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“Behind every crime lie layered, often hidden motives — economic grievances, personal vendettas and the opportunism made possible by gaps in security.”
Kamal Shahin examines the sectarian killings in Syria’s Homs, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Kamal Shahin examines the sectarian killings in Syria’s Homs, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
In Homs, Revenge Is the Only Law Left Standing
A political economy built on predation and vendettas is taking root in post-Assad Syria
newlinesmag.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Behind every crime lie layered, often hidden motives — economic grievances, personal vendettas and the opportunism made possible by gaps in security.”
Kamal Shahin examines the sectarian killings in Syria’s Homs, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Kamal Shahin examines the sectarian killings in Syria’s Homs, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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ICYMI yesterday's great decision by Judge Howell.
Major decision. In D.C., ICE/CBP can no longer arrest immigrants without a warrant unless they find individualized probable cause of a flight risk.
"Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
"Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI yesterday's great decision by Judge Howell.
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Robert Malley on the myth of “Palestinians walked away” at Camp David (July 2000):
➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year, expanded settlements...
➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year, expanded settlements...
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Robert Malley on the myth of “Palestinians walked away” at Camp David (July 2000):
➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year, expanded settlements...
➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year, expanded settlements...
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A hearing is about to start in Abrego Garcia's civil case. I'll try to cover for @lawfaremedia.org . Colleague @annabower.bsky.social might be joining. Among other things, govt is seeking to dissolve Judge Xinis's preliminary injunction preventing Abrego from being removed immediately.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A hearing is about to start in Abrego Garcia's civil case. I'll try to cover for @lawfaremedia.org . Colleague @annabower.bsky.social might be joining. Among other things, govt is seeking to dissolve Judge Xinis's preliminary injunction preventing Abrego from being removed immediately.
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If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
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Maine will vote in under two weeks on a measure that would make voting a lot harder for a lot of people, including disabled folks, older folks, and anyone who struggles to meet strict ID requirements.
If passed, this would really reshape voting in 2026.
My deep dive: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
If passed, this would really reshape voting in 2026.
My deep dive: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
boltsmag.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Maine will vote in under two weeks on a measure that would make voting a lot harder for a lot of people, including disabled folks, older folks, and anyone who struggles to meet strict ID requirements.
If passed, this would really reshape voting in 2026.
My deep dive: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
If passed, this would really reshape voting in 2026.
My deep dive: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
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Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Very disappointing move from Hochul
nysfocus.com/2025/10/20/h...
nysfocus.com/2025/10/20/h...
Hochul Promised Faster Public Records. She Just Vetoed a Fix.
Governor Hochul vetoed a measure to speed up New York's public records process, which is among the slowest in the nation. We asked our reporters about…
nysfocus.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Very disappointing move from Hochul
nysfocus.com/2025/10/20/h...
nysfocus.com/2025/10/20/h...
Still unreal to get a question about Israel before any policy questions about New York.
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Still unreal to get a question about Israel before any policy questions about New York.
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SOUTHCOM head steps down early & one US official says "Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats...." Bulk of article then discusses overwhelming view (incl every IL scholar & mil expert i know) that strikes are illegal.
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
SOUTHCOM head steps down early & one US official says "Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats...." Bulk of article then discusses overwhelming view (incl every IL scholar & mil expert i know) that strikes are illegal.
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CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
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This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
October 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.
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Dr. Rupa Marya was a professor of medicine at the UCSF. She reveals how she was fired from her position after a campaign involving a state politician, a billionaire donor, and university admin targeted her for speaking out against the destruction of hospitals from a region experiencing a genocide.
October 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dr. Rupa Marya was a professor of medicine at the UCSF. She reveals how she was fired from her position after a campaign involving a state politician, a billionaire donor, and university admin targeted her for speaking out against the destruction of hospitals from a region experiencing a genocide.
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WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals."
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The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"
September 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals."
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This is really fascinating because the automatic stay is a long-standing part of the immigration detention system. It's been in use for decades.
UPDATE: Another judge, the Reagan-appointed Sarah Evans Barker, ruled today that the administration's use of the "automatic stay" — to keep locked up a man who had been ordered released by an immigration judge on $7,500 bond — was illegal.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is really fascinating because the automatic stay is a long-standing part of the immigration detention system. It's been in use for decades.
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“Fourteen years after its clandestine birth, and after sacrifices that claimed the lives of six of its founders, Bilal Abu Allaban and Bahaa Ziadeh look out through the newsroom’s large windows at the shattered horizon of Darayya.”
After Surviving the Syrian Civil War, an Underground Newspaper Makes a Triumphant Return
Enab Baladi’s founders went from clandestine print runs to exile — and now to a fresh start in a free Damascus
newlinesmag.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Fourteen years after its clandestine birth, and after sacrifices that claimed the lives of six of its founders, Bilal Abu Allaban and Bahaa Ziadeh look out through the newsroom’s large windows at the shattered horizon of Darayya.”
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📢 NEW: Amnesty International: Pull the Plug on Israel’s War Economy
Amnesty International has issued a new report calling on states, public institutions, and companies to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation, and apartheid system...
Amnesty International has issued a new report calling on states, public institutions, and companies to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation, and apartheid system...
September 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📢 NEW: Amnesty International: Pull the Plug on Israel’s War Economy
Amnesty International has issued a new report calling on states, public institutions, and companies to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation, and apartheid system...
Amnesty International has issued a new report calling on states, public institutions, and companies to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation, and apartheid system...
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📊 PCBS: 740,000 Palestinians Remain in Northern Gaza
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that as of September 16, 2025, roughly 740,000 people – 35% of Gaza’s population – remain in the north, despite nearly two years of siege, repeated ground incursions, and mass...
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that as of September 16, 2025, roughly 740,000 people – 35% of Gaza’s population – remain in the north, despite nearly two years of siege, repeated ground incursions, and mass...
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📊 PCBS: 740,000 Palestinians Remain in Northern Gaza
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that as of September 16, 2025, roughly 740,000 people – 35% of Gaza’s population – remain in the north, despite nearly two years of siege, repeated ground incursions, and mass...
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that as of September 16, 2025, roughly 740,000 people – 35% of Gaza’s population – remain in the north, despite nearly two years of siege, repeated ground incursions, and mass...
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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We are point where … Karl Rove and … John “Torture Memo” Yoo feel compelled to loudly and publicly denounce MAGA overreach (louder, honestly, than many Dem leaders).
I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach?
But either way, it’s just wild.
I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach?
But either way, it’s just wild.
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We are point where … Karl Rove and … John “Torture Memo” Yoo feel compelled to loudly and publicly denounce MAGA overreach (louder, honestly, than many Dem leaders).
I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach?
But either way, it’s just wild.
I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach?
But either way, it’s just wild.
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NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
The death of Estela Ramos Baten
Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.
www.msnbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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The death of an NYPD officer brought rare recognition for Bangladeshi Americans. But for younger generations shaped by post-9/11 surveillance and Black Lives Matter, it exposed painful questions about belonging, writes Jennifer Chowdhury for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
A Police Officer’s Death Divides Bangladeshi Americans
Praise for Didarul Islam has highlighted the community’s rising presence in the force while raising difficult questions about belonging and representation
newlinesmag.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The death of an NYPD officer brought rare recognition for Bangladeshi Americans. But for younger generations shaped by post-9/11 surveillance and Black Lives Matter, it exposed painful questions about belonging, writes Jennifer Chowdhury for @newlinesmag.bsky.social