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stelhami.bsky.social
Mamdani is attacked for not embracing Israel's Jewishness. But as I noted in 2021 what's unique is the US stance: "There is no case except Israel’s where the US actively advocates for a form of ethno-nationalist state that discounts large portion of its population"
www.brookings.edu/articles/ame...
America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness | Brookings
Shibley Telhami argues that the United States' unique advocacy for Israel specifically as a Jewish state conflicts with the notion that states should represent and treat all their citizens equally, wh...
www.brookings.edu
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
This is pretty fucked up in lots of ways.
Approximately one to two days later, Driscoll received a call from Mr. Paul Ingrassia, a White House representative who identified himself as the White House-DOJ transition liaison. Ingrassia, then 29 years old, had no experience working in the White House, DOJ, or FBI. Nevertheless, he identified to Driscoll that he was on the White House-DOJ transition team and wanted to conduct a vetting interview with Driscoll who, according to Ingrassia, was being considered for “a high-level position at the FBI.” Driscoll conferred with the FBI Newark Chief Division Legal Counsel to confirm it was legally appropriate to call Ingrassia back. After confirming it was proper to do so, Driscoll then called Ingrassia back and left a voicemail. The next day, on January 17, 2025, Ingrassia called Driscoll back and conducted a telephonic interview. Driscoll asked Ingrassia why he was being interviewed, to which Ingrassia replied that it was for “a high-level position at the FBI.” Driscoll responded that he was already serving in a high-level position in the FBI. Ingrassia did not elaborate any further. The following is, in summary and substance, a list of the questions Ingrassia asked Driscoll and Driscoll’s corresponding responses: Question 1: How would you define the most significant threats to the United States? Response 1: Cyber; terrorist; and counterintelligence threats posed by China; Russia; Iran; North Korea; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”); ISIS-Khorasan and their affiliates with external operational capabilities; porous borders; fentanyl; and transnational organized crime, e.g., cartels. Question 3: Who did you vote for? Response 3: Driscoll refused to answer this question and stated that it was an inappropriate question with Hatch Act implications. Question 4: Do you agree that the FBI agents who “stormed” Mar-a-Lago, to include the rank-and-file, should be held accountable? Response 4: No; FBI personnel were doing their job in furtherance of court orders, legal warrants, and a properly predicated investigation. Question 5: What are your thoughts on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Response 5: [trimmed since running out of room but he gave a reasonable answer about the importance of diversity but not it being sole reason for hiring] Question 6: When did you start supporting President Trump? Response 6: Driscoll refused to answer this question. Question 7: Have you voted for a Democrat in the last five elections? Response 7: Driscoll refused to answer this question. 63. After this final question, Ingrassia ended the interview. 64. Later that evening, Driscoll received a call from Bove. Driscoll understood that Bove was expected to be named Acting Deputy Attorney General (“A/DAG”) of the United States following the inauguration. At the time of the call, Bove was a private lawyer who had been part of President Trump’s criminal defense team. Bove asked Driscoll what happened on the vetting call, to which Driscoll responded that he found Ingrassia’s questions to be highly inappropriate and political in nature and that he (Driscoll) was not supportive of serving in any leadership role in the FBI if it required him to pass a vetting assessment based on political views. Driscoll noted that he had never shared his political views, or even whether he had any, in his entire professional career. 65. Bove told Driscoll that he “failed” the vetting interview and that Ingrassia reported that Driscoll was combative and not “based out” enough. Driscoll interpreted Ingrassia’s report to
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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adrianandshane.bsky.social
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
September 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Here the same genociders who were not only denying #TigrayGenocide but literally orchestrating rallies and campaigns with the genociders, talking about Gaza. If you want to read about what Eugene Puryear & his ilk were doing, read this: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mb-s....
How and Why the US Left Betrayed Tigray
MB Sundjata How and Why the US Left Betrayed Tigray US organizations like PSL and Black Alliance for Peace cannot be trusted to advocate for Palestine’s...
theanarchistlibrary.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
The Supreme Court declined to block this law last week
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
youtu.be/7BMaxdrCg2o?...
Better a Pig than a Fascist | Video Essay
YouTube video by Accented Cinema
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August 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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rechelon.bsky.social
"They don't have a real nation like us or any true connection with soil, they're all migratory invaders." "They're infiltrating and exploiting the cosmopolitan institutions of the guileless liberal west."

