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New Polls: Democrats Demand 2028 Presidential Nominee Back Arms Embargo and Sanctions On Israel — IMEU Policy Project

August 2026

Alex Karp Goes to War

Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?

The left-wing case for AI

In Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments I argued that left-wing anti-AI sentiment1 is partly a backlash to two unrelated events around the rise of ChatGPT: the crypto mania of 2022 and the pro-Donald-Trump push many big tech CEOs made in 2024. If the timing had been different, we could have had a real pro-AI faction on the left. What would that look like?

Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit. - …

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Biden, Harris, Trump and 2024

Slow news weekend, am I right? Some thoughts on the current state of things, in no particular order. 1. I was not a fan of the idea of Joe Biden leaving the race, and I still have my suspicions tha…

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There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be rogue AIs that exist in the world, that will replicate in the wild, and that will attempt to acquire resources for themselves. There will be…— Joshua Achiam (@jachiam0) September 1, 2026

Israeli Elections to Global Movements: Tariq Ali, Rashid Khalidi on New Book “The Neck and the Sword”

We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi and Pakistani British writer Tariq Ali. They are co-authors of the new book The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle. The book, an extended conversation between Khalidi and Ali over two years, offers an overview of Palestinian intellectual and political history, drawing its title from a famous phrase used by the renowned Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani to describe the futility of “peace talks” between occupier and occupied, saying it was akin to a “conversation between the sword and the neck.” Kanafani was assassinated by Israel in 1972, “murdered simply because his words were too dangerous for Israel to tolerate,” says Khalidi. Public opinion about Israel has grown increasingly negative in the United States and across much of the world in the wake of the genocide in Gaza, and it’s “not going to shift back,” says Khalidi. “People have seen something that cannot be unseen. They’ve seen genocide. They’ve seen slaughter. And Israel has no defense.” “Even in countries with no history of a Palestine solidarity movement, suddenly the Palestine flag emerges,” says Ali. “Why? Because their governments are trying to stop dissent on this issue, so they are defying their governments.”

The pessimist who became a prophet

Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming

Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit. (Published 2024)

Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state — including Argentina’s Javier Milei and India’s Narendra Modi — to push his own politics and expand his business empire.

Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Is Faulty.

The former counterterrorism official’s assertion that Israel was responsible for US wars in Iraq and Syria is false, and evidence of a dangerously…

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

/leftypol/ - leftypol.org on Twitter / X

hyperpolitics by anton jäger is to the 2020s what capitalist realism by mark fisher was to the 2010s pic.twitter.com/7Wjscq7lNi— /leftypol/ - leftypol.org (@leftypol_org) September 13, 2026

John Battelle's Search Blog Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

Let’s talk 2024. 2023 was a down year on the predictions front, but at least I’ve learned to sidestep distractions like Trump, crypto, and Musk. If I can avoid talking about the joys of…

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✨ لا تنتظر أن تصبح حياتك مثالية لتكون سعيدًا، تعلّم أن تجد السعادة في التفاصيل الصغيرة، وكن ممتنًا لكل نعمة في حياتك. 🤍 pic.twitter.com/aQHLdgu9of— ◥꧁ محمد عبدالرحمن ꧂◤ (@abuhamed818) October 12, 2026

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal

Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.