Emma Vigeland

That is interesting. The dynamic that I'm referring to is that liberal Zionists would probably tell a pollster that they're sympathetic towards Palestinians, and they may be, but they would pin the actions of the Israeli government on Netanyahu and call it a day without examination or reflection.

The amount of handholding that liberal Zionists require to be led to a place of basic humanity towards Palestinians, beyond the "it's awful" handwave, only to retreat to a belief in an ethnostate maintained by force, is a Sisyphean exercise enabled by privilege and whiteness.

A Democrat for the Trump Era Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Hmm...

RFK Jr. reportedly plans to fire preventive care task force Some conservatives have urged Kennedy to replace the current members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

An explicitly pro-big Pharma action.

Preventive care is the best way to avoid the worst health outcomes and future high costs, and RFK Jr is gutting the panel responsible for determining preventive services that insurers must cover because of, uh, "woke." www.axios.com/2025/07/28/k...

Commerce Sec. Lutnick says TikTok will go dark if China won't agree to U.S. control of the social media app President Donald Trump extended the deadline for Chinese divestiture for a third time, giving ByteDance until Sept. 17.

The Trump regime wants to force a sale of TikTok to Oracle (the Ellison family, who just bought CBS) so they can use it for information warfare and right wing propaganda.

The "national security" stuff is a complete front, but you'd be hard pressed understanding any of this from media coverage.

Gaza is at a stage of irreversible famine, when bodies start consuming their organs. Even if they were fed today, many are past the point of absorbing nutrients.

Israel has already been suppressing the true death toll, but we're at an inflection point. This means MASS GRAVES.

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador He called it "an encounter with torture and death."

Absolutely horrific. Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador

Trump is taking on the "deep state" by dumping endless COINTELPRO blackmail records about Martin Luther King Jr, to the glee of white supremacists, while covering up pedophilic blackmail records, also likely an intelligence operation, that he and his buddies are implicated in.

Trump dumping COINTELPRO material on MLK is beyond parody.

It’s worth noting that the most recent change to mandatory detention law took place in January of this year with the passage of the Laken Riley Act, which dozens of Democrats supported. This policy dating back to the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act meant that immigrants with certain crimes could be denied

Assessing Crime At Midyear The trends aren't set in stone but they are clearly established.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The US is on track to have the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded for the third straight year in 2025."

- NYC, Philly, San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, etc, had the lowest murder rate since the 60s
- Violent crime is down 11% vs last year, property crime down 12%

This will only fuel the MAGA demands for the full release of everything. Such a shame.

WSJ has a serious investigative news desk bc their non-opinion stuff has to reliably inform people in the business/finance worlds of the social conditions that will shape the economy. the NYT politics desk and senior leadership, otoh, seem to have decided their core mission is to discipline the left

Republicans want you to believe that publicly-funded media is corrupted and propagandistic, as corporate news outlets like CBS throw their standards out the window because the parent company wants a merger approved by the president. Capital is the corrupting agent in America.

Perhaps if you'd raised a stink about some of the previous nominations that you voted in favor of, the GOP wouldn't think that it was so easy to get across anyone they wanted...

The public is pissed about Epstein in no small part because he was a rich guy who got away with heinous crimes because he deliberately cultivated rich friends. That's an inequality story. The only way it could be closer to "kitchen table issues" is if the files were tucked in a goddamn pocketbook!

"It is worth briefly considering the dystopia of this situation and its aftermath." Yes. I have seen countless posts about this clip and this is the first time I have seen someone — rightfully — asking if this is really the way we want to engage with social media, public life, and each other.

"The accumulation of blood in his ankles and those pudgy fingers suggests a complete lack of blood flow to his brain and penis," said a source at Walter Reed.

can't find a single interview since this happened

He could have also been given the means to kill himself! It could have been strongly encouraged

I mean COME ON, people. Derisively calling this shit a "conspiracy theory" at this point means you have way too much trust in our government. I'm going to guess you own a home...

The pattern emerging here could not be more disturbing. First, the conservative supermajority rewarded Trump for breaking the law by firing leaders of independent agencies, erasing removal protections enacted by Congress. Then, the same justices allowed Trump to deport immigrants to random countries without due process, nullifying the Convention Against Torture and other limits imposed by Congress. Now this same clique has gone even bigger, letting Trump effectively kill off an entire agency, paralyzing dozens (perhaps hundreds) of statutory duties assigned to it by Congress. Is any law disfavored by a Republican president safe from this Supreme Court? Is it accurate to call the United States a nation of laws when our highest court will simply suspend laws disfavored by a Republican president? There are words to describe countries in which a strongman leader works with a captured judiciary to hobble the legislature, consolidate power, and declare himself free from legal restraints on his reign. Democracy is not one of them.

The Supreme Court has been letting Trump violate more and more laws. But last night’s order allowing Trump to destroy the Education Department may be worse: It seems SCOTUS will let this president illegally restructure the government itself to consolidate unlimited power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

*corrected a previous post to accurately name the Office of Education

Trump's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education go back to the post-Civil War era, when Andrew Johnson gutted the Office of Education in his undermining of Reconstruction, leading to Jim Crow and decades of systemic racism.

The Southern Strategy is alive and thriving.

The Trump administration and Russ Vought are "reverse-engineering" CFPB settlements, including one that would have forced Navy Federal Credit Union to return $80 million to veterans and Navy servicemen/women, and $48 million to harmed Toyota customers. apnews.com/article/cfpb...

You can’t be justifying your own pessimism about other Americans like this when we’ve got polling data that says every time a spotlight gets shined on deportation or detention, the polling for Trump on that issue takes a huge hit.

(Chart from @gelliottmorris.com)

No worries. It's all circumstantial, and it could be both US/Israeli intel, but:

1) Acosta reportedly said Epstein "belonged to intelligence," giving him a cushy plea deal in 07
2) Maxwell's father's ties to Mossad
3) Ehud Barak was his buddy
4) The mysterious way he got his fortune via Les Wexner