"Code Pink is now effectively funded by the chinese communist party" is one of those things that sounds like a frothy right conspiracy talking point, except it's 110% true

She also attended the DSA rally on October 8 that celebrated the Nova music festival massacre.

New: Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Mamdani-backed democratic socialist challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat, suggested in a since-deleted tweet that the U.S. shared at least some blame for Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — echoing a Putin talking point. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

We’re in Khan al-Ahmar with Rabbis for Human Rights and Bnei Avraham to stand in solidarity with the community and its fight for its home. About 300 people are at risk of being expelled from their land according to a government plan to take over the village. (1/2)

Yes and let’s not forget the grotesque misogyny of Jewish men aimed at Jewish women, eg Noah Kulwin referring to Amy Schumer as a pig, etc.

Newborn screaming at 4pm: this must be the famous witching hour Newborn screaming at 6pm: this must be the famous witching hour Newborn screaming at 8pm: ah, the famous witching hour

Andrea Pedro-Francisco was detained by immigration agents in early February on her way to work and was sent to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, just days before she was scheduled for surgery to remove a large ovarian cyst.

I think what really gets me about the Platner stuff is that there is a real issue with social media outrage and an unwillingness to allow people to change for the better, but there is very little evidence to suggest that Platner has taken any serious steps toward changing

What’s happening in the West Bank isn’t a series of isolated incidents. Settler terror. Home demolitions. Settlement expansion. They’re all part of a coordinated effort by far-right members of the Israeli government to take more land and make a Palestinian state impossible. 🧵 1/8

A lot of people abuse the “blood libel” accusation (Adam Louis Klein) but also people are out here in the year 2026 occasionally doing actual blood libel

This is what I tell my wife when she accuses me of being addicted to BlueSky

You should not only not excuse shit when it comes from your side but be even harder on said shit.

“People can change. I have seen it, and I have lived it,” Elizabeth Bruenig argues—but in Graham Platner's case, “many Democrats are understandably eager to see evidence that he is no longer the man implicated by the drumbeat of damning revelations.”

Great piece by Rabbi Rachel Timoner. This is what an actually principled, universal approach to Israel/Palestine sounds like www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/o...

“I was younger and I’ve changed since the time when I got this tattoo which I also think is completely inoffensive and I have covered it up even though it’s actually fine and wow, you don’t think people can change?” was always both incoherent and more importantly, revealing of character

A sensitive Defense Department branch responsible for uncovering and defending against terrorism plots has a new appointee: a Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned President Trump. nyti.ms/43MLamL

So much political discourse these days is just Me (terminally online political commentator) explaining who the Real Volk are and what the Real Volk Want (always aligns with my interests)

I have a deep and spiritual connection with rural Maine voters and they have informed me (telekinetically) that they are into this stuff

It's one thing to say you don't think someone's personal failings are disqualifying or that you think they've atoned for them sufficiently, but I really hate this meme that evidence of low moral character is actually a sign of authenticity and therefore a plus for political candidates.

thecjn.ca/arts-culture... Ep with the great @joshyunis.bsky.social !

Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey said that federal immigration officials were continuing to bar her from entering a detention center in Newark, raising “serious questions about what is happening behind its walls.”

Rae Huang is such a clown

We are disgusted that Boulder SJP chose to celebrate the firebombing attack on a peaceful march. They dress up the language to make murder sound like liberation. The reality is they are celebrating the horrific killing of an 82-year-old woman who came out to march. Nothing excuses this.

I went back on The Jewish Angle with @phoebebovy.bsky.social to talk about the collective guilt of the Jews thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

An enjoyable conversation between @joshyunis.bsky.social and @phoebebovy.bsky.social for @thecjn.bsky.social The Jewish Angle podcast, despite the heavy topic. thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

American cultural exports used to be Bruce Springsteen and Prince and Clint Eastwood movies, now we export whatever this shit is

The same people that claimed the Jewish star is a fascist symbol are now saying Platner’s literal Nazi tattoo doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Funny how that works.

Honestly, I’m grateful for America’s more permissive free speech culture, but do people still think Piker isn’t a Jew-hating ghoul? Calling this a dog whistle feels like an insult to dog whistles

A. It is wrong in almost all circumstances to bar people, even execrable ones like Piker, from travel because of speech. B. Language like "soon we will all become Israel" is borderline ZOG discourse, and it is imperative that Hasan not be allowed to become a power broker on the Left.

"People don't mind Platner's SS tattoo because he's anti-Israel" sure is making a point, though perhaps not the one you intend

If it’s a claim against Our Guy it’s backward Christianity, if it’s a claim against Their Guy it’s social justice

Everything is Israel/Palestine brain now. Eg, offering false choices, picking a fight with the weakest version of an objection & holding it up as representative of your opponents’ argument writ large, avoiding inconvenient facts that weaken your moral absolutism, fallacies of privation, strawmen etc

There is something that bothers me on a soul deep level about modern anti-Zionist Jews pointing to a handful of writings by Bundists about the Zionist project being a bad idea that would end badly and being all, "THEY PREDICTED IT, THEY WERE RIGHT," like, cool, what should my great-uncle who lost...

Look at this disingenuous bullshit.

Platner is also a person with no actually relevant experience or skills to the job he is seeking, literally all he’s running on is his character, the fact that he also lacks that is sort of troubling!

twitter v Bluesky

the Pod Save America dipshits are behind a lot of this. Platner's campaign is a product of how incestuous and unhealthy the Democratic elite world is, not a reaction against it!

like, it should be fucking embarrassing when the *Washington Free Beacon* is doing better fact-checking on a story than the New Yorker. freebeacon.com/democrats/fr...

the media coverage of Platner has largely been extremely favorable to him/gullible about his claims and that his multiple red flags are finally becoming a proper story is not a sign that they're biased against him, but that they're doing reporting.

He also lied about it a ton though and had it for over a decade and is on Reddit threads that discuss the totenkopf in its Nazi context

But the he made a big deal of refusing to apologize for it anymore and started minimizing it again.

Next step in the Platner-defender journey will be to do whataboutism about Bill Clinton, à la Trump 2016

The acceptable forms of Jewish identity are shrinking on the left — it not only risks destroying a vibrant Jewish diaspora, but it will also wreck the left

The banning of Keshet, Italy's LGBTQ Jewish group, from Rome Pride is about one thing, and one thing only: a demand for submission. Rome Pride wanted to see the Jews bend, and if they wouldn't bend, they were happy to see them break.

ngl, I am feeling some kind of way to get tons of engagement in bsky-adjusted terms on the immediately preceding post about the Holocaust and not a single interaction when it's about living Jews today.

The thing that really gets me about the Platner tattoo is his response on the Pod Save America podcast (to a VERY generous interviewer) seemed mostly focused on "well no one ever told me it was a Nazi tattoo" instead of taking ownership and being horrified to learn he has a Nazi tattoo.

These attacks prevent Jews engaging in civic life. The are meant to stop us sharing our history and culture except on gentiles' terms.Approving any of them is to say Jews live on sufferance: that it's normal for gentile mobs to scrutinise Jews and disrupt their lives if they disapprove.

I deeply dislike canceling public figures who show genuine contrition for stupid mistakes they made in their youth. Nothing about Platner’s Nazi tattoo timeline gives the impression of genuine contrition. Extraordinary bad faith from Hobbes here