Andrew Osborne

The Short-Lived Plan to Produce a Trump-Themed Instant Pot

All that is holy is profaned...

It's wild watching someone else maybe blackmailing Trump. From prison no less.

And when (because I'm increasingly convinced we're in a when, not if situation) Trump pardons Maxwell, it might actually be enough to break the MAGA coalition permanently. Emphasis on *might.*

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell-all on Epstein, his associates Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a far more favorable Texas prison camp as she hashes a possible deal to divulge secrets about her sex-crimes accomplice Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump transfers Ghislaine from Florida to cush Texas club fed camp as initial inducement to exonerate Trump as negotiation for pardon/commutation continues nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“Columbia's capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry+learning into a shadow of its former self AN ANTI UNIVERSITY a place of fear+loathing, where faculty+students are told from on high what they can say+teach, under severe penalty”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Steve Witkoff giving it some real Himmler at Sachsenhausen energy at the GHF site.

Mayor Adams vetoes law to decriminalize street vending; City Council may override The legislation passed last month would mean street vendors would no longer face charges or jail time

"The Council voted 40-8 to pass the bill, with 3 abstentions, meaning it already has enough votes to override the mayor — something it has not been shy about doing in the past."

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

i love holding real news in my hands

A right-wing Israeli “journalist” gets Chotiner-ed

Unpaywalled link archive.is/jSTcw

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and of its victims’ recourse to human rights and international law as a final forum of appeal for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the “wretched of the earth,” as Fanon famously called colonized subjects, whoever and wherever they may be.

Didn't former Epstein associate Steven Hoffenberg own the New York Post at one point?

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

“We Will Not Win on Our Own” In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.

“We’ve reached the limits of what moral outrage can do without material political power backing it up,” @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells us in a new interview from Issue Fifteen.

www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

Came to a similar conclusion yesterday.

Screenshot of a news article from The Globe and Mail with the headline: "Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts." The article is written by Marie Woolf and was published in Ottawa 4 hours ago, with an update 3 hours ago. The website navigation bar includes links to Home, For You, Canada, World, Business, Investing, and Personal Finance.

In a major precedent setting move, a Canadian federal judge blocked the deportation of a nonbinary US citizen because the Canadian immigration office failed to adequately assess the conditions for LGBTQ people since Trump took office.

archive.ph/Q722T

Be aware this can also happen to individuals with little notice - the proscription on PA was always going to bleed out to any mention of “Palestine”

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Stellan Skarsgard Talks About ‘Nazi’ Ingmar Bergman: ‘He Was the Only Person I Know Who Cried When Hitler Died’ Stellan Skarsgard talks 'Nazi' Ingmar Bergman, Joachim Trier's Oscar contender 'Sentimental Value' at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

"Bergman was manipulative. He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died. We kept excusing him, but I have a feeling he had a very weird outlook on other people. [He thought] some people were not worthy."

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews.

"But I think that today, more than ever, with the weaponization of #antisemitism, the existence of an organization of 50,000 to 60,000 Jewish members that is explicitly #antiZionist, is an incredibly important
tempestmag.org/2025/07/the-...

YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada Has Israel's economy taken a blow after Iran war? with Shir Hever

Shir Hever returns on EI, explaining how Israel's economy is now in a "zombie" phase. And after being downgraded on the bond markets, it faces a massive GDP shortfall.

LIVE: Feds conduct immigration raid at Camarillo farm YouTube video by ABC7

Live video of ICE terrorists rolling in military vehicles to a farm in Camarillo, CA to abduct people www.youtube.com/live/cZ0YStV...

We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist? The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader

NEW: Last month, World Liberty Financial, Trump's main crypto company, announced its biggest investment yet: $100 million from a UAE company called Aqua 1 Foundation. I couldn't find any evidence that Aqua 1 exists. But someone sent WLF $80m worth of stablecoins.

www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Much much more of this

Side note: This climate-change catastrophe has occured in a country that despite being basically the single largest nation in driving climate change has allocated precisely $0.00 to climate change research under its current fascist administration.

This is horrific and it will only get worse.

Check out this thread from @melbuer.bsky.social this morning on the ground in Los Angeles. Seems DHS did a sweep of a public park with lots of troops and heavy gear.

Interview with a community member who was maced by departing DHS agents in Macarthur Park