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“The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria.”

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

“And what it really does is — the reason we call it a silent coup — was [because] barely anyone knows about this stuff. This is an international system that was consciously set up to put to bed the democratic movements which had arisen after the Second World War, and barely anyone knows about it”

submitted 7 hours ago • 39 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 7 hours ago • 341 comments

They disappeared a green card holder and threatened to arrest a citizen. We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.

submitted 5 hours ago • 99 comments

Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!

submitted 7 hours ago • 408 comments

We either believe in human rights, in free speech, or we don't. Believing in free speech means standing up and supporting the rights of others, even if we disagree with them. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

A massive assault on the first amendment is well underway. The GOP pretends to stand for free speech even as they take unprecedented steps to undermine it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 54 comments

If armed government agents were turning up at the homes of US citizens to detain and deport permanent residents because of the latter’s speech on abortion, conservative America, the GOP, Fox, would be up in arms. But it’s speech on Israel and Palestine… so… crickets. From the right. And Dems too!

submitted 11 hours ago • 80 comments

Imagine if the most prominent member of the Biden administration had reposted, in agreement, someone calling a prominent GOP senator a ‘retard’. Would have been the end of the world, biggest scandal ever. The asymmetry in American politics continues to grow. Just wild to see.

submitted 1 day ago • 377 comments

I’m trying to think of the reaction from the right and from Fox and from Israel supporters if I or another Muslim or a Palestinian or Biden had said what Trump’s envoy said today, about Hamas - “They’re actually guys like us, they’re pretty nice guys” - & about the US not being an “agent of Israel.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 49 comments

A crackdown on Palestinian solidarity was always part of the plan for Trump Term 2. @premthakker.bsky.social reported on 'Project Esther' back in October zeteo.com/p/project-es...

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security officers have detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment. @premthakker.bsky.social reports open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

We are where we are because Democratic party leadership has sold out to the same corporate forces that fund the GOP. They are essentially one uniparty with different sales pitches.

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Nest cam! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Three days ago, Donald Trump openly threatened to kill all of ‘the people of Gaza’ and it wasn’t even a story. No consequences. The media, the world, just moved on.

submitted 1 day ago • 439 comments

lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

submitted 2 days ago • 478 comments

Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption the central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 566 comments

getting what done? he's not doing anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 1313 comments

Genuine question: Are there any billionaires out here who want to give back by paying off the student loans of a High School English Teacher? You’ll really be making a difference in one person’s life, and I promise you won’t even notice a difference in your bank account!!! Asking for a friend…

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death. People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable. EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

“Whatever grown-ups in the room we had in [Trump] term one are not around in term two” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social discuss the dangerous levels of incompetence of Trump’s government at a Zeteo Town Hall. Watch their full discussion on zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/oligarchy-...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Happy #Caturday from me & #emilymonster. 🤨

submitted 1 day ago • 679 comments

The injustices we're seeing in this moment are a direct result of our collective failure to listen to voices of the vulnerable imploring us to stand with them over the decades. Rejecting age old divide-and-conquer tactics is our only path to true freedom and it is within our collective reach.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yep they - the Harris campaign - totally wasted and boxed in Walz. Madness.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

We must see the bigger picture and ask ourselves why an Oscar winning documentary #NoOtherLand has been banned in the US. History rhymes and we must divorce ourselves from the narratives created by those in power and pay attention to these telling patterns.

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"The most powerful humans in the world are those who’ve come to understand that real power lies not with whoever has the most votes or money or troops or weapons, but with whoever controls the narrative." caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-more-inn...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump pushing anti-vaxxer nonsense about autism rates, we know why autism rates are up and it's not vaccine-related. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

“The problem has been that to impeach a president, people from the other side have to be willing to do their constitutional obligation.” Congresswoman @pramilajayapal.bsky.social joined @mehdirhasan.bsky.social in to discuss the fight against Trump. Watch the full video: zeteo.com/p/i-think-we...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Horrifying to see South Carolina preparing for its first execution by firing squad. The inmate, Brad Sigmon, will have a hood placed over his head and a target pinned over his heart before a three-person squad fire their rifles. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 1468 comments

Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech." This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

Mine and @premthakker.bsky.social's take on the awful Trump speech and the Dems' feckless response to it:

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

“Israel is selling an idea, a model, of how to arrange societies, using the most sophisticated tools to target, kill, isolate, or monitor 'unwanted' populations.” Israel profits off weapons it tested on Palestinians. Read Antony Loewenstein's article about it: zeteo.com/p/how-palest...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Trump wants to fire 83k VA workers, many of whom are veterans themselves, decimating the VA & making it harder for veterans to get health care & benefits. When Americans put their lives on the line to defend our country, we must keep our commitments to them — not betray them.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

This is the first time in Mehdi's career that a guest grabbed the questions paper out of his hands! Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social get into a heated debate over Walsh’s past tweets about Israel and Palestine.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

To report as an Israeli in Israel on Israel’s genocide and apartheid—while the broad population is in the grips of fascist hysteria and dissent is criminalized — takes real courage and gets Yuval Abraham attacked regularly. As he’s getting hit here. Perhaps consider that.

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“It’s just not meeting the moment, right?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Democratic party’s feckless reaction to Trump’s speech last night. youtube.com/shorts/2LfvE...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

For those who wanted to share this video off platform. Here it is on YouTube youtu.be/OiPa9VY9PH8?...

submitted 4 days ago • 629 comments

Free Speech is back? What about criticism of Israel?

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

"How Palestine Became the Testing Ground for Israeli Military Exports" For Zeteo, author Antony Loewenstein on how the Israeli defense industry is making record profits by selling weapons across the world that it first used on Palestinians:

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Genius

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When Trump effectively shuts down the NLRB, corporate bosses can illegally fire workers who are trying to form a union and flagrantly violate labor laws. Today, I am reintroducing the PRO Act to strengthen unions, and restore power and legal rights to workers.

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments