The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

It seems untenable for the Democratic Party’s top leader to view himself as a “guardian of Israel” at a time when like 70% of the party’s voters think Israel committed genocide

Lost in the uproar over the simple fact that Carlson gave Fuentes a platform is the reasoning behind it — Carlson wants Fuentes and his Groyper Army to help turn MAGA against Israel. antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/why-tucker...

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

The standard pro-Israel complaint was previously directed toward protesters as “what about Sudan” — now it seems to be “OK now you’re talking about Sudan but picking the wrong side”

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Can someone help me decode this? jewishinsider.com/2025/10/heri...

More illegal US maritime strikes—again in the Pacific. Three strikes against four vessels allegedly operated by unspecified "designated terrorist organizations." Reportedly 14 more fatalities (unidentified "narco-terrorists") and one survivor, whose fate is not completely clear.

I think this is actually a perfect metaphor for the prevailing Jewish establishment strategy of fighting antisemitism right now, which is primarily to name and shame people — and then ask them to work with you to better understand Jews and antisemitism

Love to expose people, invite them to Holocaust Museum

If Hamas does not return the remaining bodies of deceased Israeli hostages, 45% of Israeli Jews want to restart the war while only 6% say the ceasefire should remain intact en.idi.org.il/articles/61931

So pro-Israel Democrats are campaigning to win back Dems who are skeptical of supporting Israel by… getting them to help Trump score a massive political victory

Fascinating erasure here of Mizrahi Jews by a chef who led the boycott an Israeli-owned Mediterranean restaurant in D.C. The notion that Jews are all white people from Europe requires a willful ignorance, especially from someone steeped in Israel/Palestine.

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Trump pardons crypto billionaire whose company struck a business deal with the Trump family’s crypto start-up that could generate tens of millions of dollars a year for the Trumps and Witkoff's family. David Yaffe-Bellany @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/t...

I really don't think Jewish leaders appreciate how quickly the political ground is changing around Israel. Elliot Cosgrove's Shabbat sermon — where he said Mamdani trying to reassure Jews was an implicit confession that they had something to fear from his mayoralty — really drove this home.

MAGA media is desperate for proof of widespread left-wing violence. But from an GOP bar fracas to a teen who staged his abduction by “four Mexicans,” the stories keep turning out to be hoaxes. My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

I’m not sure this comes across like Platner thinks it does

None of these people are part of the “American Left”?

mmhmm

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Conservatives have found the real villains in the racist Young Republican chat leak story: the leaker and the people who think Republicans praising Hitler is bad! My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...

Indiana University fired its student media adviser and halted print production of the campus paper after it reported on free speech concerns related to Israel www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports. “Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

Please join us on Monday, October 20 at 7pm ET for a virtual event on New York City's mayoral race hosted by @forward.com. The event is free to forward members; non-members are encouraged to make a donation. Registration details below.

What are we doing here folks

Burr basically says he had a completely racist view of Saudi ("You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes") but actually performing for the Crown Prince turned out to be really nice! www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview. And it's already happening... www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

I went to a Federalist Society conference on education law last week and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows when it came to the Trump administration's pressure campaign against universities antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/why-some-c...

@ajcglobal.bsky.social says recognizing a Palestinian state "sends a dangerous signal that terrorism, mass murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping" are acceptable

At Federalist Society event this morning, Education Sec. Linda McMahon says it would be "premature" to say there's any "definite correlation" between what the moderator referred to as the "transgender movement" and campus shootings

I'm proud of @forward.com's coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination and will thread a few of the follow-ups we have published so far on the national news story. From @benyamincohen.bsky.social on perceptions of Kirk as a "martyr" and that debate's Jewish implications: forward.com/news/769333/...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The baseless claim that Mossad murdered Charlie Kirk is really about a battle over his legacy between pro-Israel conservatives and the Groypers whose influence was increasingly eclipsing Kirk's Turning Points USA crowd forward.com/news/antisem...

I wrote my newsletter yesterday (before Kirk’s death) about how American Jews have lost our shared reality and I can’t think of a better illustration than this headline from Jewish Insider

Antisemitism Decoded is officially on Substack and you can read/sign-up here! open.substack.com/pub/antisemi...

Someone shot Charlie Kirk at a university event www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

The ADL has a new survey claiming: "Widespread Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias Reported by Faculty in Higher Education." But it's basically a survey of faculty who already belong to a pro-Israel advocacy group. www.adl.org/resources/re...

New @reformjudaism.bsky.social post about the war in Gaza calls it of "increasingly dubious legitimacy"

The problem is that the assertion here is wrong — Twitter still has lots of normie users and even many progressives, politicians from across the spectrum, most major companies, etc. You just have to wade through a bunch of neo-Nazis to use the platform.

I do think there's a problem with insularity and lack of reach on Bluesky so I've been trying to cross-post articles to Twitter but it genuinely feels like a majority of my interactions on there are just... people being openly antisemitic

The government said it had turned over more than one million pages of evidence to the defense, plus the contents of an iPhone. forward.com/news/766570/...

New story w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

What could this possibly mean? Like obviously many Americans are eating no hamburgers a day so is 10% of the country just housing like 10-15 on the daily?

Just the kind of update you love to receive from your rec soccer league

New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

NEW: A viral confrontation at Florida State — and quick intervention by senior Trump officials — may be model for how campus conflicts are addressed in the future forward.com/news/antisem...

Glenn Greenwald is over on Twitter referring to the @forward.com as "one of the most pro-Israel Jewish outlets in America," which is just strange — we're actually one of the few Jewish outlets in the U.S. without an overt political stance.