relevant:

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this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

- Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) in India
- Photo courtesy of Nelson George‎.

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on: Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory April 24-25, McGill University Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory examines how Israel’s genocide in Gaza has exposed both the political stakes of Palestine—self-determination, occupation, solidarity, and international law—and the limits of core political and legal categories such as global justice, human rights, war, colonialism, and resistance. The conference asks whether existing conceptual and normative frameworks remain adequate after Gaza and seeks to rethink the key terms of political theory in light of the ongoing crisis. Invited speakers include: Nasser Abourahme Esmat Elhalaby Samera Esmeir Murad Idris Nadim Khoury Darryl Li Nicola Perugini Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Maya Wind Pre-registration required: https://forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh9pf56 Co-sponsored by the Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique, the McGill Refugee Research Group, and the Critical Media Lab

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on:

Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory

April 24-25, McGill University

Pre-registration required: forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh...

I understand how someone talks themselves into taking the position the masked thugs kidnapping children are a distraction from health insurance premiums (i.e."we have to say only popular things so we can win and stop the thugs") but I don't understand how they sleep at night

Fireworks over Grand Army Plaza

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.

Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

Zohran Mamdani wins!

He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.

Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

In Pam Bondi's America bakers may refuse to make cakes for gay or trans people, medical pros may refuse to provide women with complete healthcare, military personnel may refuse vaccination orders—all for "religous" or "conscience" reasons—but an Office Depot employee may not refuse to print a flyer.

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

ofc, everyone can be annoyed by what they find annoying. i find the phrase funny... a 21st c version of 'get off my lawn.' admittedly, i learn of most very online things irl from my teenager. we recently had a long argument about 'performative matcha boys.'

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

This is excellent. I listened to it on your podcast and found it quite unflinching. All too rare right now.

Notice how troops were sent to LA for political theater, but none were sent to Texas to help find the missing people who were swept away in the flood?

So dangerous.

Question: if Republicans don’t believe the cuts to Medicaid and other benefits are problematic, why did they delay the worst of them until after the midterms?

The U.S. government is trying to hoodwink vulnerable seniors into voting red in 2026 before the pain hits in 2027.

Over 7M seniors rely on Medicaid. Nearly 2M live in nursing homes where Medicaid pays the bills. Republicans just slashed nearly $1 trillion from it.

My mom just got this email…

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

Oklahoma Will Require Schools to Teach Disproven Conspiracy Theory That Democrats Stole 2020 Election from Trump Oklahoma schools will now be required to teach high school students about the disproven conspiracy theory that Democrats stole the 2020 president election from Donald Trump, according to new standards...

This is batshit crazy👇

To revise Oklahoma’s curriculum, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters — a strong Trump supporter — sought help from other MAGA devotees like Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager.

Because of course they did.

The bill the Republicans passed this morning requires Medicaid recipients who are being actively treated for cancer to work 40 hours per week. If they can’t do that, they lose their health coverage.

I'm fuming about this, tbh