Jodi Jacobson
@jljacobson.bsky.social
Lifelong advocate for human rights (*for EVERYONE), public health, evidence-based policy. Jewish. Intolerant of lying, hatred, and denialism. Entrepreneurial non-profit leader. Writer/editor. Mom of two amazing kids and two very, very good dogs.
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Jodi Jacobson
@jljacobson.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Just because one party is made up of fascists does not absolve us of the responsibility to hold the other party accountable for its inaction, neglect, dismissiveness, or lack of courage and strategy. That means holding Democrats accountable.
Maybe because the right in this country is a cartel of thieves, rapists, pedophiles, liars, and abusers, and Mamdani is. the POLAR OPPOSITE?
You people need a *mental sea change.*
And keep Mamdani out of your mouth.
You people need a *mental sea change.*
And keep Mamdani out of your mouth.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Maybe because the right in this country is a cartel of thieves, rapists, pedophiles, liars, and abusers, and Mamdani is. the POLAR OPPOSITE?
You people need a *mental sea change.*
And keep Mamdani out of your mouth.
You people need a *mental sea change.*
And keep Mamdani out of your mouth.
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So dumb. The only establishment Trump beat was the GOP establishment. Meanwhile, he's the avatar for corruption and corporate greed, speed-running a transfer of wealth to the ultra-rich and the transfer of power to a tiny handful of oligarchs. Stoller's commitment to this grift is laughable
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So dumb. The only establishment Trump beat was the GOP establishment. Meanwhile, he's the avatar for corruption and corporate greed, speed-running a transfer of wealth to the ultra-rich and the transfer of power to a tiny handful of oligarchs. Stoller's commitment to this grift is laughable
All of these people should be disbarred.
DC jury acquitted the Sandwich Guy. Lindsay Halligan can’t even bring an indictment because she’s not legit. Jeanine Pirro couldn't get a conviction because she’s incompetent.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
All of these people should be disbarred.
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Yesterday, Reverend Crawford and the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Bronx shared their profound love of this city with me.
Together, we will build a city that loves every New Yorker back.
Together, we will build a city that loves every New Yorker back.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yesterday, Reverend Crawford and the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Bronx shared their profound love of this city with me.
Together, we will build a city that loves every New Yorker back.
Together, we will build a city that loves every New Yorker back.
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The NYT is broken and can't be fixed. It doesn't want to be fixed.
The US has no paper of record. Cancel your subscription.
The US has no paper of record. Cancel your subscription.
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The NYT is broken and can't be fixed. It doesn't want to be fixed.
The US has no paper of record. Cancel your subscription.
The US has no paper of record. Cancel your subscription.
I hope for her sake Lindsey Halligan is better at insurance law. Though I wouldn’t hire her for the paperwork to adopt a shelter pet.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I hope for her sake Lindsey Halligan is better at insurance law. Though I wouldn’t hire her for the paperwork to adopt a shelter pet.
Exactly.
David J. Bier: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since Oct 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Exactly.
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David J. Bier: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since Oct 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
David J. Bier: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since Oct 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
@colorado.gov in what universe does it make sense for you to relinquish jurisdiction over an election denier to this administration? Do you actually believe in our democracy? Whose side are you on, Governor Polis?
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@colorado.gov in what universe does it make sense for you to relinquish jurisdiction over an election denier to this administration? Do you actually believe in our democracy? Whose side are you on, Governor Polis?
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The idea that one has to be a Jew in order to have any meaningful understanding of what is or is not Zionism in theory or in practice is to more or less render the term meaningless. Like saying you have to be white to understand white supremacy or Hindu to understand Hindutva.
As a Zionist, you don’t speak for me and you’re not Jewish, you probably don’t know what Zionism is.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The idea that one has to be a Jew in order to have any meaningful understanding of what is or is not Zionism in theory or in practice is to more or less render the term meaningless. Like saying you have to be white to understand white supremacy or Hindu to understand Hindutva.
Can all the people who insisted Scott Bessent was a brilliant money man please raise your hands?
You’re all being sent back to kindergarten.
You’re all being sent back to kindergarten.
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Can all the people who insisted Scott Bessent was a brilliant money man please raise your hands?
