Peter Schurman

Delia Ramirez graphic showcasing all cosponsors.

31 members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, are currently cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act which would automatically withhold the transfer or sale of offensive weaponry to Israel.

Here are their names:

Two AIPAC-backed Dems announce support for ban on offensive weapons for Israel Reps. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) flip-flopped on their previous opposition to block military aid to the Jewish state

It fell under the radar but Valerie Foushee and Maxine Dexter, two Dem congresswomen who enjoyed huge amounts of AIPAC & DMFI financial support in 2022 and 2024, have come out in favor of blocking offensive weapons from being given to Israel. Foushee also renounced taking AIPAC money in the future.

Actual corruption.

That’s Gavin for you. Always talking a good game, but…

He has announced there will be a special referendum in November to approve this.

This.

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In retrospect, it feels like Silicon Valley’s soul really died with Steve Jobs.

I don’t think this was clear at the time, despite all the hagiography. But what a sea-change it has been.

Too bad Beto is just another poser. We need more than talk from our leaders. Credit where credit is due, he’s saying the right things here, but he’s had an opportunity to do a lot more and hasn’t.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

The president who is standing up for American interests is Zelensky. Trump is only for our enemies and himself. Which is redundant.

@buffywicks.bsky.social @jessearreguin.bsky.social please push for this. 💯

ICYMI: Lina Khan wrote at @nytopinion.nytimes.com about our campaign's connection to small businesses and why we need to fight the concentrated economic power that too often suffocates them.

It's not just good for a thriving local economy — it's good politics too.

The answer is Yes. Israel has killed over 1200 Palestinians gathered at food distribution sites since May. An IDF soldier called it "a killing field."

The Redistricting Mess Shows How Our Election System Doesn’t Work With our winner-take-all elections, the ideal of a ‘fair’ map is impossible. Proportional representation is the only answer.

We're now in a redistricting arms race. Dems are properly fighting back.
But the endgame lets mapmakers pick lawmakers and render elections irrelevant.
Yet the problem is not the mapmakers; it's the maps.
The debacle reflects the urgent need for proportional representation.
From me:

New poll: Two thirds of Democrats and a majority of all American voters under the age of 45 say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

Occupying Gaza, which Israel has tried and abandoned before, will not bring back the hostages or enable ceasefire negotiations.

It will only drag this deadly conflict out even longer.

“a crucial insight that progressives must internalize: not all electoral victories offer equal ideological returns.”

'Pele of Palestine' killed by Israeli fire in Gaza aid queue | The National Suleiman Al Obaid played for local football clubs as well as Palestinian national team

The IDF shot and killed "The Pele of Palestine", Sulaiman al Obaid, while he waited on line for food. No comment from FIFA. So we've made calls to FIFA. Whatever good that will do, at minimum aren't going to afford them the privilege of looking away. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

The Unparalleled Devastation of Gaza Why punishing civilians has not yielded strategic success.

"It's been clear from Israeli actions—including targeting of children by snipers...—as well as the rhetoric of Israeli officials that Israel’s war is not simply against Hamas but aimed at all the residents of Gaza" www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/unpar...

Idiot who gives men a bad name

J Street head says he was ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - Jewish Telegraphic Agency J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami joined a growing number of Jewish voices accusing Israel of committing genocide.

“Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide. I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention.”

www.jta.org/2025/08/04/u...

YouTube video by The Daily Show Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show

This is extremely good. Worth watching in full even if you’re familiar with the facts. So well expressed by @peterbeinart.bsky.social and @jonstewart2028.bsky.social

youtu.be/X5kXCdzt_us

Trump shredding the constitution in the middle of fifth avenue, MAGA silently watches on the sidelines.

The Library of Congress got caught quietly altering its online display of the Constitution, removing Sections 9 and 10 of Article I. Trump's least favorite sections which guarantees the right to challenge unlawful detention and requires the government to justify confinement.

Happening now: at the Vice President's house. Secret meeting to plan the Epstein coverup and the next phase of the billionaire pedophile ring!!

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The 1945 Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that the bombings were unnecessary.

Source: www.jstor.org/stable/3640894

Unfortunately, more people saw the pro-bombing videos justifying the bombings and many older people still believe the war crimes saved American lives. Propaganda sucks.

In terms of the starvation of Gaza being a deliberate act, that is quite common. Netanyahu ranks with the likes of Sudan’s previous dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in terms of the way that he’s used starvation as a weapon. The way that Israel and Gaza is unique is that the system of control is extraordinarily tight and precise. So in the worst sieges in Syria, people could smuggle themselves in and out. Food could get in if you bribed the right people or knew where the tunnels were. The same is true in Sudan. In Gaza, that just isn’t possible. And the other feature that makes Gaza unique is that you have a capable international system that could respond basically at a moment’s notice. If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen.

Famine expert ranks Bibi with Bashar in using starvation

In Gaza "you have a capable international system that could respond at a moment’s notice. If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...