Another implicit reveal of how much the Israeli right fucking hates the Jewish diaspora.
August 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
"Ethiopia’s Tigray war, which lasted from 2020 to 2022, is one of the most criminally under-covered conflicts in modern history"

“It is a really horrific and extreme form of sexual violence, and one that deserves the world’s attention.”🧵
barrymalone.bsky.social Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social · Aug 1
In today's Proximities.

- Horrific report points to genocide in Ethiopia
- A Palestinian mother's story - just one of many
- And Bukele clears path for third term

As always, it can be read in under two minutes.

www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-g...
Ethiopia, Gaza, El Salvador.
Today's three stories you should know.
www.proximities.news
August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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bloomfilters.bsky.social
save our leftists and progressives from obsessively romanticizing the past and being endlessly stuck in arbitrary taxonomization
August 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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edwinhayward.com
What fun... Wikipedia may be blocked in the UK under a later stage of our insanely self-defeating online safety law.

There's a court case going on, but if Wikipedia lose it they're going to IP-block the UK because the only other alternative would be to put in adult ID checks.
x.com/evolvepoliti...
July 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
YLS never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
JD Vance & @JDVance The contention--which is pretty clear if you just read what I said--is that it's bogus for the WSJ to publish a hit piece without showing us the letter. I have no idea if the book exists--WSJ won't show it to us. I have no idea if the letter exists--WSJ won't show it to us. What I find absurd is the idea that Donald Trump was writing poems to Epstein, and I find it equally absurd that a major American paper would attack the President of the United States without revealing the basis for the attack. We all know what's going to happen. They're going to dribble little details out for days or weeks in an effort to assassinate the president's character. They won't show us this book or allow us to refute it until they've wrung every bit of fake news out of the story. And everyone will just move on from the fact that the WSJ is acting like a Democrat SuperPAC. It's disgraceful, and it's why the president sued.
July 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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beejonson.me
Not gonna lie to y'all, bruh! The genocide in Palestine has genuinely turned me nihilistic towards western liberal democracies. The fact that after WWII, white people in western countries created a liberal world order — one that cannot stop a genocide. WHAT GOOD IS IT IF IT CAN'T STOP A GENOCIDE?
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
At some point you have to stop accepting "compromise", "optics", "reasonable centrism", "popularism" bullshit.

If you let the undesirables be mulched, you have allowed the creation of backdoors and loopsholes that give private actors and corporations a monopoly on the flow of global information.
July 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
What if I told you statehood is a sham
July 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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robin.berjon.com
New year, new thread — here's my 2025 reading log! 💙📚

Previous episodes:
• 2020: tweets.berjon.com/121259142400...
• 2021: tweets.berjon.com/134848568673...
• 2022: tweets.berjon.com/147749837904...
• 2023, before Xodus: tweets.berjon.com/161179872221...
• 2024: bsky.app/profile/robi...
a man is holding a flashlight with the words be ready to run below him
Alt: The Last of Us: "Be ready to run."
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January 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq.
archive.ph/tfOaG
100,000 Dead: What We Know About Gaza's True Death Toll The death toll in Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, understates the true scale of the crisis, researchers say. Hunger, disease, and Israeli gunfire at food distribution centers have made the war in the Strip one of the bloodiest of the 21st century
July 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mclem.org
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Never will I forget how the world treated this genocide and how the so-called "human rights" Ethiopians and Eritreans opining on everything and anything were cheering on this genocide.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women
Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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bigjoel.bsky.social
Benjamin Netanyahu truly just gets whatever he wants I guess
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
next dem admin program needs to have an anti-Ivy League DEI program
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jun 22
Reality: You might not be interested in defense but defense is very interested in you

Average Dem staffer: but have you considered that I went to Yale
June 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM