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preemptive lmao

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Eisenkot released an ad earlier today which attacks Netanyahu for “expressing support for two states dozens of times”— ie in the last two weeks of the election season the opposition leadership is attacking Netanyahu from the right.

Benjamin, this is Palestine.
On 27.10, it's either the man who expressed support for two states dozens of times and will form a government of evasion, or a Zionist mobilization government of Yesh Atid! With Gantz.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

“We know that DHS was intentionally established with an overbroad mission and unchecked power. The last two years have made it visible what so many communities have actually been saying for decades: That DHS, frankly, is the single greatest threat to our public safety today,” Ramirez said.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Sleeper candidate for best House member, also the author of the Block The Bombs Act.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thats not what Jonathan Chait told me!

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Earth Hippy @hippygoat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"If you are still supporting Israel you should be fucking ashamed of yourself" 355 Bullets 🕊️❤️Hind Rajab❤️🕊️

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the Diasporist @thediasporist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"At the same time, the party presents itself as an ally of the Jewish community — though this seems to apply only to Jews amenable to its anti-Muslim and anti-leftist agenda." Read @jocroitoru.bsky.social's analysis of the AfD and its stance on memory culture, antisemitism, and Israel

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What the AfD Says (and Doesn't Say) About the Holocaust, Jews, and Israel – the Diasporist

AfD politicians would likely avoid discussing the Holocaust, if the need to deflect any suspicion of far-right extremism didn’t force them to address it. Through their ambivalent statements, however, ...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10/10/2026

As Trump himself said, this entire campaign is about protecting Netanyahu. Words of condemnation aren't enough, ICC members must take action to defend the rule of law. Remember, ICC prosecutors have the authority to open criminal investigations against ANYONE who obstructs justice.

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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

Navi Pillay sat in the court's appeals chamber.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 12/10/2026

Last month, Van Hollen became the first Member of Congress to call on European states to sanction the president. Now, he seems to be the first Member of Congress to say that Trump himself should be investigated and possibly prosecuted by the ICC.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 12/10/2026

My take. The thing is: Raiding Omar is so blatantly corrupt that it plays only to the base whose brains are damaged. It doesn’t stem the bleeding or convince anyone tired of this nonsense of anything new.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2026

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join comedian Zainab Johnson and I in Tampa Bay for a night of laughter and fun on Thursday, October 15th at 7:30 PM ET! RSVP and donate today by visiting Angie4Us.com/comedy, or click the link in my story! Can’t wait to see y'all there! #AngieForFlorida

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 10/10/2026

I am once again asking why Harmeet Dhillon is still licensed by the State of New York to practice law.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Read Schumer’s statement about ICE shooting a New Yorker with a small kid in the car and I keep coming back to this analogy

Senate Democrats' DHS
"Reforms" Shaping Up To Be Another Kneeling Kente Cloth
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"Body cams" vague demands of "accountability," but no attempt to cut DHS's obscene budget is a recipe for status quo maintenance.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 10/10/2026

It's a pathetic statement. He's not up to the moment. He never will be.

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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 09/10/2026

ABOLISH ICE. END NYPD VIOLENCE. 17 New York State Socialists in Office and Democratic nominees respond to Thursday’s shooting of Oscar Belgal and call to abolish ICE, end NYPD assistance of ICE, and disband NYPD’s SRG.

On Thursday, ICE agents in Upper Manhattan shot, wounded, and kidnapped Oscar Belgal. Wearing masks and construction vests, ICE fired seven rounds into a car, shooting Mr. Belgal in the neck while his 5-year-old child cried in terror. ICE then seized Mr. Belgal from NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and sped away in an unmarked vehicle, while NYPD officers cleared a path and attacked protestors. Mr. Belgal’s whereabouts are unknown.

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. ICE agents are a threat to public safety, due process, and the rule of law. There is no reforming this degree of lawlessness and cruelty. We reiterate our demand for Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and all congressional Democrats to publicly support the abolition of ICE and work to defund and dismantle this fascist agency.

