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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.
Genuinely curious as to why Wu and others who argue along these lines are surprised that pro-Israel politics are on the back-foot in the United States.
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.
The market alone cannot fix the housing crisis cause the housing market relies on homelessness in the same way the labor market relies on unemployment. Structurally, these institutions can not fix the problems we are told they can fix. Same thing w/ the environment -- an ideology of infinite growth
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The market alone cannot fix the housing crisis cause the housing market relies on homelessness in the same way the labor market relies on unemployment. Structurally, these institutions can not fix the problems we are told they can fix. Same thing w/ the environment -- an ideology of infinite growth
Fuck guys is THIS what the arc of history has been bending towards this whole time???
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fuck guys is THIS what the arc of history has been bending towards this whole time???
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Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?
"The wellness industry is defined by the idea that buying products is what makes you healthy, Wellman explains, with the caveat that you’ll never be able to buy enough."
Great article, RIP Teen Vogue.
Great article, RIP Teen Vogue.
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"The wellness industry is defined by the idea that buying products is what makes you healthy, Wellman explains, with the caveat that you’ll never be able to buy enough."
Great article, RIP Teen Vogue.
Great article, RIP Teen Vogue.
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We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
This has been true in the weaponization of white anxiety against black and brown communities for a long time. We have to insist on a material understanding of the world that rejects politically emotive claims that clearly only exist to distort reality.
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This has been true in the weaponization of white anxiety against black and brown communities for a long time. We have to insist on a material understanding of the world that rejects politically emotive claims that clearly only exist to distort reality.
Not like mainstream media wasn't dogshit on Gaza beforehand so it's hard to say if this is the Weiss influence but claiming that the ceasefire has held "despite serious challenges" without mentioning that Israel has killed 100 people in multiple strikes as well as striking Lebanon, is telling.
Israeli military brings CBS News to the edge of its control in Gaza, where destruction and uncertainty linger
Israel's military gave CBS News a rare look deep inside Gaza, where many questions still hang over the ruins of war and the future of 2 million Palestinians.
www.cbsnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Not like mainstream media wasn't dogshit on Gaza beforehand so it's hard to say if this is the Weiss influence but claiming that the ceasefire has held "despite serious challenges" without mentioning that Israel has killed 100 people in multiple strikes as well as striking Lebanon, is telling.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Pour one out for a real one
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Pour one out for a real one
There are so many politicians humiliating the American people by claiming to represent us theres no use in throwing stones but California's 11th voting Pelosi 20 times is deeply embarrassing for yall.
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There are so many politicians humiliating the American people by claiming to represent us theres no use in throwing stones but California's 11th voting Pelosi 20 times is deeply embarrassing for yall.
Truly we are in an age where the limits of electoral democracy under capitalism are in such sharp relief. We're never going to vote our way out of climate catastrophe or ending genocide. And these chucklefucks think thats laudable.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Truly we are in an age where the limits of electoral democracy under capitalism are in such sharp relief. We're never going to vote our way out of climate catastrophe or ending genocide. And these chucklefucks think thats laudable.