mdslock
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Dude not wanting to pay for the Israeli military out of one’s paycheck isn’t a “lever” it’s just normal
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Dude not wanting to pay for the Israeli military out of one’s paycheck isn’t a “lever” it’s just normal
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ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This is the twisted and dispiriting takeaway of the deal: Policies that are alleged by the Trump administration to protect Jews on campus are creating the conditions for the suppression of free speech and action for the entire Northwestern community, Jewish and non-Jewish.
TY @bethhurd.bsky.social
TY @bethhurd.bsky.social
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: Northwestern’s deal with the federal government is not about antisemitism
Northwestern’s agreement with the federal government is about punishing universities and repressing political opponents.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is the twisted and dispiriting takeaway of the deal: Policies that are alleged by the Trump administration to protect Jews on campus are creating the conditions for the suppression of free speech and action for the entire Northwestern community, Jewish and non-Jewish.
TY @bethhurd.bsky.social
TY @bethhurd.bsky.social
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This piece is a follow on to what I wrote about the possibility of winning elections in red states with pro-worker candidates, which many people said is impossible without compromising on right wing "culture war" issues. Bullshit.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This piece is a follow on to what I wrote about the possibility of winning elections in red states with pro-worker candidates, which many people said is impossible without compromising on right wing "culture war" issues. Bullshit.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
I remember well. that was in the lead up to 2016.
One difference now is that she’s not running for anything, and doesn’t need Saban’s (one of the largest Democratic donor/bundlers) or Adelson’s (single largest Republican donor) support or money.
she's just that racist.
One difference now is that she’s not running for anything, and doesn’t need Saban’s (one of the largest Democratic donor/bundlers) or Adelson’s (single largest Republican donor) support or money.
she's just that racist.
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I remember well. that was in the lead up to 2016.
One difference now is that she’s not running for anything, and doesn’t need Saban’s (one of the largest Democratic donor/bundlers) or Adelson’s (single largest Republican donor) support or money.
she's just that racist.
One difference now is that she’s not running for anything, and doesn’t need Saban’s (one of the largest Democratic donor/bundlers) or Adelson’s (single largest Republican donor) support or money.
she's just that racist.
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I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
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Glad to see a more balanced take on the Zillow climate risk story than most commentary, which simply wants a return to black-box models for individual use. As @madisoncondon.bsky.social wrote, "There needs to be a broader institutional solution to this problem." www.linkedin.com/posts/madiso...
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Glad to see a more balanced take on the Zillow climate risk story than most commentary, which simply wants a return to black-box models for individual use. As @madisoncondon.bsky.social wrote, "There needs to be a broader institutional solution to this problem." www.linkedin.com/posts/madiso...
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Israel’s military assault that began in the aftermath of October 7 has left Gaza unrecognizable. The devastation has been augmented by a system of surveillance: drones, facial-recognition scans, movements followed through phone tracking, Mohammed Mhawish reports.
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Israel’s military assault that began in the aftermath of October 7 has left Gaza unrecognizable. The devastation has been augmented by a system of surveillance: drones, facial-recognition scans, movements followed through phone tracking, Mohammed Mhawish reports.
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‘The public’ generally won’t react to any political event if no one is making an issue out of it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
‘The public’ generally won’t react to any political event if no one is making an issue out of it.
A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...
A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech
Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...
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Well well, Larry Summers is finally getting a well deserved, long overdue public humiliation for his friendship with Epstein the rapist power broker of American empire
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Well well, Larry Summers is finally getting a well deserved, long overdue public humiliation for his friendship with Epstein the rapist power broker of American empire
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The "no ceiling" stuff is third grade crap that would only be taken seriously by newspapers and politicians owned by billionaires. We can structure the market to make clowns like Musk & Zuckerberg incredibly rich, or we can structure it to promote more equality braveneweurope.com/dean-baker-b...
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The "no ceiling" stuff is third grade crap that would only be taken seriously by newspapers and politicians owned by billionaires. We can structure the market to make clowns like Musk & Zuckerberg incredibly rich, or we can structure it to promote more equality braveneweurope.com/dean-baker-b...
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I want a Democratic Party that can forcefully push back against Trump's "fake news" conspiracy theories, not reinforce them like this.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I want a Democratic Party that can forcefully push back against Trump's "fake news" conspiracy theories, not reinforce them like this.
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I get the need to threaten to force a congressional vote, but in this urgent moment, when the US president is threatening war on Venezuela, it would be nice if more lawmakers would make strong political, ethical arguments about why this is terrible. You can openly oppose a war.
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I get the need to threaten to force a congressional vote, but in this urgent moment, when the US president is threatening war on Venezuela, it would be nice if more lawmakers would make strong political, ethical arguments about why this is terrible. You can openly oppose a war.
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hillary clinton has been peddling this tired nonsense for over a year...as i wrote about for @discourseblog.com. it was bullshit then and it still is! www.discourseblog.com/p/and-now-so...
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
hillary clinton has been peddling this tired nonsense for over a year...as i wrote about for @discourseblog.com. it was bullshit then and it still is! www.discourseblog.com/p/and-now-so...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Eugene Hasenfus has died.
He was a gunrunner whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 during a CIA-sponsored mission. His capture triggered the Iran-Contra investigation that exposed how the US supported militias with drug money to try to overthrow leftist governments in Latin America.
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He was a gunrunner whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 during a CIA-sponsored mission. His capture triggered the Iran-Contra investigation that exposed how the US supported militias with drug money to try to overthrow leftist governments in Latin America.
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Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Eugene Hasenfus has died.
He was a gunrunner whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 during a CIA-sponsored mission. His capture triggered the Iran-Contra investigation that exposed how the US supported militias with drug money to try to overthrow leftist governments in Latin America.
🎁🔗
He was a gunrunner whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 during a CIA-sponsored mission. His capture triggered the Iran-Contra investigation that exposed how the US supported militias with drug money to try to overthrow leftist governments in Latin America.
🎁🔗
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The targeted termination of skilled, experienced immigration judges across the nation is lawless scandal. Their replacement with “deportation judges” is nothing short of an outrageous disregard for democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The targeted termination of skilled, experienced immigration judges across the nation is lawless scandal. Their replacement with “deportation judges” is nothing short of an outrageous disregard for democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Brian Beutler, after Biden surged munitions & weapons to Israel, waived State Dept. review, & vetoed UN resolution: “Biden hasn’t expressed support for the bombing”
In Opinion
“In an age of authoritarianism, fealty to an Israeli strongman who routinely humiliated them made Democrats appear weak: Mr. Netanyahu was hugged all the way into the arms of Donald Trump,” Ben Rhodes writes.
“In an age of authoritarianism, fealty to an Israeli strongman who routinely humiliated them made Democrats appear weak: Mr. Netanyahu was hugged all the way into the arms of Donald Trump,” Ben Rhodes writes.
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Brian Beutler, after Biden surged munitions & weapons to Israel, waived State Dept. review, & vetoed UN resolution: “Biden hasn’t expressed support for the bombing”
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Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
