Trump's decision to go to war can't be understood by looking at US interests. The best explanation is to examine Israel's desire to drag the US into this war and the control that pro-Israel donors hold over US foreign policy. We are in the grip of a foreign power. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Having laid the groundwork for the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran that is currently resulting in civilian deaths in Iran and putting US service members in harm’s way, Jared Kushner took to the town to celebrate Rupert Murdoch’s birthday! They’re not like us.

Reminder: The White House says it’s “fake news” to suggest Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t “obliterated” in June.

Former deputy national security advisor Jon Finer revealed in a Truth in Testimony disclosure that he has gone into the weapons business, taking a role at Anduril. This appears to be the first acknowledgement of his new job. docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/...

“Footage shows Mr. Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

TikTok’s new owners 👇 responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

"A male voice — it is not clear whose — can be heard uttering two expletives: 'Fucking bitch.'” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the lobby group ostensibly responsible for maintaining U.S.-taxpayer funded aid to Israel as it wages a genocide in Gaza, is now lecturing about what “good and moral Americans” should do.

Van Jones brought his A-game to audition for the anchor seat at the new Bari Weiss approved CBS Evening News 🔥🔥🔥

“Babies are dying every day in Gaza.” Who is killing them?

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman laughing at Van Jones’ “dead Gaza baby” joke.

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel." Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

New TikTok coming soon.

Leaked email reveals communication between company leading the TikTok purchase and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. “We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture,” wrote then-Oracle CEO Safra Catz. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

How much are social media influencers being paid by Israel? @nickclevelandstout.bsky.social found receipts showing influencers receiving between $6,143 to $7,372 per post to promote Israel's preferred talking points to U.S. audiences. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

“Four US citizens, including three children, were among five people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/m...

UN: Israel is committing genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

New CBS News ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein formerly ran a think tank that took massive funding from foreign governments and weapons firms. The think tank then produced reports that were beneficial to those countries/companies and didn't disclose the potential conflict of interest.

When the International Association of Genocide Scholars says Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, maybe Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, the USSR, and Iran have all undergone regime change. Why not Israel too? foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...

The Center for American Progress, which previously received funding from foreign govts and major weapons firms, is no longer disclosing their funders. CAP joins the ranks of dark-money think tanks like American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies

GHF's anonymous "sworn statements" by other contractors denouncing whistleblower Anthony Aguilar contain two different misspellings of "Israel." Do GHF contractors really have no idea how to write the name of the country they are based in?

If you just came to the conclusion that Israel is intentionally creating a famine in Gaza, why didn’t you take the words of Israeli political leaders seriously for the past 20 months? They literally said this is what they were going to do.

Logic leading to a dangerously large carveout for “Never Again.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

He said the quiet part out loud. John Podhoretz is either antisemitic or simply doesn’t care about antisemitism.

I was one of the last analysts from a US thinktank to visit Iran and speak with Foreign Ministry officials and nuclear negotiators. They were flexible on key issues and eager to reach a deal with Trump, if Trump could just take "yes" as an answer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Iran has prepared missiles and other military equipment for strikes on U.S. bases in the Middle East should the United States join Israel’s war against the country, according to American officials who have reviewed intelligence reports.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

The last public assessment by the U.S. intelligence community is that: “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”

Nothing says “peace through strength” like letting your biggest recipient of foreign aid start a war by murdering your negotiating partner.

Bipartisanship. The Republican Jewish Coalition and Democratic Majority for Israel making it crystal clear where they stand on Israel undermining U.S. nuclear diplomacy in the Middle East and exposing U.S. troops in the region to retaliation for Israel’s unilateral actions.

Anonymous source at organization dedicated to advancing Israel’s interests and an anonymous senate Republican do not like the US Director of National Intelligence warning about severe dangers of nuclear war. 🤨 jewishinsider.com/2025/06/dni-...

Kash Patel promised he wouldn’t touch any work related to his former client, Qatar, reports @nickclevelandstout.bsky.social. Now he’s had a change of heart and is already handling official FBI business related to the Gulf country. responsiblestatecraft.org/kash-patel-q...

“In addition to helping develop the initiative in close coordination with Israel, Boston Consulting Group set the prices for paying and equipping the array of contractors who built four distribution hubs in southern Gaza and to deliver the aid.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Lindsey Graham: “When I hear ‘from the river to the sea,’ it reminds me of ‘the Final Solution.’ The Hamas terrorists are the SS on steroids.” Also Lindsey Graham:

The ADL says “critical Tikkun Olam issues” include shielding the world’s largest weapons firms from shareholder proposals for internal human rights impact assessments on how the companies’ weapons are used by Israel on Palestinians. responsiblestatecraft.org/anti-defamat...

France plans to recognize a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

“The far bigger threat from Trump’s ‘liberation day’ was a sharp escalation in the US–China conflict that could now plausibly turn violent within the next couple years,” warns @jwdwerner.bsky.social. responsiblestatecraft.org/china-tariffs/

Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

For years, students and faculty at The University of Pennsylvania have been targeted and doxxed by Canary Mission, a faceless pro-Israel “blacklist” group. Documents reveal the group is funded by the family of a University of Pennsylvania trustee. theintercept.com/2025/04/02/p...

Responding to criticism that Dems aren’t doing enough, Cory Booker set a (new and made up) record for “longest speech” in the U.S. Senate & didn’t delay or block any specific vote or break Strom Thurmond’s record filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. Am I getting all that right?

“My job,” Chuck Schumer told Bret Stephens, “is to keep the left pro-Israel.” The job of a U.S. senator is to maintain support for a foreign country with his left-wing constituents? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

“Unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians…” says Mahmoud Khalil. inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Miriam Adelson is quietly managing a campaign targeting Mahmoud Khalil and Columbia University. She’s also Trump’s largest donor. The Israeli American billionaire appears to be getting everything she wants with the WH’s crack down on criticism of Israel.

I wonder if the Democrats, the presumptive opposition party, may have done anything recently to make the White House feel empowered in challenging the separation of powers.

Current vibes on Bluesky.

This paragraph in NYT is misleading about the “definition of antisemitism” Trump is demanding Columbia implement. The definition utilized by Trump explicitly equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism, opening the door to any criticisms of Israeli policy being labeled antisemitic.