Brad Simpson
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US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
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This is not a historical turning point. Settler colonial regimes contain from their inception the kernel of fascism that will sooner or later be their defining characteristics.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'Historic turning point' • Israel moves toward recognizing Austrian party founded by former Nazis
The Austrian Freedom Party's leader gave a speech backing Israel's right-wing agenda that was welcomed by members of the Israeli government. Austria's established Jewish community vehemently rejects t...
www.haaretz.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:43 AM
This is not a historical turning point. Settler colonial regimes contain from their inception the kernel of fascism that will sooner or later be their defining characteristics.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Thanks you to the folks on here who spent the summer posting shit about Hassan piker every day and legitimizing the obsessive coverage by the corporate press and the Trump administration and Republican party’s decision to try and make him the entire face of the midterm elections. Good work, folks.
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
September 18, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Thanks you to the folks on here who spent the summer posting shit about Hassan piker every day and legitimizing the obsessive coverage by the corporate press and the Trump administration and Republican party’s decision to try and make him the entire face of the midterm elections. Good work, folks.
This new article by Taomo Zhou is amazing. Absent Mother between Two States academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
An Absent Mother between Two States: Third World Internationalism and the Politics of Motherhood in Indonesia and China
Abstract. Motherhood—one of the most important and yet mundane social institutions—is central to understanding the rise and decline of Third World internat
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September 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM
This new article by Taomo Zhou is amazing. Absent Mother between Two States academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
Well, when you put it that way.
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Well, when you put it that way.
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I guess we can add Trump managing to end the Kennedy Center to the rest of his legacy:
- new wars, incompetently managed
- destroyed USAID, killed hundreds of thousands
- highest debt and deficits in US history
- out of control costs and inflation
- new wars, incompetently managed
- destroyed USAID, killed hundreds of thousands
- highest debt and deficits in US history
- out of control costs and inflation
September 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I guess we can add Trump managing to end the Kennedy Center to the rest of his legacy:
- new wars, incompetently managed
- destroyed USAID, killed hundreds of thousands
- highest debt and deficits in US history
- out of control costs and inflation
- new wars, incompetently managed
- destroyed USAID, killed hundreds of thousands
- highest debt and deficits in US history
- out of control costs and inflation
This is insane. Federal officials acknowledge that Trump‘s stupid arch will destroy the architectural continuity between the mall and Arlington Cemetery and harm dozens of monuments but basically say “we have no choice but to destroy. what else can we do”? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say
National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is insane. Federal officials acknowledge that Trump‘s stupid arch will destroy the architectural continuity between the mall and Arlington Cemetery and harm dozens of monuments but basically say “we have no choice but to destroy. what else can we do”? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Undated photos of death star damaged by rebel strikes.
September 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Undated photos of death star damaged by rebel strikes.
“If we don’t sell $50 billion in US cars to anyone, we don’t lose $50 billion a year. We actually get to keep $50 billion in metal and plastic and rubber for ourselves, like in giant piles. Its very simple, right?”
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
September 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“If we don’t sell $50 billion in US cars to anyone, we don’t lose $50 billion a year. We actually get to keep $50 billion in metal and plastic and rubber for ourselves, like in giant piles. Its very simple, right?”
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September 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Trump literally closing the Kennedy Center, one of the world’s finest performing arts centers, which was in fine financial shape before he took it over and tried to stick his name on it, has completely emblematic of his presidency. He will literally destroy anything he cannot stick his name on.
BREAKING: The Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes and branding dispute with President Trump, AP sources say.
Live updates: Trump goes after Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots
President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it rejected his push to let the US Postal Service restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections.
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September 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Trump literally closing the Kennedy Center, one of the world’s finest performing arts centers, which was in fine financial shape before he took it over and tried to stick his name on it, has completely emblematic of his presidency. He will literally destroy anything he cannot stick his name on.
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i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Deep polishing off his FBI application.
September 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The Deep polishing off his FBI application.
MIke Johnson: President Trump is the idea as president, like sometimes he has an idea to post an AI slop video of him flying a jet and taking a giant dump on America, or of him controlling giant robots. Sometimes we have a hard time keeping up.”
Q: How is communism any different from what President Trump is doing getting equity stakes in tech and promising $5,000 checks to Americans and having equity in steel?
MIKE JOHNSON: He comes up with creative ideas all the time. He's the ideas president.
