Sashank K.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Thankfully, my brother-in-law is wonderful unlike Mr. Vance.

My family speaks the same language Usha and her parents do. My sister married a Jewish-Catholic white man. If my brother-in-law were to say the same Vance nonsense about how my sister and I were less American than he was, my sister wouldn't stay quiet about it, like Usha's has. I certainly wouldn't.

We still have juries although judges have huge influence on trials.

IDF says it deliberately struck a photojournalist whose work was used by a range of Western media on October 7. His specific crime, according to the IDF: "Asilh documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson and murder to social media."

Can we talk about how in the age of DOGE era blatantly illegal actions by Trump administration officials why they're using an application that's not sanctioned for use by the federal government with DISAPPEARING MESSAGES turned on. How is corrupt and illegal behavior being ignored?

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Judge Rules Trump Officials Must Testify in DOGE Data Lawsuit Read more here.

A federal judge ordered Trump officials to testify under oath about the extent of DOGE’s access to sensitive data and work.

Yeah, what's going on? I'm trying to access some articles.

Didn't they say federal workers wouldn't be able to work from home anymore? Also, his work involves all sorts of classified information. If he's going to work from home, they have to run background checks on everyone there and make sure the area is secure.

You or Bernie (or both) should be the speaker to the American people in the Democratic rebuttal. Actually use slides or something to show them all of what Trump and this congress are doing. Don't make it short. You get this one chance where they/we might be paying attention.

I was thinking the cabinet meeting was exactly like the meetings Putin staged on TV in the lead up and early moments of the start of the 2022 invasion.

Yeah, I wondered if the intention was to challenge Trump and co. on air and not sign it, but that's a terrible and unpredictable plan. The Ukrainian ambassador wouldn't have her head in her hands if this were planned.

I know our history is mixed at best, especially during the Cold War and with the Iraq invasion, but I never thought we'd sink to this level. I'm trying to resist making a Star Wars analogy here.

Yup. The GOP was bad long before 2016. It was bad in 2009 when I started blogging about it. It was bad in 2006 when Tom Mann and @normornstein.bsky.social wrote The Broken Branch. It was bad at least from the 1990s on, when it was the party of Newt and Rush. And it just got worse, worse, and worse.

Hey, you're still on BlueSky. Let's go #KNICKS! Thoughts on how Mitch might fit coming back now that he's practicing 5 on 5? Definitely off the bench to start. But I think he cleans up our defensive flaws. Having Hart move to the three helps our offense keep flowing. We loose Bridges 3s though.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

But it's clear that EU countries and the US became involved because of Libya's role in supplying oil to Europe. Contrast their response to intervene in Libya with their decision otherwise with Syria until ISIS rose up. Also, the US efforts with Saudi Arabia is clearly about blocking Iran and China.

Also, you mention Libya as an argument against NATO. The moment EU countries and the US got involved in Libya to prevent a massacre in Benghazi (with a UNSC resolution backing it), where was the off ramp. Were the rebels and Gaddhafi going to settle?

The problem's always been foreign policy in service of corporate profit and interest, first under the guise of fighting communism and now with no front. That said, it's the West that established the UN and concepts of international law that you keep appealing to, that the West undermines.

No other country spends as much per capita (as far as I can tell) for the type of research that the NIH funds as the United States. It's why a lot of scientists have chosen the US over other countries. That includes Canada (1.26B (Canadian $) per 40M, vs. $35-48B per 334M

How about the people who were silent and didn't push Biden to change his policy towards Israel like they pushed for him to step down after the debate with Trump?

Well, we need to get as much aid in and documentation of the devastation as possible and set up monitoring systems as possible in the next six weeks.

- Pages referencing #disability / disability policy also now missing

Is there any chance you can pick a venue without a blanket arbitration clause (so I can support your work)? That was my initial problem with the NYTimes that caused me to unsubscribe (and many more have have come up since, but I'd already unsubscribed. Your leaving is more or less the last straw).

Cooking at home's definitely healthier than cheap restaurant food, but for a single person instead of a family, it's not really that much cheaper, at least in NYC.

Yeah, he's fun to watch in everything he's in, starting with Justified.

‘Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel-Gaza policy Mike Casey, one of only two people explicitly focused on Gaza, left over inaction and doing ‘what the Israelis want’

"We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.” - Mike Casey, the US diplomat working on Gaza who just quit his job.

The real answer is that the license reverts to Disney if Sony doean't keep releasing movies.

But he IS part of the original sinister 6. Sony seems to be really into turning the Spider-Man anti-villains into anti-heroes.

Also, you never watched the 90s Spider-Man cartoon?

I only get my Ben Shapiro channeled through you guys. But my impression is that he is not at all populist and very much a conservative capitalist non-populist guy. Actually pretty standard older Paul Ryan style conservatism (including the lies).