“Chernobyl” came out just over a year ago, and a popular center-right talking point was that it showed how communist misgovernance inevitably leads to preventable mass casualties (up to 16,000 deaths across Europe have been traced to that disaster). Anyway, just thinking out loud
When he says "from the river to the sea" we give him high-tech weaponry to carry it out; when some college kid says it we blacklist them from future employment
I'm heartbroken by the ICJ case.
At the end of the day, this isn't about "genocide," use of force, Palestinian sovereignty, Israel, or Zionism.
This is about a lot of people in the world wanting Jews to be powerless and dead.
We are not going backwards in Jewish history again.
I don't think Biden is dead, and jokes aside, I don't want to speculate on his condition. But one of two things is true:
a. he's not okay and we're not being told, OR
b. he's fine and yet MIA during an unprecedented crisis
Either way, the Biden campaign is failing the public.
So to review: a protester accidentally poked a right-wing provocateur in the face with the spherical tip of a small flagpole, resulting in no injury, and multiple media outlets reported it as a Jew being stabbed in the eye.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead.
Bernie has been live-streaming for about 20 minutes and in addition to being calm and on point about the pandemic, he has yet to wander offscreen mid-sentence. I dunno, maybe vote for him?
I'm almost 40, unmistakably Jewish, and have experienced real antisemitism in America a single-digit number of times (none of which were since 10/7/23).
Our govt is slaughtering Palestinian kids by the thousands. I think it would behoove us to focus on that.
Approximately 100% of the energy being spent on “withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of failure is a mistake” could and should be spent on advocating to take as many refugees as possible, if saving lives is what one actually cares about.
Want to know what's at stake this election? If we lose the Senate, socialist Bernie Sanders will become Budget Committee Chairman. If we hold the Senate, and I am re-elected, I will be Budget Committee Chairman.
Bernie Sanders personally just saved millions of Americans from immiseration but on the other hand Joe Biden was definitely still alive as of yesterday.
Two million civilians are trapped in Gaza with no way out. A government funded by the US and backed near-unanimously by US politicians is announcing its intention to violate the Geneva conventions. To focus on Hamas atrocities outside this context is morally unserious.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
Breaking News: President Biden is moving to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets between 9/11 victims’ families and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. The highly unusual set of moves is expected to be announced on Friday.
I'm something of a NYC nationalist—I really think it's a miracle that all the peoples of the world can live together in one city basically in peace and harmony—and this UES halal cart vendor story is only reinforcing that.
There's a vast philanthropic-lobbying complex in the US that works tirelessly to present Israelis as benevolent, peace-loving, and fundamentally reasonable victims of Palestinian aggression, and meanwhile in actual Israel no one bothers with the pretense.
Personally I think it's cool how we run more or less the same nailbiter election over the same handful of battlegrounds every four years and literally nothing including a quarter million people dying in an economy-destroying pandemic can budge that.
It's starting to hit me what things will be like when the worst of this passes and we go outside again and half the small businesses are permanently shuttered, for reasons that would have been entirely preventable if we lived in a functioning society.
This speech actually had me going for a minute and then he said the line about lowering healthcare premiums and I’m just like, why do we need to have healthcare premiums
It’s gradually dawning on me that nothing the US has directly supported in my lifetime—not even in the wake of 9/11—has had the same straightforwardly genocidal logic as our Gaza policy right now. Under a liberal president, no less. The moral stain will never wash out.
The leading antisemitism watchdog in the country, praising the guy who posted Holocaust denial literally yesterday. How are we supposed to take anything the ADL says seriously?
I get voting for Biden as the lesser evil while believing Reade. I get respectfully withholding judgment on Reade while supporting Biden. But for supposed liberals to publicly question Reade’s credibility because she makes it uncomfortable to support Biden is a deep moral stain.
Not that there are any contexts in which Joe Rogan should ever be using the n-word, but if he really said it in *70 episodes* I would be fascinated to see an infographic breaking down the specific usages.
Simply astonishing, watching this dude insult and condescend to Israel’s critics as he slowly discovers basic facts about the conflict and reaches the same conclusions those critics reached years ago
Reading the latest NYP Hunter story, two things:
-this is a grotesque violation of a family's privacy with no conceivable public interest value
-Hunter is a raw, sympathetic human being in a loving family, which puts him ahead of basically all political offspring we know about
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who announced indoor dining would resume soon, says the call for restaurant workers to have higher vaccine priority is “a cheap, insincere discussion.”
The baby in the oven story was fake news, part of a disinformation blitz used to justify the IDF's ongoing slaughter of thousands of Palestinian civilians—including, today, Refaat Alareer.
