The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
There needs to be greater transparency around this.
Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.
There’s high on your own supply and then there’s fried on your own supply.
kids cheat at school because it's sold to them as a credentialing exercise necessary to get a job, and because most of the role models and adults in their life do not value education except in those terms
there exists no principle in the liberal mind that should not be abandoned the second it becomes politically inconvenient and that some voters cannot forsake morality to “vote strategically” is so intellectually mystifying that they are incapable of recognizing leftists as a constituency to be won
Oslo achieved vision zero for pedestrians, cyclists and children in 2019.
But did you know the city did it again in 2023? This time, there were no road deaths on city streets at all.
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off.
#Oslo &
#Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”
#VisionZero #SpeedKills
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
Only one of these two members of Congress below have been censured by Congress for alleged bigotry.
Guess which one?
America's deep hatred of Islam, Muslims and especially Palestinians is directly responsible for our descent into fascism today inside the US. Letting this bigotry fester openly since 9/11 brought us here.
Only one of these two members of Congress below have been censured by Congress for alleged bigotry.
Guess which one?
The Fetterman profile is such a great example of this, part of him losing it was increasingly unhinged eliminationist hatred of Arabs, but that’s so normalized it didn’t register as a regression
America's deep hatred of Islam, Muslims and especially Palestinians is directly responsible for our descent into fascism today inside the US. Letting this bigotry fester openly since 9/11 brought us here.
Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)
Biden not only never restrained Netanyahu, he made every single Democrat save Tlaib debase themselves by taking advantage of the trust he'd built in the first half of his term to make *them* pretend he was trying
This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.
I can think of literally ONE Democrat who ran on "defund the police". He won his election for City Controller of Los Angeles in a landslide (61% to 39%).
Mejia received more votes than any LA citywide candidate in history including Karen Bass and all previous mayors.
"Defund the Police" didn't need anyone else to recast it. It was a profoundly stupid slogan from inception.
Crucial context here:
@adamisacson.com suggests that there may be as many as 31 people imprisoned in CECOT whose names have never been made public.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
288 people have been rendered to El Salvador’s mega-prison. We only know 257 of their names—and not because the US or Salvadoran governments shared them.
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See
admis.me/b/2un
“Restore more doctrinaire leadership” about THE ACTUAL PAPACY is really a gorgeous combination of the Times’ hick condescension toward religion and its reflexive belief that right-wing politics is the only true and authentic politics
Pope Francis died at 88, the Vatican announced Monday, ending a pontificate that sought to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution. Cardinals will now decide whether to continue his approach or restore more doctrinaire leadership.
Follow live updates:
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this is why "FDR went so far as to break laws to assist Spanish Republicans" and "major US enterprises not only helped the Nazi war effort but even participated in the Holocaust" are both true
wealth is a public health issue because unless held by all, it corrodes everything -- all systems, all practices, all attitudes
Interesting view on populism and wealth.
"This new social contract is one between the better-off baby boomer and the state, which agrees to keep the poor behind high walls [...], allowing the affluent to retain their ill-gotten gains"
If this is true western democracy is dead.
It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman
Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk
A government that uses force while defying the rule of law is not entitled to the protections of the rule of law, nor are its agents.
JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.
this is disgusting and this judge should never be able to face the public without ridicule for the rest of their life
US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views
Decision sides with White House’s claim that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ were counter to US foreign policy interests
Exit the matrix
China said if you want to go low... we're taking it to HELL 😭
imagine a world where the social media history of ice agents got the fine-toothed comb treatment that they are giving to chemistry phd candidates from abroad
ICE aren’t even “real” cops so you can imagine the washouts and perverts that make up the whole agency. Probably legions of wife-beaters and diddlers who get their peckers hard being the literal gestapo. Hope they rot in a hell of their own design.
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
This Court considered it an egregious abuse of executive power for Biden to modify student loan payments based on a statute authorizing the executive branch to "waive or modify" student loan payments
So when are the guerilla insurgents going to crop up? Because I feel like that's the only way any of this gets better
relatedly:
future historians debating whether dow jones, nasdaq, and S&P 500 were three separate gods of ancient America, or just three aspects of the same god
ICE is detaining American citizens now. Even if they don’t deport us to Gitmo, it’s a bit inconvenient if we go out to get some apples and spend a night in jail instead.
Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court
Chicago attorneys were in federal court Thursday accusing federal agents of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of at least 22 people since January.
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
Many of the techniques devised, refined and perfected in Pinochet’s torture sites – all done with the protection and support of the Western powers, particular the USA and UK – would show up, effectively unaltered, thirty years later at Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This is not a coincidence.
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
If you see masked men surrounding someone in the street, don't let them kidnap that person. Get in the way.
