The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

A screenshot of a social media post on Truth Social by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). His profile picture shows his face with an American flag overlay. The text of the post reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP" At the bottom, the post shows 732 ReTruths, 2.69k Likes, and a timestamp of 4/5/26, 8:03 AM.

Ah yes, the three pillars of modern diplomacy: casually scheduling war crimes like it’s a high school Spirit Week theme, screaming in all caps, and wrapping it all up with a surprise conversion to Islam. Truly a masterclass in measured statecraft.

Israel's campaign against Unrwa could set precedent to dismantle other UN agencies, chief warns Philippe Lazzarini says failure to protect the UN’s main lifeline for Palestinians may have far-reaching consequences

Israel's campaign against Unrwa could set precedent to dismantle other UN agencies, chief warns - www.middleeasteye.net/news/unrwa-chief-warns-i...

Israeli officials are pressing Christian and Druze Lebanese civilians not to provide shelter for Shia Lebanese civilians as they target them (h/t @nytimes.com).

A dark, dark repetition of history.

For shame that we live in a world where we have not learned from its lessons.

Trying to get news that might be bad out of the Pentagon is a lot like trying to get Epstein files from DOJ.

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon Israel's attacks on hospitals, medical centres and healthcare workers are fuelling displacement and a health crisis.

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

First Draft: Donald Trump, Warmonger-in-Chief The president is bombing more and more civilian targets in Iran while preparing to unveil a new $1.5 trillion war budget, funded by cuts to US healthcare. He also can't stop firing... women.

“Donald Trump, Warmonger-in-Chief”

The president is bombing more and more civilian targets in Iran while preparing to unveil a new $1.5 trillion war budget, funded by cuts to US healthcare. He also can't stop firing... women.

From my First Draft email:

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

We decided to illustrate it.

Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West? Israel’s recent campaign in Gaza marks a turning point in modern warfare: the fusion of counter-insurgency and artificial intelligence. Will Western

The future of war may depend less on what AI can do, and more on what governments choose to restrain.

American Muslim Poll 2025 - ISPU ISPU's 2025 poll reveals striking insights into the youngest, most racially diverse faith community in the country, including their civic participation, voting patterns in 2024, and resilience in the ...

The anti-Muslim attacks against Mamdani are part of a worrying trend. New research shows in the last three years, Islamophobia has sharply risen in the United States, across almost every demographic.

More from @theISPU: ispu.org/poll25

Drop Site @DropSiteNews More than 300 writers, scholars, and public figures, including nearly 150 past New York Times contributors, have pledged to boycott the paper’s Opinion section under the banner “Genocide Is Not a Matter of Opinion.” They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of anti-Palestinian bias and publish new editorial standards, retract its discredited “Screams Without Words” article, and that its Editorial Board call for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel. Signatories include Rashida Tlaib, Sally Rooney, Rupi Kaur, Gabor Maté, Mohammed El-Kurd, Greta Thunberg — and Drop Site’s Alex Colston and Sharif Abdel Kouddous — among others.

More than 300 writers, scholars, and public figures, including nearly 150 past New York Times contributors, have pledged to boycott the paper’s Opinion section under the banner “Genocide Is Not a Matter of Opinion.”

They are demanding that the Times conduct an independent review of...

Why is Mamdani constantly asked about Israel and Palestine, but no other candidate who parrots Israel's talking points is ever asked if they condemn a genocide, occupation, and apartheid?

We joined 3,700+ nonprofits who've signed a powerful letter condemning the Trump administration’s illegal attacks on civil society. We will not be intimidated or silenced.

READ: bit.ly/3700strong

Starvation in Gaza and Our Global Shame Binaifer Nowrojee sees ample evidence that the country is committing the most serious of crimes in Gaza.

“Palestinians are being intentionally starved to death. Although signs of the coming horrors were clear within months of the war’s onset, many governments averted their eyes. Now, they are failing in their duty to prevent and stop a genocide.”

Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop

Outside Dupont north metro

Wow: 1/4 of US senators now oppose more American weapons to Israel.

Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

"Iran doesn't have nukes. Israel does.
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."

But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased.
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Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Trump-Connected Gaza Aid Chief Johnnie Moore Took Part in Secret Influence Operation Promoting Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, and Anti-Qatar Content Johnnie Moore handed out content connected to influence operation to Katrina Lantos Swett at an interfaith conference in 2024, and kept shtum about where he got the material

Trump-Connected Gaza Aid Chief Johnnie Moore Took Part in Secret Influence Operation Promoting Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, and Anti-Qatar Content, by @marcowenjones open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

Clown show

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

State Department Plans to Launch ‘Office of Remigration.’

The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...

What an incredibly dangerous, evil fkn moron.

I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew Cuomo Can a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York? Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly ­member in Queens, has been the surprise package in the Democratic primary and is now poised to take on the frontrunner in the race, ex-state governor Andrew Cuomo, who is mounting a political comeback after being forced from office in the face of a series of sexual harassment claims. Continue reading...

‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor

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Israel cancels visas for French lawmakers Israel's government cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and local officials two days before they were to start a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, the group…

Israel's government cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and local officials two days before they were to start a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, the group said. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Trump Administration Defies Judge Seeking Details on Plan to Return Wrongly Deported Man The administration’s refusal to comply with a judge’s directives threatened to erupt into a showdown between the executive and judicial branches.

If there isn't a cost for the Trump administration defying this judge’s order, Bondi and co will just defy other judge's orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...