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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20h

If the party leadership admits this, they have to admit that we are not in normal political times anymore and that the response cannot be to just do normal political campaigns on topics like healthcare coverage, and they are not prepared for that world.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, they're trying to intimidate us but Pritzker's right -- everyone needs to be out in numbers at these events.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 1d

This week, I attended a talk where the presenter—a respected writer outside the academy—started off lecturing the assembled group of scholars and graduate students that we needed to read more Shakespeare and Dickens so we can write better. Friends, his subsequent talk was no Shakespeare or Dickens.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, it's been done already.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZA2...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 1d

Fascism with Curb Your Enthusiasm characteristics.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 1d

If she couldn't resist the internal lobbying to pass the bank bailout in 2008, I don't think she could have said no to 2020—when much of the country needed to be bailed out.

Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to imagine. Democratic voters aren't dupes and would have put pressure on Pelosi as they were laid off or furloughed and only getting the standard (meager) unemployment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 3d

My God. Will they take everything from us?

Is It OK to Use Your Phone on the Toilet?

www.nytimes.com

Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 4d

The "rootless" loophole will finally come in handy.

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: now DHS says "globalists" will be blocked "from ever entering our country."

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
RECAPTURE OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY!
This week, we arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers across our country in Portland in Chicago.
Now, we need your help. Block communists, terrorists, and globalists from ever entering our country. Go to USCIS.GOV/JOIN
@MicahBock

Screenshot from video: YOU'LL BLOCK COMMUNISTS, TERRORISTS, AND GLOBALISTS
1:03/3:09

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I'm just catching up on the whole thread.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly, the opinion is not eccentric. It's the view of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and it routinely discriminates against Russian and Ethiopian Jews who don't receive Orthodox conversions.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

Really doesn't look like Jonathan Greenblatt represents "the overwhelming majority of Jews" here.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza; 40% now say Israel is committing genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wish the 40% number were higher but this can hardly be dismissed as a tiny fringe of the community.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

Under a "normal" administration, Hamas's response would have been interpreted—in coordination with Israel—as a rejection.

Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

The one unpredictable variable Trump adds to American mediation between Israel and Palestinian groups is that his administration is completely devoid of the kind of peace processor whose main objective was to make sure Israel would not be blamed for the failure of any US diplomatic initiative.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

The one unpredictable variable Trump adds to American mediation between Israel and Palestinian groups is that his administration is completely devoid of the kind of peace processor whose main objective was to make sure Israel would not be blamed for the failure of any US diplomatic initiative.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

So the attack wasn't antisemitic, it was only an unjustifiable act of political murder targeting civilians in a Jewish place of worship? As long as we're agreed on unjustifiable and murder, I would be content with leaving the whole anti-Semitic debate alone. Sadly, I am not confident we're agreed.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7d

The Israeli government is choosing to alienate the British Jewish community, which is largely conservative and pro-Israel but will have no truck with the likes of violent white supremacists like Tommy Robinson. A truly astonishing own goal even by Chikli standards of political acumen.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League, whom the Diaspora Minister is hosting in Israel, is a far-right Islamophobe who has dabbled in anti-diaspora antisemitism ("globalism," "cultural Marxism").

This Israeli gov would sell out every diaspora Jew to oppress Palestinians more.

Tweet from Amichai Chikli: "In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to host British patriot
@TRobinsonNewEra
who will visit Israel in mid-October.

Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam.

At a time when Jews across Europe face rising antisemitism, it is vital to strengthen bonds with allies who refuse to be silent.

He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people, unafraid to speak the truth and confront hate.

Israel will always stand with the Jewish community and our allies worldwide. Together with friends like Tommy Robinson, we will build stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror, and defend Western civilization and our shared values."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is not a consensus figure on the right. She's a Trump-friendly neoconservative. Unfortunately, the anti-neocon Trumpists don't usually focus on the politics in their attacks. I am hopeful people on the left will not amplify Buchananite poison when they see it, even if Weiss is the target.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8d

"Contrarian" is killing me, the whole premise of the Free Press is telling rich elderly and middle-aged men that they're right about everything

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 9d

Written ten years ago by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social, and is now sadly useful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris

I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK

www.theguardian.com

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 9d

I'm a late millennial. I've only known dark times.

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 9d

This is exactly right. The ADL is accountable to its board and donors, not to an amorphous "American Jewish community." Their donors are to the right of the median American Jew, but also not right-wing enough for the Jewish right, whose organs (JNS, Tablet, etc.) will probably run defense for Patel.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 9d

October 7 really accelerated the shift, but the really toxic communal politics where the people who fund everything are way to the right of the average U.S. Jew and all know that they're losing the battle for hearts and minds vis a vis Israel with their own youth way predates that.

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