"Both sides do nothing for the american people!"
And yet here you are, representing a mysterious third option, which also doing nothing.

Origami Around
taylor price

tannertan36

Janaina Medeiros
Acquired Stardust
Misplaced Lens Cap
AnasAbdin
art blog(derogatory)

@theartofmadeline
Stranger Things
Sweet Seals For You, Always
NASA
Sade Olutola

Game of Thrones Daily
Today's Document

â

blake kathryn
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Not today Justin

seen from South Africa

seen from Italy
seen from Canada
seen from Netherlands
seen from TĂźrkiye
seen from T1

seen from United States
seen from Spain

seen from Argentina
seen from United States
seen from TĂźrkiye

seen from United States
seen from Brazil

seen from Malaysia
seen from Portugal
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from China
seen from Germany
@partisan-by-default
"Both sides do nothing for the american people!"
And yet here you are, representing a mysterious third option, which also doing nothing.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Karen Bass advanced to a November runoff, while Xavier Becerra was in position to make the runoff in the governorâs race in early returns.
LOS ANGELES â The Democratic establishment swung back in California on Tuesday.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to a November runoff in a better-than-expected showing in her reelection bid, while Xavier Becerra was in solid position to make the runoff in the race for governor â both blunting a surge of outsider energy and massive spending in the nationâs most populous state.
While the governorâs race was still not called early Wednesday, and Bass still has a runoff to contend with, early results suggested the limits of anti-establishment currents that threatened for months to upend the party apparatus in this heavily Democratic state.
âWe've been fighting, because we're not going to let somebody turn back our clock,â Bass said in a fiery victory speech after dancing across the stage to the podium.
It was the same for establishment Democrats elsewhere. In deep-blue San Francisco, a union-backed proposal to impose a surtax on companies with âoverpaid CEOsâ trailed in early returns, though with the race still too close to call. In the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress, Scott Wiener, a prominent state senator, and Connie Chan, a progressive city supervisor who received Pelosiâs endorsement, advanced over a third Democrat, Saikat Chakrabarti, who had been deeply critical of Pelosi and the Democratic Party. And across the Rockies in Iowa, in one of the nationâs most closely watched Senate races, Democrats picked establishment-supported Josh Turek on Tuesday night.
Becerra, the industry-backed former state attorney general and Biden Cabinet secretary, held a sturdy second place ahead of billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, who spent more than $200 million on a campaign in which he staked out positions to the left of his rivals on the stateâs housing, environmental, tax and other affordability challenges. Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host endorsed by President Donald Trump, was just ahead of Becerra early Wednesday morning. But it is Becerra who would be a heavy favorite in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 5 million voters.
A "far right extremist" from Nevada is headed to prison for threatening federal judges who handled cases involving President Donald Trump an
Trump supporter tries to completely change his tune at sentencing after vowing to execute judges handling cases against the president and Jan. 6 rioters
A Nevada man is headed to prison for threatening federal judges who handled cases involving President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 rioters, as well as public officials, saying things like, "I'll spill your blood" and "you can't do sâ to Donald Trump."
Spencer Gear, 34, of Las Vegas, tried to eat his words on Monday at his sentencing â telling the court, "I'm embarrassed that I ever talked to people in such a manner," according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He is open to rehabilitation," said Assistant Federal Public Defender Rebecca Levy.
In a Tuesday note to staff obtained by MS NOW, new executive producer Nick Bilton announced the network âparted waysâ with the longtime corr
Julianne McShane at MS NOW:
Veteran â60 Minutesâ correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired from CBS News a day after he excoriated the showâs new executive producer and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a staff meeting. The venerated showâs newly named executive producer, Nick Bilton, announced the network âparted waysâ with Pelley in a Tuesday note to staff obtained by MS NOW. âI know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I donât say this lightly,â Bilton wrote. âI made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground. That was not the path Scott chose.â Pelleyâs firing deepens a seismic shift for the network, which has seen an exodus of journalists since David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, appointed Weiss as editor-in-chief last year. Last week, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsiâs contract expired after she criticized Weiss for pulling her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons from the air. (Weiss maintained that the story was not ready. A revised version aired a month later.) Pelley has worked for the show since 2004 and has won more than 50 Emmy Awards, according to his bio on the networkâs website, which also notes he won half of all major awards earned by â60 Minutesâ during his tenure.
