And of course!

So he figured out how to Watch the news again - and then saw things on it that weren’t there (car hitting Ross)

It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians. Sincerely, A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there

The arsonist used terminology ("synagogue of Satan") that the online anti-semitic far right figures like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens use magnoliatribune.com/2026/01/13/a...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Proud to have contributed a bit to this wonderful @readlux.bsky.social contemporary update of the classic 1941 “Who Goes Nazi?” essay

The FBI says that a suspect in the arson fire at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, admitted to targeting the institution because of its “Jewish ties.” Court documents say 19-year-old Stephen Spencer Pittman called the historic house of worship "a synagogue of Satan."

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Every ad is like “now available, protein coffee!!!” what are they talking about

💥🇵🇸 A computer scientist who escaped war-torn Gaza thanks to a student foundation, promised to bring his family to Europe. Instead, he’s spent over a year battling harsh Slovak bureaucracy while his loved ones remain trapped. investigace.cz

This person would also have you believe that he is going to get involved in Iran on behalf of protesters

In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.

The independent federal reserve underpins the US economy. Do you believe in that or not?

This is going to force a lot of investors and powerful finance people to reckon with Trump in a way they have been desperately trying to avoid.

“every case of repression in the world that is not Israel killing Palestinians must be protested about or else, gotcha, the protesters of Israel are antisemitic” — please listen to yourself

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

That someone carried out an arson attack against Mississippi's largest synagogue is both heartbreaking and outrageous. American Jews deserve what every American deserves: to not fear in or for our sacred spaces.

A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue — the same one the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights A suspect has been arrested, authorities say

I was skeptical about whether this was verifiably him, but Bill Ackman has approvingly retweeted a link to precisely this GoFundMe. Strangely, almost all his other tweets right now are PRO protester in Iran — apparently good for regime to kill protesters in the US but not there

Renee Nicole Good's wife gave her first public comments to MPR News: "We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness."

I agree that listening to others is good but the thing is it's difficult to listen across difference when masked agents are terrorizing and literally killing people, and a journalist who pretends otherwise isn't doing his job

“It should be crystal clear to everyone that the real threat to community safety is the ICE agents harassing, targeting, detaining — and in some tragic cases — killing our neighbors. This violence is unacceptable, it is criminal, and it is against the constitution of the United States.”

I foresee a lot of people writing "the transformation/moderation of Marjorie Taylor Greene" takes this year who'll forget that's she's arguably the most ubiquitous anti-semite in American life at the moment

I think it's bad for any state, including the US, to kill its protesters, a position that sadly the president does not appear to share www.bbc.com/news/article...

Okay but if that inspired him to shoot and kill someone it means that he should not have been working with a gun on the street, not that it's fine he shot and killed someone?

Why is every new AI announcement a solution you don't want to a problem you don't have

I just keep typing out and deleting little posts reflecting on the president saying that the only check on his powers is his own mind www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Walz calls out Kristi Noem as “judge, jury, and executioner yesterday.”

It’s not funny at all but I did laugh at the implied end of the sentence “ICE agents have the right to defend themselves” being “against progressive white women”

Wrote a short thing about people in power lying badly open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

“You have a right to flee for your safety, and so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.” - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, June 2025

“Put them all in jail, no questions,” is not actually a serious plan for reasons that become clear if you think about it for a few minutes; “do nothing and hope it will work out” is also not a serious plan

the question of what to do with a violent organized group after you’ve decommissioned them is a serious one that a lot of policy and scholarly work explores, and we can’t treat the question as illegitimate. If your call to dismantle ICE is serious then it also implies that plan made seriously.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how *not* to assess whether Mamdani is serious about tackling antisemitism forward.com/opinion/7955...

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.

Given news that ICE shot and killed an observer in Minneapolis, here is a pattern we've seen before: *DHS say officers were under threat. This justifies to use deadly force. *Subsequent reporting shows such claims simply don't hold up. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Czechia will keep its ammunition initiative for Ukraine alive despite months of domestic political attacks, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš confirmed on Wednesday, marking a sharp reversal from his pre-election stance. euractiv.com/news/babis-u...

Many times personal experience is great and adds context to a problem, but it can also just distract and derail into egotism.

Incredible piece

Excellent from Osita Nwanevu ositanwanevu.substack.com/p/hello-agai...

"We love America" is one of the mantras of Bari Weiss' CBS News. "Unapologetically patriotic" is the term the Washington Post's newly right-wing editorial board uses for its ethos. But "America" isn't billionaires/Trump and good journalism isn't always patriotic. newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social. UK citizenship is a right for those who qualify, not a privilege. If you have it, you are entitled to the full protection of the British state - at home and abroad. What you believe and what you say are entirely irrelevant. Anything else is despotism.

For the first time, the Palestinian-led United Arab List (Ra’am) party in Israel says it will allow Jewish candidates to run on the list. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"He reupped those calls hours after the US captured Venezuela's leader" oh, okay www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ha - NYT has now changed this sentence, managing only to amplify the absurdity and offense of the original: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro describe themselves as socialists, though the policies Mr. Maduro presided over in Venezuela differ starkly from those Mr. Mamdani has vowed to pursue."

"He said the raid was strategic" ah well then

The count and Grover are also Sesame Street’s two canonically Jewish residents