David Weinfeld
@davidweinfeld.bsky.social
Time traveling detective aka historian, teach Jewish Studies at Rowan U in NJ. Live in Old City in Philly. Husband of MAP, dad of 2 girls. Have celiac. From Montreal. Go Expos! Will not respond to people who don’t go by their real names here.
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I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
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my argument for why AOC should run in 2028 is (a) she would be a good president (b) Mamdani, Analililia Mejia, abolish ICE with majority support, if not now, when?
February 11, 2026 at 3:36 AM
my argument for why AOC should run in 2028 is (a) she would be a good president (b) Mamdani, Analililia Mejia, abolish ICE with majority support, if not now, when?
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Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.
Brad Lander: To build a just and safe future for Israelis and Palestinians, and to move toward a US foreign policy that aligns with our principles and our interests, it’s time to block the bombs.
https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe
https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe
To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs
Brad Lander in The Nation: “When I am elected to Congress, I will support the Block the Bombs Act to protect more Palestinians from being killed by Israel.”
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February 11, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.
i like the Ferengi but find DS9 unwatchably bad so may have to revisit the selection TNG episodes where they appear
February 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
i like the Ferengi but find DS9 unwatchably bad so may have to revisit the selection TNG episodes where they appear
Are the Moriarty episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” helpful to understanding artificial intelligence? I’m not sure but those were good episodes and maybe deserve a rewatch.
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Are the Moriarty episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” helpful to understanding artificial intelligence? I’m not sure but those were good episodes and maybe deserve a rewatch.
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"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
Brilliant and moving essay about historical analogies by Peter Gordon: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon
A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts
www.nybooks.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Brilliant and moving essay about historical analogies by Peter Gordon: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025. n.pr/3MhYNoP
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
n.pr
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025. n.pr/3MhYNoP
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@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @yaelmiz.bsky.social on the band-aid solution of Western sanctions on extremist settlers, when the settlement enterprise is in fact a decades-long Israeli state project:
tcf.org/content/comm...
tcf.org/content/comm...
Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem
Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has
tcf.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @yaelmiz.bsky.social on the band-aid solution of Western sanctions on extremist settlers, when the settlement enterprise is in fact a decades-long Israeli state project:
tcf.org/content/comm...
tcf.org/content/comm...
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Well well well how the turn tables
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Well well well how the turn tables
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Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
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For @nytimes I wrote about the globalization of Canadian rage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
For @nytimes I wrote about the globalization of Canadian rage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
Great piece by @stephenmarche.bsky.social in The NY Times: "We're all Canadians now."
Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Great piece by @stephenmarche.bsky.social in The NY Times: "We're all Canadians now."
As usual, Bernie is right.
We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders
It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 AM
As usual, Bernie is right.
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strangely enormous numbers of people think that criticizing the democratic party on this website somehow resulted in or will result in destroying the party's electoral chances. bizarre!!!
February 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
strangely enormous numbers of people think that criticizing the democratic party on this website somehow resulted in or will result in destroying the party's electoral chances. bizarre!!!
The problem is bigger than Bibi, but Bibi remains among the biggest problems. This has been true since long before October 7. There cannot be a two-state solution with Bibi in office. I hate Hamas but Bibi is the bigger obstacle to a 2-s-s, which remains the only realistic path to peace.
Netanyahu faces a reckoning in Gaza as Trump's triumph exposes Israel's postwar failure
The U.S. Wants Aid to Gaza Expanded, but Netanyahu Fears Definitive Proof That His Far-right-backed Plan for Gaza Has Collapsed. In His Statement After Meeting Trump Envoy Witkoff, the PM Signaled an ...
www.haaretz.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The problem is bigger than Bibi, but Bibi remains among the biggest problems. This has been true since long before October 7. There cannot be a two-state solution with Bibi in office. I hate Hamas but Bibi is the bigger obstacle to a 2-s-s, which remains the only realistic path to peace.
Jonathan Holloway is a superb scholar, a mentor, and a mensch. I don’t care if one disagrees with his views on the Rutgers union,
Israel/Palestine, or anything else. This is absolutely awful.
Israel/Palestine, or anything else. This is absolutely awful.
Ex-Rutgers president endured racist threats before he quit. He ‘didn’t sign up for this.’
He became Rutgers' first Black president. Then the threats started coming in.
www.nj.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Jonathan Holloway is a superb scholar, a mentor, and a mensch. I don’t care if one disagrees with his views on the Rutgers union,
Israel/Palestine, or anything else. This is absolutely awful.
Israel/Palestine, or anything else. This is absolutely awful.
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
I think that's part of the article's point about the right having agency. They don't just react to wokeness. They've been building this for decades. I think wokeness can encourage Trumpism in some people but I think the problem is much older and deeper than that.
February 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I think that's part of the article's point about the right having agency. They don't just react to wokeness. They've been building this for decades. I think wokeness can encourage Trumpism in some people but I think the problem is much older and deeper than that.
I really liked this article. I don’t think it negates criticisms of “the left” but I think it’s worthwhile to consider where “centrists” direct the majority of their criticism. Emphasis matters. Quotation marks because I think it’s less about policy views and more about evaluating relative threats.
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I really liked this article. I don’t think it negates criticisms of “the left” but I think it’s worthwhile to consider where “centrists” direct the majority of their criticism. Emphasis matters. Quotation marks because I think it’s less about policy views and more about evaluating relative threats.
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this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
LOL
Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
LOL
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WNBA superstar Paige Bueckers
February 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
WNBA superstar Paige Bueckers