Boston area folks - please join me on Oct 27: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

How the Shadow of Jeffrey EpsteinHangs Over Trump’s UK State Visit newrepublic.com/article/2004... via @newrepublic.com

The president of the United States literally announces he's going to start a war AGAINST AN AMERICAN CITY. And I wake up this morning, and it's a minor headline on the @nytimes.com home page, and at @washingtonpost.com, I don't see it anywhere on the homepage.

New Column: Soon enough, the network of Edward R. Murrow will belong to the right wing. Wake up, rich liberals, and do something about this. newrepublic.com/post/200042/... via @newrepublic.com

A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci... "Mort repeat­ed­ly asks ques­tions about poet­ry, about Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, and about who we are..." The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69. Read her story here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how... Explore her book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

Les Etats-Unis refusent l’octroi de visas à des responsables palestiniens avant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. newrepublic.com/article/1995... via @newrepublic.com

“A profoundly unpopular government is at war with its own people. It is corrupt, immoral, and taking Israel to a place of extremes, where there is might at the expense of morals; messianism at the expense of humanity and hope.” Extraordinary piece by @jo-ann.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.

Macron hits back at Netanyahu over ‘murderous’ Gaza war on.ft.com/4p1IlYD

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. newrepublic.com/article/1995... via @newrepublic.com

Thanks @ljohnson.bsky.social

"In Jo-Ann Mort's collection of poems, the yearning is for living ethically" thank you @etannechin.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/life/books/2...

I've known and admired J.B. Pritzker for years. He is a true warrior for democracy. I think you will enjoy watching this conversation as much as I did recording it. youtu.be/wwxFVHCTvAA

latest review of my book APreciseChaos: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci...

In Gaza, people have been holding a silent protest w pictures of Israeli children killed Oct 7th. Grieving parents in Gaza stand in the heart of the destruction, in siege and rubble. "We live together, die together" - for an end to the war and the release of all hostages and to end the killing.

Bill Moyers was one of four things from Texas that were unalloyed good. The other three are smoked BBQ, Molly Ivins, and Anne Richards. (Lyndon Baines Johnson is problematic). This is a great remembrance.

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, quoting #MLK reminds me that Michael Harrington used this same quote a lot to contextualize democratic socialism to Americans. “Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.”"

Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E

New York, the capital of American finance, now confronts the very real possibility of a socialist mayor, writes Harold Meyerson: https://trib.al/beWScxe

Blocking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social with Cuomo didn’t work once . Thinking that cuomo Can block him in November is twice wronged. I voted against Mamdani in ranked voting but I’m now convinced he deserves a chance to be mayor - he ran an impressive campaign

NYC Democratic electeds who oppose Mamdani at this point are making a very risky bet. They are just asking to be primaried if he wins, as he is most likely will. They should go ask the IDC how much Democratic primary voters like Democrats who ally with conservatives to block other Dems.

A national private school voucher program will hurt students and create barriers for communities to thrive. Tune in now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFBD...

A true hero

⚠️ DICTATORSHIP ALERT ⚠️ Israeli government votes to begin process to dismiss attorney general By Chen Maanit and Jonathan Lis Article 🧵🚨👇

Unions don’t just fight for wages – we fight for justice. When ICE arrested David Huerta, they didn’t just attack one leader. They attacked the entire movement. This is solidarity. This is our moment. #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll

My statement on the arrest of California SEIU President David Huerta.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is a speaker at Dugin’s Tsargrad forum in Moscow 9-10 June Alexandr Dugin, is a fascist and Putin’s ideologue. Other speakers on the list: MFA Sergei Lavrov; Malofeev ⬇️ Dmitry Simes ⬇️ Alex Jones H/T @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social

Subscribe to our Spotify! Here's a wonderful interview with our author, journalist Jo-Ann Mort, about her debut poetry collection, A PRECISE CHAOS: open.spotify.com/episode/6YhT... #poetry #poet

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jo-Ann Mort / @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o...

“My first drafts sometimes are nothing but notes with brackets that I place there for words to come. I like to go over a poem for several weeks before it is in its final form — at least for that moment.” So many gems in this interview with Jo-Ann Mort! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o...

A wonderful evening launching our Spring 2025 books, yesterday! Authors Jo-Ann Mort, Jennifer Jean, and Thomas O'Grady all gave terrific readings to a full house.

You can oppose Israel’s policies without killing Jewish people | Jo-Ann Mort

Mike Johnson and Russ Vought and Marco are lying about the impact of their policies. Joni Ernst is reimagining Christianity to be about Jesus teaching his followers not to care about the sick and the poor because they're going to die anyway. But Ukraine gives one hope. youtu.be/olaiYL860yg?...

the @workingfamilies.org ' endorsement for mayor shows how truly unserious the current left is, alas. To bypass @bradlander.bsky.social who has shown staying power & achievement in city gov't is slanderous, and 4 a candidate with zero legislative achievements & no hope of building a viable colation

thank you to the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social for publishing this on their website: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how...

Another near deadly anti-Semitic attack- against a group Of progressive Jews demanding that the Israeli hostages come home alive . But it doesn’t matter who they are because it is what they are - Jews. We are all targets and we are tired of the excuses and equivocations

Your Jewish friends are tired.

in #GidenSaar vs #Macron, I'm rooting for France, as should everyone who cares about Israel's future as a democratic and just state

NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani declared he’s anti-Zionist at 2021 protest, video shows www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-mayoral-... seriously @mandani.bsky.social cannot be mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the US

In Israel there is a saying- "we are loyal to the kingdom not to the king," in other words, no person is above the state-this is a riff on that saying, which has sort of lost its meaning under the kingdom of Bibi (and Sarah)

Does NY State Senator @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social endorse the DSA Maoist faction that posted on X supporting murder of innocent Jews and Israelis? I'd like to understand the full extent of his Israel position. As a founder of #DSA who has since renounced the horror it has become, I'd like clarity.

Wait until he finds out about Netanyahu