Guy in private plane doesn’t like that he has to hire more security to address his personal concerns about crime so he is happy to have the president push guardsmen into the city at taxpayer expense. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

I wrote about the Red Scare of the 1950's as a moment when establishment Jewish organizations threw the historically large Jewish left under the bus in the name of respectability politics, and how they're making the same calculation today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

If Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

The reason why the FP sold for so much — relative to its small output — is because it has a world view that is embraced by a readership of very wealthy people. Weiss isn't anti-establishment. She comforts the comfortable.

I know political memories are short, but damn! In July, Schiff joined Republicans to pass the industry-friendly crypto bill that allowed Trump to take in more crypto bribes.

It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.

I thought scolding people about what language they use was part of the problem?

"Trump has been especially focused on targeting Black women in public life." so refreshing to work at a publication that can state this obvious truth plainly talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.

As an historian, I think it's bad when "blood libel" goes from denoting a very specific part of anti-Jewish history rooted in particular forms of medieval Christian anti-Judaism, to just meaning any criticism of Israel. A whole generation won't understand just how bad the actual blood libel was!

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

The national "housing wage" needed to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment is now $33.63 an hour. The federal minimum wage—unchanged for the past *sixteen* years—is just $7.25 an hour.

in light of all the recent bad news ive decided to step fully into hedonism. im prioritizing my pleasure for however much longer we got. everything is fake, nothing matters, smoke em if you got em.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Remember: "Free speech" is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

If you try to say it's okay to set Jews on fire, you're not anti-genocide. You're just antisemitic and also a fucking monster

This blue Bay Area county insists it has 'zero contact' with ICE. But it gets $$ for sharing its info with federal immigration authorities. It's all part of a little-known data-sharing program that exists around the country & only some places have quit. really critical new reporting:

Newsom’s policies on homelessness don’t work because they’re designed to please tech donors in the Bay and not actually address homelessness.

In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

The way tech is going I may be writing my stories on a.20 year old computer just to hide him ai. If I were a legislator I'd pass a ruling saying ai features have to be fully removable

“… according to Arizona Public Media, Hermosillo’s girlfriend’s aunt said that he did, in fact, say he was a U.S. citizen ‘but they didn’t believe him’ and that he probably would’ve been deported to Mexico if his family hadn’t provided officials with his birth certificate and Social Security card.”

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

I don’t necessarily love policing the boundries of Jewishness, but I feel like telling *anyone* not to kvetch is deeply un-Jewish. I said what I said.

Cried wolf about what? 15 years ago, the Republican Party was indulging the notion that the president was a secret Muslim and that lines had to be drawn between Real Americans and decadent, subversive elites. There was a wolf, there has always been a wolf, and it's eating the republic alive.

Chuck Schumer is very clear that he and the Democratic Party are not going to come to the aid of higher education against Trump’s assault. He agrees with it. Quibbles on details but supports forcing universities to crack down harder against alleged antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...

This is disturbing

Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration. His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:

“the north went too far with some of the stuff in the 14th amendment, and we should reconsider some of the policies that were used to end slavery and being black americans into full and equal citizenship status.” -> if your argument can be reduced to this idea you should go fuck yourself forever

Dems already did this on immigration and got painted as open border communist globalists anyway. This simply does not work. Dems need to have a back bone and actually argue from their differences with conservatives rather than bending over and adopting conservative lite positions because of polls.

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline:

Chris Rufo just put a bounty on Haitians in Springfield It’s not about the jokes But why I’m not white So can one of my white followers or a more respectable negro get enraged so yall do something

There is a lot of complexity in terms of Gaza in making sure we don’t conflate the actions of Israel’s Government with the people of Israel or Jewish people generally, but what is useful about the Netanyahu speech is that there’s no fucking nuance needed - if you applaud for him you’re an asshole

Arma virumque cano (Maybe more epic than lyric)

At least 210 people have been killed and more than 400 injured as a result of the Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in central Gaza, the enclave's government media office said. Follow live updates: cnn.it/3Ky3Xsi

"Left wing students are getting too censorious" turned into "arrest those left wing students for protesting" without even tapping the brakes

We spoke to bus riders who PAID THE FARE to ride the city's buses and still got farebeating tickets because the fare enforcement officers couldn't figure out how to check their OMNY accounts. Really makes you want to PAY THE FARE.

one thing about Chaya Raichik that's frequently ignored is that she started out targeting Black people—especially educators—before focusing on LGBTQ people.

Ugh, one of my grad school courses is making us do a group podcast applying the lessons of Nudge. Which means I may need to buy Nudge. Wondering if @ifbookspod.bsky.social episodes can substitute 🙃