In a staff meeting Monday, Pelley told Bilton â a journalist and filmmaker who has no prior experience in broadcast television â he had âslenderâ qualifications for the job, and that Weiss was âmurderingâ â60 Minutes,â according to The New York Times, which obtained a recording of the meeting. âShe does not love this place,â Pelley reportedly said of Weiss, according to the Times. âShe was brought in to kill it, and sheâs been doing exactly that.â
The news of Pelleyâs firing was first reported by journalist Oliver Darcy, author of the newsletter Status.
See BS News fires Scott Pelley after he righteously unloaded on Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss over the MAGA direction 60 Minutes (and CBS News in general) is headed towards under the Weiss/Ellison axis of evil.
See Also:
HuffPost: Scott Pelley Fired From â60 Minutesâ Following Explosive Showdown With New Boss
The Guardian: 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley fired by CBS News after clash
The billionaire has waged a war on trans people using the platform.
Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:
On Sunday, May 31âthe day before Pride Monthâa Twitter user posted a photo from Vivian Jenna Wilson's new Savage X Fenty Pride campaign alongside a sweeping claim: that were it not for Vivian, Musk would have never purchased Twitter, never gotten involved in politics, and Kamala Harris would be president. The notion that Musk's Twitter acquisition was connected to his daughter's transition has been the subject of speculation for years, bolstered by leaked text messages from the Delaware court filings that linked his purchase directly to the suspension of a transphobic account, and by his own biographer's reporting that his âanti-woke sentimentsâ were "partly triggered" by Wilson's transition. But Musk had never confirmed it in his own words. This time, he replied with a single word: "True"âseemingly confirming what the court filings, the Isaacson biography, and Musk's own public statements had long suggested: that the $44 billion purchase of Twitter was driven, at least in significant part, by his reaction to his daughter's transition and the platform's treatment of anti-trans content. "We should never forget that if not for Vivian, Elon Musk never would have gotten involved, never would have purchased Twitter, Kamala Harris would be President and the Left-wing would have total instrumental control over the construction of Skynet," read the post by Twitter user Syd Steyerhart, in response to Vivian's photo and news about her campaign for Rihanna's lingerie brand. "True," Musk responded. Then, today, he doubled down, writing that Vivian "was murdered by the woke mind virus, now it will die."
The exchange is striking, but it is not a revelation so much as a confirmation. Evidence that Muskâs purchase of Twitter was substantially influenced by transgender people has been accumulating for years. In March 2022, Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee, a right-wing satire account, for posting a headline naming U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levineâa transgender womanâits âMan of the Year.â Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon confirmed that Musk called him directly to verify the suspension and âeven mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter.â
[...] Musk has since used the platform he purchased to wage a sustained campaign against transgender people.
Anti-trans extremist Elon Musk revealed why he purchased Twitter (now X): his trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson and the suspension of The Babylon Bee over misgendering Dr. Rachel Levine.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Last year, on June 26, I wrote a story headlined, âTrumpâs DOJ is targeting Daily Kos.â At the time, I couldnât explain what was happening.
kos at Daily Kos:
Last year, on June 26, I wrote a story headlined, âTrumpâs DOJ is targeting Daily Kos.â At the time, I couldnât explain what was happening. A gag order prevented it. Now I can. It started on May 5, 2025, when I received an FBI order demanding that Daily Kos preserve records related to a user account on this site, which I will not identify.
[...]
