Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
"For the mayor of New York to unequivocally use the term genocide to describe Israel’s counterattack was notable."
Is it "notable," though? According to every poll, a large majority of Democrats (along w an array of genocide expert and human rights groups) think Israel has committed genocide.
Focusing on a guy who was imprisoned for his campus speech! The cynicism of Powell's entire project is breathtaking
Can’t believe Mamdani had dinner with a guy who was a spokesperson for a group in which some of the members lived across the street from a kid who told them about how his gym teacher once dated a woman whose brother had a Palestinian flag in his window
Very funny that one of the big time Campus Free Speech Panic guys is out here getting mad that ZM is publicly supporting a guy who was severely punished for... exercising his free speech on campus. Kind of gives the game away.
Does this necessarily indirect way of speaking ever embarrass them? "He was a spokesperson for a group, some of whom" did a bad thing. Genuinely embarrassing to have so little evidence.
Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!
It's embarrassing to see the Atlantic platform lies so badly and by such a poor choice of writer.
Powell has been running these bad-faith attacks since Mamdani won the primary. It's embarrassing to run yet another piece that can't justify its own existence
The thesis of the piece is that Israel is at the center of Mamdani's ideology and governance but Powell can't find a single example from his administration. This is all warmed-over oppo from his campaign.
Powell has spent his career decrying the "cancellation" of race scientists, climate deniers and bigots, arguing that their substantive views were less important to the threat to free speech their punishment represented.
When it comes to Khalil, though, his (alleged) views are front and center.
I am not exaggerating
The thesis of this article is that "opposition to Israel is central to Mamdani's worldview" and the evidence is that he posted a single photo with Mahmoud Khalil
I’ll stop bothering Michael with quote posting in a bit but he’s really hit the nail on the head with this - gavin here is more upset about the mere investigation of allegations of MASS EXECUTIONS by UK troops than the potential that these crimes occurred
Its really striking how much of our politics is driven by people who claim not to be Republicans but whose sole consistent principle is that every single problem in society is Democrats’/liberals’ fault
The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota
The story is no longer polyamory, but that Lindy West has apparently spent her entire career as a public writer in a relationship with a nightmare person, and seemingly no one, from friends to the editors/publisher of this book, are willing or able to extract her open.substack.com/pub/fieldnot...
Wrong it’s “British quote mark-la”
This took me way too long to figure out
in a just, more New Jersey centric society, this guy WHO LIVES IN MAINE would have been banned from online after he invoked Princeton as an example of a place where white liberals supported immigration but never encountered immigrants in real life
Chris Rufo famously laid out the plan in a pair of tweets in 2021, but it never would’ve succeeded without enthusiastic support from the centrist wing of the Opinionati, who sanitized and amplified the RW talking point that the Left™ had “gone too far.”
Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.
I have found a second Beekeeping Himbo on youtube
Sports betting remains illegal in California and voters rejected legalization attempts at the ballot two separate times!
www.foxsports.com/stories/bett...
![@ruinedpicnic
[walking by a river and I see a beaver wearing a t-shirt]
me: I don't even know what to say about this
beaver: maybe this isn't about you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w4mumltio4x5yohskj2mo64c/bafkreifs2sr5metzri4hmkvio3e5ssnfthbuje5ql46r5fgrbjrllzxawy)
Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.
Many such cases!
He's talking about me, I'm a liberal who thought ubiquitous sports gambling would be awesome and good. I'm staring at the ground in shame rn
this person analyzes American politics for a living
