Zeeshan Aleem

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

The completely uncritical framing here reminds of Iraq war reporting www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Former DSA leader Diana Moreno hopes to replace Zohran Mamdani in the Assembly She is one of three DSA members currently planning to run for the seat.

Some personal news: I’m preparing to run for Zohran’s Assembly seat.

As a Queens mom, an immigrant organizer, and a democratic socialist, I’m ready to fight for the working people of Queens! LET’S WIN THIS!🔥

(DM me for volunteer/ donation form ✊🏽)

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omfg

The thing that drives me crazy about the whole enterprise is that there is no substantive position other than "it is disrespectful to question leaders," a kind of unthinking institutional conservatism masquerading as ... "independent" renegade thinking??

Opinion | What Karine Jean-Pierre’s disastrous book tour reveals about Biden loyalists The former White House press secretary's new book exposes a problem in the Democratic Party — just not the one she thought it did.

I wrote about Karine Jean-Pierre's tragicomic book tour. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

🚫 NO DMS 🚫 NO CRYPTO 🚫 NO TELLING ME THAT SOMETHING IS "BOFA" 🚫 NO SLEIGHT OF HAND TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS THOUGH YOU HAVE PULLED A QUARTER OUT OF MY EAR 🚫 NO PRETENDING TO HAVE "GOTTEN MY NOSE" 🚫 NO ASKING ME "PETE AND RE-PEAT WERE IN A BOAT, PETE FELL OUT, WHO WAS LEFT" 🚫

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

Truck carrying lab monkeys from Tulane University crashes on I-59 Officials said the monkeys weigh about 40 pounds each, are aggressive toward humans and require personal protective equipment to handle.

New pandemic just dropped www.fox8live.com/2025/10/28/t...

There is a lot of movement involved, but also the appreciation of life.

Opinion | "A House of Dynamite" is a reminder of the folly of our nuclear era Kathryn Bigelow's riveting national security thriller raises questions about the world's complacency on nuclear policy.

I don't think it's a perfect movie, but I appreciated Kathryn Bigelow making a movie that questioned the security state instead of fawning over it. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

screenshot of amazon corporate blog post announcing massive layoffs, titled, "Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations"

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

Which is to say, if the NYPost was culturally literate instead of filled with illiterate xenophobes, they'd know it's completely accurate.

A lot of people here don't know that in many South Asian cultures, this is literally *the accurate terminology* for referring to an aunt. So this isn't even something like a casual drift in terminology, or loosely referring to a loved one as an aunt or an uncle.

Which is to say, if the NYPost was culturally literate instead of filled with illiterate xenophobes they'd know it's completely accurate.

A lot of people here don't know that in many South Asian cultures, this is literally *the accurate terminology* for referring to an aunt. So this isn't even something like a casual drift in terminology, or loosely referring to a loved one as an aunt or an uncle.

In 'Independent,' Karine Jean-Pierre says the two-party system isn't working Karine Jean-Pierre has spent most of her career as a Democrat, working on four presidential campaigns and serving in the Obama and Biden administrations. But her days as a member of the Democratic Par...

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Absolutely mind-boggling that this insane rhetoric is coming from a professional communicator.

Isaac is an excellent interviewer, but if you see KJP in other recent interviews you'll see that it's not hard to get her to sound as if she has no clue what she stands for. It's particularly hard to watch with the premise of her book / new identity being that she's "independent."

humiliating interview. KJP is a remarkable figure honestly.

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis has largely stayed out of the public eye as the paper has scaled back its staff and altered the direction of its opinion page. But that hasn't stopped him from recruiting. In recent months, Lewis attempted to hire the Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold, two people familiar with the situation told Semafor, an idea that he discussed with owner Jeff Bezos, who supported the move. The idea was for Reingold to serve as one of the first new faces in the paper's overhauled opinion section, with Bezos' new focus on free markets and personal liberties. The attempt to hire Reingold to create written and video opinion content is part of the Post's push to make the paper's journalists engage in different mediums; the paper announced earlier this year that it was launching a creator network and hiring staff to create more personality-driven content. Reingold declined to comment; a spokesperson for the Post said the paper doesn't comment on hiring discussions.

Semafor newsletter via @willsommer.bsky.social. I have expired. I am deceased.

In my Chicago neighborhood this weekend: candy drive for kids who can't safely go out to trick or treat because of ICE; big visible letter-writing campaign at an outdoor block party; low-flying Blackhawk helicopter over a children's baseball game; whistle brigades everywhere. #chicagostrong

Human beings were not built to be perceived by 1000s of strangers every single day. Again, this is not natural. The younger you are the less tools you have to withstand this.

speaking in really broad strokes, in general "fame" broadly defined is unpleasant in many ways for most people., and it fucks up probably a plurality of them?

for sure! and also a better baseline for what's "normal" and better intuition for when validation is coming from the wrong place.

I think most adults don't either! And many who think they can handle it become visibly psychologically and spiritually disfigured by it. I'd probably sub in "resilience" or "stoicism" or "healthy ego & ability to detach" for "fortitude" in terms of how I'm thinking about it though.

I think I'm probably going to delete my post because, to your second point, I may be underestimating the diversity of grievances among the crowds and was abroad during the last one (so read online about it).

Maybe it's off the mark, but based on organizational descriptions and talking points, and from coverage I saw, it seemed to not be a focal point. But these things are hard to measure (organizers vs demographic that shows up at different locations) so maybe I'm off the mark.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

Seems bad that an anonymous private citizen is paying the army www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This country is an empire. What do you have to say about that?

From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says the Progressive Caucus had an official rule/provision of not taking a position on Palestine. Literally the Progressive Except ... Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community

See? Fucking madness. Ro Khanna reveals the Congressional Progressive Caucus had a rule of not taking a position on Palestine. The U.S. political establishment and media establishment are the origins of the exceptional treatment of Israel, not anti-Zionists/leftists.

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