At the time, our systems retained sign-up email addresses, password recovery emails, and IP logs tied to account activity for one year, including sign-up IPs and IP addresses attached to comments and stories. Weâve since dramatically reduced what we retain. The FBI letter included the following: âI request that you not disclose the existence of this request to the subscriber or any other person, other than as necessary to comply with this request.â At first, I interpreted that as a request, not a command. I hoped maybe the whole thing would quietly disappear. Instead, on May 15, we received a subpoena. It required us to turn over all user accounts and IP data we had retained for that account. The order offered no explanation why. [...]
Our legal counsel made clear that violating the gag order could carry serious consequences. So for weeks, this entire fight happened completely in secret. At first, our attorneys advised near-total silence. Their position was straightforward: donât test the order, donât antagonize prosecutors, donât create additional legal exposure. You know me, I seethed.  wasnât willing to quietly sit there while Trumpâs DOJ targeted this community in secret. But I also wasnât eager to trigger a second legal battle over violating the gag order itself. I even wondered out loud, would it be so bad if I was jailed for violating the order? My lawyer disabused me of that notionâthe sanctions would be financial. We couldnât afford those. So internally, we spent weeks arguing over where the line actually was and whether there even was a safe line at all.Â
Meanwhile, we immediately reviewed the targeted userâs comment history to figure out what could possibly have triggered FBI scrutiny. What we found was someone who had made just 12 comments on the site, most of them highly critical of Trump. There was nothing suspicious about the account. None of the comments had ever been flagged by the community, as routinely happens anytime someone comes close to making an actual threat. We even considered the possibility that the request had nothing to do with Daily Kos. Maybe this user committed a potential crime elsewhere, and they had tracked them to our site. But without further information, I wasnât interested in playing ball. We needed to know why the DOJ wanted this information. Until then, we werenât turning anything over.Â
The lawyers warned that resistance would probably fail. Courts give the government enormous deference in cases like these. Meanwhile, internally, people worried about staff morale, financial strain, and what a prolonged fight with Trumpâs DOJ could do to the company. Those concerns were legitimate. Running an independent media organization is expensive in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. But to me, this was existential. How could Daily Kos remain a trusted space for political participation and community engagement if we simply handed user data over every time Trumpâs DOJ demanded it without explanation? No way in hell was I going to normalize that. And at that point, we still had no idea how we were going to pay for any of this. But we moved forward anyway. I hired a criminal defense attorneyâthe first time in my life Iâd ever needed oneâand because Daily Kos is based in California, we also retained Denver counsel to challenge the subpoena issued out of the FBIâs Denver office. We committed to the fight before we knew whether we could realistically afford it. That was a bit scary.
Around June 17, our Denver counsel contacted the prosecutorâs office to determine exactly what they were after and discovered the original prosecutor had already left for private practice. That turned out to be part of a broader pattern. DOJ offices around the country were already experiencing serious brain drain as Trumpâs politicization of the department drove career attorneys out. Any hopes that this meant the end of the case were dashed when the replacement prosecutor came in hot the next day, June 18, informing our lawyers that this case had âsome priorityâ and confirming they were investigating âthreatening posts.â Having reviewed the comments ourselves, we were flummoxed. A handful of posts expressed the belief that the country wouldnât truly escape Trumpâs political grip until he was gone, saying things along the lines of (paraphrased): âThe only real end to this Trump nightmare is him no longer being around. As long as heâs alive, heâll keep directing his movement and loyalists, whether heâs free or locked up.â That was the gist of it.
And objectively speaking, it was true. Trump dominates American politics as long as he remains alive and politically active. Nobody was advocating violence. Nobody was instructing anyone to do anything. The comments were so innocuous that none had ever even been flagged by the community. But the prosecutor escalated anyway. âThe prosecutor also mentioned that the government can get this information by subpoena or by search warrant,â our lawyer wrote to us. âBy sending a subpoena the US attorneyâs office was attempting to do this the quiet, easy way instead of the public, hard way.â The fuckers thought âquietâ was the âeasyâ way when Iâm involved. On June 19, I replied to our lawyer with two separate emails: âIâm happy for them to do it the public hard way.â âI fully endorse them coming in the public hard way.â Apparently I wanted the emphasis documented twice.
