The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.

it’s been kind of amusing to see as abolish bedtime leftism has waned in popularity, oppositional defiant disorder conservatives have had a huge surge thanks to these moron podcasters

Among other things that drive me crazy about this is the intense historical contingency of the success of Zionism.

"It's a moral emergency, but if you propose to do anything about it, you're a Jew-hater as bad as Hitler" is the stance of this segment of the American Jewish establishment. It's not especially coherent.

Please do not support Nazis just because they agree with you on something

cannot overstate too strongly that Lefebvre was a Vichy sympathizer and absolutely bonkers antisemite who founded SSPX alongside another guy who was a whole-ass Holocaust denier like we do just need to repeatedly circle back to the antisemitism just to make sure we never get TOO far away from it

I’ll share it, because I think this rampant anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry is not only accepted by a dying wing of our party but being used to win primaries (see Abdul). It’s on us to see it, shun it, and protect our coalition.

now subsidized by u.s. taxpayers

This u?

In all the stress I forgot to share here that I finally have my tapestry pillows available. If you'd like one, they're in my shop now too.

Fuck off

(CW rape apologia) your social media guy literally said "i don't think she was raped, a rape victim wouldn't [say this]" and then, to another rape victim in the replies, "your pain does not make you the center of the world". he then went on to cast doubt on the rape allegations against trump

"she asked for it"

Jillian Segal is absolutely living up to her role as Antisemitism Envoy. Every time she says something like this, she increases antisemitism in Australia. I'm sorry, I have to be facetious about this or I will cry scream. Our community used to be respected. This makes us at best a laughing stock.

If think I’m being a shitty coastal elitist about this, please know that I’m not and I actually like the Midwest a lot. But it’s sadly very true www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/iowa...

Except the population is 300, 2/3 of them are geriatric, and because it’s Iowa there will be sink holes everywhere and skyrocketing cancer rates because the state just lets companies dump whatever shit they want to in the rivers. Otherwise, great idea

If this was a synagogue it would accurately be described as fascist and make national headlines. It’s the same thing. bsky.app/profile/dup-...

To paraphrase Deadpool, "he even *runs* like a politician who protected a pedophile"

So many of the self-appointed leaders of the American Jewish community have obvious disdain for the fact that the community is what it actually is, and not what they want it to be.

More. Of. This.

nightmare blunt rotation

Me:

only 1 in 3 victims come forward and over 100 cops (out of ~650,000 nationally) are _charged_ each year with sexual assault so the number of incidents where no one came forward or the system was stacked against the victim and thus no one was charged has to be exponentially greater

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.

how the fuck did i miss this? absolutely incredible. frantzman wrote an editorial for jpost once trying to get me banished from jewish communal life, falsely claiming i threatened him and his colleagues by saying if their offices burned down and they all got cancer, it would be too good for them.

ICE murdered another person.

Remember when Biden called Zelensky “Putin” ONCE and it was a headline on every news site?

trans people have been warning the public about these sorts of "unintended" consequences for years and we've all been ignored or told that people "can always tell"

This is cool (the first one especially)

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One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.

If you are not yet familiar with the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells, it’s time, because this case is only getting started and it smells as bad as it gets.

i said the guy's nazi tattoo means he's either a terrible person or a giant fucking idiot, both of which are disqualifying, and a common response i received was, "you're a zionist stooge." the segment of the left that behaves that way will never ever reflect on it and change.

Read my latest:

I'm not going to act like the most conscious person in the world but I don't understand how we got past the Nazi tattoo without going "damn man this guy seems like a lying piece of shit huh."

People who use genocide conducted by a nation state an excuse to traffic in blood libel and Jewish stereotypes and advocate for the sickening and murder of civilians are 100% engaging in vile antisemitism. Using the mass death of Palestinians as cynical cover makes that more vile, not less

This Uyghur scholar says that as the Chinese government tries to destroy Uyghur culture in their homeland, the Uyghur people have to shift to a diasporic model of keeping culture alive - and cites Jewish history as a model for how to do this.

Hi, I know we all have a lot on our plates right now, but I have to bring this up because I keep seeing her vile face come across my timeline. You know what we're NOT fucking doing? We're not NORMALIZING MTG. MAY I REMIND YOU:

I promise you that saying (at the dawn of the pandemic) that infected people should go deliberately infect Jews in Israel with COVID because "they are all Newark landlords" and pedophiles is antisemitic, even if you yourself are Jewish. Same for running a podcast that trades in blood libel

idk maybe listen to the people who have expertise in Nazi tattoos next time?

so we're just dropping any shred of pretense huh?

in this house we believe: - treaty allies are real - we owe sooooo many reparations - NATO must be a real collaborative defense framework - Slava Ukraini - free Palestine - defend Taiwan - abolish ICE

what a fucking asshole

looks like ken's being a little bitch on twitter

New AP polling of Jewish Americans— Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?

Wow it’s almost like American Jews are just Americans. Maybe y’all should broaden your finger pointing to everyone around you and not a very teeny tiny minority group that’s a fraction of the country’s population.

I told you all. I told you. No one wanted to listen. Before folks start with another conspiracy theory: they reviewed her therapist’s notes at the time, her comms with a man she was involved with, and more. It’s locked down. Don’t be an asshole. Believe women. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

But this is okay??