cph

author of Pulitzer Prize finalist and NBCC Award winning nonfiction book "Minor Feelings.” Professor at UC Berkeley.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Jewish surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who stars in the new documentary American Doctor, calls Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer “prostitutes for the Israeli lobby.”

He says srael’s influence over Washington is so extensive that “the United States Congress building is the most occupied territory by Israel.”

“It’s not the West Bank. It’s not Gaza. It’s the U.S. Congress.”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

So far, in the 2026 elections, 50 mega donors have spent $1.6 BILLION.

🟦George Soros (D): $102M
🟥Jeffrey & Janine Yass (R): $93.8M
🟥Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen (R): $91.3M
🟥Elon Musk (R): $90.6M
🟥Elizabeth & Richard Uihlein (R): $70M
🟥Miriam Adelson (R): $67.6M
🟥Greg & Anna Brockman (R): $50M
🟥Paul Singer (R): $37.1M
🟥Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (R): $33.2M
🟥Ken Griffin (R): $32.5M

Billionaires — in either party — should not be able to buy elections.

That is not democracy. That is a corrupt campaign finance system.

We need to end Citizens United. We need to get super PACs out of our elections. We need public funding of elections.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It's utterly ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Ladies and gentlemen…the Democratic Leader!

[cph @cathyparkhong]

I wish more celebrities could be as outspoken as Mark Ruffalo. He's carrying so much weight.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[cph @cathyparkhong]

Sigh. Public Enemy's still good, right?

[Ash J @AshAgony]

Whether it's Jay-Z, Nas, & Puffy supporting a Wall Street candidate for NYC mayor in 2021 or 50 Cent, Snoop, & Nelly performing for fascists or Lil Wayne badmouthing the BLM movement, so many of your favorite rappers from the 90s are counter-insurgents & counter-revolutionaries.

[Variety @Variety]

Mark Ruffalo Goes Scorched Earth on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Calling Out the Ellison Family’s Complicity in Palestinian ‘Genocide’ https://t.co/rESwZUd9C0

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Asian American erasure, example #107492

[FactPost @factpostnews]

An otter has been spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in over 100 years.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

There is no reforming this.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

A woman in Tehran got 12 years in prison for a stillbirth. Wait, sorry, no. That's Oklahoma.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I really like LA but the whole process of having to take the shuttle to an external lot to get your Uber/Lyft when the shuttle is always slow af to arrive is not the best advertisement for the city's governance.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

Denmark just passed a law that every person owns a copyright to their own face, voice and body. In the age of AI, this places more legal control in a person's hands, and there are real, large consequences and fines for breaking this law.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A study from Brown University found that the Bush administration's wars have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced 38 million more.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Infuriating, but not surprising. A DOJ whistleblower has now confirmed what we said from day one: the "antisemitism" investigations into universities were predetermined, evidence-free, and political.

And Columbia's trustees participated in this hoax. They paid $221 million, handed over records, and expelled students to close a deal built on nothing.

David Greenwald led that board. Shame on him and on every trustee who went along to advance their Zionist ideology. If they have any dignity left, they resign.

And there must be a full investigation into them and it will come.

https://t.co/Nr8jz1RgOi

[cph @cathyparkhong]

Francesca Hong would have won if media didn’t come after her about thanksgiving

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Hasan Piker reacts to Angie Nixon's MASSIVE UPSET VICTORY

"This is what happens when a race remains sleepy, folks"

"This is what happens when a nationally significant race doesn't get the media hit jobs"

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained a detailed account from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, a man who says he was violently apprehended, hospitalized with a brain bleed, and held by ICE with almost no communication to his own family for three days.

On the morning of August 11, at around 6:30 a.m., Mejia Hernandez was walking to work when a truck sped up on him and two men jumped out and ran toward him. Scared and not knowing who they were, he ran. While fleeing, he says he was hit with what he believes was a stun gun or Taser. He has no memory of anything after that, not how he was injured, not how he was transported, nothing, until he woke up in a hospital many hours later with serious facial injuries consistent with blunt force trauma.

According to his attorney, two ICE agents stayed at his bedside the entire time he was hospitalized. He was never given a private moment with his own doctors. When he asked the ICE agents what happened to him, they told him they didn't know. He says hospital staff seemed reluctant to speak openly in front of the agents, and that medical staff appeared to communicate more with ICE than with him directly. A nurse eventually told him quietly, in Spanish, that he'd suffered a brain bleed and brain swelling, but he says he never got a full explanation of his diagnosis or how he got hurt.

Meanwhile, his wife and stepchild had no idea where he was for about three days. Neither DHS nor the hospital, according to his lawyer, ever notified his family that he'd been detained, injured, or hospitalized.

When ICE decided to discharge him, he says he didn't even understand he was being released. He was driven from the hospital, given food and told to contact his family, then taken to an ICE office where they strapped a GPS ankle monitor on him and handed him a Notice to Appear.

By Friday he felt significantly worse and went back to the hospital, where he was again diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and brain bleed and stayed for two more days. His lawyer says doctors couldn't even complete the imaging they needed because of the ankle monitor. When he later went to his ISAP appointment still in pain, dizzy, with doctors saying he needed an MRI, ICE reportedly refused to remove the monitor unless he could produce a specific MRI appointment date and time, forcing him to bounce back and forth between the hospital and immigration offices just to get basic care while suffering from a brain injury.

His attorney is now demanding a full accounting: who was involved, what force was used, why his family wasn't notified, why ICE was reportedly more involved in his medical communications than he was, and preservation of every record, custody log, and communication tied to this case. Mejia Hernandez still needs an MRI and further evaluation for a serious neurological injury.

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

the thing about reading substack is… I really do understand why editors were invented

[cph @cathyparkhong]

Rachel Cusk should just became a language poet.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I think what I was looking for in writing these books was almost a sound frequency.” —Rachel Cusk https://t.co/B5amczfrYK