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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bonus:

— He thinks Republicans should welcome Nick Fuentes
— He thinks the descendants of slaves owe reparations to the descendants of slave owners

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 11h

fresh audio product:

* Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world
• Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 14h

Dylan is incoherent, Springsteen is bombastic. Cash is great.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 14h

How nice for them.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 15h

150% tariff for them.

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 15h

Nagham Zbeedat in Ha’aretz

For Palestinians, the Relief of the Gaza Cease-fire Belongs to Others - Haaretz Today www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

When I texted a man from Gaza to congratulate him on the cease-fire, he replied, "Congratulations to you. You'll put your mind at peace with our news now!' His words cut through the noise - a reminder that for many Palestinians, even relief has become something that belongs to others.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 16h

Reagan's diary, August 12, 1982

www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reaga...

Met with the news the Israelis delivered the most devastating bomb & artillery attack on W. Beirut lasting 14 hours. Habib cabled- desperate-has basic agreement from all parties but cant arrange details of P.L.0. withdrawal because of the barrage. King Fahd
called begging me to do something. I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did-I was angry. I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symool of his war was becoming a picture of a 7 month old baby with it's arms blown off. He told me he had ordered the bombing stopped-I asked about the artillery fire. He claimed the P.L.O. had started that & Israeli forces had taken casualties. End of call. Twenty mins. later he called to tell me he'd ordered an end to the barrage and plead for our continued friendship. Spent rest of day meeting with Congressmen on Tax bill.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 16h

Spare me Trump being celebrated as a peacemaker. The war on Gaza could have been ended at any time in the last two years with a US president telling Netanyahu to "stop the holocaust," as Reagan ordered Begin in 1982.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 17h

The hour is here!

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

I'm fundraising today on @kpfa.org . If you like Behind the News and want to keep it coming, please contribute—preferably between 12 and 1 Pacific, 3 and 4 Eastern so it gets properly credited to me. And support the whole wonderful enterprise that is KPFA.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

I've been here a lot longer—46 years!—and I still get that feeling a lot. It feels especially wonderful and precious now that it's under such harsh attack by yahoo nativists.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think Portland looked like Gaza.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

We have an entire political party and most of the federal government in thrall to this maniac.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

"Never seen anything like it." "Incredible." He loves these words and phrases with double meanings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Innovations in capitalism from OpenAI

www.ft.com/content/5f6f...

Chief executive Sam Altman on Monday said becoming profitable was "not in my top-10 concerns".

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

You make light of these severe threats to the existing order!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

My new @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social piece tells how DHS continues to deny that citizens have a right to videorecord its agents and raids even in the face of overwhelming court precedent that the First Amendment protects their right to do so. Nor is it just a matter of positions taken in court. /5

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Trump & Co. are fighting a losing battle against renewables.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

What a glorious time to be a right-wing hack.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

O'Neal is pushing "The Post into video podcasting, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to launch a show hosted by Megan McArdle next month and a flagship program in January. The marquee show, I’m told, will be helmed by O’Neal himself."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

The line between talking shit and doing shit keeps getting finer.

Donald J. Trump
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Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 2d

Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.

Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.

One of those? Eliminating public schooling.

@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

So banning conversion therapy is a free speech issue but having an inappropriate reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk or an incorrect opinion on Israel isn’t?

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