A fundamental difference btwn Judaism & Christianity is that while forgiving in order to be Christlike is central to Christian ethics, for Jews, REPAIR is far more important than forgiveness, forgiveness being an interpersonal option that one CAN exercise out of empathy, while repair is ESSENTIAL.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Great headline on Bari Weiss's The Free Press: Coleman Hughes: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker

Tough to pull off, but Bari/David's CBS News just got even more despicable. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

Important: Minneapolis killing should lead Dems to draw a much harder line against *any* ICE funding in budget talks, Swalwell/Goldman agree. "I am not going to pay masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period," Swalwell says. A Dem House should be for defunding. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.

And then led a raid of Uber drivers at the airport. It REALLY is time to ask what instructions Stephen Miller gave Greg Bovino, bc the RESULTS suggest Miller wants an excuse to invade with troops (and there are right wing propagandists on Xitter who are laying the groundwork).

There are four Republicans currently serving in the House in seats in or near NYC. If Conway wanted to take a whack at the GOP, he could run in one of those districts. Instead, he's trying to steal one of the most liberal seats in the country, to make it more conservative. Fuck that.

I watched a news segment of J6ers “retracing their steps” and placing flowers “in honor of” Ashli Babbit at the Capitol. Reminded of how the Nazis mythologized the Beer Hall Putsch and turned the 16 people who died into martyrs who were ritually honored on the attempted coup’s anniversary each year

They are test running this play in MN. Watch for rollouts elsewhere. Glad Gov. Walz is speaking out forcefully.

Hilton Hotels = dead to me. Hilton sides with armed kidnappers. Please boycott theintercept.com/2026/01/06/hilton-ban-ice-minneapolis-workers/

You can do things

How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media? Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.

Just as an aside, FB is literally overrun with bots and fake accts insisting this is greatest thing ever

And just like that, millions of Americans are now uninsured because Republicans don’t care.

Mayor Mamdani's choice of location reflects his love of mass transit, historic beauty, and immigration. Rafael Guastavino Moreno, who came to NYC from Spain, is the genius behind the magnificent City Hall station and many other fabulously tiled NYC landmarks.

AG Letitia James: "Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

We should put Stephen Miller in front of the camera every chance we get

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Every word she says is a lie, including “and” and “the.”

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

I wonder how she's feeling about her political career. She sold out everything she once valued, debased herself, placed herself on the side of evil, all in a crude grasp at power, and in return, she got shunted to the side & forgotten. Pathetic, richly deserved, but also, wooooof.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Florida has had 30 exonerations from death row, more than any other state in the country. When the stakes are life or death, we cannot afford to settle for anything less than what the Constitution promises.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Thanks, Livvy

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

"These 1912, 1913, 1914 maritime rules about not hitting icebergs were too tight. They hamstrung the American ocean liner system. It was time for a change ... we have to take the ocean liner system out of this straightjacket ... we have to run full-steam into an iceberg."

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

The Trump administration is illegally dismantling special education. I started out as a special ed teacher. Some learners have more challenges than others, but all children benefit from the investment we make in them. No nation is better off when it shortchanges its own children.

My colleague, the brilliant @colincarlson.bsky.social posted this on LinkedIn. This is devastating for Colin and his group, but also for science, for the future of the human race. #NSF is starving scientists of resources. This will not get better until we all rise up.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This letter is a clear attempt to get Trump angry enough to intervene, and is thus a pretty clear signal to the entertainment community of what kind of company Paramount plans to run. I know people dread a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros.; this would be worse. deadline.com/2025/12/para...

Great 🧵 on how Amazon rips off local governments and independent suppliers:

For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme 7: Years of his sentence 10,000: Victims of his fraud 1,000: Letters from victims to the court 13: Days he served 1: Pardon from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, commander of the German U-boat U-582, was tried, convicted, condemned, and executed after the war for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of a Greek merchantman, using exactly this same rationalization.

I'm sorry but first Nuzzi and Lizza and now Izzy? Too many Z's man. Too many Z's.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.