John O'Farrell @johnofa

Trump's demolition of USAID not only cost hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide and cost the US some $6 billion in closure costs but also imperils America's health safety. Some moves are both wrong and dumb.

Kenneth Roth @KenRoth

9 hours ago

Having ended US funding for most global public health programs, endangering us all, Trump suddenly discovers their virtue and seeks more than $1.4 billion in Ebola funding from Congress. trib.al/b8HirRM

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All winning candidates backed by Mamdani ran campaigns that focused intently on ending US support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in heavily Jewish New York. Few back genocide, apartheid, and endless occupation. trib.al/yCXCMmq

Don’t need to know if Bores won or lost to know the AI PACs were the big losers in NY-12. Bores’ popularity shot up thanks to their unpopular meddling and Lasher supports AI regulation. The lesson for Dems: Talk loudly about AI and publicly reject LTF

Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter

a day ago

If Bores loses, then other Dems will shut up about regulating AI to avoid getting swamped by dark $$. But if Dems don't seize the opportunity to run on AI, they'll be squandering the biggest political opportunity of a generation. This is why NY-12 matters so much for 2028

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Trust has become a major barrier to widespread adoption of AI. But trust can be established only by making these systems worthy of it. That requires something the industry mostly avoids. wsj.com/opinion/ai-nee…

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry found. trib.al/R2S2bQB

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The senseless murder goes on nytimes.com/2026/06/20/wor… via @nytimes

To my former fellow VCs and tech executives who do business with the UAE: The Emirates have been funding this brutal slaughter for years. If you have a conscience, please reconsider, or at least press them to stop funding genocide.

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof

6 days ago

Last year world leaders averted their eyes as the RSF militia in #Sudan, backed by the UAE, slaughtered and raped civilians around the city of El Fasher. Now the RSF may be poised to do the same around the city of El Obeid. Will President Trump or other leaders press the UAE to

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Pope Leo: “In the face of the temptation to build the ‘Tower of Babel,’ which represents the idolatry of profit at the expense of the most vulnerable and enhances the risk of dehumanization, we are called to contribute to the construction of the New Jerusalem, the civilization of love, in which love is the only guiding principle of economic, political and cultural life.”vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Happy to support these wonderful organizations, and indeed anything @NickKristof recommends!

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof

6 days ago

We've prepared our final report on my 2025 holiday giving guide and @KristofImpact prize: With 25,000 donors, we raised $51 million for 3 great nonprofits: @MutualAidSudan, @HelenKellerIntl and @VisionToLearn. This will touch 12 million people. Thanks to all for your generosity!

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@teddyschleifer puts this in terms of "pro-crypto" vs "anti-crypto". To me this is too simplistic -- like categorizing people as pro- or anti-Israel. A more nuanced approach would be to categorize candidates by their attitude to regulation, e.g. heavily pro-industry/hands-off vs more focused on consumer protection. nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/…?

JD Vance released a new book about his conversion to Catholicism. Here is the irony the book cannot escape. Vance wrote a memoir to prove his faith is real, central, and hard-won, and those charged with guarding that faith keep telling him, first gently and then plainly, that he has missed its opening demand. The Gospel does not rank the stranger last. The Church Vance joined exists, in no small part, to insist otherwise — at the border, in the holding cell, in the letter a dying pope wrote about how love is ordered. He called the book “Communion.” Communion is also what a Catholic enters when he hands his private judgment over to the body of Christ instead of lecturing that body on where it has gone soft. Vance gave 304 pages to finding his way back to faith. The harder road — the one his book keeps approaching and never walks — ends in obedience to a Church that has already told him, through two popes in a single year, where love begins. substack.com/home/post/p-20…

AI is “a tool, not a substitute, for us. It’s not magic, nor a monolith.” A thoughtful and thought-provoking OpEd from @wenschmidt. @SchmidtFutures @11thhourproject sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

@RoKhanna Thanks @RoKhanna. The pleasure was mine.

A few people are getting fabulously, unimaginably wealthy at the same time that entire generations of families worry they will never be able to afford to buy a house, raise children or enjoy a comfortable retirement. nytimes.com/2026/06/13/bus…

Electability is the buzzword at Democratic conventions across our nation. I understand why some Democrats are tempted to play it safe. Many see Republican victories in 2026 and 2028 as an existential threat and think the answer is to nominate the safest possible candidates. But America is not facing an ordinary moment. We have levels of wealth concentration not seen since the first Gilded Age. Millions of young people cannot afford a home, childcare, healthcare, or college. Voting rights and women’s rights are being rolled back. Black and Latino communities, rural America, and factory towns have been excluded from the wealth generation of the modern economy. The answer to a crisis of this scale is not caution. It is a bold vision equal to the moment. We cannot simply be against Trumpism and go back to a status quo that tore this nation apart. We need a new economic patriotism that creates good jobs in every ZIP code, rebuilds American industry, delivers Medicare for All, provides childcare $10 day, makes public college tuition-free, creates 1,000 new trade schools and technical institutes, guarantees homeownership for every American who works hard by age 35, and ensures that the gains from AI and technological progress are shared by working and middle-class Americans. We need to end foreign wars, reject gun boat militarism abroad, and stop providing aid to governments that violate human rights. And yes, I believe America is strongest when it celebrates being a nation of immigrants. The future of this country is not one group against another or running away from our diversity. It is Americans of every race, faith, and background united around the simple idea that everyone who works hard deserves economic security, dignity, and a chance to succeed. That was Frederick Douglass’s prophecy of a Composite Nation in 1869. If Democrats want to defeat Trumpism, we cannot simply run safe, focus-group-crafted politicians who try to substitute demographic or biographical connection for a real policy vision. We cannot recycle candidates who will never be seen as leaders for true change. We have to offer something fresh, something bigger than fear and insults. We have to offer a vision of shared prosperity. We have to give people a reason to believe that the future can be better than the past. That is the path that Franklin Roosevelt, a leader who governed from a wheelchair after polio, showed us. It is the path John Kennedy showed us as the first Catholic president. It is the path Barack Obama showed us as a trailblazing African American president. It is the path Bernie Sanders showed us as a Jewish, democratic socialist who transformed our politics. The great reformers in American history did not win by playing it safe. They were by no means conventional candidates. They won by meeting the challenges of their time with courage equal to the moment. We are at our best as Democrats when we are not afraid. We are at our best when we are bold.

This is so so good and scary. “I can’t stand this place anymore,” he said. “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.” The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/…

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

yogesh @yogeshtwet

2 weeks ago

JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

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Wealth inequality, and unlimited money in politics, are destroying our country.

Ro Khanna @RoKhanna

2 weeks ago

That some do not see how the rapid acceleration of wealth inequality is tearing this country apart is a misreading of history. Read about the Gilded Age or the causes of revolution. I am for Team America. If America has been good to you, you need to do good for America.

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