So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

The president (or maybe not president) of Madagascar—a radio DJ who overthrew the island’s yogurt kingpin in a coup d’état—just fled the country in a French helicopter after Gen Z protests. I wrote about the most interesting island you know nothing about, with bonus pictures of me with lemurs:

I missed Caturday, so enjoy this.

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. “The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”

Bari Weiss puts a lot of evil out into the world but, like Charlie Kirk, if it wasn't them it would be someone else with the same backing. Neither is/was charismatic nor even photogenic. They just have the backing of the people who decide which views are legitimate and amplified.

In relief beyond words that the bombardment has stopped and that those taken are reuniting with their loved ones, but there is something so deeply gross at the levels of self-congratulation global leaders are now partaking in.

Stopping a genocide two years in is not success.

The freakout in NYC isn’t about Mamdani’s race, but his critics’ perception of his politics (and to some extent his religion).

Dione in front of Saturn, captured by Cassini 20 years ago today on October 11, 2005 🌖🪐

To to return to my point, the Palestinian can't return to his village because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian can't get citizenship because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian can't live in certain places because he's not a Jew, the Palestinian isn't protected from displacement because he's not a Jew.

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

"Indianness in anything survives precisely because it is unfaithful to itself, constantly retranslated, mispronounced, misidentified, reimagined."

The global war economy is thriving — while humanity bleeds. When defense stocks soar with every airstrike, peace becomes bad business. My latest op-ed about the Merchants of War: Defense Corporations and Defense Contractors. #MyPiece

This was among the 180+ races on my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall. Nearly all are coming up in early November… so save this page for when you can explore it! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

As you can see, he ain’t lie.

That's the twitter handle of a reporter from the Gothamist. Which is respectful, giving her attribution.

Unsure if heckler (with that voice) would be recording.

Please, can't wait for the more on that...

I actually think the theory implies that ezra klein is a dummy but more on that later I guess

Brilliantly done.

Speaks well of Mamdani's whole team and Mamdani himself for the decision of surrounding himself with people who would whole heartedly get behind such a message.

'Gaza did not fail. We did. Gaza resisted when the world expected it to break. Gaza stood alone when it should never have had to stand alone. Gaza endured despite international abandonment, despite governments that funded its destruction and now celebrate themselves as peacemakers.'

Episode 4 is up! This one is very meaningful to me. Very proud to work for someone so unfailingly committed to protecting everyone in this city.