New Yorkers bravely stood up against ICE’s attacks on immigrants last night, only to be obstructed and assaulted by NYPD officers. Jessica Tisch must end police assistance for ICE operations and disband NYPD’s Strategic Response Group—and if she won’t, she must be fired. Additionally, the New York City Council must pass the CURB Act (Int. 796 / Ossé) to ban all of SRG’s abusive practices.

As Socialists in Office, we are committed to strengthening New York’s laws to end all collaboration with ICE once and for all. That includes the State passing New York For All and the Safe Access to Care Act (A11537 / Forrest) to protect hospitals and healthcare workers from ICE. ICE out of New York now!

Signed by:

Diana Moreno
Claire Valdez
Emily Gallagher
Marcela Mitaynes
Phara Souffrant Forrest
Sarahana Shrestha
Julia Salazar
Jabari Brisport
Kristen Gonzalez
Aber Kawas
Samantha Kattan
David Orkin
Eon Huntley
Christian Celeste Tate
Illapa Sairitupac
Maurice “Mo” Brown
Adam Bojak

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have to say, it shocks me to my core how much People genuinely believe Israel's behavior would not change at all without American money and defense lol.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 30/09/2026

even nessel is on the train at this point mcmorrow end this man's career please

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Im sure it is very easy to, it any given time, to argue that it is the wrong time to cut off israel. Im sure you can keep making that argument week after week, month after month, but then you rub your eyes and its been three years and gaza and southern Lebanon look like this. Was it the lesser evil?

Satellite images of demolished villages in Lebanon

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is broadly speaking understandable when you realise that to a certain kind of American liberal, only America actually exists, and the rest of the world is a sort of theoretical argument that is only brought up to distract from the manichaean struggle between Democrats and Republicans.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Smotrich & Ben-Gvir aren't fringe Twitchers, they're senior cabinet ministers! Smotrich controls the Finance Ministry and has major authority over the West Bank, & Ben-Gvir runs the police ministry. Both are on the security cabinet, and their parties are crucial to Netanyahu's governing coalition.

“Abdul consistently judges pro-Israel Jews in Michigan, and the entire Zionist movement, by Israel’s most extremist elements, such as [Itamar] Ben-Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich,” Arbit said, referring to far-right ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition, “yet gets very indignant when people judge him by the most extreme statements of Hasan Piker,” a Twitch streamer who has espoused antisemitic rhetoric and with whom El-Sayed campaigned during the primary.
“I have a huge problem with that hypocrisy,” Arbit added. “Should you judge a movement by its fringes or shouldn’t you? Which is it?”

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I announced MERIP’s fall fundraising campaign with a special note. It’s been truly invigorating to be leading this small organization through a new period of growth and relevance, and to see support come from truly wide corners where friends and comrades are standing up for us.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fantastic article on how the extremely complex situation in Sudan exposes the failures of our rotted-out diplomatic corps. It's a grievous state of affairs, not least because of the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people who will die by the end of this conflict

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ironically many American liberals do have suicidal empathy- they just have it towards conservatives, who they refuse to realize hate them and want to destroy their way of life

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Sam @samcb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The American public must learn how to pronounce ح

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read this 20 years ago. Highly recommend it - guy who helped introduce lethal injection deeply regretting the way it made execution more palatable for the state www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

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A Guilty Man

He wanted to make capital punishment kinder. Instead, he believes, he made it easier.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026

The most amicable and charitable contextualization of the discussion for a microblogging website is as follows: secret societies, and the derivatives born in institutions of higher learning, were fundamentally remade at the advent of the American Civil War in multiple ways.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

Interesting how much they fear big stable unitary states.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

Fascinating article by an Emirati in an Israeli newspaper which explicitly argues that, due to Iran's geography and overall demographic depth, the only viable solution long term is not merely the overthrow of the IRI but a de facto partition of Iran into a dozen or more patchwork states.