Weird, I was told by savvy “popularists” that Biden understood the politics of this situation perfectly and that it’s the overeducated online left that’s out of touch
BREAKING: Biden’s standing hits new lows amid Israel-Hamas war. The erosion is most pronounced among Dems, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in Gaza. Among voters ages 18-34, 70% of them disapprove of his handling of the war.
If you oppose Hamas’s violence and support nonviolent resistance to the occupation, take note that leading Democrats in general oppose and condemn nonviolent resistance to the occupation. No strategy that supports Palestinians is ever treated as valid.
The people of Israel are facing violent terrorist attacks and civilian kidnappings. I condemn plans to rally in Times Square tomorrow in support of the perpetrators of these horrific actions. The planned rally is abhorrent and morally repugnant.
Watching some of Bourdain’s last episodes. In Hong Kong, he doesn’t just geek out on Wong Kar-wai and eat noodles—he ends up profiling refugees from Somalia and Iran stuck in limbo there. Hard to imagine anyone else in his position who would have thought to do that.
The current Israeli government is overtly genocidal and routinely kills Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy; it’s about to kill many more. There’s no excuse for not knowing this; to rally behind them now is a statement of geopolitical preference, not moral principle.
If you spent 5 years as a diehard Bernie stan (or hater!) before discovering that he's an elected US senator who caucuses with the Democrats and broadly aligns with the party's progressive wing, the problem isn't that Bernie betrayed you—the problem is that you're an idiot.
By all means, get mad at this sociopathic Tillis staffer, but he’s just saying out loud what the underlying premise of our healthcare system has been and will be until we remove the profit motive from it, which all Republicans and most leading Democrats oppose doing.
As a Jew in America, where 1/3 of the world's Jews live and where we are objectively safer than the 1/3 who live in Israel, I'm offended and unnerved every time our president claims he's less capable than Israel of protecting our safety.
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
AOC’s ongoing failure to personally vaccinate every American proves that she is loyal to Pelosi and Big Pharma and not a true leftist, unlike me, the guy who just arbitrarily decided she should do that
A list of European countries where far-right parties have more electoral support than 🇺🇦, in descending order:
🇭🇺🇵🇱🇲🇰🇨🇭🇸🇮🇪🇪🇫🇮🇸🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇧🇪🇪🇸🇳🇴🇫🇷🇱🇻🇳🇱🇩🇪🇨🇿🇷🇴🇩🇰🇱🇺🇸🇰🇷🇺🇵🇹🇨🇾🇬🇷🇲🇹🇭🇷🇱🇹
(and it's not European, but one could certainly argue 🇺🇸)
If I were an Ivy League president I would simply not sic riot police on scores of nonviolent student protesters in a bid to impress Elise Stefanik. Elise Stefanik will never be impressed. Have some dignity.
Say what you will about Pete Buttigieg—for instance, that he was a resume-padding, thoroughly phony rat-man who worked for a company that fixed bread prices—but you cannot deny that he was alive.
A running theme I've noticed among the people who are most mad at Jonathan Glazer: a lot of them really liked Zone of Interest, at least before the Oscar speech. Which suggests they only superficially understood it; they thought the point of the movie was that Nazis were bad.
I had no interest whatsoever in running a Presidential Campaign in 2008. One of my closest friends was running John McCain’s campaign and John Weaver was the chief strategist. There were two factions in the campaign. There was a pro-democracy faction and there was
The Squad was right to vote against the infrastructure bill; it should have been held hostage to BBB. Instead Manchin was given 100% of the leverage and this is the predictable outcome.
MANCHIN PULLS THE PLUG ON BBB ... WHOA ... on Fox News Sunday: "I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. ... I can't get there."
"This is a no on this legislation."
AOC actually attacked Yang because he wanted to show up to an Eid rally in Astoria, *which is in her district*, but then he was asked to cancel *by her constituents* because of his Israel remarks. He is running to be mayor of the city her entire district is in. But go off!
One way to stop all the wild, irresponsible, conspiratorial speculation about whether Joe Biden is alive and healthy would be to get Joe Biden in front of a camera to address the nation he aspires to lead as president, maybe for just a couple of minutes per day. Big ask, I know.
It’s a famine-genocide. I don’t care if it sounds hyperbolic, that’s what it is and it takes willful blindness not to see it. We are subsidizing a famine-genocide.
A lot of people who should know better have been morally obtuse and intellectually unserious in the lead up to this catastrophe. The US isn’t blameless over the past 30 years but the war that is starting tonight is Russia’s choice, and will be every bit as horrific as any US war.
