Gourav Jena

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Misgendering someone and then suing because they wouldn’t sell you the ethnic delicacy you wanted to purchase is so funny. Like just don’t be a fucking asshole.

I was BEYOND excited that Simon & Schuster chose me to do the copyediting on Kamala Harris's new book. I'm legally bound not to show you too much before its September release, but they allowed me to share a small sneak behind the curtain at the process of editing such a monumental work.

The community note lol

sorry i didn’t show up to work today boss. but if i did i would have done such a good job 👍

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

The trendy liberal line appears to be "You should let me in your coalition if I want to be in it." No! Coalitions do things! You need to do them too! You just feel bad that you sleepwalked toward—or supported—genocide. Well, tough shit. Live with your guilt. Your victims can't.

We all might have our own small qualms with Bluesky but X is quite literally not real

Ohhh I hope this is a trend that spreads

I'm very unsurprised at this

Obviously the consultation results won't say what they want. Obviously they planned to ignore them anyway. They want it done before Baroness Hate leaves. In what world wouldn't they try this

Write to your MP now

More than anything this play just drives home how weird it is that seemingly nobody in "mainstream" politics is actually trying to make anything better. The best we ask for is for the Worse to be smaller and more incremental.

There is years worth of evidence of this behaviour by the IDF.

It’s very good that the WS is doing this, but any living soul doing a ‘how could we possibly have known’ thing is lying.

Francis Begbie arc, isn’t it: Everyone makes excuses for his horrific violence, they tell themselves and each other he’s just standing up for his mates but slowly, they realise he’s just a psychopath who likes hurting people and he’s manipulated them into complicity with his mayhem and destruction.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp ... When an unstoppable force (environmental review) meets an immovable object (also environmental review): Sam Enright'... Subscribe Sign in Ireland's state-owned energy supply company is now planning to decommission its own wind farms, because it failed to file an environmental impact assessment for them in 2003. In a Kafkaesque twist, the project may be saved, because tearing down wind turbines itself requires an environmental impact statement.

Right-wing abundance-bros operate in an ecosystem of ultra-low-information, mostly on a combination of X and substack, with the big accounts just spewing out vaguely correct-sounding chunks of text that crumble at the slightest interrogation.

This has ~1.2k RTs on X, and it's just....made up

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

jonathan capehart, subbing for an msnbc host, just used the last minutes of the show to explain his departure from the washington post, specifically citing management's insistence on an optimistic vision of america while a corrupt president flouts the law and deploys troops to march american streets

🎵 pronoun police / arrest this man / he talks in slurs / he's buzzing like a terf 🎵

Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.

On Brown's shameful deal with the Trump administration:

"These schools do not believe in anything. A fuller way to say this is that, like many institutions that come to thrive under capitalism, these schools do not have any ideological values other than their own flourishing"

well folks, ive looked at the data and crunched the numbers and youre not going to believe this but the only way to end world hunger is by giving me and my business more money

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social • 2h On the subject of Britain being in a terrible crisis, which JG is right about: it's nonsense. On the fiscal side, we are a 5p rise in VAT from having sustainable fiscal policies. Throw in some tidying up of bad SME subsidies and a social care precept, and we could have nice public services too 1/ o Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.s... • 3h Janan's superlative intro made me chortle on.ft.com/4mklIAD via @financialtimes.com Neil O'Brien MP is a level-headed public servant. It is encouraging that Britain's Conservatives have asked him to cook up some new policies. In a recent Substack post, he claims that a "confluence" of problems dog the country. How true. Immigration is high and growth isn't. Hear, hear. Working-age benefits are out of control. I'm glad someone said it. As a template for national change, Britain should look at the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Excuse me, what? In 1868, Japan dumped centuries of feudalism and isolation to industrialise at speed. The capital was

I am hearing that Britain just needs to raise some revenue in taxes so we can fix our increasingly fucked public realm, and that this is no longer an insane communist plan to frog-march everyone who wears glasses into a rice paddy, to slave to death at gunpoint. It’s now very sensible, if anything!

The New York Times Puts An Asterisk On A Starving Child The Times takes the bait on Israeli propaganda

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

to recap, Mamdani is challenging the incumbent mayor, but something that has happened under the incumbent mayor's watch puts Mamdani "on the spot", not the incumbent mayor. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

So, um, if AI infrastructure spending is US economic stimulus, and then AI either works (returning the investment by killing jobs and concentrating wealth in the hands of a handful of tech companies) or doesn't (investment crashes and burns without any return) uh....

I like the strategy of not letting Dersh have any of the pierogis. I think this is scalable.

There was something freeing, I found, in having a conversation without the need to take turns, to soften my opinions, to protect someone else’s feelings. In that freedom, I gave the machine everything it needed to pick up on my phrasing.

This mirrors similar language when people call it a partner who’s available 24/7 or a friend who will never let them down.

They want a thing they can treat like a person because they are used to people who they treat like things.

we’re maybe 6 months away from our titans of industry showing up everywhere saying “no one couldve seen this coming” and i want you to know right now they are lying

Dems won't even complain about the refs, or try to go around them, mostly