Erich Christ

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

🚨Bombshell story by Matthew Cole about Jared Kushner from Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, which comes out next week.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers

https://t.co/BvraBHEA94

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.

They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.

Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Dear @Kalshi: The answer is not only no but fuck no

We do not want your blood money

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Not staying quiet about a failed status quo in the name of unity. Not going to betray voters done with the donor class.

Tax the Billionaires
Medicare for All
Free childcare
Free college and trade schools
No Aid to Israel

I am a New Deal Democrat, not a Chuck Schumer Democrat.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

UPDATE: @DropSiteNews has received a letter from attorneys representing Mike and Kristi Rogers, demanding a retraction of the below article and threatening litigation.

We have updated it to include comment from their counsel. We stand by our reporting and will defend it if necessary.

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

Israel’s New – and Terrifying – Security Doctrine

by Trita Parsi | Oct 13, 2026 | News | 0 comments

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack.

If you read one thing today, make sure it is this:

In a stunning piece published by the head of one of Israel’s most prominent think tanks, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman describes the reality of Israel’s new security doctrine:

A few crucial principles he describes:

1. The United States is a “declining power” and, given its ongoing social and political shifts, will soon abandon Israel in any event. This is compelling Israel to move toward greater self-reliance in order to avoid “excessive dependence” on the US since it “exposes Israel to the influence of a progressive American value system that is incompatible with Israel’s Jewish character.”

Then he concludes: “Severing ties with the United States is therefore not only inevitable, but essential to Israel’s independence and the resilience of its Jewish national identity.”

2. Primacy of Jewish Identity over Democracy: The state’s Jewish identity takes precedence over its democratic system of government.

3. Peace as a Means Rather Than an End: “A meaningful peace agreement is unattainable in the Middle East, as peace agreements are merely technical and temporary arrangements requiring constant reassessment. According to this view, peace is not an intrinsic value that generates security, but a means of achieving other policy objectives.”

4. “Rejection of the Independent Existence of Arab States: The underlying premise is that most Arab states are not genuine nation-states, but collections of tribes and ethnic groups lacking a shared history and a foundational national vision. Consequently, undermining their stability is viewed as a natural process, one that Israel can manage more effectively than it can contend with strong nation-states, and one that it should even encourage.”

5. “War as a Foundational State: War is essential to national security and cannot be replaced by a state of peace, which, as noted, is merely a means rather than an end…. War is necessary, and preventive war is preferable because it secures a significant achievement at the outset.”

6. “Absolute Priority for Initiative and Offense over Defense: Preemptive, surprise strikes are viewed as the only way to achieve victory, giving offense precedence over defense.”

And there’s more.

Important to note that Hayman does not advocate for this. Rather, he contends that this already is the new security doctrine of Israel.

He is describing reality as he sees it. And that reality simply is not compatible with a US or Western alliance with Israel – unless the West transforms into a similar entity that treats war as a permanent and desirable state of being.

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/ghdiQJ4dtn

Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him “one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran”

Visit Trita Parsi’s Substack and subscribe.

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Let me help you with his headline:

Compromised pedophile who then became the most important Congressman at a pivotal moment in American history (99-07) finally dies and goes to hell.

In other words, key pieces of legislation that eroded or completely nerfed American civil liberties, led to the murder of countless civilians abroad, and transferred public wealth to criminal banks were passed under the care of an almost certainly blackmailed pedophile.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Nope.

You own PERSONAL STOCK. Meaning you have a direct incentive to drive policy that benefits data centers.

I don’t control any mutual funds. They could sell tomorrow and I wouldn’t even know.

And Michiganders are way smarter than you think we are.

[Dr. Annelle Rodriguez Sheline @AnnelleSheline]

I am completely gutted reading this story by @jeremyscahill for @DropSiteNews on one of the worst massacres committed by the US gov since Vietnam

Against children

Also horrified by the administration's flagrant lies as they try to evade responsibility
https://t.co/OjQHptwVNd

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

“the area of the school yard was completely covered in body parts of the children... my arms and legs went numb until I snapped out of it and started collecting the body parts of the martyrs—the children who were in pieces.”
https://t.co/mftqDLysCY

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

The Cornell 7:

Matthew Ingalls
Johnathan Newell
Winston Lee
Gillio Lopes
Diego Sarabia
Scott Norris
Scott Kretzschmar

All 7 Chi Phi members are named as defendants in a civil lawsuit alleging they drugged a Cornell student with ketamine and sexually assaulted her for HOURS in 2024. The suit says a message advertising “free p***y” was sent to the frat group chat while she was incapacitated.

And "men" showed up to take him up on his offer.

And Cornell’s response? The lawsuit alleges some were given the opportunity to MITIGATE THEIR CONDUCT BY WRITING ESSAYS.

She left Cornell. 5 of them were ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION AT CORNELL.

Remember their names and faces.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Jewish actress Hannah Einbinder was arrested at pro Palestine protest for chanting arrest Netanyahu in NYC

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. 

May peace be our future.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Ok, should we fund this? Or should we defund this?

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

So this is what electing a democratic socialist mayor can get you: corporations issuing groveling apologies for underpaying their workers

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's always strange how the US uses its unparalleled military and economic power to strangle and suffocate the economies of small nations it dislikes, then points to the intended devastation as proof that those countries are bad and don't work, with no reference to the US role.