Dr. Matt Boxer
@mboxer.bsky.social
Assistant Research Prof, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies @ Brandeis University. Jewish studies and sociology. Writes broadly about contemporary Jewish life using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Might have a space laser.
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Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
This is the part I dislike most about writing. I'm dyslexic; I see what I think is there, not what is actually there. If you're reading my work, the page isn't always reliable. I need you to see what's written in my head, but if you actually saw what that place looks like, you'd be terrified.
Over the next week (what thanksgiving break? lol) I have to read my book again and finalize it before it goes to *print* and I’m literally paying attention to details like colon vs comma and I’m sure most authors are like this and that’s one reason why you should buy our books. We really care.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is the part I dislike most about writing. I'm dyslexic; I see what I think is there, not what is actually there. If you're reading my work, the page isn't always reliable. I need you to see what's written in my head, but if you actually saw what that place looks like, you'd be terrified.
By the precedent set by American media, Kamala Harris now has grounds for a $1 trillion lawsuit against the BBC.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
By the precedent set by American media, Kamala Harris now has grounds for a $1 trillion lawsuit against the BBC.
And at some point, the bubble will burst, and we'll have to bail out all the billionaires.
Not the people who lost their jobs so the bubble could be created. Not the people who work hard for a living and actually pay their taxes.
Not the people who lost their jobs so the bubble could be created. Not the people who work hard for a living and actually pay their taxes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And at some point, the bubble will burst, and we'll have to bail out all the billionaires.
Not the people who lost their jobs so the bubble could be created. Not the people who work hard for a living and actually pay their taxes.
Not the people who lost their jobs so the bubble could be created. Not the people who work hard for a living and actually pay their taxes.
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Trump pardoned the guy "facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas" which, considering Jared, Saudi Arabia, and every other absolutely illegal or immoral foreign entanglement:
Brings to mind Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22 who sold everything to everyone, no matter their side.
Brings to mind Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22 who sold everything to everyone, no matter their side.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Trump pardoned the guy "facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas" which, considering Jared, Saudi Arabia, and every other absolutely illegal or immoral foreign entanglement:
Brings to mind Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22 who sold everything to everyone, no matter their side.
Brings to mind Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22 who sold everything to everyone, no matter their side.
This checks out.
I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things.
Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube.
That's it. That's the whole thing.
Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube.
That's it. That's the whole thing.
In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate:
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This checks out.
I wonder if this would work in other situations. Let's encourage our fellow Americans to honor our country by...
- not shooting their neighbors
- not cramming their religion down their neighbors' throats
- paying their fair share of taxes, even if they're billionaires
No, I don't see that working.
- not shooting their neighbors
- not cramming their religion down their neighbors' throats
- paying their fair share of taxes, even if they're billionaires
No, I don't see that working.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I wonder if this would work in other situations. Let's encourage our fellow Americans to honor our country by...
- not shooting their neighbors
- not cramming their religion down their neighbors' throats
- paying their fair share of taxes, even if they're billionaires
No, I don't see that working.
- not shooting their neighbors
- not cramming their religion down their neighbors' throats
- paying their fair share of taxes, even if they're billionaires
No, I don't see that working.
I am always suspicious of people who want to discuss slaughtering Jews another time. I could be wrong, but my personal experience is that they're not actually concerned with protecting Jews from antisemites.
never seen a lady so mad to be factchecked that dems aren't mass slaughtering jews
BLITZER: During WW2, Nazi officers were following the chain of command, obeying illegal orders & slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust
McCLAIN: We're a long way from Nuremberg trials & the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that convo another time
McCLAIN: We're a long way from Nuremberg trials & the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that convo another time
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I am always suspicious of people who want to discuss slaughtering Jews another time. I could be wrong, but my personal experience is that they're not actually concerned with protecting Jews from antisemites.
I've been reading Eli Sharabi's account of his time as a hostage in Gaza, from October 7 until after his release, and I just got to the part where he talks about his surprise at his captors' giddiness at the prospect of Trump winning the election.
I'm not surprised that Hamas was rooting for Trump.
I'm not surprised that Hamas was rooting for Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I've been reading Eli Sharabi's account of his time as a hostage in Gaza, from October 7 until after his release, and I just got to the part where he talks about his surprise at his captors' giddiness at the prospect of Trump winning the election.
I'm not surprised that Hamas was rooting for Trump.
I'm not surprised that Hamas was rooting for Trump.
Someone's going to have to tell Dr. Cassidy that this was 100% predictable and 100% preventable, but because he was too afraid of losing his job to *do* his job, people will die.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Someone's going to have to tell Dr. Cassidy that this was 100% predictable and 100% preventable, but because he was too afraid of losing his job to *do* his job, people will die.
What I'm hearing is an invitation for millions of residents of blue states that will still be blue when they leave to reshape the toxic politics of Florida and Texas.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What I'm hearing is an invitation for millions of residents of blue states that will still be blue when they leave to reshape the toxic politics of Florida and Texas.
