Lynn Brenner

Mamdani sign: No one's actually leaving for Florida

© Reuters Subscribe = Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists at West Bank olive harvest, witnesses say By Reuters November 8, 2025 1:42 PM CST • Updated 4 hours ago Aa ㄱ K PBFES

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

They weren't terrorists. They weren't cartel members. They had no fentanyl. And they weren't coming here.

They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.

Most importantly, they were human beings.

And they were murdered.

By the government of the United States of America.

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Yes, it was delicious.

A brutal, precise, and delightful dismissal.

The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"

Neighboring headlines in the same country.

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story. Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.

Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

(Published Dec. 2022)

😂😂

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents.

by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.

Live From New York: Zohran Mamdani’s Got Jokes

😆😆🥰 gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...

It's like self-parody. Doonesbury captured Trump's decorating taste decades ago, and he didn't have to exaggerate it even by a fraction!

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Important to remember:

White people “not feeling safe” has been the consistent primary moral justification for horrific violence against indigenous and Black people since the 1600s.

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

11/7/01: Robert Altman masterpiece Gosford Park
Brilliant ensemble, Altman's camera, production design all soar
More:
@szacharek.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2001/12/26/g...
@carynjames.bsky.social: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=141574

Our National Director, Jonathan Jacoby, is deeply concerned by the divisive and hyperbolic response from some corners of the American Jewish community to the election of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The Tories’ Dangerous Drift In the U.K., a shocking proposal from a Conservative MP elicited pushback from her party only belatedly. It signals darker things to come.

"The party always had its share of bigots and idiots, but it also contained serious people with a sane approach to governance. Even in its worst post-Brexit manifestations, it wasn’t this. What on earth happened?" www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

Judge Immergut rules against the administration in the Portland Nat’l Guard case, granting a permanent injunction even after giving Trump’s decision “great deference.”

Watch to the end

The easiest political layup for Democrats in recent memory. That’s even compared to a lot of other easy layups.

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them. The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

It’s been days. Has Ezra Douthglesias written yet about how Republicans have alienated the median voter with stuff like trying to starve people & must instead Do An Abundance Of Popularism? 👇 looks like the exact opposite of the thing Democrats Must Do & yet it seems like total 🦗🦗 from the Pundits.

Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire Even for him, his latest whopper is something

Unbelievable -- all too believable. Sam Altman asks federal government to provide loan guarantees for the billion dollar investments in data centers, then lies about it. @garymarcus.bsky.social h/t @davekarpf.bsky.social
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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