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This Bears team is DIFFERENT and on Monday Kevin Warren will announce they are exploring options for a new stadium in Bettendorf, Iowa

in the pit

This entire weekend

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

The decision to suddenly reverse several weeks of rankings and exclude Notre Dame from the college football playoff was so devoid of reasoning, it may as well have come from the infamous SCOTUS “shadow docket.”
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Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.

As a lawyer with some experience in constitutional law and who has studied history, I can assure everyone that the “unitary executive” “theory” makes as much sense as the notion that the earth is flat.

even if we luck into this scenario, still wildly important for the next admin to be vindictive and vengeful and bring down the hammer on EVERYONE they possibly can while passing a bunch of democracy-enhancing laws and rebuilding the fed govt or we are frankly fucked & will be back here soon

The only thing that can stop a bad boy with a gun is a best boy with a gun

This is a big deal, although a lot will depend on what #SCOTUS does in the Illinois case (in which we don’t expect a ruling until the week of November 17 at the earliest).

this is the shit i want to see

It rained in Los Angeles this morning, which reminded me that it’s past time to release the Epstein Files.

Reform Jewish Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza July 27, 2025 - The ongoing crisis in Gaza is a devastating reminder of the immense human cost of war. Nearly two years into Israel's war against Hamas, Israelis are still waiting for the return of their loved ones held hostage, and innocent Palestinians are caught in a mounting humanitarian catastrophe. Hamas has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice the Palestinian people in its pursuit of Israel's destruction, but Israel must not sacrifice its own moral standing in return. Neither escalating military pressure nor restricting humanitarian aid has brought Israel closer to securing a hostage deal or ending the war. While long-delayed and not-yet-certain to be more effective than previous efforts, we are encouraged by Saturday night's announcement that the Israeli military would revive the practice of dropping aid from airplanes and make it easier for aid convoys, including those from the UN's World Food Program, to move through Gaza along "designated humanitarian corridors," and to temporarily cease fighting in Gaza for a humanitarian pause. No one should be unaffected by the pervasive hunger experienced by thousands of Gazans. No one should spend the bulk of their time arguing technical definitions between starvation and pervasive hunger. The situation is dire, and it is deadly. Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster. The primary moral response must begin with anguished hearts in the face of such a large-scale human tragedy. Our tradition teaches that all people are created b tzelem Elohim — in the image of God. One consequence of this is the moral priority, which is affirmed throughout the Bible and rabbinic tradition, of feeding the hungry - both for the individual and for the self-governing Jewish community. More than a few members of t…

Despite PM Netanyahu's calls to ignore these full members of his cabinet, their presence in this government has consistently morally compromised Israel's actions. Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the "total victory" over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law. It's hard to imagine that this tragic approach will bring home the 50 remaining hostages, including the 20 who we pray are still alive. It's imperative that the Government of Israel ensures that the recently announced plans to deliver humanitarian aid succeed as Israel works with international partners to ensure its safe and sustained delivery and do whatever possible to reduce or eliminate the shootings and other injuries sustained at food distribution centers. We applaud Israel's green light for foreign nations to resume providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza population desperate for food and are confident that they will do all they can to ensure that such aid does not fall into the hands of Hamas. As Israel has effective control of 70% of Gaza, with the intent to remain in significant swaths of it, even if only temporarily, it should be directly involved, facilitate and cooperate with the international community, international humanitarian NGOs, and regional friends, to take urgently needed actions, such as these suggested by Israeli Reform rabbi and Member of Knesset Gilad Kariv: • To prevent the alarming number of civilian deaths in and around the food and humanitarian aid distribution sites. • Opening a significant number of food distribution centers at various locations across the Gaza Strip. • Large-scale entry of infant formula (especially liquid formula) and ensuring safe delivery to both functioning medical centers and the few remaining international aid facilities. • Establishing secure methods - potentially through cooperation with regional countries - for delivering food supplies to aid organizations and international agencies. • Resuming su…

Finally, while it is imperative that Israel and the U.S. resume diplomacy to bring home all hostages and end this war, denying basic humanitarian aid crosses a moral line. Blocking food, water, medicine, and power- especially for children- is indefensible. Let us not allow our grief to harden into indifference, nor our love for Israel to blind us to the cries of the vulnerable. Let us rise to the moral challenge of this moment. Union for Reform Judaism Shelley Niceley Groff (she/her) North American Board Chair Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) President Central Conference of American Rabbis Rabbi David A. Lyon (he/him) President Rabbi Hara Person (she/her) Chief Executive Officer American Conference of Cantors Cantor Josh Breitzer (he/him) President Rachel Roth (she/her) Chief Operating Officer

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring:

"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

X Is a White-Supremacist Site Elon Musk has made one of Twitter’s most glaring problems into a core feature on X.

im gonna have to write this story like 400 more times aren't i

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MacArthur park is literally where the unhoused live. This has zero to do with criminal anything. Nothing to do with immigration. This is photo op bullshit.

The Past Four Years at the Supreme Court Did Not Need to Be This Way Part of the reason court reform failed in 2021 is that Democrats were unprepared for Ginsburg’s spectacularly ill-timed death.

It's become pretty clear over the past 3 weeks and/or 3 years that the "Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court right now" enthusiasts were correct in 2021, and that if and when Democrats regain power, they cannot get caught flat-footed again slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today, a DOJ lawyer confirmed that the U.S. plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from pre-trial criminal detention.

The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.

Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”

you know, the kind of world that peter thiel wants (19th century capitalism with a 21st century information economy) would almost certainly end with him being guillotined within like 6 months

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he just argued that “5 million of whose who lose Medicaid have two types of insurance so if they lose one they’ll still have the other.”

I haven’t looked into the 5M figure but I’m guessing a big chunk are Medicare/Medicaid dual eligibles.

Medicaid pays for NURSING HOME CARE.

As I get older I am increasingly grateful to have gone to a very diverse public high school.

The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…

“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”

More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):

Both of these quotes. Come on man

I think that last one is it for me. I believe there are a handful of Dems who will go to the mattresses to protect every last American, but I also think there are plenty of Dems who are fine with brown people getting rounded up.

Hard to not notice Democrats pointedly avoiding any mention of the massive expansion of ICE's budget in this bill

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Come on Internet, stick John Roberts’s face into that photo.

It’s “Go 🤬 Yourself Friday” at SCOTUS!

Sorry but no one should take you seriously if you said Eric Adams would be great and now you're saying Zohran will bring about the end of New York City. You are, how do I say this, a clown

That sentence is so insane

You can only run around yelling “we have to ignore “the groups”” but for so long before people start to get the message.