When the Sec Def and the President convene an unprecedented meeting of America’s military leaders and broadcast it on television, I think the Speaker of the House should watch.

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

If we had questions about Bidens on the board of Ukrainian companies, this would seem to be fair game

David Cross folks.

Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Never seen a boxer better than that

I’ve got Crawford with eight rounds

Bud thinks he’s got him

Crawford has his attention now!

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

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Release all the files then so President Trump’s service can be properly acknowledged

Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."

A lot of people on the extremely online left right now seem to interpret "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" to mean "all antisemitism is actually fine if you just say it's anti-Zionism."

Children are starving. Hospitals are bombed. Journalists are killed. Trump and Congress must stop all military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government. No more excuses. We cannot continue to be complicit in these war crimes.

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

Bless these Alaskans!

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

Brilliant by Ezra Klein on how liberal American Jews & Israel have clashing political visions. American Jews can only have equal rights and safety in a society that rejects ethnonationalism; Israel believes Jews are only safe in a society built on ethnonationalism www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

The Mule

@talibkweli.bsky.social hurls vile insults at a suggestion anything he posts could benefit from clarification. Then, when somebody posts Jew-hatred on the post that speak to exactly the concern raised, he quickly deletes those so they don’t get in the way of the scorn he’s sending somebody’s way

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

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Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

If we still have the rule of law, the "officers" who attacked Sen. Padilla and their supervisors who ordered them to do so should be immediately arrested and charged with assault, stripped of their badges/weapons, and banned from conducting any government business whatsoever.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

Ukrainian security service sources tell @financialtimes.com the agency is conducting "a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft" deep inside Russia. "SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night." Claims 40 aircraft have been hit.

They gave their season away in Game 1

Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

American Jews have been pivotal in the battle for civil and constitutional rights, which makes it particularly cynical and loathsome that their alleged interests would be used as an excuse to attack civil liberties. /1

Tim Snyder brilliantly analyzes what this bit of Trump’s lunacy yesterday revealed: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

He's a fantastic dog. He also just ate a mouthful of dryer lint