The U.S. attorneyâs office seemed genuinely confused by our refusal to fold. They repeatedly pressed our lawyers, asking why we were being so difficult.
[...] At that point, I no longer believed staying completely silent was sustainable. We needed community backup. So our legal team went back to work trying to determine whether there was a legally defensible path that would allow us to alert the community without violating the gag order itself. Eventually, they concluded that we could discuss broader threats facing Daily Kos without explicitly disclosing the subpoena itself or protected details of the investigation.
That became our strategy. So on June 26, after weeks of carefully navigating the gag order and legal restrictions, I published âTrumpâs DOJ is targeting Daily Kos.â [...] Thatâs how authoritarian systems functionânot through constant dramatic displays of force, but by making examples out of a few targets so everyone else learns to preemptively comply. But with us, they picked the wrong target. And we were able to stand firm because this community had our backs. Your donations turned what they assumed would be a routine compliance exercise into a time-consuming, difficult legal fight backed by serious counsel and a community unwilling to be intimidated. At some point, they clearly decided to focus on easier targets elsewhere. And thatâs the story. The DOJ came after Daily Kos, and we told them to pound sand until they decided to move on.
Markos Moultisas (kos), the founder of Daily Kos, revealed that the Trump Regime went after the site over âthreatening commentsâ about Donald Trump and his regime.
Michael Flynn has apparently found a new version of America First, and it pays $100,000 a month as a foreign agent.
A Foreign Agents Registration Act filing from October 2025 says Trumpâs former national security adviser is working for the Republic of Srpska, the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity run by Milorad Dodik, a Putin ally. That was enough to set off parts of MAGA, including Catturd asking, â$100,000 per month?â
Sebastian Gorka piled on too, saying he had to promise never to work for another government when he joined the first Trump administration and assumed Flynn signed something similar. Flynn, of course, is the same guy who pleaded guilty twice to lying to federal agents during the Russia investigation before Trump pardoned him.
So now MAGA is mad that one of its own is getting paid by a Putin-aligned government, which is almost adorable considering how long theyâve spent pretending the Putin thing was invented by Rachel Maddow in a candlelit basement.
Is this where America First gets a currency conversion chart?
Michael Flynn has apparently found a new version of America First, and it pays $100,000 a month as a foreign agent. A Foreign Agents Regist
Some of Donald Trump's most loyal online supporters are pushing back against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security
Barney the Dinosaur audience revolts as Barney hints he might just be a guy in a costume
A new report confirms that a recent, conspicuously white and male promotion list was no accident.
Edith Olmsted at TNR:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is continuing his discriminatory campaign to remake the U.S. military in his image. Last month, a list of nearly two dozen one-star promotions included no women and only two nonwhite officers. On Monday, The New York Times was able to reveal exactly how that happened. Hegseth personally intervened to block the promotion of several senior Navy officers, including at least two female officers and two Black male officers, four current and former defense officials told the paper. Â
This is not the first time Hegseth has moved to block or delay the promotion of female and Black military officers. He did the same thing to Army officers in March, and has reportedly thwarted the advancements of more than one dozen female and Black officers across the Army, Air Force, Navy, and the Marines. [...] Pentagon rules say that the secretary can only block promotions if there is an issue related to a service memberâs fitness to leadânot their identities, or whatever other problem Hegseth seems to have with them.Â
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a vendetta against Black and women officers by denying Black and women officers their overdue promotions in various military branches.
The Justice Department said in a court filing it would appeal a federal judgeâs order allowing all importersânot just those who sued the adm
Sasha Rogelberg
Mon, June 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM MSTÂ 4 min read1.5k
Less than two months after the Trump administration rolled out its electronic tariff refund platform, it is now threatening to bring the operation to a standstill.
The administration said on Friday it plans to appeal a federal judgeâs order that allowed all U.S. importers the ability to seek tariff refunds, not just those who sued the administration. The Supreme Court struck down tariffs President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in February, ruling the imposition of the tariffs exceeded the presidentâs powers.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Just one day ahead of a crucial California primary election, officials said police have been notified of two possible acts of voter interfer
