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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 1d

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Two years post-massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise

The Hamas Massacre Fomented a Trauma Whose Reverberations Will Be Felt for Decades to Come. But the Ensuing Israeli Campaign of Atrocities in Gaza Destroyed the Foundations on Which the State of Israe...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 1d

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

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Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists

The Supreme Court seems eager to kill state bans on anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy.

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu prolonged the war to save himself. It may have worked.
Latest for @vox.com
www.vox.com/politics/463...

Trump’s deal could be a win for Netanyahu, whether or not it succeeds.

Will Israel’s prime minister take the win?

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 2d

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 6d

RIP to a real one. Spreading the word til the end.
www.vox.com/climate/4634...

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 7d

I have had it with Democratic leadership. Their shutdown strategy is a disaster, the worst of all possible worlds.

If they want to salvage anything from this mess, they need to start talking — loudly and clearly — about fighting Trump's authoritarian takeover

www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one.

Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

www.vox.com

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 7d

Trump and Hegseth's Quantico gathering was an all-time "meeting that could have been an email." But also seemed to be something of a loyalty test for America's top military commanders www.vox.com/today-explai...

Trump and Hegseth gather the military’s top commanders for a loyalty test

No beards, a warrior ethos — and loyalty to the president.

www.vox.com

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 7d

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown

How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 8d

Trump called yesterday "one of the great days ever in civilization." Uh, easy tiger. Useful reality check from @joshuakeating.bsky.social: www.vox.com/politics/463...

A reality check on Trump’s Gaza peace plan

The president’s relationships with Netanyahu and Putin have something in common.

www.vox.com

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 9d

hear me out: Daniil Bedheadev

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 9d

The Supreme Court's new term begins next week. There are a some looming disasters on their docket. Prepare: www.vox.com/politics/462... by @imillhiser.bsky.social

One mystery, and two looming disasters, in the next Supreme Court term

What the Supreme Court plans to do to America in its upcoming term.

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 10d

“At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. The video also states that Israel was founded “on British land” and refers to the occupied West Bank as ‘Judea and Samaria...’ ” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 12d

Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices www.vox.com/politics/463...

Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices

Dear John, Brett, and Amy: If Trump can come for James Comey, he can come for you.

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 12d

Never seen OP so I don't have a dog in this fight but I love this hill for you.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 12d

and @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social watched 'All the President's Men' with a critical journalist's eye.

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In conclusion, @flaminghydra.com is the best

subscribe for a mere $3/month

flaminghydra.com/issue-410/#r...

Pesky journalists / Pleasant insects

‘All the President’s Men’ revisited by Diana Moskovitz; Trevor Alixopulos considers L.A.’s friendly green flying objects

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 12d

Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule www.vox.com/politics/462...

Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule

Trump’s prosecution of Rep. LaMonica McIver may be the most anti-democratic thing he’s done since January 6.

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 14d

Moving piece about Gaza, complicity, and resistance in @bostonglobe.com from my friend Noga Malkin, whose grandparents escaped death in Auschwitz. (Paywalled) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/o...

I live up the road from atrocity - The Boston Globe

What’s happening in Gaza is sickening. How do I reconcile the fact that life goes on as normal in Israel?

www.bostonglobe.com

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 15d

Is the big Palestinian statehood push at the UN this year anything more than "fantasy diplomacy"? www.vox.com/politics/462...

Turning point or political theater? The big push for Palestinian statehood, explained

The war in Gaza has changed the global debate on the two-state solution. But is it too late?

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 16d

A good way to start this week in America is to catch up on Zack’s piece from Friday: The Trump administration has now shown us all what a fully authoritarian USA under the big guy would look like. 🧵👇

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 19d

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how Trump ends democracy

The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

www.vox.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 16d

Classic antisemitism has been an obvious part of this political program for a decade now, which is to say this isn’t the quiet part loud as much as it is the bass line being moved to the front

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16d

A major fissure within MAGA: the rampant antisemitism. It was tolerated to support Israel and crush Palestinians and Muslims but...here it is.

jewishinsider.com/2025/09/tuck...

In charged eulogy, Tucker Carlson ties Kirk’s assassination to killing of Jesus

Carlson: ‘I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?’

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17d

Seriously tho working with @benmathislilley.bsky.social was one of the best things about Slate. The journalism world is less fun and less smart without him in it. You should read his swan song above and his book, THE HOT SEAT. Ben, please keep posting at least.

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to Ben on his new job at Blackwater!!

Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 19d

It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Biggest Difference Between the Trump Era and the Obama Era

How did literally everything go up for debate?

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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 20d

The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
www.wgaeast.org/wga-statemen...

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