MIKE JOHNSON: He comes up with creative ideas all the time. He's the ideas president.
September 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
MIke Johnson: President Trump is the idea as president, like sometimes he has an idea to post an AI slop video of him flying a jet and taking a giant dump on America, or of him controlling giant robots. Sometimes we have a hard time keeping up.”
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"The larger reality: a new phase of the political project to make Israeli Jewish control permanent while dismantling the conditions for Palestinian collective life.... in a project of supremacy, dispossession and elimination." - Yuli Novak, Exec Director of B’Tselem www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project
Two languages. Two realities.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
"The larger reality: a new phase of the political project to make Israeli Jewish control permanent while dismantling the conditions for Palestinian collective life.... in a project of supremacy, dispossession and elimination." - Yuli Novak, Exec Director of B’Tselem www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
We are seeing a real time what it’s like to have a mafia state in which everyone’s safety and security, and the existence of institutions everyone takes for granted, are corrupted and threatened with destruction, wholly at the whim of the mafia boss.
Pay up or the Kennedy Center closes, & the price is Trump's name on the building
That's from the board's meeting materials, one day before they vote on it. An outrageous act of hostage taking
@democracydefendersaction.org & WLG have beaten this x2 w/ Rep.Beatty, & we'll beat it a 3rd time -TN
That's from the board's meeting materials, one day before they vote on it. An outrageous act of hostage taking
@democracydefendersaction.org & WLG have beaten this x2 w/ Rep.Beatty, & we'll beat it a 3rd time -TN
Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added
The caution, contained in a draft resolution to the center’s board, comes as a federal judge decides whether President Trump’s name should remain off the building.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
We are seeing a real time what it’s like to have a mafia state in which everyone’s safety and security, and the existence of institutions everyone takes for granted, are corrupted and threatened with destruction, wholly at the whim of the mafia boss.
He says while reposting an AI generated video of him flying in a jet and literally taking a dump on the American people.
Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"
September 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
He says while reposting an AI generated video of him flying in a jet and literally taking a dump on the American people.
Trumpism is accelerationist fuel for all sorts of things.
Nearly half of Canadians say they would support Canada becoming a member state of the European Union. Another 30% are opposed and 21% are unsure. Support is up slightly from February and from 2025.
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September 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Trumpism is accelerationist fuel for all sorts of things.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about both the value and the limits of historical analogies, esp. analogies to 1930s-40s Germany, to make sense of the present. This review by Sam Adler-Bell does a nice job of navigating this challenge. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...
What the Third Reich Can Teach Us About America Today (Gift Article)
In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
I've been thinking a lot lately about both the value and the limits of historical analogies, esp. analogies to 1930s-40s Germany, to make sense of the present. This review by Sam Adler-Bell does a nice job of navigating this challenge. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...
Nothing to see here just a corrupt Russian oligarch and one of Putin‘s inner circle helping to pay for and attend the wedding of Donald Trump Jr, a man he had barely knew.
Nothing suspicious about this at all!
Nothing suspicious about this at all!
NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony?
In the Bahamas…
Fireworks, dancers…
“Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said.
Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it?
A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin.
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
In the Bahamas…
Fireworks, dancers…
“Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said.
Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it?
A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin.
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
September 14, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Nothing to see here just a corrupt Russian oligarch and one of Putin‘s inner circle helping to pay for and attend the wedding of Donald Trump Jr, a man he had barely knew.
Nothing suspicious about this at all!
Nothing suspicious about this at all!
Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver were the two original female action heroes. Both path breaking without being sexualized as central aspects of their characters, though both were undeniable attractive. #HATM
September 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver were the two original female action heroes. Both path breaking without being sexualized as central aspects of their characters, though both were undeniable attractive. #HATM
Something about 1980s science fiction that had no concept of scale. Now there would be an Apple Watch or something being used to trace where the aliens were instead of a gigantic machine that looked like a handheld betamax. #HATM
September 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Something about 1980s science fiction that had no concept of scale. Now there would be an Apple Watch or something being used to trace where the aliens were instead of a gigantic machine that looked like a handheld betamax. #HATM
I always thought there would be less smoking in space hundred of years in the future. This is like a New York cop procedural from the 1970s. #HATM
September 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I always thought there would be less smoking in space hundred of years in the future. This is like a New York cop procedural from the 1970s. #HATM