The circumstances of his life, his previous successes at remaining free, and his personality also.

Netanyahu's strategy for dealing with the ICC is revealed here. And he has acted on all the threats. What a thug.

Judge ‘baffled’ by confidentiality claims over ICE arrests of student protesters Trump administration attorneys tried arguing that the report of student activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is privileged.

As Aristotle explains, in a tyranny, the state peers into every secret of its subjects' lives, whereas the people have no right to scrutinize what the tyrant is doing or how he conducts the affairs of state. Here's a perfect demonstration of that point. www.courthousenews.com/judge-baffle...

BREAKING: OMB director Russ Vought said Pepfar had funded $9.3 million to teach doctors in Russia how to perform abortions.

It turned out to be untrue.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...

It wasn't credible on many levels including that everyone knows the US has the Helms Amendment which prohibits federal funding of abortion in foreign countries (similar to Hyde Amendment in US) which is sad because it could often be the best medicine.

Reform will never be complete without eliminating big money, which policy will always tilt towards. But eliminating Superdelegates might be a good start. Superdelegates were invented in the 1970's to prevent another McGovern nomination. Everyone unprincipled since.

As Trump's family businesses invest heavily in crypto...

-He's instructing the government to ease up on regulating the industry
-His SEC is dropping major lawsuits against crypto companies
-His DOJ terminated a team focused on crypto crimes.

See the problem?

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

Sooo arresting people for freedom of speech/ freedom of assembly?
Last time I checked assaulting and kidnapping citizens and legal residents on the streets is far more dangerous than a flyer.

Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document

Jeffrey Epstein had over 10x as many victims as previously alleged by the Justice Department, memo reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

I think grok is doing pretty well here. And it doesn't even ask the fundamental question, how did and do Jews continue to dominate US motion picture production? It's reasonable to believe it's for selling out to imperial interests better, or vice versa.

I don't think this disconnect comes from the people working on screens but those profiting from the work others do on them

Pro-life if "life" ends at birth.

This is an important piece from @lizdye.bsky.social tying together the various legal threads around Trump’s preposterous immigration lies. A mist-read:

THIS GROWTH in the unemployed, the destitute, the poor, and the sick

Great idea. May help chip away at the insane GOP coalition, and even if it replaced GOP completely that couldn't be any worse.

It’s not just mainstream media and Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Other top Democrats joined the pile-on over the weekend, all outright lying about what Mamdani said. First was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in an incoherent diatribe telling listeners on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Thursday that Mamdani ​“condoned global jihad” (she has since claimed she ​“misspoke”). Then Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said on CNN Saturday, ​“I do not associate myself with what [Mamdani] has said about the Jewish people.” Democratic Rep. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) said of Mamdani the same day on News Nation, ​“His comments about intifada, calls for violence against Jewish people, it’s really inappropriate for someone like that to lead the city of New York.” What’s important to note here is that Mamdani never said anything like this. Not even close. He never said ​“intifada” or to ​“globalize” anything, and certainly never said anything about harming ​“the Jewish people.”

Great analysis by @ahjohnson.bsky.social of the media-manufactured "meta-scandal" of Zohran Mamdani refusing to condemn something he never actually said: inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Divided G.O.P. to Decide Fate of President’s Policy Bill

Pro tip for NYT reporters: When talking about beneficiaries from Trump's tax deduction on car loans, point out that 90% of taxpayers take the standard deduction and would not benefit at all www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Get stuck with a crappy job now rather than getting on a better paying career path that you worked hard to be qualified for later.

This is Nazism, straight up. The Gas Chambers were an end point, not a definition.

"Most of these were listed under the category as having had their citizenship revoked, usually either due to being Jewish, political opponents of the Nazis, and/or having emigrated out of the Reich."

Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

Another horrific story about the Trump administration killing a ton of people—including many children—for absolutely no reason.

The food that would save these people's lives is sitting in a warehouse in Rhode Island. The government wouldn't let it be shipped. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Worth noting that Zohran won Hakeem Jeffries district.

Hakeem might not endorse him, but Hakeem’s constituents already have!

Israel turned Gaza's aid centers into death traps. The killing has to stop | Editorial ***

Ha'aretz editorial: The time has come to put an end to Netanyahu's killing fields in Gaza. The time has come to put an end to Netanyahu. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

No surprise, as banks were bailed out and no substantive changes made

G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.

Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.

It is utterly insane and destructive, just not foremost for the reasons he cites.

Probably doesn't help to have warships steaming around, and massive bombs dropped, and massive air defense used.