I’m deeply grateful to @NaomiAKlein and @astradisastra for their brilliant and urgently necessary book, “End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.” It is both a chilling warning and a call to save the world we share. Their warning is dire: some of the most powerful people on earth are preparing to escape the very catastrophes they are helping accelerate. They imagine salvation for themselves, while the rest of humanity faces the consequences they unleashed. The oligarch class aren’t merely building arks…they are helping create the flood. Please read it. Teach it. Let it move you to action. The living world is not theirs to sacrifice. It is ours to defend.

Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, hundreds of demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in protest in New York City on Thursday, stopping traffic for over an hour just three blocks away from the U.N.’s headquarters. Over 100 protesters were arrested. Many progressive and socialist elected officials participated, such as congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY), Adam Hamawy (NJ), Chris Rabb (PA) and Melat Kiros (CO). Other prominent figures also joined, including actors Elliot Page, Hannah Einbinder, Cynthia Nixon and Susan Sarandon.

Today, over 100 New Yorkers were arrested for protesting Israeli genocide as Netanyahu prepared to address the United Nations. Over 400 people held a mass sit-in outside the UN demanding an end to the genocide and an end to US military funding to Israel. We refuse to stand by while war criminals are given a platform to speak and while our government spends billions on war.

NOW: Hundreds in New York have blocked the streets outside Netanyahu's speech to the U.N. This war criminal should be in the Hague, not the General Assembly.

Huge parts of the world walk out on one of the most justly hated demons on the planet -- Netanyahu -- while about a handful of countries plus small delegations from a few of the US's paid-off tiny colonies remain in an empty hall. Apt symbolism for Israel's global isolation.

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts. propublica.org/article/debun…

BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel. We are Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian, and Lebanese. We are veterans, descendants of Holocaust survivors, young people, grandmothers, rabbis, elected officials, actors, and comedians. We are united in outrage and we will not stand by as war criminals are given a platform to speak in our city. We join thousands of protestors across the city who are taking action all week to say: BLOCK THE BOMBS. END THE GENOCIDE. LET GAZA LIVE.

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public. “I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is. Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution. Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress. And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits. What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing. We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order. Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government. So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization. We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war. So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?” Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

On this day in 1973, poet Pablo Neruda was murdered by Pinochet's brutal regime. In this piece, Jeremy Corbyn reflects on the radical influence of artists like Neruda on Allende’s Chilean socialism. jacobin.com/2020/09/jeremy-c…

The depth of Israel's international isolation is difficult to fathom if you're just watching mainstream media. But these images do not lie. Look at all these delegates leaving the General Assembly in protest as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium... nitter.net/RimaHas/status/2102652…

John Oliver spent 30 minutes showing America what UnitedHealth Group has become: an enormous corporate empire that reaches into almost every corner of our health care system — and the third-largest company in America, behind only Walmart and Amazon. You have to check out the episode: piped.video/h1pXm0GjLho

Trump mega-donors David & Larry Ellison will now officially control CBS, CNN, TikTok, & more. This consolidation hands more control over what we see to Trump & the billionaire class to peddle their propaganda.  This merger was illegal from day 1 & should've never been approved. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/busin…

🚨 Section 219 is on the brink of passing the Senate. It would permanently merge US & Israeli weapons programs, with no way for a future Congress to undo it. Only 6 Senators are fighting it with 30 days left. Demand yours block it now! trackaipac.link/StopSection2…

Amid boos & diplomats from around the world walking out, war criminal Netanyahu speaks to an empty UN General Assembly, says @aapayes

Wrong address. The Hague is the place. They are waiting for you.

Trump’s genocidal rhetoric and clear threats of nuclear war feel 25th Amendment worthy. This is genuinely just insane. Also, for whichever general gets the order: Congress voted to end this war. It would be illegal to nuke them.

UN expert Francesca Albanese said Gaza is beyond what legal frameworks can explain. Beyond words. Mothers, fathers, children - chopped up. Bodies evaporated. Entire landscape turned to powder. Chopping people into pieces. Starving them. Profiting from it. Perfecting weapons out of it.

UN General Assembly delegates in mass walk out as Prime Minister of 'israel' Netanyahu takes the podium to speak.

Hard to know what to call this other than an American president musing about whether to commit genocide.

America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. This merger strikes a chilling blow against that freedom — and hands even more power to billionaires like David Ellison to decide what Americans see and hear, all while lifting scrutiny off the federal leaders who pushed it through. I am grateful to Attorney General Tish James for the protections she secured for workers. This decision is a shameful monument to corruption and a betrayal that the American people won't soon forget. apnews.com/article/warner-br…