Laura Jane

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

🚨 Netanyahu: Israel will keep striking Gaza and Lebanon — “We do not seek anyone’s approval” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel acts entirely on its own authority in Gaza and Lebanon and will continue its attacks, despite U.S. assurances that the war is over. “I want to make one thing crystal clear: Our security policy is in our own hands. We are not prepared to tolerate attacks against us. We respond according to our own judgment against attacks, as we saw in Lebanon and most recently in Gaza. We dropped 150 tons on Hamas and the terrorist elements after the attack on our two soldiers.” He also signaled that Israel will strike what it considers emerging threats, not just active attacks: “And of course, we also thwart dangers as they are being formed, before they are carried out, as we did just yesterday in the Gaza Strip.” Reiterating Israel’s freedom to act without U.S. oversight, Netanyahu said this approach is backed by American officials: “We do not seek anyone’s approval for this. We are in control of our security… this is how we operate and will continue to operate. This is, of course, acceptable to the United States as well, as its most senior representatives have expressed in recent days.” His remarks came after Israeli strikes killed at least one person in Nuseirat, Gaza, and two men in southern Lebanon, despite cease-fires still in effect. Netanyahu’s statement followed a flurry of visits by four senior U.S. officials — including the vice president and secretary of state — aimed at consolidating the Gaza truce, underscoring his message that Israel will act unilaterally, regardless of American warnings.

PM Netanyahu at the Start of the Government Meeting: "Israel is an independent country. Our security policy is in our own hands. We have made it clear regarding international forces that Israel will determine which forces are unacceptable to us." https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-start261025

🚨 Netanyahu: Israel will keep striking Gaza and Lebanon — “We do not seek anyone’s approval”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel acts entirely on its own authority in Gaza and Lebanon and will continue its attacks, despite U.S. assurances that the war is over...

In his podcasts, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen complained bitterly about Biden’s policies on antitrust, AI, and diversity, and he expressed outrage that Biden would not meet with him personally. In his view, Biden—and indeed the general public—had not kept its part in what Andreessen called The Deal. Here’s how he described it to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat: An entrepreneur starts a company, makes a lot of money, and the world benefits from the new technology. “Then in your obituary, it talks about what an incredible person you were, both in your business career and in your philanthropic career. And by the way, you’re a Democrat, you’re pro–gay rights, you’re pro-abortion, you’re pro all the fashionable and appropriate social causes of the time … This is the Deal.” By daring to challenge the tech industry, Biden threatened the moguls’ business plans. Even worse, he hurt their feelings. “It’s impossible to exaggerate how offended they were,” says Nick Clegg, who was Meta’s president of global affairs until early this year. In July 2024, Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz announced that they would be donating their dollars to Trump.

reading this Wired piece it seems like Ross is accurately conveying the sentiments of the SV ruling class: our feelings are hurt
www.wired.com/story/silico...

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Gibson pushing for robust FOIA library in package of City Hall transparency measures Gibson introduced three transparency-related proposals this month that the Council is expected to take up this fall.

Gibson pushing for robust FOIA library in package of City Hall transparency measures

The American Years of Lead are Here The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.

"What does seem clear is that the American Years of Lead are here." Read @jscros.bsky.social on where we're at. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

RRHA BOARD TO VOTE ON THE TRANSFER OF GILPIN COURT | Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority WHO: The nine appointed Board of Commissioners of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA), the largest housing authority in the Commonwealth of Virginia; RRHA’s...

the short and clearly slapdash notice offered here tells us how desperately RRHA doesn't want attention on this.

www.rrha.com/news/rrha-bo...

My rec is a finding the right combination of antidepressants that gives you a superpower ability to compartmentalize. I upped my meds a lot in 2020 and it's the only thing keeping me going.

Is it normal to think about Amadeus (1984) like all the time?

elon musk using IVF and CRISPR to ensure all of his children are male and then one transitioning to female boiled his brain so much he ends society as we know it is like the ultimate expression of family being the oldest kind of empire for the most pathetic kind of humans.

a picture of sam altman, presumably saying something like "gee willickers, that's a lot of pies!"

sam altman has never set off the same predator warning instinct in my brain the way that musk, zuckerberg, et al do. and i think that's because he's naturally evolved a cloak of dreamworks face to hide among his prey

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

*as I sprint rightward seaching for money* I didn't leave the left the left left me

🇵🇸 Governor of Tulkarm, occupied West Bank: Israeli forces have forced over 75% of Tulkarm camp’s population—around 9,000 people—to flee their homes, an alarming figure.

I fear the lack of coherent opposition from the dnc is because they generally agree with his policies

Joy is a crime, in occupied Palestine.

www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

All there is is what can be observed. I don’t need to know what is in Biden’s “heart” when he shipped arms for genocide, all that matters is what he did. I don’t need to know with metaphysical certainty that Musk is a Nazi (or what this even means) to observe he deliberately did a Nazi salute

There must be something to be said for reality. If one has to, with 100% certainty, know what is in someone’s heart or whatever to determine political acts, then nothing is true. Then we are awash in 100% unobservable solipsism. Nothing is real and all we have is presumed good faith.

What’s behind the uneven exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners?

You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”

❌Medicare for All
❌Banning congressional stock trading
❌Getting money out of politics
❌Voting rights
❌Reproductive rights
❌College for All
❌Universal childcare
❌Criminal justice reform
❌Housing for All

✅Banning TikTok

“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.

Government Monitoring Those With "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies New documents reveal flurry of intelligence activity following Luigi Mangione's arrest

If you expressed “negative sentiment” toward insurance companies on social media following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, the government was watching:

I had to ban myself from liquor for like a good 10 years before i could drink it responsibly. Too easy to overdo!

Blinken said the same thing behind closed doors almost exactly a year ago. Everyone knows this. It’s been clear since Oct 8 2023. The point was collective punishment, the point was genocide. Blinken and Biden both know this and backed it without conditions anyway

www.columnblog.com/p/sec-blinke...

Threatening to condition aid for fellow Americans while providing blank check military aid to a foreign government … what do you even say

Seeing The Washington Post refer to a far right attack on the liberal state (that, of course, omits the national security state entirely), headed by the richest person on earth who is also an open Skull Measurer as “taming Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy” is driving more insane than usual.

Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on GOP chopping block The menu of potential spending offsets has been circulated by House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington.

Hats off to the Republican PR guy who has all of US media calling the gutting of essential govt programs “savings”. Who is “saving” here? Rich people since this is accompanied by a massive tax cut for the rich but boy doesn’t it seem like Joe Six Pack is cashing a big rebate check