Nathaniel Baldwin
@nathanielkinsman.bsky.social
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I’m glad Marisa mentioned this. In certain circles there is - correctly! - laser focus on this catastrophe but it can be hard to get the story through to people, in no small part because it’s so upsetting and bleak and enraging that some deep part of people shuts down and rejects it.
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m glad Marisa mentioned this. In certain circles there is - correctly! - laser focus on this catastrophe but it can be hard to get the story through to people, in no small part because it’s so upsetting and bleak and enraging that some deep part of people shuts down and rejects it.
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I need a ride, not ammo.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s presidential plane “Wing of Zion” took off from Tel Aviv at 11.22am this morning (local time)
It landed in Athens, Greece, at 1.06pm
It landed in Athens, Greece, at 1.06pm
June 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I need a ride, not ammo.
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Unspeakable evil. "Twenty-four hours before she was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna’s life in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began would be debuted at a French independent film festival that runs parallel to Cannes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Unspeakable evil. "Twenty-four hours before she was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna’s life in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began would be debuted at a French independent film festival that runs parallel to Cannes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
“The cable encourages State Department employees to report on one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. ‘Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred),’ the cable reads.”
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“The cable encourages State Department employees to report on one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. ‘Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred),’ the cable reads.”
“[We] set out on this war out of insult, out of pain, out of anger, out of the sense that we had to succeed. This distinction [between civilians and terrorist infrastructure], it didn’t matter. Nobody cared. We decided on a line … past which everyone is a suspect.”
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
“[We] set out on this war out of insult, out of pain, out of anger, out of the sense that we had to succeed. This distinction [between civilians and terrorist infrastructure], it didn’t matter. Nobody cared. We decided on a line … past which everyone is a suspect.”
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Stop citing pretextual motivations as if they are real
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it was reviewing billions in federal grants to Harvard, accusing the school of allowing antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus.
Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Stop citing pretextual motivations as if they are real
“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave. These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave. These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”
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"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
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This is authoritarianism in operation. Americans don't know what it looks like, but that's it. This is what it looks like.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is authoritarianism in operation. Americans don't know what it looks like, but that's it. This is what it looks like.
“Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity” feels like an oxymoron
Netflix founder donates $50 million to Bowdoin to study AI
The donation from alumnus Reed Hastings is the largest ever given to the college.
www.pressherald.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity” feels like an oxymoron
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THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.
Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand.
apnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.
@consequence.bsky.social really disappointing to see you guys posting an affiliate article about Amazon music today. I realize you’ve got to make that money but this was tone deaf.
February 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@consequence.bsky.social really disappointing to see you guys posting an affiliate article about Amazon music today. I realize you’ve got to make that money but this was tone deaf.
“Far from harmless, the crusade against DEI has been a way of laundering racist policies into the mainstream.”
The war on DEI is a smoke screen
MAGA’s attacks on “wokeness” and diversity, equity, and inclusion are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.
www.theverge.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Far from harmless, the crusade against DEI has been a way of laundering racist policies into the mainstream.”
“Every clean energy investment in your community, every Social Security check, every child enrolled in Head Start, every improvement in air and water quality, is a threat to right-wing ideological dominance. They know it, and they want to stop Americans from having those positive associations.”
Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate.
This is how you sever the positive relationship between people and government—ensuring there’s nothing left to defend.
newrepublic.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“Every clean energy investment in your community, every Social Security check, every child enrolled in Head Start, every improvement in air and water quality, is a threat to right-wing ideological dominance. They know it, and they want to stop Americans from having those positive associations.”
“Democrats, meanwhile, have left too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers…who prefer to imagine themselves operating in a 1980s fanfic version of Washington rather than fighting in the hellscape where we find ourselves now.”
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Democrats, meanwhile, have left too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers…who prefer to imagine themselves operating in a 1980s fanfic version of Washington rather than fighting in the hellscape where we find ourselves now.”
More of this please
“Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former finance minister and current Liberal Party leadership contender, has proposed a bold countermeasure: slapping 100% tariffs on select American goods, including Teslas, in direct response to President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian”
“Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former finance minister and current Liberal Party leadership contender, has proposed a bold countermeasure: slapping 100% tariffs on select American goods, including Teslas, in direct response to President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian”
‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war
Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.
www.businesstoday.in
February 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
More of this please
“Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former finance minister and current Liberal Party leadership contender, has proposed a bold countermeasure: slapping 100% tariffs on select American goods, including Teslas, in direct response to President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian”
“Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former finance minister and current Liberal Party leadership contender, has proposed a bold countermeasure: slapping 100% tariffs on select American goods, including Teslas, in direct response to President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian”
@shannonbond.bsky.social due respect, the surreality of listening to you describe him doing the dictionary definition of a sieg heil, then somehow debate what it was (which he has NOT denied), and then talk about how that’s exactly what he wants you to do is disheartening to say the least
January 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
@shannonbond.bsky.social due respect, the surreality of listening to you describe him doing the dictionary definition of a sieg heil, then somehow debate what it was (which he has NOT denied), and then talk about how that’s exactly what he wants you to do is disheartening to say the least
@chrislhayes.bsky.social I was listening to you on Ezra Klein and liked the kids at a restaurant analogy but one missing piece is that the misbehaving kid’s parents (Fox News et al) are actively encouraging and excusing his behavior.
January 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social I was listening to you on Ezra Klein and liked the kids at a restaurant analogy but one missing piece is that the misbehaving kid’s parents (Fox News et al) are actively encouraging and excusing his behavior.