I work with low-income borrowers and holy shit, upper-income borrowers like the people who dominate this site would not *believe* the loan terms lower-income borrowers get duped into by sleekly-marketed fintech firms, Silicon Valley has digitized payday lending.
I’ve basically had the same thing happening to me; the average joe is bombarded with PLAY THE LATEST PHONE CASINO!! DONT FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR SOME SUBSCRIPTIONS!!!! FINANCE THAT $100k SUV and it’s boiling huge swaths of folks alive
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
now that every writer’s been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like ‘i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️’
Trump take Paczki
search.app/K1s3
Delightful Pastries Owner Worries About Rising Paczki Costs Due To Trump Tariffs
Dobra Bielinski worries about the cost of chocolate, coffee and other ingredients imported from Mexico and Canada as the Trump administration slaps some U.S. trade partners with high import taxes.
SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it:
www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...The cards fit similar agitprop over the years, most recently ‘War Criminal’ playing cards of U.S. & Israeli politicians enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
The cards came about amid a rise in anti-corporatocratic sentiment following the killing of UHC CEO Brian Thompson.
The NYPD seized a shipment of ‘Most Wanted CEO’ playing cards en route from manufacturer to the creator to ship out to customers.
The NYPD is currently led by Jessica Tisch, who comes from one of the country’s wealthiest families & took particularly intense issue with the cards.
I love AI
Who do you think should play the next James Bond? 🔫🤔
It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown
Scoop: The databases powering
DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
Project 2025 this, project 2026 that. How about project .556?
Because, at the end of the day, professionals are just a kind of workers. Relatively privileged workers, yes - but it's the relatively privileged workers who the owners hate most. And if you see someone complaining about the "professional managerial class"? Well, they're on the side of the bosses.
Hanging around those haunts at night
Where half the clientele was part poltergeist
Grinding an axe against all that exists
Minus their protected exceptions to it
And here's Bob Kuttner on why Democrats haven't been able to tell a story about capitalist corruption: because they're implicated in it.
prospect.org/politics/202...
Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats
America needs a true opposition party.
I think SAS is a tabula rasa with great aesthetic instincts and an ability to take all oxygen out of any room he's in. It's critical that the left support him first to try to capture his candidacy. Make AOC his Dick Cheney. All swings on who he's beholden to
Stephen A. Smith-Uncommon Sense
"Kiss the Boer, the farmer" - EFF exclaims
YouTube video by SABC News
Left wing officers coup when
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
@benstiller.redhour.com I just finished season one of Severance. I am on the absolute edge of my seat. Incredible season of TV. Thank you BEN
Hearing from federal employees tonight who are getting messages via their agency’s emergency notification system, which is usually reserved for snow-related office closures, that’s like DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE NO IDEA IF ANY OF THOSE PROMISES ARE REAL
this is fucking ridiculous. pepsi’s bench is Mug root beer and Lipton iced tea. Coke wipes the floor with pepsi. do they even make pepsi max (stupid name) in fountain anymore??? joke of a company
democrats will continue to lose and lose and lose forever because leftists being rude online is "radical violence" but starving thousands of women and children to death is "policy" and guess which one they're committed to condemning
Broader agreement that it to applies to discretionary spending payments (Head Start, WIC, etc).
Liberal university leaders called the cops; Democratic mayors and governors ordered the cops to beat the shit out of them; Democratic AGs prosecuted them on trumped up charges; and the Democratic president implied they were antisemites
The Trump White House has reportedly instructed the Pentagon to release the hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel.
Where are all those college protests now? 🤷
Scoop: Trump lifts Biden's hold on 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
Biden had used the hold to protest Israel's invasion of Rafah.
Biggest political generational cap is whether you look at Buttigieg and Ramaswamy as smart, articulate young men or total douchebag strivers. People over age 50 are enamored by those two; Millennials recognize them as the type who knew what Bain Consulting was in high school
Friday's FT big read was crazy. Tiktok is brainwashing Taiwanese youth so that they're not nationalist? So that they don't hate mainland Chinese /as people/? Lazy anti communist tropes straight out of the Manchurian Candidate - not to mention the disrespect and objectification of Taiwanese youth
“Litigation, huge financial losses, and underhanded corporate sabotage pervade deal over ridiculous product that nobody wanted or needed” is a story we’re going to keep seeing in coming years
fortune.com/2025/01/17/w...
Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
In December, Cooler Screens shut down access to hundreds of the digitized fridge doors, which Walgreens claims affected sales.
I'm not on Bluesky as much as I'd like but when I am here I've noticed it's overwhelmed by centrist handmaidens to fascism spewing the usual abusive vomit, so before they slither in, here's what I posted to instagram:
why should whichever guy that's the most like me, but born & living in china, be my adversary? what reason do i have to be against that guy? and why should he hate me? i have much more compelling reasons to see american oligarchs as my adversaries!
I’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.
This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.
