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Last week, I wrote to Secretary Rubio urging protection of Americans on the Sumud Flotilla. Since then, Israel has detained dozens of activists, including Americans, for trying to feed starving Gazans.

This is unacceptable. Secretary Rubio, you must negotiate their safe return home.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Durbin Demands Tapes of Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

You know a genocide when you see it.

In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

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“Dying for Sex,” the Michelle Williams-led series about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts off as an unorthodox comedy—then deepens into something far better. inkookang.bsky.social reviews the new show.

While fallen soldiers returned home, Trump hit the golf course and veterans took notice.

The upcoming congressional recess will fall in the middle of GOP efforts to craft a massively unpopular reconciliation bill that guts Medicaid and SNAP programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Our goal is to organize hundreds of rallies to turn up the heat on Republicans: indivisible.org/muskorus