Matthew Rothenberg

Centrist D66 party will win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power

This is a nice little counterpoint to all the right-wing insurgencies pretty much everywhere else! 😬

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If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?”

And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.

Destruction of WH East Wing

Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔

All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳

(Singing this to the tune of “Raspberry Beret”!) 🎶

No question about that … But POC have sure been doing the work/putting themselves on the line at anti-ICE rallies and such! ❤️

Many white people say “No Kings!” at a demonstration in Grand Rapids.

RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!

So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Starmer’s narrowly beating Truss!

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

Perfect headline! 😇

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The baby isn’t in her PLACENTA, silly! It’s in her TUMMY.

No! Sounds like I should be! 🙂

Is there any organized knowledge-sharing afoot about effective tactics to subvert and thwart the invasions of US cities? I’d love to learn about innovative practices that can scale.

Bless Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To Humanity In which she tells us who she'd launch into space.

Please watch her final words to us all. They are beautiful and have given me a grounding sort of hope. Maybe they’ll help you too.

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The comments have me wheezing with mirth!! THANK YOU.

It seems to me this is performative if:

1. Libraries as we understood them are no longer relevant resources
2. Pulling books is an isolated act that creates no precedent for wider efforts to restrict access to information

Do you think those statements are true? I’d challenge them.

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’ Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

Stand-up bends the knee for MBS.

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Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. … He told his detractors to ‘get over it, ‘ adding, ‘So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way.’ “

I think Bend the Arc would agree.

It’s Zionist organizations that have wrapped themselves in Jewish branding to claim that they speak for all Jews.

Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliances

“Darker and weirder” should be this regime’s slogan.

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Holy smokes! “Exurban reactionary swinger” totally nails it! 🍍

Right? Even if I could stomach any position he took, he was a podcaster who argued with college kids. 🙄🙄🙄

“Behind Horst Wessel’s Journey of National Pride.”

Call ‘em Plazas of the Fallen Edgelord.

RE claims that these aren’t First Amendment issues because corporations are doing the censoring and censuring: Threats from the administration are the definition of government censorship.

Not so current for me: The Times’ credulity about the Iraq invasion was not a good sign of things to come.

I’m dismayed by its readiness to platform this administration’s narratives without IMO sufficient challenges and its attempts to be even-handed about extremist craziness.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Gift article: I’m so glad I ditched WaPo. (I really need to do the same with the NYT.) 🤢

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Turns out I’m not the only one who made this connection.