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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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TY to the NYT for unmasking this crude attack on free speech and the academy. Obvs that Heritage is directly hooked into the Trump regime on this & other attempts to crush our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If true, a deeply immoral and shameful negotiation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland. Highly unlikely even a single Palestinian was consulted. Utter madness. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, & children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies & to stand against autocrats.” www.freep.com/story/opinio...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Expelling Black and Brown people. Importing the White descendants of the people who invented Apartheid. Via a chartered aircraft, of all things. MAGA is all about White Nationalism. They prove it every day.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

If true, this is an obscenely sick decision. The U.S. State Department’s own Human Rights Report and Trafficking in Persons Report have documented the absolutely horrific conditions in detention centers and prisons all across Libya. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

submitted 45 days ago • 118 comments

According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

submitted 49 days ago • 522 comments

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

submitted 51 days ago • 352 comments

👇🏽🎯

submitted 56 days ago • 240 comments

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

submitted 58 days ago • 190 comments

Shame on Secretary Rubio and the Trump administration for enabling this tragedy. A shocking and repellent abandonment of American values. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

🎯🎯 Important to note: "...Mr. Trump, who is himself a convicted felon, has gone so far as to say that he is contemplating sending violent criminals who are American citizens to be locked up in El Salvador, where prisons are not governed by minimal U.S. standards." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

On the shelves today in the UK! Forward by Dr. Ghassan Salamé and gorgeous cover art by Libyan artist Hiba Shalabi. All of my own proceeds will go to charity.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 63 days ago • 712 comments

"There should be global moral outrage that the decisions made by powerful people in other countries have led to child deaths in just a matter of weeks," said Christopher Nyamandi, Save the Children's country director in South Sudan. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 73 days ago • 710 comments

America alone, led by the loony isolationist-in-chief.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Arab American history is American history. This National Arab American Heritage Month, we honor the legacy of Arab Americans who have made an impact in activism, culture, science and beyond. Their contributions shape our nation every day. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #TheMarchContinues

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest. It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

submitted 76 days ago • 686 comments

More of this please

submitted 77 days ago • 68 comments

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

submitted 78 days ago • 379 comments

My latest for The Brookings Institution, part of the “Development, governance, and security in the Middle East: Obstacles and opportunities” project, in partnership with JICA. Anatomy of a flood: The Derna tragedy’s lessons for Libyan governance www.brookings.edu/articles/ana...

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I am pleased to announce the publication of my book "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace." It will be published in the UK by Hurst Publishers (London) on April 17, 2025 and in the U.S. by Oxford University Press in June of this year. 1/7 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/libya-s...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

In January, Osama Al-Masri Njeem was arrested in Italy over alleged war crimes at one of Libya’s deadliest prisons. But within 48 hours, he was released — a move that is turning into a major accountability test for Rome and Tripoli's relationship. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/osam...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I would support this! We need to primary the dinosaurs.

submitted 95 days ago • 647 comments