Clint Hendler

When miscarriages become crimes 412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime?
That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israeli conductor in Gaza protest unlikely to perform in homeland again Ilan Volkov, who spoke out against the conflict during a BBC SSO Proms performance this month, said he was ‘trying to do whatever I as an individual can do’

Israeli conductor arrested during a Gaza protest says it’s unlikely he’ll ever be allowed to perform in his home country again—and that he regrets nothing.

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

The Supreme Court greenlit Trump’s political prosecutions—even the ones that are illegal Thanks, John Roberts.

Thanks, John Roberts.

Eric Adams surrounded by members of the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation. He is wearing a blue velvet jacket that is embroidered with gold Magen David’s and other Jewish seeming patterns, including multiple menorahs. Everyone else is just in button down shirts or normal suits. He is not blending in.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

How dare you call us fascists? We are merely prohibiting antifascism.

The Supreme Court greenlit Trump’s political prosecutions—even the ones that are illegal Thanks, John Roberts.

Trump has seized investigative and prosecutorial weapons that, in order to safeguard the rule of law, have traditionally been walled off from the president.

SCOTUS handed him these loaded weapons.

Sure as hell looks like the UK needs electoral reform. If you put *these* voting preferences into FPTP...I mean, good God you could get just about any outcome, and none of them would be meaningfully democratic

New York, November 22, 2006-The Committee to Protect Journalists marked its 25th anniversary by honoring four journalists with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night which highlighted record-setting attacks on the press in Iraq. More than 850 people attended the benefit dinner which raised $1.3 million. It was co-chaired by Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, and John S. Carroll, the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent and CPJ board member, hosted the dinner.

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

UM chancellor called the reshared post "hurtful" and "insensitive," and supposedly violates their "institutional values of civility, fairness, and respecting the dignity of each person."

Seems like the "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd cares a lot about certain people's feelings.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.

A nom de guerre, if you will

(I’ll show myself out)

Pastor Doug Wilson at the National Conservatism conference that's happening now. He also believes that women, who shouldn't be allowed to vote, are "the kind of people who people come out of."

Frankly I’m surprised more comparativists aren’t saying, “Aw that’s so cute. America’s having its first little premature rumor and speculation frenzy about the autocrat’s death after his public absence for a brief period” (common in authoritarian regimes)

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Ambassador Gor: Trump’s hiring chief on fast track to India The 38-year-old former personnel chief is a surprising and unconventional pick, but he’s highly likely to head for New Delhi soon.

fun fact, sergio gor used to be the spokesman for two different members of congress at the same time. and they were...michele bachmann and steve king www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

the reality is you do not want your haters to be your waiters. it completely defeats the purpose of being at the table of success.

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy? “She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

they've just got to do like an omnibus impeachment that bars like 3,000 people from government on day one. like one of those unification church weddings.

What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? Fired from the first Trump administration, Darren Beattie is back in government despite a record of racist statements.

I wrote about Darren Beattie, who’s been appointed as acting president of the US Institute of Peace, which was seized by DOGE earlier this year. Beattie once wrote that “competent white men must be in charge.”!Former USIP employees are agahst: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Rather than being protectors of the status quo (as they run in 2024), democrats should be the party of "our institutions are broken and here's a set of reforms we propose: multi-member districts/PR, congress expansion, term limits for judges...."

“This is Trump’s famine”: How the US is complicit in Gaza’s suffering An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel cover as starvation spread.

Trump has overseen a disastrous shift in how aid is distributed in Gaza. The US is no longer just a funder and ally to Israel, it is now supporting and carrying out the deadly aid program.

The US long decried famine as a tool of war. Now it is implementing it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...