Just one day ahead of a crucial California primary election, officials said police have been notified of two possible acts of voter interference after ballots were discovered burned in a drop-off box and a vote center was vandalized.
Both incidents occurred over the weekend, Los Angeles County Registrar and County Clerk Dean C. Logan said in a statement on Sunday.
According to Logan, during routine ballot collection procedures, staff from his department identified a "limited number of Vote by Mail ballots that appeared to have sustained fire-related damage inside an Official Ballot Drop Box."
The damaged ballots were found on Sunday morning in a drop-off box on a sidewalk outside the Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles, he noted.
"Preliminary information indicates the incident was isolated and involved a small number of ballots, as it occurred between the most recent scheduled collection and the following morning's retrieval," Logan said in the statement.
Also on Sunday morning, vandalism was discovered at a voting center in Cesar R. Chavez Park in Long Beach, according to Logan. Election workers and officials responded immediately to the incident, and he said voting operations were not disrupted.
The federal government removed information from the site of George Washington's home about the nine enslaved people held there.
The federal government removed information from the site of George Washington's home about the nine enslaved people held there.
PHILADELPHIA (CN) â The Third Circuit is gearing up for a legal clash Tuesday between the City of Philadelphia and the Trump administration after the federal government dismantled a public exhibit about the people enslaved by George Washington.
In 2010, the National Park Service and Philadelphia unveiled âThe Presidentâs House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,â an open-air exhibit across the street from Independence Hall and directly atop the remains of Washingtonâs Philadelphia home.
Consisting of several informational panels and video presentations placed on walls indicating where Washingtonâs house stood, the exhibit told of the nine enslaved Africans held on the site by the first president: Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Moll, Joe and Ona Judge â the last of whom fled Washingtonâs enslavement in 1796 and evaded a subsequent manhunt, spending her final 51 years a free woman.
In March 2025, however, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of the Interior to review national park displays the administration argues âinappropriately disparageâ the United States.
After months of delays, the National Park Service began dismantling the exhibit on Jan. 22, prying the panels off the walls and shutting off video presentations.
More than a dozen people were killed and more than 100 people injured in a large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine
LONDON -- At least 17 people were killed and more than 100 people injured in a large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine, officials said, with the capital Kyiv the main target of Moscow's latest long-range barrage.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a post to Telegram that the most significant damage was wrought in Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv regions. At least six people were killed in Kyiv and 11 people -- including a child -- were killed in Dnipro, local Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine's air force said in a post to Telegram that Russia launched 73 missiles and 656 drones into the country, of which 40 missiles and 602 drones were intercepted or suppressed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack constituted "a completely transparent statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue."
Temporary Restraining Order that protects First Amendment right to display flag depicting the message to latest Comey indictment for 14 days
WASHINGTON â A federal judge today issued a Temporary Restraining Order, prohibiting the National Park Service (NPS) from taking any action against Accountability Now USA for displaying an â8647â flag as part of the groupâs permitted public demonstration on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. The demonstrators are represented by the ACLU of the District of Columbia (ACLU-D.C.).
In his order, U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss wrote, âThe government seeks to squelch core political speech without any articulableâmuch less evidentiaryâbasis for concluding that the speech actually threatens the life or safety of the President.â
The two hatreds have rarely been seen as related dangers. But they overlap even as Muslim and Jewish communities are pitted against each oth
Binaifer Nowrojee for The Guardian (05.31.2026):
