Elizabeth Roach

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

‘We’re Trying to Do the Best We Can Before We Die’ The people caring for others in Gaza are hungry too.

Aid workers caring for the hungry in Gaza are themselves going without food. Claire Porter Robbins on a starvation crisis that has not spared the helpers:

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

A French lemonade from 1651

If you're a 1L starting law school in coming weeks, just remember: You're *supposed to* feel a bit confused at first. It's normal. Law is like a language. You learn it best through immersion. You'll take a few weeks to get to speed.

This may help, too:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."

Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities." www.wired.com/story/extrem...

What a surprise. She interviews with Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer who moved her to a cushy Club Fed right after it was over, and it just so happens she did not say anything bad about the person who is in complete control of her life right now. Amazing!

REPORTER: Do you think the independent redistricting commission should be disbanded?

HOCHUL: Yes. I'm tired with fighting this fight w/ my hand tied behind my back. With all due respect to the good govt groups, politics is a political process. And to think we're gonna do this with a purity test ...

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

I'm very excited that BAD COMPANY entered its third printing this week! You'd better buy it now before you're relegated to a copy from the fourth printing...

'I fixed that for you': Why mainstream headlines keep failing Plus: one journalist's brave plunge into independence; and my rant about a supposedly positive article about Buffalo

'I fixed that for you': Why mainstream headlines keep failing - Margaret Sullivan open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

🎯
Marc Maron

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

Rage Against the Regime - Spread Hope, Not Fear August 2nd 10:30AM - 12:30PM SC State House 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC A day or community, education, healing, and connection 50501 South Carolina

#RageAgainstTheRegime Rally at the #SouthCarolina State House in #ColumbiaSC, THIS Saturday 8/2, 10:30-12:30PM!

#50501movement #NoKings
#scpol #ResistSC #USProtest #ProtestSC #3E

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

This Far-Right Movement Is Highjacking Local Churches Local faith leaders are fighting back, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by extremists.

Many people join these churches, which have become de facto community centers, for the most human of needs: connection and fellowship. Stick around long enough, though, and you’ll discover an institutional pipeline suffused with toxic theology that funnels people toward Christian nationalism.

How Democrats Could Blow the Midterms With Trump's popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster.

There are ominous warning signs that the 2026 midterms might not be the triumph Democrats are hoping for. That's mostly due to the party's own fecklessness, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social.

YouTube video by DW News Anne Applebaum: 'The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' | DW News

The war will be over when Putin realizes that he can't win
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_R...

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

Windmills "are eating the cats; they're eating the dogs."

It's remarkable how much national crime and violence and murder debates go on with no grasp of the history of crime/violence in the USA. Deep South/Gulf coast states have always had highest murder/gun violence in the country. Always. In general the South has higher rates of crime/violence ....

Earlier this month, Flint, Michigan finished replacing its lead pipes to ensure clean drinking water for the community.

Congratulations to the residents, activists, and public servants who made this happen. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.

Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R), who wrote the law banning abortion and built his brand on moral clarity, now faces scandal over a 17-year affair and allegations he funded abortions. He admits the affair but denies ever paying for the procedures.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

This is serious. Very serious.