Eric Alterman
@ericalterman.bsky.social
the man, the legend....
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
KKK
They dragged him from his car, handcuffed him, blindfolded him with his own tie, pulled his court robe over his head, beat him and robbed him. For hours, some 15 settlers held the Palestinian lawyer captive and abused him
I grew up with Aaron Sorkin. He was one grade behind me thorugh high school. So when, in The Social Reckoning, he twice puts the words "working the refs" he should have quoted me and my explanation, because I'm pretty sure nobody watching it will get it.
www.americanprogress.org/article/thin...
Useful short history of AIPAC from the author of We Are Not One, despite the title and weird ending I suspect were imposed on him by the NYT (it’s hard to imagine @ericalterman.bsky.social really believes AIPAC might ever play a useful role).
It's getting less attention bc it was a long time ago, but Navi Pillay was also an absolute trailblazer in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, winning a ruling that brought those incarcerated on Robben Island, including Mandela, the right to counsel. She knows apartheid when she sees it.
New documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000.
📌Greg Abbott received a $7.4 million dollar judgement in 1985 when a tree fell on him putting him in a wheelchair. When he later ran for office, he was instrumental in passing tort reform laws capping insurance payouts for victims of accidents like his at $750,000. Enough of these horrible people.
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
Just the president urging Americans to take matters into their own hands to “fight back” against a small community of immigrants in their midst. No big deal.
“The question facing AIPAC is not simply whether it can find a way to adjust to this new political world," Eric Alterman writes, “but more fundamentally, whether it can even see the changes demanded by these new circumstances?”
The time I was in the Green Room and handed the man his guitar when it came time for:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaQ...
