Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg & Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
Here's my former Chicago Tribune colleague Gerry Doyle with an incisive short thread about the Trump regime's approach to war with Iran. Gerry calls it "the owniest goal that ever own goaled.” 🧵🧵🧵
Gerry Doylethe problem here isn't military, it's the way the military was used. what was the desired outcome? could that be achieved by long-range strike alone? (answer to the first question is a series of question marks, answer to the second is "no")
Refusing to just say, “in races that Democrats had won” is a such a good example of The View From Nowhere.
Bits and Bobs'In this scenario, Speaker Johnson’s designee, at Mr. Trump’s instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republicans in races that Democrats believed they had won.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
this guy sucks.
#StupidSuez2028 presidential contender Senator Mark Kelly says he is "always going to stand by (our ally) Israel" on Sunday's Meet the Press at NBC. He denies the Gaza genocide, says Bibi made "some mistakes" and criticizes Mamdani for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.
Kinda funny that the WHCA permanently canceled the stand up when Michelle Wolf called them complacent and made fun of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ make up, but it meekly accepts deranged hate speech from the President. Funny because of what it reveals about the industry and its values, not ha-ha funny.
The grumbling ValkanoGreat take from @sulliview.bsky.social about the cowardly Washington press corps sucking up to Trump. When Trump subpoenaed Times reporters to coerce revealing sources, the dinner should have been canceled in protest. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
There are some potential mitigating factors that the Supreme Court did not address. A lot of local elections are nonpartisan. Does the court's new test prioritizing partisanship over race play any role where there is no partisan affiliation? We don't know www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision Will Reach Far Beyond CongressThousands of seats held by Black, Latino and Native officeholders at the local level could be threatened by the court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais.www.huffpost.com
More insidiously, I think the emphasis of negation is on “people.” As in zero PEOPLE… like, yes, there’s hierarchy of humanity, and he‘s qualifying which kind of person counts, I guess. But the race-war thinking at times rests on not even entertaining the idea of non-white folks’ personhood
Greg SargentOn some level, fact-checking Musk's "zero died" claim misses the point. He's communicating in a coded race-war trope that his global fascist audience will instantly grasp: Zero people died *who matter.* He sees these USAID cuts as a dry run for much worse to come. newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Exceptional clarity from Science magazine but we need to take this one step further. Their design to break academic science is coupled with their design to re-segregate higher education and control culture, ideas, and memory. It fits with anti-DEI policies and Trump disclaimers at the Smithsonian.
i seem to recall intense backlash from both parties when a multiracial coalition of young people suggested policy proposals that would reduce these deaths. Maybe the question is, who is we?
Will BunchAre we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
This isn’t complicated. They want teen girls to have babies. It’s an efficient way to derail their education and keep them in low-paid jobs forever. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
The Trump Admin’s New Teen Pregnancy Prevention Plan Hinges on MAHA and AbstinenceThis story was originally published by States Newsroom. The Trump administration has...talkingpointsmemo.com
The world is a complicated place, and there are often no good solutions to terrible and destructive problems, but one thing we can all agree on is that Donald Trump did not do for you more than your own father and mother (or whoever raised you) did for you. Christ, he didn't even raise his own kids.
