I'd love to see @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social cover Gen Z fave: Chan 5 w/ Andrew Callaghan. Not exactly standard IBCK, but I think it'll pique your interest partly bc it's hard to pin down politically (tho not nec in the good way). www.youtube.com/@Channel5You...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

So my theory that Jonathan Chait is actually an AI project whose sole purpose is to demonstrate how vacuous ideological centrism can be... it's looking pretty convincing right now.

Democratic leadership are unlikely to ever “find their spines.” But that’s not entirely necessary. What’s necessary is to build so much resistance & so much support for the right path that they’re more worried about not doing the right thing than about taking a risk.

Bill Kristol is urging defunding ICE. BILL KRISTOL. And people still think it’s a political non-starter?

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

They're "too nihilistic" for political classification? Nihilism has long been *the* go-to description of MAGA (incl. in The Atlantic several times). What he means is a data set of 1 tells him that bros. in this standard right-wing movement won't mindlessly vote 'R' every time.

Renee Nicole Good, the woman murdered by ICE today. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

And our highest profile professional opinionators will continue to insist that Democrats aren't dominating elections because of trans people or identity politics or [insert some other Chait-ian, Chatterton-Williamsian hobby horse].

“YORAM HAZONY IS SURPRISED BY BLATANT ANTISEMITISM IN THE MAGA COALITION — BUT ANTISEMITISM IS SECOND NATURE FOR NATIONALISTS” By @benlorber8.bsky.social, 11/21/25 … 1/

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Wait, delusional bigots want to leave NYC? Damn... the city's already a better place to live and he hasn't even taken office yet. Excellent work sir.

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

Watch with the sound off and not only do you appreciate the looks on Mika Brzezinski's face (!!) but it's so clear what a disingenuous liar Jonathan Greenblatt is.

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

Yes, I'm thrilled with Mamdani's victory... but also at the prospect of all those empty apartments after 765,000 of New York's Whiniest flee the city. nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...

Another NYJewish vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … as far as I can recall it’s the most positive and hopeful I’ve felt since my very first vote in 1989.

Yes, the Right is shamelessly promoting a fake outrage, but how are FL gov Ron DeSantis and Utah Sen Mike Lee still taken seriously by corporate media? The fact that they can do things like this and be treated as serious people by CNN and the NYTimes is a very real and very big problem.

We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani at jfrej.org/field 🗳️ 📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah! Benjamin Abrams sound & edit 📷: Dan Fridman

The US right slowly realizing there’s always someone further to the right than they are (who is probably armed, angry, and losing touch with reality with each passing hour guzzling right wing media and message boards).

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

Trump the president has been doing exactly what Trump the candidate promised to do. This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.

Not quite. What the nation's most Jewish city choosing Mamdani *actually* means is that we can retire faded and false accusations of antisemitism in NYC.

One of the agents who arrested Brad Lander for asking to see a judicial warrant. ICE was involved, but who’s this ninja? An agent of Trump’s secret police. Fascism is an aesthetic. This black-masked man is a statement of intention & belief; the intention is sadism; the belief is in power.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

Excellent thread on the shallow moralizing of Thomas Chatterton Williams.

When an edgy "counterintuitive" idea demonstrates how valuable intuition can be...

really? not to push israel to act in consonance with reform jewish values? not to push for a ceasefire? not to push for an end to the occupation and the settlement enterprise? not to oppose the pogroms in the west bank or the starvation of gaza? but “maintaining the security of israel?” 🤡💩

Dear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, just wanted to make sure you saw my plaintive squeak.

Michael and Peter, pretty pretty please... how nicely do I have to ask for you to cover this on @ifbookspod.bsky.social? You can pronounce anything any way you want for like 3 episodes. How's that? bookshop.org/p/books/in-c...

Like, it's great they have a new pope -- and he even looks like a good choice, especially for the moment -- but I can't be the only Jew creeped out by the joy they get over smoke billowing from a building.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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I gotta give credit where credit is due—my editor at @religiondispatches.bsky.social, @evanderkacz.bsky.social, came up with “Haidt crime,” but he gave me permission to steal it!

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!