The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In the state of siege, time becomes space
Transfixed in its eternity
In the state of siege, space becomes time
That has missed its yesterday
and its tomorrow.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I grew up in rural America and the reality is there are a bunch of fierce progressives who are completely besieged by the most reactionary dipshits you've ever heard of, which is why all their kids get the fuck out the minute they are old enough. Rural America is being killed by its own bigotry.

to summarize, those who whine and claim floor crossings are somehow awful and undemocratic [says the losing side] simply don’t understand who we really vote for, and how the westminster system works. parties have no rights. MPs do. the end.

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age - emptywheel Trump might literally sell out the next journalist who opposes him to be chopped up by some foreign dictator. Yet the journalists covering his campaign don't seem to care.

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age

emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/b...

a good friend of mine referred to “Trump’s America” and i think that’s wrong. this is the “Republican America” where Trump is a conveniently deranged, manipulated fuhrer.

They’re never going to stop trolling.

I keep thinking about how happy Hungarians must be tonight

Imagine if we'd had Donald Trump for 16 straight years....

current [and future] favourite hot sauce!

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

Khaled Elgindy explains why the US 100% backing of Netanyahu has embolden him to wage even more wars YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show

Middle East expert Khaled Elgindy explained on my show why Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was slaughtering people in Lebanon—killing hundreds of civilians this week. He also detailed the huge spike in Israeli settler violence in West Bank targeting Christians and Muslims youtu.be/zDNGeKCbsK0?...

George Conway on Melania's press conference, Joy Reid calls for Trump to be tried at The Hague, comedian David Cross on why it's personal with Trump and more! Some of the most informative, insightful and even funny interviews of the week on my show: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/george-con...

this is where @washingtonpost.com has descended into. truly grotesque.

The Young Liberals showed up in Montréal last night. #LIB2026

Just amazing watching the NASA feed on Twitter. One can see what the U.S. can do if not saddled with a corrupt kleptocracy.

personal note: the last NASA mission i watched live before Artemis 2 was the Challenger, 28 Jan 1986.

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Israel isn't a friend or ally to Canada. We owe them nothing.

It is disappointing but unsurprising that apparently the US and Israel don’t understand much about the second largest military force in NATO and the nation-in-arms foundations of that military.

Why the Vatican and the White House Are on the Outs Inside the collapse of Washington’s relationship with the first American pope.

The Trump administration offered a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side"

www.thefp.com/p/why-the-va...

quite possibly the most unbelievably insane thing i’ve heard since the beginning of Trump-Netanyahu war with Iran is an Israeli “plan” to “deal with Turkiye” as it is painted by the genocidal apartheid regime as the next threat to Israel’s greater plans.

Straight up, the pedophile psychopath should be removed from office and arrested. 😳👇

On Rupert Murdoch TV, anchors insist that war crimes are not really war crimes, while they avoid ever interviewing a qualified expert in the laws of war. We've seen this play many times before.

we are in a historic shift. we were incredibly smart to pick the leadership that’s well-equipped to deal with this shift, rather than a dim bulb horde of sloganeering republican cosplayers under the leadership of an inveterate liar and rage farming disinformation artist. #cdnpoli

we all know Netanyahu regime is a genocidal apartheid regime that daily commits crimes against humanity. tying to protect and defend this roaring evil from discussion, criticism and condemnation by playing the “antisemitism” card is a grotesque weaponization of jewish suffering.

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation:
"When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

first really decent spring day to sit outside and revisit two great books: “mediations for mortals” and “erasing history: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future”

A U.S. naval drone has reportedly washed ashore in Turkey, according to Turkish outlet SavunmaSanayiST.

The report says the Sierra Nevada–built device lost control during a mission and drifted into a coastal area.

It is believed to be a naval drone, likely part of an experimental program.

I mean I'm glad that I'm helping educate young people on TikTok and all that but also my 72 year old father just told me that he told all of his friends that he meets weekly at Waffle House in south Georgia to watch my Facebook videos about how large language models work.