I admit that as we spent six days last week alternately joking and panicking about Joe Biden, I had this nagging feeling that he'd eventually resurface and we'd look dumb and his supporters would mock us. Well, he has resurfaced, and his supporters are eerily quiet.
The generation gap is the story of the primary. And what frightens me, both for November and for the potential administration that would follow, is that Biden is almost totally isolated from the generational cohort that strongly preferred Sanders. He holds us in open contempt.
One of my quiet longstanding takes is that this country can never move forward until Reagan is generally understood to be one of our most destructive presidents.
AOC is calling for a rent moratorium in NY on Bernie’s livestream, something national journalists could be covering if they weren’t busy not covering Joe Biden’s non-campaign
The effective banning of abortion in TX (& soon half the country) is both horrific & only half of what's unsettling about this decision. Legitimizing & financially incentivizing narcs is going to tear society apart & those warning about Stalinist threats to free speech are silent
The Democratic nominee for president firmly believes that health insurance should be tied to employment and would not budge on this when confronted by an activist with a terminal illness in the past week.
Breaking News: About 5.4 million Americans lost health insurance in the pandemic, more than have ever lost coverage through job losses in a year, an analysis found
I’m not sure a worse genre of take exists than “I disagree with this person’s politics but we were friendly in law school/etc so they deserve to have enormous power.”
Here’s the thing: you don’t actually disagree with their politics.
Greetings from New York City, where the subway is a shambles and all kinds of public services are on the chopping block, but a cop was able to earn six figures for five straight years after murdering Eric Garner
You can believe Tara Reade or not but you can’t deny Biden’s serial creepiness around women, the subject of multiple accusations and endless filmed examples, all of which has been public for a long time. Democrats, both voters and party elites, chose not to care. That’s on them.
Bernie Sanders is the most inspiring US politician of my lifetime. He radicalized millions, including me. His ideas, his integrity, and the movement he built will outlast his campaign and remain relevant for decades to come. I'm grateful to him.
In hindsight, nominating a candidate absolutely no one was excited about may not have been the strategic masterstroke we were assured it was for the past 8 months
I have always voted for the Dem in general elections, including in 2016, but to have my primary canceled for such transparently bullshit, antidemocratic reasons is making me question why I should make even that minimal gesture. Especially for a candidate credibly accused of rape.
Something demeaning about Twitter glibly debating the decision to self-immolate like it’s, I dunno, throwing tomato sauce at a painting. I’m not going to encourage people to self-immolate for a just cause, but when someone actually does, a little humility is in order.
A Palestinian restaurant, by all accounts excellent, just opened in my neighborhood. The menu includes “from the river to the sea” with a note that the phrase is not a call for violence, but for freedom. The neighborhood FB group is already in complete chaos over this.
The Biden White House is smearing a great reporter as a liar because they know their actual policy on Israel is indefensible and they know a lot of people working in government think so
20 hours after my deadline—now my story has been read by >150k people—WH has sent comment. Spox Adrienne Watson: "This story is not true. Quotes attributed to US officials are made up."
Watson played no role in my interviews.
My quotes are real. Biden team again echoing Trump.
In a sense Bari is correct here. If you are committed to self-determination in the form of a Jewish ethnostate ruling a multiethnic territory, the unavoidable result will be the murder of innocent children. Where Bari and I differ is that she's also saying it's worth it.
This is perfectly obvious. Anyone who pretends that it is not a referendum on masculinity for men to don floofy dresses is treating you as a full-on idiot.
Listen, we're not saying AOC is *never* allowed to criticize the party establishment... we're just saying that the literal day after an election was clinched is too close to the next election for such divisive rhetoric.
Meghan McCain's undisguised selfishness and willful ignorance of any human experience besides her own make her a fitting representative of conservatism
“Settler colonialism” is actually a very straightforward, plain English concept; if you don’t understand it it’s because you don’t want to understand it, because its implications are uncomfortable for you
You'd probably have to arrest Andrew Cuomo to get him out of the governor's mansion—and maybe that will happen!—but in the meantime, what is stopping CNN from firing his brother, who used his enormous media platform to run interference for the governor through all of this?
Bernie needs to stay in for as long as possible in case Biden is, you know, incapacitated. I’m not suggesting he is! I’m merely suggesting that as the near-presumptive nominee, I would feel reassured if Biden made daily public appearances, something he is noticeably not doing.
This, of course, is basically the worst incident of antisemitic violence anyone has been able to come up with in the context of these protests, and not for lack of trying!