A lot of people would be very well served by reading the actual UNSCOP report on what should be done with the Palestinian Mandate, especially when a surprising number of them seem determined to lecture the ghosts of holocaust survivors on Yom HaShoah on where they should have gone instead.

i find the way that people erase the agency of the zionist movement itself in their narrative of how israel was created quite fucking disturbing

People really gotta internalize that the situation in post-WW2 Europe was not "the traumatized Jews were welcomed back into society & the supportive arms of the Allies" but rather "many traumatized survivors languished in DP camps surrounded by people they no longer trusted & just wanted to leave."

Notice how this post honoring Yom Hashoah doesn't say anything about either Israel or Zionism, and also says nothing a reasonable person would disagree with? Yeah. Now look at the replies.

6 million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. On Yom HaShoah, we honor their memory. It is our responsibility to fight back against antisemitism, violence, and hatred in all forms. Never again.

I don't want to ruin Joel's kinder take with venom... I am not filled with despair at the replies, but with wrath. Clearly the many a non-MAGA American only disagrees with the choice of targets, or perhaps feels strongly about healthcare.

Not where I imagined the text of this post ending up when I started reading it, though I really should not have been surprised.

“Modern America enjoys the most widespread prosperity of any nation in history and a standard of living that was within living memory unfathomable to most” is just objectively true, things can and should be better but can’t get there by lying or rejecting reality

"You are living in what is objectively humanity's golden age, but it is not literally Eden"

Protestantism vs. Catholicism is a faultline in the GOP coalition that the party cannot afford *any* breakage along and naturally MAGA influencers are setting off underground nukes in exactly that spot.

I don’t even like Yom haShoah that much. I think it is the wrong time of year, I think it focuses too much on the partisans and not enough on the victims, and I think that is by design. And yet I am defending it because antisemites can’t get over the fact that Jews have a day

This is a perfect outcome to this scandal, the absolute model of what should happen in a case like this, but make no mistake, *only* the Democrats would be penalized by the media for not doing this. You can tell because if Republicans followed suit there would be no more Republicans.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

It's hilarious to see people stand up for the rights of the Lyft Volk, as though we weren't doing "the evil Lyft cretins are stealing the jobs of the Taxi Volk" just ten years ago!

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

one of many things I am not happy about re Platner is that his campaign is by default normalizing the idea that criticizing Nazi iconography is bad faith. like, people being upset he had a nazi tattoo is not an op. nazi tattoos are bad.

Some of you stan politicians too much (and shocker, me a journalist who is Jewish would be critical of a tattoo that is associated with Nazis.)

Devastating to the ‘both parties are the same’ crowd

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

It is very difficult for me to think of any individual person who is more responsible for this site's one real usability problem — the constant, unyielding spam from thousands of automatically registered accounts purporting to be in Gaza — than this reckless, ridiculous, deeply credulous idiot

Due to the pilots strike in Germany, I'm getting familiar with lufthansa's hold music. For reasons, my wife was on a separate booking, and she's been rebooked successfully from LIS>BOS>LAX. Meanwhile the kids and I have only been rebooked BOS>LAX, with the expectation that we're supposed to swim.

It just feels bizarre to act like modern American Jews need to look to the Bund to create a non or anti-Zionist path for themselves when modern American Jews are generally fine with the assimilation that the Bund opposed. You want an alternative to Zionism? You’re living it.

Guys I’m really not loving this “Bund good, Zionism evil” flattening of history, especially since: a) the Bund collapsed because it failed in its goals b) a not insignificant number of Bundists ended up colonizing Palestine anyway c) the assimilated American Jews praising the Bund aren’t Bundists

NEWS: The U.S. has NOT agreed to release any Iranian frozen assets, a senior U.S. official told CBS News.  A Reuters report that cited a senior Iranian source was not accurate.  Meetings with Iran have not started yet, so no agreements have been discussed at all.  @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social

Swallwell could always run in Maine.

That’s a no then?

No elected representatives should be in your DMs, ever! Never, ever, ever. This is predatory conduct.

It's uhhh... interesting to see the difference in how this place is reacting to the KFile story on Swalwell's sexual assaults vs KFile's reporting on Platner knowing he had a Nazi tattoo for years.

Israel's top court orders police to allow Tel Aviv anti-gov't protests despite IDF gathering limit www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I’ll just be honest because I gasped when I saw this. This is what happened to me approx five years ago — and then he started sending flirty Insta messages, but I immediately backed off for a variety of reasons

I think the reaction is to the claim of reliability as a source when all you have right this second is implication and innuendo about who knew what when, and you don't seem to be inhibited by journalistic ethics right now in the way you claim to have been for the last decade.

There's a world where you sit on information that the public should know and that women everywhere in California should know, and you recognize that in doing so you have done something bad and don't post about it and yourself the way you are right now. That's not the world you're making, though.

David Dayen and Dante Atkins voluntarily shooting themselves in the face, amazing stuff

"Donald Trump promises to do another terrible thing he was always going to do regardless of what Democrats did or said," Pardon Edition!

Biden’s preemptive pardons were to protect people from a promised perversion of justice. Trump’s promised preemptive pardons are to shield people from the actual administration of justice. If you compare the two you’re running interference for the latter.

I'm not sure any of Biden's controversial moves were vindicated more thoroughly and more quickly than his pardons.

“Is stochastic political violence good for the left” is actually one of those questions for which history provides a fairly solid answer: no

I had a great conversation today with @bulldogshadow.bsky.social at the LERA Northwest Chapter conference in Tacoma, WA about my book Why Fascists Fear Teachers and a question that feels especially urgent right now: what’s the connection between union work and democracy?

As ever, the classic strategy of "they're firing at us from over the border, we must conquer them to end the fire from over the border! Oops, they're firing at us from over the new border. We must conquer them to end them firing at us from over the border. Oops, they're..."

Happy Confederate Surrender Day to every patriot in the land!

Great as Mamdani is, I'll remind everyone that he's in a traditionally terminal political position and he's not eligible to run for president.

We all understand it would be pointless to protest to attempt to get this President to change policy on Israel and Gaza. It's so obvious it hardly merits discussion. "Where are the campus protests" isn't a call for there to be renewed campus protests. It's a call for reflection.

"Did you do it?" [Thanos snap away DEI powerpoint presentations meetings with HR] "Yes." "What did it cost you?" "One of the most basic pillars of our entire global economic system."

you can get to say slurs or you can have freedom of navigation, but it's one or the other boys

is it a good sign when one of the specific things you're trying to push back on keeps showing up in the QTs of the pushback tweet (the evidence that the ceasefire is failing solely or even mostly because of Israel is weak, Iran says the reason it's shooting at GCCs is Lavan not Lebanon)

Israel and Trump are both claiming they never agreed to the ceasefire covering Lebanon, and Israel wasn't part of the negotiation from which both Iran and Pakistan are claiming that Lebanon was a part of the ceasefire, so yeah, I think that's probably at least a little bit Trump's fault.

The idea that human beings and their hopes, dreams, and individual desires matter in the slightest is a product of modern capitalist liberalism. The idea that it is wrong to be prejudiced against people who are different is an idea that is entirely contained by and originates with liberalism.

like, both "this is trump's sole responsibility" and "this is all israel's fault" ignore the agency that both netanyahu and trump exercised. netanyahu did actually openly lie to trump, trump's just the first president in US history stupid enough to act on it (against the recommendations of his NSA)