The shooting at a mosque and school in San Diego has forced Muslim Americans to ask themselves painful questions. After the killing of three people in an armed attack last week, they now wonder if other places of worship will be targeted next, whether they can still send children to school and trust that they will return home unharmed, and whether they can still safely walk the streets as people identifiable by their faith. These are also questions that Jewish communities are reckoning with, most recently after the stabbings in Londonâs Golders Green neighborhood. Over the past three years, against the backdrop of wars in the Middle East, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate have flared across the west, with each rising to record levels. But these two hatreds have rarely been seen as related dangers, let alone confronted as a common threat to societies.
On the weekend before the San Diego attack, tens of thousands rallied in London behind the anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson, who declared a âbattle of Britainâ and called for âremigrationâ. âItâs time for many Muslims to leave this country,â he said. Across the west, as support for the far right surges, hostility towards Islam and Muslims has become central to its political platforms, and has spread beyond it. When Muslims prayed publicly in Londonâs Trafalgar Square in March to mark Ramadan â just as other religions have done on their own holy days â leading Conservative politicians denounced it as an act of âintimidationâ and âdominationâ.
The violence in San Diego came out of the demonization of Islam and the dehumanization of Muslims that has been around for decades â by politicians, in the media, in popular culture and across social media. Islam is now widely, and even casually, described as a backward or inherently violent religion that represents a civilizational threat. Meanwhile, Muslims are portrayed as people whose customs and values are irreconcilable with western ones. They are cast as a threat to the majorityâs identity, culture, security and demography.
Antisemitism has its deep roots in vile conspiracy theories about hidden power, claiming that Jews form a shadowy elite that manipulates events through the secret control of governments, banks, the media and courts. These libels are centuries-old, and they persist today. George Soros â a Holocaust survivor and the founder of the philanthropic organization I lead, the Open Society Foundations â is a frequent target of antisemitic attacks that deploy ugly tropes to allege his human rights philanthropy is a plot to subvert societies. In 2018, these conspiracy theories led to a pipe bomb being sent to his home and were used by an attacker to justify the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Sometimes, anti-Muslim conspiracy theories fuse with antisemitic ones. The clearest case is with the white nationalist âgreat replacement theoryâ, conjured up by the French polemicist Renaud Camus, who falsely claims that a conspiratorial elite is replacing white majority populations with non-whites, mostly from Muslim backgrounds. The term âreplacist elitesâ is used as a code for Jews. In 2017, white nationalists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting âJews will not replace us.â Nigel Farage accused Soros of encouraging people to âflood Europeâ and claimed Soros didnât want the continent âto be based on Christianityâ. Itâs a single conspiracy theory that requires two elements at once: a Muslim population to fear, and a Jewish elite to blame.
There are also echoes across time. The anti-immigration campaigns of today carry reminders of the antisemitic laws that were imposed in the UK and the US in the early 20th century to prevent Jews fleeing persecution in eastern Europe from finding refuge, including after the Holocaust. The âAliens Actâ of 1905 was the first British law to restrict immigration, with champions of the legislation describing Jewish people as âa race apartâ and warning of the need to âpush back this intolerable invasionâ. Far-right groups marched into neighborhoods, claiming jobs were being taken from them. The press attacked Jewish communities for the âforeignâ languages they spoke and the customs they practiced. Today, the two communities are frequently pitted against each other. When Zohran Mamdani was campaigning to become New York Cityâs first Muslim mayor, there was a torrent of hate directed at his identity, sometimes framed as concern for Jewish safety. In Germany, the chancellor has claimed that antisemitism has been âimportedâ by migrants, ignoring his own countryâs history. And in France, Marine Le Pen â whose party has antisemitic roots â says her National Rally is a shield to protect Jewish people from âIslamist ideologyâ. In each case, the message was the same: for one community to be safe, the other must be feared.
Good column in The Guardian by Binaifer Nowrojee on why antisemitism and Islamophobia are twin evils that need tackled.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Many of the party's key candidates are taking a friendlier tack towards the oil and gas industry.
Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:
The single-most viewed clip of the 2026 election cycle might be from Xavier Becerraâs appearance at the League of California Cities conference last month. A moderator asks Becerra, a former state attorney general and the frontrunner in the governorâs race, about other candidatesâ criticism of his decision to accept a donation from Chevron, the oil giant founded in Southern California. Becerra argued that fossil fuels were a fact of life. âChevron employs a lot of very hard-working people, talented folks â engineers, construction workers. Thatâs the problem with politics: Theyâre not the bad guy. Does everybody here drive an electric vehicle?â he says. âYou need Chevron. I need Chevron. My people in the state of California need Chevron.â âIf Chevron wants to give me a check, thatâs their prerogative,â he adds. Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democratic activist who is Becerraâs most serious challenger for the job, made sure millions upon millions of Californians saw Becerraâs answer. Heâs featured it in three different attack ads, omitting much of the answer to make Becerraâs statement that he âneeds Chevronâ sound like he needs the oil company to fund his campaign.
âXavier Becerra is part of a broken system that delivers for them, not you,â the narrator says in one of the ads. Becerraâs answer, and the speed at which Steyer turned it into an attack ad, highlights an ongoing struggle within the Democratic Party over whether the party should adopt a more conciliatory approach towards the oil and gas industry as it seeks a political comeback.
And while Becerra does not appear eager to repeat his answer â his campaign did not respond to a request for comment â races outside of bright blue California show many of the partyâs most-hyped candidates are taking a notably friendlier tack towards the industry.
âIt is unrealistic for policymakers to only talk about oil and gas in a negative light, because people are deeply reliant on oil and gas in their day-to-day lives,â said Emily Becker, who works for the climate and energy program at Third Way, a center-left think tank. âWe canât tell people that every time you gas up your car, youâre doing something wrong.â Itâs a notable shift compared to how the party talked about energy issues following President Donald Trumpâs first election and into Bidenâs administration, when an overwhelming focus on battling climate change predominated and activist groups pushing for a âGreen New Dealâ led presidential candidates to compete about whose plan could complete the transition away from fossil fuels the fastest. Even when American oil production reached record highs under Bidenâs administration, the president declined to boast about it. The shifting message has gone hand in hand with two trends: the clean energy industryâs viability has increased, and the Democratic Party has made fighting climate change less central to its message. But Tre Easton, a vice president at the moderate Searchlight Institute, said the party still needs to go further into turning its climate change policy into a broader energy policy.
âThereâs still sort of this consensus from the past 10 years where oil and gas companies are persona non grata for most Democrats in D.C.,â Easton said. âThatâs an untenable situation. If thatâs the entirety of the conversation, Republicans are going to dictate the terms. And thatâs not good for anybody.â So far, the message shift has been most pronounced in regions of the country where oil and gas is a major industry. Bobby Pulido, a former Tejano music star running as a Democrat in a rural district in south Texas, has been unapologetically positive about oil and gas production. More than 600,000 Texans work in oil and gas, and the industry makes up about 13% of the stateâs gross domestic product.
âIn many of the counties, some of the best-paying jobs are in oil and gas,â he said of his district in a phone interview. He said many oil company owners and executives play up Democratic threats to the industry to their employees: âThey say âthe other ones want to take your job,â so vote Republican.â
[...] Some mainstream environmental groups, meanwhile, are largely accepting the shift as long as Democrats continue to contrast themselves with Trumpâs unmitigated hostility towards wind and solar power, which has led his administration to make it as difficult as possible to get new clean energy projects off the ground.
At least in a few races, the Democratic Partyâs rhetoric on oil and gas may be shifting towards re-embracing it.
Schools in England have seen a sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse in the last five years
Schools in England have seen a sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse in the last five years, specialists have said. Department for Education data documenting the reasons for suspensions show that schools logged more than 13,000 instances of homophobic or transphobic abuse between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The figure includes 12,977 suspensions and 88 permanent exclusions.
Continue Reading.