Turns out the markets are pretty chill about imperialism
January 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Turns out the markets are pretty chill about imperialism
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We should be all extremely concerned that Gaza and the West Bank has fallen off the news agenda.
Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.
Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.
January 3, 2026 at 5:33 AM
We should be all extremely concerned that Gaza and the West Bank has fallen off the news agenda.
Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.
Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.
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They want to attack Cuba so fucking bad. Good reminder for folks to listen to Blowback's recent season of Cuba in Angola fighting apartheid south africa. Cuba has accomplished extraordinary things while being locked out of the international system and America really cant stand it.
January 4, 2026 at 12:04 AM
They want to attack Cuba so fucking bad. Good reminder for folks to listen to Blowback's recent season of Cuba in Angola fighting apartheid south africa. Cuba has accomplished extraordinary things while being locked out of the international system and America really cant stand it.
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.
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Israel Bonds are debt securities issued by the State of Israel; effectively loans to the country that accrue interest.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the state was renewing a $15M investment in Israel bonds this past February, and purchasing $10M in new bonds this past March.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the state was renewing a $15M investment in Israel bonds this past February, and purchasing $10M in new bonds this past March.
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Israel Bonds are debt securities issued by the State of Israel; effectively loans to the country that accrue interest.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the state was renewing a $15M investment in Israel bonds this past February, and purchasing $10M in new bonds this past March.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the state was renewing a $15M investment in Israel bonds this past February, and purchasing $10M in new bonds this past March.
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EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office
The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting out a recruitment call for candidates specifically opposed to data centers.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
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the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
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I wrote about NYT, CNN, and ABC’s casual acceptance that US dictates and Trump’s arbitrary use of American violence against Venezuela is somehow a form of “international” law. It’s not, and US media should stop implying and/or outright lying that it is.
US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy
Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?
www.columnblog.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I wrote about NYT, CNN, and ABC’s casual acceptance that US dictates and Trump’s arbitrary use of American violence against Venezuela is somehow a form of “international” law. It’s not, and US media should stop implying and/or outright lying that it is.
At the risk of drifting towards Maoism, making our intellectual class do manual labor is increasingly attractive. These health care conversations from people who have never had to rely on their physical body to make ends meet are so offensively detached from reality.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
At the risk of drifting towards Maoism, making our intellectual class do manual labor is increasingly attractive. These health care conversations from people who have never had to rely on their physical body to make ends meet are so offensively detached from reality.
Nuzzi is the Morbius of loud morons
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nuzzi is the Morbius of loud morons
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The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Jenin as they try to surrender
Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
Both pro and anti pirating folks to me miss the point. There will also be some level of piracy, its inevitable partially just because international distribution is always going to have big holes. Instead of right or wrong we should think of institutions that make piracy more or less likely.
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Both pro and anti pirating folks to me miss the point. There will also be some level of piracy, its inevitable partially just because international distribution is always going to have big holes. Instead of right or wrong we should think of institutions that make piracy more or less likely.
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“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tense calm in far north as Israel prepares to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah
On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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A reminder that the US currently sanctions over 12,000 people in this exact way. Some are genuinely bad but many are just political opponents or people someone with a lot of money and influence wanted to see punished, even straight-up business rivals. There is no process of appeal or redress.
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In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A reminder that the US currently sanctions over 12,000 people in this exact way. Some are genuinely bad but many are just political opponents or people someone with a lot of money and influence wanted to see punished, even straight-up business rivals. There is no process of appeal or redress.
Rich to condemn the horrors of socialism while we export death to the tune of 320 billion dollars a year.
Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Rich to condemn the horrors of socialism while we export death to the tune of 320 billion dollars a year.
@budzinski.house.gov is a self proclaimed trade unionist who just joined with Republicans to condemn socialism. In the conflict between capital and the working class, even on an idiotic symbolic gesture like this, congressional democrats side with capital against the working class every time.
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
@budzinski.house.gov is a self proclaimed trade unionist who just joined with Republicans to condemn socialism. In the conflict between capital and the working class, even on an idiotic symbolic gesture like this, congressional democrats side with capital against the working class every time.
To anyone saying the Palestinians are being short sighted or intransigent about this U.N. resolution: learn a little bit about the history of international mandates over Palestine. If there is no room for Palestinian agency than this is just internationalizing the Israeli occupation.
How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-un-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians
How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians
Imposing international forces on Gaza is latest colonial chapter in Palestine’s history, analysts say
www.middleeasteye.net
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
To anyone saying the Palestinians are being short sighted or intransigent about this U.N. resolution: learn a little bit about the history of international mandates over Palestine. If there is no room for Palestinian agency than this is just internationalizing the Israeli occupation.
The program of U.S. higher ed in the last years is repression of Pro Palestinian voices, protecting institutional sex pests, capitulation to the Trump administration & selling out their students to AI companies. I'm sure the fall isn't over but its hard to see how they discredit themselves further.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The program of U.S. higher ed in the last years is repression of Pro Palestinian voices, protecting institutional sex pests, capitulation to the Trump administration & selling out their students to AI companies. I'm sure the fall isn't over but its hard to see how they discredit themselves further.
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The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
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"The UN approved a US plan for Gaza that hands control to foreign powers and delays Palestinian statehood, undermining national authority and sovereignty.
UN Approves US Plan, Paves Way for American Control Over Gaza and Delays Palestinian Statehood - Quds News Network
The UN approved a US plan for Gaza that hands control to foreign powers and delays Palestinian statehood, undermining national authority and sovereignty.
qudsnen.co
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"The UN approved a US plan for Gaza that hands control to foreign powers and delays Palestinian statehood, undermining national authority and sovereignty.
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The situation in Palestine is still an ongoing genocide. The situation in Sudan is still an ongoing genocide.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The situation in Palestine is still an ongoing genocide. The situation in Sudan is still an ongoing genocide.
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.