I think it is cool that a bunch of people are now committed to “Jamelle hates black people and loves gentrification” because I was trying to have a good faith conversation about how to improve low income black neighborhoods without displacement or gentrification.

Texans don't like tyrants. And we don’t surrender easily. I learned that same defiance from my mother — a seventh-generation Texan from Laredo.

this is a profound misreading of what i said here. which is that if you want to build new housing WITHOUT gentrification, you build it in places where rich people already live while providing amenities in places where low-income people live

Thank you so much to all our supporters that came out today for North Shore Pride! Our volunteers are always there to show up for and celebrate our community 🌈

It is not particularly controversial to say you support maintaining apartheid because you think the security consequences of ending it are too dangerous, but I do think it would be better if people were honest about it.

There is already a single state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan and it's existed for approximately 60 years now. This debate therefore has become oddly quaint.

Damn sounds like Israel should withdraw its settlements and allow the formation of a Palestinian state, and we should use whatever means necessary to twist their arm into doing that.

I've lived in close proximity to a large and growing Haitian community in Midwood, Brooklyn, for much of my life. It's so infuriating to see such disgusting racist lies told about decent ordinary people that I encounter almost every day.

If the West wants armed resistance to be disincentivized it should reward Palestinian moderation, like the PLO objectively did in the 1980s and 1990s, and punish Israeli aggression against those moderating forces. They do not. Therefore resistance is popular. Sucks to suck but cause and effect.

The distinction between offensive/defensive is mostly one of moral valence and doesn't have much relevance in actual military capacity terms, but my broader point is that just restricting shells, bombs, rifles does not constitute support for partition. You need a way broader, aggressive program.

They don't think they need us (because they are ignoramuses high on their own supply and also cocaine) and they think increasing the danger to the Diaspora is a positive good.

I actually don't think there's a giant window for this actually? There was one in the 1990s and the 2000s and even perhaps in 2010-2014 but this basically became untenable after 2014 and nobody who says these things has any credibility anymore because the paradigmatic framework has shifted.

A lot of this, frankly, comes from the perennial problem of analyzing Israel and Palestine primarily as semiotics as opposed to a real place in the real world with real people; the breaking of the fences used as a thematic device to illustrate narrative and theory, rather than an ongoing event.

Anyway, the objectively correct account of Oct 7 — that the Palestinian armed factions had a legitimate casus belli but also acted in gross and shocking disregard for the laws of war — is a position that gets you yelled at by everyone

this legitimately made me tear up. a tremendous public servant!

Greg Abbott wants to distract you with culture wars so you won't notice he's picking our pockets.

TBH I could see it with Kat in 10ish years. Run for a local office, run for Senate or House, boom you're in.

a quarter!!

It is more acceptable in elite intellectual circles to be a Nazi race scientist than it is to think it is acceptable to judge people morally for being Nazi race scientists.

We talk a lot about how the NYT leadership hates trans people, but we underestimate how much they hate all kinds of queerness Never forget that Michael Barbaro is an ex-gay who was inspired to divorce his husband and marry a woman because he was friends with Ross Douthat

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

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I think we should take all the weapons we're sending to Israel and instead send them to Ukraine.

Mike Johnson and Fox News seem to have negatively polarized Jen Psaki into being pro-NYC-DSA

The ADL has been very consistent in saying that I am not Jewish, that the synagogue I grew up in isn't Jewish, that its rabbis and cantors aren't Jewish, that the people I know and love aren't Jewish, and at some point I have to say---if that's true, why should I care what you think?

thank you jd vance for helping instigate an ethnic cleansing campaign

yo it's like six bucks

yeah man I'm definitely going to give you $3,500 by text having only ever given to one of your opponents

part of the issue here is that the hospitals are regulated by the state, so there's a really limited set of things the city can do other than make noise and back Tish James and her various ongoing lawsuits to restore service.

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I don't know what it means to be "pro Israel but anti Netanyahu" when virtually every major Israeli Jewish party on the Zionist political spectrum essentially agrees with him on the Palestinian question, but it is noteworthy that DAC is actively attempting to be conciliatory towards her right flank.

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The Confederal Republic of Palestine and Eretz Yisrael.

Brad Lander specifically is far closer to both the median and the modal American Jew than is whoever wrote this at ADL

It's in the replies but the people who committed deed theft against Carrington were Italian. "Everyone who does X bad thing is Jewish no matter their background, religion or ethnicity" is an especially pernicious type of antisemitism.

yeah you can't be saying stuff like that.

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don't be pessimistic! there's going to be an autocoup attempt *when* the Dems win Congress

I think the redraw next year is probably going to take out one of Clarke and Greg Meeks.

"One-state secular democracy" is right before that, man.

btw, @whstancil.bsky.social and I have kissed and made up. We're all gonna have to if we wanna get out of this mess. Also word to the wise: apparently don't shipost about data centers in the one free hour you've accumulated this week.

someone is going to run against data centers; it’s just how politics work. it is imperative that it be democrats, not republicans. i do not care if the issue is more nuanced, because voters do not care. trying to thread the needle will just let republicans monopolize the issue.

A very sensible opinion piece in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social by a local @chabad.bsky.social rabbi, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, on the deadly shooting in Montreal and how it was and continues to be covered (with gentle rebuke to the Jewish community online)

The argument is explicitly that high-propensity primary voters are rootless cosmopolitans who have disrupted the traditional relationship whereby incumbents represent the true will of the volk through a sort of mystic connection that can only be soiled by something as crass as an electoral contest

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

the core strategy of the AIPAC faction has been to never give an inch, concede absolutely nothing to good faith critiques, and crush opposition relentlessly. that works until it doesn't, and then it really, really doesn't work at all

Really feel like the Minnesota legislature should gerrymander him, specifically, out.

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

We gotta do more than expand the court two years from now. Congress can impeach corrupt justices and strip jurisdiction. It is time to step up and reboot democracy.