No one who has ever been threatened by a Nazi on Facebook and reported it, only to be told that the vile, explicit, hate-filled, violent threat did not violate "community standards" (even though it clearly violated the language the moderators point to) will be surprised by this.
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
No one who has ever been threatened by a Nazi on Facebook and reported it, only to be told that the vile, explicit, hate-filled, violent threat did not violate "community standards" (even though it clearly violated the language the moderators point to) will be surprised by this.
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So this is what #KavanaughStops now look like - surrounding a Superior Court Judge's car and threatening to smash in windows ...
“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So this is what #KavanaughStops now look like - surrounding a Superior Court Judge's car and threatening to smash in windows ...
I am anticipating that there's going to be trouble with the "digital literacy" portion of the course I'm teaching next semester. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am anticipating that there's going to be trouble with the "digital literacy" portion of the course I'm teaching next semester. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
IANAL, but I think when the prosecutor keeps flip-flopping on the supposed facts of the case, you have guaranteed reasonable doubt.
This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
IANAL, but I think when the prosecutor keeps flip-flopping on the supposed facts of the case, you have guaranteed reasonable doubt.
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a judge just issued a wildly antisemitic opinion in a crucial civil rights case.
yet hardly anyone—including Jewish institutions—have pointed out that it's antisemitic. this seems bad.
me at Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/why-are-medi...
yet hardly anyone—including Jewish institutions—have pointed out that it's antisemitic. this seems bad.
me at Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/why-are-medi...
Why Are Media and Mainstream Jewish Orgs Ignoring Judge's Antisemitic Dissent in Gerrymandering Case?
It’s not often that you see a federal judge issue a frothing antisemitic diatribe and call it an “opinion.” You’d think that when that happened, there’d be an outcry—after all Trump has taken unpreced...
religiondispatches.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a judge just issued a wildly antisemitic opinion in a crucial civil rights case.
yet hardly anyone—including Jewish institutions—have pointed out that it's antisemitic. this seems bad.
me at Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/why-are-medi...
yet hardly anyone—including Jewish institutions—have pointed out that it's antisemitic. this seems bad.
me at Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/why-are-medi...
Under the current management, this is what the Washington Post considers "the free market." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Under the current management, this is what the Washington Post considers "the free market." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Not for nothing, but Cornell is on land stolen from the Cayuga Nation.
Cornell grad student union adds resistance ‘by any means’ to anti-Israel resolution https://www.timesofisrael.com/cornell-grad-student-union-adds-resistance-by-any-means-to-anti-israel-resolution/
Cornell grad student union adds resistance ‘by any means’ to anti-Israel resolution
Proposal dismisses antisemitism accusations, commits to the boycott campaign against Israel, as Jews are purged from the group's communications
www.timesofisrael.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not for nothing, but Cornell is on land stolen from the Cayuga Nation.
"Meritocracy."
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Meritocracy."
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The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
It's only tyranny, censorship, etc. when Democrats do it. When Republicans do it, it's sparkling hypocrisy.
Just wanna re-up in simple terms that when Biden talked to platforms, Jim Jordan launched years of investigations into everybody involved, said it was tyranny, censorship, etc.
And now they just straight up acknowledge that they talk to platforms too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
And now they just straight up acknowledge that they talk to platforms too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' shooting down made-up ICE stories
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news, viral AI videos, and misinformation on ICE and Border Patrol.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
It's only tyranny, censorship, etc. when Democrats do it. When Republicans do it, it's sparkling hypocrisy.
If you've spent any time in Wisconsin, you already know: "Historically Obtuse and Morally Disoriented" would be a great title for a biography of Glenn Grothman.
In a House Judiciary subcommittee just now, Rep. Glenn Grothmann (R-Wisc.) took a witness to task for characterizing the 3/5ths compromise as racist, arguing it was a righteous political power struggle.
Jamie Raskin, in response, called that analysis "historically obtuse and morally disoriented"
Jamie Raskin, in response, called that analysis "historically obtuse and morally disoriented"
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If you've spent any time in Wisconsin, you already know: "Historically Obtuse and Morally Disoriented" would be a great title for a biography of Glenn Grothman.
Look, on one hand, this is a small sample and a non-representative sample -- two factors that generally call into question the reliability of survey findings.
On the other hand, have you ever spoken with a Black Jew? If you have, there's a very high probability you've heard some of this pre-Oct. 7.
On the other hand, have you ever spoken with a Black Jew? If you have, there's a very high probability you've heard some of this pre-Oct. 7.
today's least surprising data:
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"
Some Black Jews feel more ostracized from Jewish communities post-Oct. 7, survey finds
In a survey of 104 Black Jews, 62% of respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7.
forward.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Look, on one hand, this is a small sample and a non-representative sample -- two factors that generally call into question the reliability of survey findings.
On the other hand, have you ever spoken with a Black Jew? If you have, there's a very high probability you've heard some of this pre-Oct. 7.
On the other hand, have you ever spoken with a Black Jew? If you have, there's a very high probability you've heard some of this pre-Oct. 7.