After the Epstein Files release and the Iran war, there has been a huge spike in antisemitism. But the institutions who focus on these things seem completely oblivious, or silent, or both. In @jdforward , I analyze this crisis and what might be done to respond to it. forward.com/opinion/8188...

Excellent article by @jaymichaelson.bsky.social about the terms genocide and blood libel that resonates with a lot of what i’ve been thinking over the past two and a half years. forward.com/opinion/8056...

Nihilism is abundant in online culture, politics, celebrity culture, and perhaps above all, in the high rates of hopelessness reported by Gen-Z Americans -- often for very good reasons. Conservatives have an answer to it. But do progressives? jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/maybe-nihi...

The Good shooting and the threatened Greenland operation are mirror images of one another. Both invite us to disregard what is obviously true — the president is mad, the mom was innocent — and somehow believe the preposterous instead. open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

"Once you strip away the false claims of criminality or violence or the stealing of American jobs, what you’re left with is the truth: that some mostly-white people don’t like the way the country is changing." jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-real-a...

The Trump admin has vowed to go after organizations it vaguely (and falsely) claims support violence. The list includes several Jewish groups. Despite their insistence and smokescreen tactics, Trump and his allies do not care about Jews — only crushing dissent. from @jaymichaelson.bsky.social

Are We All Conspiracy Theorists Now? open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

To understand Charlie Kirk's political legacy, one must understand his religious beliefs. open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

Just asking questions...

It's not just that the administration never cared about antisemitism, rather, they used us for their own authoritarian goals. And that, that's antisemitic 😡 From Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social: "It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason..." forward.com/opinion/7564...

What do MAGA nationalists see when they look at the Statue of Liberty? jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/what-to-th...

I'll be on #CNN tonight from 10p-11p ET talking about... all of this.

I usually look to @jaymichaelson.bsky.social for his brilliant application of Jewish insight to current politics. This piece in the Forward 2 days ago comes close... forward.com/opinion/7110... We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.

The deep truth of Jesse Watters' conception of fragile masculinity: open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

Honored to be part of this amazing anthology.

The Torah vs. Stephen Miller forward.com/opinion/7110... @forward.com

Letting go of anxiety and embracing grief -- a reflection on the last few months, entitled The Glass is Already Broken open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

Mr. Beast meets Citizen Kane.

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

What does the future hold for gay marriage in the US and what would Rabbi @jaymichaelson.bsky.social say to the MAGA gays? "We will lose most of the rights which we worked hard to get, even if we retain marriage in some form or fashion," Rabbi Dr. Michaelson predicts.

Here's a vaguely optimistic perspective — as long as “optimism” includes economic devastation, massive human rights abuses, and clear violations of the constitution. I call it “Waiting for Midnight.” jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...

Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social returns to The State of Belief this week for a deep dive into the rule of law and the chaos of MAGA, including the weaponization of antisemitism accusations and the rise of the "woke right."

Trump admin official admits there's no due process. No due process at all. They "determined" these people were terrorists and deported them without trial of any kind. www.instagram.com/reel/DHjg9G0...

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words. Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table. Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

A Letter to a Trump-Supporting Technologist friend: open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

"A new bill filed in the Texas House would prevent students from behaving like anything other than a human being at schools in the state." Well there go the theater and band programs www.kvue.com/article/news...

"The symposium was called Psychedelics and Monotheistic Religions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition, and responded to the dramatic increase, in recent years, of psychedelic use in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities...." Read more at jaymichaelson.substack.com

Understatement of the year: these are challenging times. Over at Dan Harris's 10% Happier podcast, I shared the meditative practice of recalling and re-embodying past altered states of consciousness (whether psychedelic or not) to experience them anew.. now. www.danharris.com/p/reliving-a...

It's good to talk with the folks at @judaismunbound.bsky.social about the insane hall of funhouse mirrors that is the American Jewish community right now. www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/epis...

We're in Phase One of a constitutional crisis: the president is doing manifestly illegal, unconstitutional things. In Phase Two, the courts will rule against him. In Phase Three, he will tell them to go to hell. What then? Read more at jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

This aged perfectly.

Tragically, complaining about "fascism" is not persuading anyone. Progressives need to get more specific, and tell more stories, instead of talking about abstract concepts. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/whats-so-b...

Memo to all so-called "anti-woke" "Contrarians" from Serena Williams's husband & founder of Reddit Alex Ohanian:

President Trump wants to send YOUR kids to die in Gaza so HIS kids can get rich there

This is not a time to panic and catastrophize. It's a time to fight for the rule of law -- and the fight is already notching victories. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

Millions of people now believe a false claim about USAID. Elon Musk has amplified an obvious lie, here clearly debunked. www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

Hakeem Jeffries is Right About God -- or, why I liked the tweet that many progressives hated. open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

Really says it all.

I had some surprising feelings on Inauguration Day. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/a-surprisi...

Remind me again: There's no difference between Biden/Harris and Trump on Israel/Palestine, right? Oh.

In case anyone's wondering why the war didn't end months ago. What a vile human being, with a vile ideology that is deadly for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Imagine being the parent of an Israeli hostage or Palestinian child -- and this is why you must live with your worst fears every day.

Rabbi @jaymichaelson.bsky.social bringing the koan game jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/psychedeli...

'if you look at the last few hundred years of history, the arc of the moral universe has still bent, overall, toward justice' - hopeful words by @jaymichaelson.bsky.social in dark times open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

My substack newsletter is about the intersection of our public and private lives: spirituality and politics, our inner worlds and shared world. Nowhere is this intersection more painfully visible than in the response to the devastation in Los Angeles. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

And municipalities, and weather reporters, and all the other mundane stuff that made Twitter useful.

"Stop exaggerating!" people told me. "No one is coming for marriage equality."

I am utterly unpersuaded by the arguments being made against President Biden's pardon. Here's a thread refuting them.

Happy to share the second in a series of articles I'm doing on psychedelics in America. This one is a bit more of a cautionary (but still supportive) tale. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-coming...

Are you in the mood for Thanksgiving this year? Neither am I. Here's some advice. forward.com/opinion/6784... @forward.bsky.social

It really is astonishing - the denial of a million people dying. I think Democrats made a huge mistake not talking about Covid more directly (and said so six months ago - jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/democrats-... )