I'm definitely intrigued by this hire. Hopefully Jack Wilshire does well at Luton. He's definitely kept his head down and honed his craft without much fanfare.

no coincidence

If the regime can't find enough violent criminals, they will shift the definition of what constitutes a "violent criminal" to suit their goals.

They're laying the groundwork to deem any protestor, activist, or opposition politician a criminal. Even journalists that criticize them aren't safe.

I laid out the details of the extraordinary corruption case against Benjamin Netanyahu a few months ago in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. It seems like it’s helped him bond with Trump.
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Trump has always viewed corruption as the "cost of doing business", but publicly advocating for Netanyahu to get a pardon is beyond sickening.

And of course, the partisans in Knesset loudly cheered.

It's difficult to put into words how utterly revolting this speech is. The laughter in the Knesset when Trump makes asides like this is disgusting.

He's an amoral, cognitively declining megalomaniac and nobody should ever sugarcoat it.

The reason you cut arms funding is so that you aren’t enabling Bibi to drag out a war throughout the election. I don’t think anyone doubts Biden had a similar deal on the table it’s just that his “bear hug” strategy meant he refused to exert the necessary pressure to get the deal done.

Whatever those protesters were shouting, security inside Knesset descended on them within seconds. It looked like one of them was holding up a sign.

Hopefully we get a translation of what they were shouting. #LBC

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Experts on geopolitical happenings in Africa, Asia, and South America are either throttled by Twitter's algorithm or drowned out by Musk's virtual brownshirts— and it's absolutely deliberate.

Palestinian prisoners released from Israel have been greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank, as a prisoner and captive exchange took place on Monday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Netanyahu: "Israel did what it had to do."

This may have went unchallenged years ago, but nobody with a shred of human decency can hear this and not feel apt to vomit. This is a victory lap after launching a genocide.

His ICC arrest warrant can't be carried out fast enough. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

What a load of sickening revisionist drivel coming out of Knesset. Netanyahu filled the chamber with hardline supporters, and they're taking it in turn to shower Trump with praise.

They're pretending that the IDF didn't just gleefully raze Gaza to the ground and slaughter Palestinians for sport.

There is a 100% chance he thinks the Ottoman period has something to do with furniture.

Western leaders queue up to rebuild Gaza despite funding Israel's genocide of Gaza because of one reason-- capitalism.

Palestinians didn't have an army, navy, or air forces to defend themselves against the IDF. Nothing in this "peace deal" protects their future.

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He has no understanding of history, hasn't read any scholarly papers or books from experts on the region, and doesn't care about anything unless he can claim credit for it or somehow enrich himself.

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Bari Weiss carried dirty water for racists, billionaires, far-right provocateurs, and now fascists. Her failing upwards throughout her career is not accidental. Quite the opposite.

Whenever someone refers to representation as "the great equalizer", direct them to Weiss and operatives of her ilk.

There's a lot going on, but ICE employing slave patrol tactics to kidnap children should be on the front page of every major newspaper that hasn't been captured by a regime friendly billionaire.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

I tried watching the first Purge film years ago, and had to tap out mid-way through it because of how stupid the premise seemed at the time.

Disaster capitalism phase 1: profit from destroying Gaza

Disaster capitalism phase 2: profit from rebuilding Gaza

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

Both, but the mental incapacitation is getting worse, and its impossible to ignore. We're watching the Madness of King George unfold in real-time.