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It was all a lie. Israel didn’t care about the hostages. They just wanted to destroy Gaza.
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The truth about Hamas and the hostages
YouTube video by Zeteo
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September 19, 2026 at 3:33 AM
It was all a lie. Israel didn’t care about the hostages. They just wanted to destroy Gaza.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1X...
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Dudamel at the NY Phil. Wow.
September 19, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Dudamel at the NY Phil. Wow.
“The politics have shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power and control over the land.”
Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project
Two languages. Two realities.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2026 at 6:34 AM
“The politics have shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power and control over the land.”
Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Cartoon from the Economist
September 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Cartoon from the Economist
Great day in Chelsea today
September 9, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Great day in Chelsea today
Apple is a bunch of complicit suck ups too. All of them are pathetic. Totally greedy and spineless.
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Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as Lake America after Trump order
The iPhone maker follows rival technology giant Google in relabelling the Great Lake.
www.bbc.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Apple is a bunch of complicit suck ups too. All of them are pathetic. Totally greedy and spineless.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Yorker cartoon by Jared Nangle
September 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
New Yorker cartoon by Jared Nangle
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Seriously Google? Trying to stroke the most fragile ego on earth? Lake America ? You’re pathetic.
August 31, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Seriously Google? Trying to stroke the most fragile ego on earth? Lake America ? You’re pathetic.
This is a full on fascist move. One of many by him and his thugs.
President Trump said NBC’s Kristen Welker “will be reported” to the FCC for “rebuke or punishment” after she reported that the president has had mixed results with his endorsements in races this cycle.
Trump Pushes FCC to Punish Journalists Over ‘Fake Polls” and His Endorsements
The president said NBC’s Kristen Welker “will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” after she reported on his endorsement record.
www.notus.org
August 30, 2026 at 10:28 PM
This is a full on fascist move. One of many by him and his thugs.
Bizarro by Dan Piraro
August 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Bizarro by Dan Piraro
This is unconscionable and horrifying. It’s also inhumane and illegal. Most of the American people don’t seem to care much either. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This is unconscionable and horrifying. It’s also inhumane and illegal. Most of the American people don’t seem to care much either. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
Zionism. How can one look at the history of the Palestinians and not understand that for Zionism to exist, another people must suffer and ultimately be subjugated or erased. Until that is acknowledged by the Israelis, there will never be justice or peace.
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A week of Israeli settler violence in occupied West Bank
The BBC's Lucy Williamson reports on settler attacks on Palestinians, which have been observed over the last week alone.
bbc.com
August 29, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Zionism. How can one look at the history of the Palestinians and not understand that for Zionism to exist, another people must suffer and ultimately be subjugated or erased. Until that is acknowledged by the Israelis, there will never be justice or peace.
bbc.com/news/videos/...
bbc.com/news/videos/...
New Yorker cartoon by Tim Hamilton
August 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
New Yorker cartoon by Tim Hamilton
Texas wants to ban more than 2200 books. Of course there are mostly LGBT and books written by Black authors. But there are so many books that are a mystery to me. There’s a few that my freshman Catholic high school teacher, who was a priest, assigned in class.
www.khou.com/article/news...
www.khou.com/article/news...
www.khou.com
August 27, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Texas wants to ban more than 2200 books. Of course there are mostly LGBT and books written by Black authors. But there are so many books that are a mystery to me. There’s a few that my freshman Catholic high school teacher, who was a priest, assigned in class.
www.khou.com/article/news...
www.khou.com/article/news...
Damning article from Le Monde.
"Above all, the military initiated what it called a "retrospective incrimination": making every effort to link the victims of this double strike to Hamas, the group responsible for the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023."
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
"Above all, the military initiated what it called a "retrospective incrimination": making every effort to link the victims of this double strike to Hamas, the group responsible for the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023."
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Soldier testimony sheds light on how Israel wages information war
One year after the bombing that killed 22 people, including five journalists, at Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli soldier has told several media outlets, including Le Monde, ...
www.lemonde.fr
August 25, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Damning article from Le Monde.
"Above all, the military initiated what it called a "retrospective incrimination": making every effort to link the victims of this double strike to Hamas, the group responsible for the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023."
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
"Above all, the military initiated what it called a "retrospective incrimination": making every effort to link the victims of this double strike to Hamas, the group responsible for the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023."
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Don’t think this is much of an endorsement for Jeffries. If anything, it’s a reason for change.
“I think he’s a nice guy,” Mr. Trump told Punchbowl News in a recent interview, when asked about Mr. Jeffries. “I’d probably get along with him very well.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
“I think he’s a nice guy,” Mr. Trump told Punchbowl News in a recent interview, when asked about Mr. Jeffries. “I’d probably get along with him very well.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Don’t think this is much of an endorsement for Jeffries. If anything, it’s a reason for change.
“I think he’s a nice guy,” Mr. Trump told Punchbowl News in a recent interview, when asked about Mr. Jeffries. “I’d probably get along with him very well.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
“I think he’s a nice guy,” Mr. Trump told Punchbowl News in a recent interview, when asked about Mr. Jeffries. “I’d probably get along with him very well.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
Nice evening out in Madison Square Park. Life goes on. Have to appreciate the little things.
August 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Nice evening out in Madison Square Park. Life goes on. Have to appreciate the little things.
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ARTIFICIAL DESIRES ARE DESPOILING THE EARTH
August 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
ARTIFICIAL DESIRES ARE DESPOILING THE EARTH
New Yorker cartoon by Matt Reuter
August 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
New Yorker cartoon by Matt Reuter
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We told you.
"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..."
Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks
www.ms.now/news/frame-u...
Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks
www.ms.now/news/frame-u...
Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions
A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.
www.ms.now
August 18, 2026 at 6:18 PM
We told you.
I’d venture to say that US policy in the Middle East has been varying degrees of bad. The Iraq war and Israel come to mind. But Trump’s Middle East policy has been spectacularly incompetent, reckless, and awful.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Trump's disastrous track record in the Middle East
EDITORIAL. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has racked up several failures in the region, from the war he launched against Iran alongside Israel to how he has handled the Pal...
www.lemonde.fr
August 18, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I’d venture to say that US policy in the Middle East has been varying degrees of bad. The Iraq war and Israel come to mind. But Trump’s Middle East policy has been spectacularly incompetent, reckless, and awful.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
New Yorker cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby
August 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
New Yorker cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby