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Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

Israel has just completely cooked its reputation among Democratic voters www.thenation.com/article/poli...

every debate question is like “zohran, you want to make life better for all new yorkers. number one, is that realistic? and two, are you fucking stupid?”

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If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve OTTAWA - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has vowed to improve anti-American sentiment he sees in Canada, no matter how many illegal tariffs, forced annexations, or literal bombs it takes to do it.

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

somehow we elected a liberal government but got danielle smith’s climate and energy policy

He's Doug Ford

the impossible millennial dream

CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants

"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"

You want to discuss “facts”? You said I am a problem. @grok, Just admit you’re programmed to behave like a leftist. There is nothing factual about what you just said about me, GROK. Apologize. Now. And apologize to @elonmusk who wants to crack down on the destruction of the West.

Laura Loomer, who the president has consulted for decisions on who to fire, is arguing with a chatbot

some children in a concentration camp were born with or acquired disabilities and/or illness? how did that happen?

The key difference between the left and the centre is that (many) liberals philosophically reject the idea that democratic rights extend into the workplace

They imagine that “democracy” is something you do once every four years at a ballot box, then you return to a workplace run like a dictatorship

Every time labour in Canada stands up to management, the Liberal government steps in on the side of management. It's pathological.

It's also bad for the economy, bad for these businesses who have constantly pissed-off workforces, and bad for everyone's safety.

BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.

The Liberals are profoundly, unabashedly anti-worker.

They always force binding arbitration... unless it's what the workers want, like with Canada Post, then for some reason it's off the table.

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...

I donated $10 to Global Sumud Flotilla ❤️🖤💚🍉 chuffed.org/project/1388...

It’s only problematic through a capitalist lens -- to people who mistake community for a growth metric rather than a space for actual conversation.

Votes are not done, and more than half the Senate Democratic caucus has voted to block weapons sales to Israel.

Such an idea was nearly unimaginable before.

The politics of Israel-Palestine are changing in the US.

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

I think you're thinking about it the wrong way. It isn't going to change people's minds if they're planning to visit the Island anyway, but it will considerably lower the barrier to entry for people in the area (either tourists or otherwise). There will certainly be more interest at $20.

2 for $12 Arbynators

One to eat; one to inject into my veins

"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."

After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.

Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada' Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

Fuck Cars.

"He was hit by a car while on his daily walk in his home village of Beas Pind in the Punjab region of India"

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

I inquired and was told by the ADL that people are understandably on edge but everyone needs to calm down and keep bombing Iran

They Went to Get Flour With Their Mother in Gaza. “She Came Back in a White Shroud.” A brother and sister went with their mother to get food at a U.S. aid site in Rafah. Israeli forces shot her before their eyes.

“Israel killed my mother,” Ahmed told The Intercept. “We were waiting at the U.S. aid distribution point in Rafah.”