You’re all being sent back to kindergarten.
You’re all being sent back to kindergarten.
Congressional stock trading has to be stopped. It’s corrupt, it’s deceptive, and I can’t believe it does not adversely affect critical decisions. We should pay them all a good wage and enable people across the economic spectrum to be able to compete.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Congressional stock trading has to be stopped. It’s corrupt, it’s deceptive, and I can’t believe it does not adversely affect critical decisions. We should pay them all a good wage and enable people across the economic spectrum to be able to compete.
DON'T BUY IT!!!
No Target, no Home Depot, No Amazon.
They promote and support ICE and state-sponsored violence. Use your economic power to say NO!!!
No Target, no Home Depot, No Amazon.
They promote and support ICE and state-sponsored violence. Use your economic power to say NO!!!
Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
Tell the Billionaires We Ain’t Buying It
This week, we use our wallets like a weapon and remind every corporate giant that people—not profits—set the terms.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
DON'T BUY IT!!!
No Target, no Home Depot, No Amazon.
They promote and support ICE and state-sponsored violence. Use your economic power to say NO!!!
No Target, no Home Depot, No Amazon.
They promote and support ICE and state-sponsored violence. Use your economic power to say NO!!!
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Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
Tell the Billionaires We Ain’t Buying It
This week, we use our wallets like a weapon and remind every corporate giant that people—not profits—set the terms.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
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an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
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Mary Ziegler points out that no Republicans voted against the failed South Carolina bill that would have jailed women for up to 30 years for abortion. But the point of such bills is that they incrementally mainstream the most extreme anti-abortion positions.
South Carolina Tried to Pass a Bill Jailing Women for Abortion. No Republican Voted Against It.
South Carolina legislators debated what would be the most stringent abortion law in the nation.
slate.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Mary Ziegler points out that no Republicans voted against the failed South Carolina bill that would have jailed women for up to 30 years for abortion. But the point of such bills is that they incrementally mainstream the most extreme anti-abortion positions.
Can someone please do a mental health check on this woman?
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Can someone please do a mental health check on this woman?
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Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
I simply NEVER want to hear any of the following from any Democrat ever again:
➡️ "Both the right and the left politicize justice." Give me a fucking example of Dems doing this anytime the past 30 years.
➡️ "Both the right and the left politicize justice." Give me a fucking example of Dems doing this anytime the past 30 years.
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I simply NEVER want to hear any of the following from any Democrat ever again:
➡️ "Both the right and the left politicize justice." Give me a fucking example of Dems doing this anytime the past 30 years.
➡️ "Both the right and the left politicize justice." Give me a fucking example of Dems doing this anytime the past 30 years.
Unidentified GOP Congressperson: "They will lose the majority before this term is out."
Promise?
Promise?
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Unidentified GOP Congressperson: "They will lose the majority before this term is out."
Promise?
Promise?
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It is absolutely delightful that part of the reason this indictment is being dismissed is because a 1986 DOJ OLC memo "authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito" insisted that this was the proper outcome and appointments like Halligan's were invalid.
![14 Three days after Congress enacted the 1986 law, an Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) memorandum authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito concluded the statute does not allow “the Attorney General [to] make another appointment pursuant to [subsection (a)] after the expiration of the 120-day period.” Memorandum from Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Deputy Assistant Att’y Gen., Off. of Legal Couns., to William P. Tyson, Dir., Exec. Off. for U.S. Att’ys 3 (Nov. 13, 1986), available at https://perma.cc/SD5Q-7CPH. “The statutory plan,” Alito reasoned, “discloses a Congressional purpose that after the expiration of the 120-day period further interim appointments are to be made by the court rather than by the Attorney General.” Id](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreifwlvo2kpdvy7f6vu4mhh76vwbeqz3cyuzwpkywcsdvweayxm4zxu@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It is absolutely delightful that part of the reason this indictment is being dismissed is because a 1986 DOJ OLC memo "authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito" insisted that this was the proper outcome and appointments like Halligan's were invalid.
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Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
I have a policy of never stanning politicians…. With a few exceptions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I have a policy of never stanning politicians…. With a few exceptions.
Clown Show. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Clown Show. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