to principled application of the First Amendment." -- Joe Stern @freedom.press
This is really, really powerful stuff.
I was back in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago. The grief is everywhere, the frustration is palpable just walking down the street.
The tactics the organizers and faith leaders built out this grief are valuable inspiration for what's next in the fight against fascism
Remember to always opt-out of facial recognition in the TSA line, just ask and show your ID!
We have every reason to be skeptical about this game of telephone during a war. So many reasons.
"This article is based on interviews with people who have had conversations with American officials, and who described the discussions on the condition of anonymity..."
Hello from the AZ heat dome!
Not looking good. Colorado River reservoirs could reach catastrophically low levels by mid-2027.
“Droughts are temporary. Aridification is permanent due to the physics of hotter air. These are conditions that are here, they are worsening, and they will be with us.”
Tenants unions just scored a big victory when HUD delayed indefinitely a plan to scrap rules protecting the nation's poorest renters from eviction, but the agency is still gutting enforcement and working to push immigrant families out of housing as part of Trump's mass deportation agenda.
HUD announced it would delay implementation of a policy change which would have left the nation’s poorest tenants in certain states vulnerable to “rapid, unfair evictions” for being “as little as one dollar short or one day late on rent,” according to the National Housing Law Project.
About Tulsi and her prepared remarks before the Senate Intel committee that contradicted what she said out loud about Iran's nuclear program...maybe she is trying to signal to supporters that she is still against the war, but who cares, it's too little too late now. Whistleblow and resign then!
“When you walk over the ruins of your house and when your car has crumbled due to the shockwaves of explosion, nothing that used to be important to you would matter anymore. The only thing you know is that the wars of politics and injustice in the region have taken life away from you. And thats it.”
Afghanistan War Veteran Dies in ICE Custody One Day After Immigration Arrest
We learned that Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal's wife tried to get him an inhaler after he was arrested by federal agents in front of his children. He served alongside US special forces but died in ICE custody after one day.
the Senate Commerce Committee is debating gutting Section 230 right now so here's your reminder that the last time Congress changed Section 230 was SESTA/FOSTA, which led to widespread censorship of LGBTQ and sexual health content, shut down entire corners of the internet, and got sex workers killed
Yes the US is rich in oil and gas, but when Trump says "we" have lots of the stuff he doesn't mean "us," he means his friends in the fracking industry who are rushing to export as much fossil fuels overseas as possible.
So yeah, profits for them and higher energy bills for you don't be fooled
At this point, every day Iran manages to fire off enough missiles and drones is another massive humiliation for Trump
This is a massive victory for the victims in an infamous torture case that shocked the nation during the Iraq war -- and a blast from the past that is all too relevant now. @ccrjustice.org
Iranian Dies in ICE Custody as Trump Administration Bombs Iran
At least three deportation flights removed asylum seekers to Iran in the months before the U.S. and Israel began massive bombing campaigns.
Among those still targeted are a gay couple facing execution and a women adopted in the 1950s.
If CBS is reporting this, you know it's bad:
"An Iranian drone [that] killed six U.S. service members...was more severe than has previously been revealed, with dozens suffering injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns...At least one may require the amputation of a limb."
Speak for yourself
Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails
I've covered deaths in immigration prisons for years, but I've never seen so many people die of what appears to be preventable conditions in such a brief period of time.
This will come back to haunt them. It must.
War is great news for Trump's friends and donors in the fracking/ fossil gas export industry, who are poised to profit.
The rest of us and our utility bills? Nope!
Consumers already paid $12 billion more for nat gas under Trump -- and now prices are spiking as war and chaos cuts off supplies.
Axios: "Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes"
We ran story after story warning Dems that Gaza would cost Harris key blocs. This is just one.
I'll never forget marching with thousands past the DNC in Chicago as they refused to let the Palestinian lawmaker speak.