Peter Kohan

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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Starbuck is also a #Covid conspiracy creep, anti-mask campaigner, and antivaxer who spread disinfo claiming the Covid vaccine was what killed actor Matthew Perry.

MPs urge UK to disclose if it holds spy plane footage of Al Jazeera journalist's killings Labour's Kim Johnson and independent MP Ayoub Khan call for transparency over British surveillance flights over Gaza after Ministry of Defence refuses to disclose information

The UK government may be complicit in Israel’s assassination of Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza.

I call for a full media blackout of UK Labour announcements, events and press releases until this has been fully, independently investigated

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-mps-...

Israel’s Emerging Occupation Consensus Despite misgivings about Netanyahu’s Gaza plans, most Israelis support his approach to the Palestinians.

It’s. Not. Just. Netanyahu.
Israel has become an unwell society.
www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

Trump's aluminum tariffs may force AriZona’s famous 99-Cent Iced Tea to increase in price for the first time in 3 decades: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/b...

If they come for the Costco hotdog meal, we riot.

US duties (AD/CVD) on imported Canadian lumber set to increase substantially: www.trade.gov/press-releas...

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

“you’re too confident!” packer is essentially saying, “you must understand that the people do not like us and we must genuflect to them before making our case.” this misses, however, the fact that whatever contempt voters have for liberals flows from a sense that their representatives are cowards

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Opinion | ‘Acute, Sustained, Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada Finds Its Voice

This piece lays out sharply how the U.S. is seen from the north, and from outside more broadly, in light of Trump’s lawless aggression & vandalism against international & domestic agreements & institutions, and of the absence of effective and meaningful US opposition
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

KC-area Democrats rally behind Rep. Cleaver as Missouri gerrymandering push looms “We will not allow the voices of Kansas City to be silenced, or our communities to be carved up for political gain,” said the chair of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus.

“We will not allow the voices of Kansas City to be silenced, or our communities to be carved up for political gain,” said the chair of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus.

If nothing else the enthusiasm of Trump &co for crypto is good evidence for this. As Paul Krugman noted recently, it's not clear what crypto is for except criming paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

He builds our city but the companies he works for treat him like he’s disposable. 80-hour weeks. Paychecks worth what 20 hours should earn. No sick leave. No safety. No dignity.
This isn’t the “American dream.” It’s wage theft in plain sight. Watch. Share. Demand change.

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant" Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

Opinion | Trump is letting Putin manipulate him, again The president’s desperation to end the Ukraine war might lead to another Munich moment with Russia.

By demanding all of Donbas, Putin is trying to achieve at the negotiating table what his troops have not been able to win on the ground. If Trump were to agree, it would be a reprise of the 1938 Munich agreement in which Chamberlain handed over to Hitler the Sudetenland. wapo.st/45rmMaW

He is only one of thousands of propagandist terrorists participating in the malicious influence industry and fueling the online MAGA presence, which is mostly foreign inauthentic botnets and commercial 'influence' firms operated and advised by former spooks.

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel.

ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza deepens rift between government and IDF | Lorenzo Tondo Israelis are united behind the army, and a clash with the military could have irreparable consequences for the administration

Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza deepens rift between government and IDF | Lorenzo Tondo

The $170 billion kidnapping machine is coming. Keep your town out of it. How to tell your local law enforcement to get out of bed with the secret police.

www.thefarce.org/the-170-bill...

Oh no. Just no.

Remember, Dems have the same power in CA that Rs do in Ohio - the AG approve the ballot language.

In Ohio, Rs used that to portray an anti-gerrymandering measure as pro-gerrymandering. Made a popular idea lose, voters got confused by it.

The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term Justices fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters place the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

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Genocide Debate over whether there’s a genocide in Gaza has special resonance when your family was a victim of the crime that gave the world the term.

“But – worst of all – the stain of this abomination will forever be on the Jewish people because we have not stopped this. Far too many have been far too silent.”

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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “Every Republican at every level of government should be challenged, even running for dog catcher… They should be challenged fighting for health care as a human right for every American… let them know there are consequences for taking away people’s health care…”

Need a NY Post version of this website
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If the bonuses given to ICE agents for hitting these targets aren’t clawed back, then there will be no incentive for ICE to curb their activities.

The contradiction matters: Immigration advocates say the pressure to meet daily targets has led the administration to flagrantly violate due process and cut corners. Judges keep citing it as they strike down Trump’s most aggressive deportation measures. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...