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Elon Musk is one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st Century.

We're getting very close to an *actual* WAR IS PEACE Fox news banner.

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

Fine point but whenever we have to resort to economics, I recall Ha-Joon Chang's assesment that economics has become the language of rulers, of power. Unless we speak in economics, our arguments are null. So it becomes about economics than say morality of war [not saying this is OP's intention]...

zohran is proof that to mobilize the left you have to have "dorkiest guy at the punk show" energy instead of "coolest guy at mock trial" energy

imagine writing this completely uncritically as if it’s a normal thing for a government official to say

Fat-transformation for attack ads. Like. There is no bar low enough for these people. Being islamophobic racist pricks was not enough, they also had to be fatphobic. Just plain old hate anyone but themselves.

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

"What is feared is a mayor who cares no less about what Palestinians in Bay Ridge feel when they see pictures of children in Gaza killed by Israel than he does about what Jews in Riverdale felt when macabre images flooded in on October 7." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

The International Criminal Court is reviewing a confidential report asserting that the Russian Wagner group has committed war crimes by spreading images of atrocities in West Africa on social media. They include videos alluding to cannibalism. apnews.com/article/wagn...

White supremacists are endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor

If this is the case, then there looks like a route for the US and Iran to climb down, at least for now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

I believe Dr Badar Khan Suri from Georgetown, also targeted, said something similar in an interview after his release, to the effect that he was quiet before, and this is how they treated him, so why not be loud now?

What is missed but makes this particularly meaningful is at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment/Columbia protests, Khalil *did not* lead rallies. He was a media liaison who provided statements to the press on behalf of student demonstrators. The Trump admin’s targeting of him turned him into a leader.

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

How will toilets be policed? Its simple, everyone will be a toilet cop with the power to threaten and harass the untermenschen

Reading the legal complaint, Iyo Products’ claims are extremely damning - they allege both Jon Ive, along with Sam Altman and his associated entities (like his VC firm Apollo Projects) have been intentionally pretending to invest in Iyo’s Products as a means of getting technical info *SINCE 2022*.

For whose who were curious what a book award-winning paper from a white supremacist University of Florida law student looked like, he's posted it online. It's as horrible (as scholarship, as political theory) as you imagined. But there's more. 1/2 archive.org/details/nati...

everyone in the natsec and FP community increasingly just losing their minds as the topical questions in US FP and natsec these days increasingly devolve to the level of "should we lick this toaster while it is on? some experts weigh in"

Three of the best journalistic entities that are covering all this nonsense right are a parody newspaper, a teen mag, and a magazine for nerds, and I am grateful for them (The Onion, Teen Vogue, and Wired)

Incredible energy. You love to see it

At the most basic level American Exceptionalism is the belief others support your wars because American wars are ‘good’ wars!

JFC. We’re doing this again. The paranoiac myth of the “sleeper cell” to ramp up the nation’s militarism, xenophobia, and firearm infatuation.

To be a millennial and live through this same shit twice...

Charlotte Bennett, the former staffer Cuomo's been hounding in the courts since she went public with his sexual harassment of her, appeared with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social at a Brad Lander event yesterday. If you haven't yet voted, making things less shitty for Cuomo's victims is a reason to do so.

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

This statement from Mahmoud Khalil on his release from prison is obviously correct. By associating supporting Israel with illiberalism in the US, Trump is going to turn a whole generation against Israel. (www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...)

tired: realpolitik wired: vibepolitik i guess??

Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

WCK resumed cooking in Gaza after our first aid delivery in 12 weeks. With new ingredients on hand, we’re preparing warm, carb-rich meals like pasta and hearty potato stews. The WCK team cooked nearly 10,000 meals on day one of resumed operations. #ChefsForGaza (1/2)

Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

The concept of sexual harassment has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.

Friend got this on X. Israel’s Arabic account is sponsoring content on X, meaning Elon Musk is monetising war propaganda during a war. In case the image is too subtle for you: the idea is that Lebanon’s real threat is Iran, not the Israel that has annihilated entire Lebanese villages.

You know what I haven’t gotten any emails from Columbia about? The release of Mahmoud Khalil