My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

"We're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors!" - @bradlander.bsky.social , People's Champ

This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”

Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Almost like this isn't really about what we want at all: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Trump administration giving the largest grant in the history of the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to the Tikvah Fund represents an attempt to construct a parallel infrastructure for the academic study of Judaism, explicitly allied with ethnonationalist, Christian nationalist forces.

Spread calm. Tell the truth. Defend vulnerable people who are under attack. Getting stuck in a reactive mode is exhausting, and exhaustion can make us weak.

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up

"Some people think Jews are trying to engineer the mass replacement of the white race. Others disagree. We report, you decide."

Many white privileged liberal pundits are proving that they think nonviolence is not an action or philosophy, but rather a broad call for politeness.

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

A lot of the debates about "purity tests" collapse together a bunch of different ways of relating to the right. It's one thing to try and win support from GOP legislators on your bills and a whole other thing to invite the Manhattan Institute into a dialogue about what your values should be.

An advocacy group is calling on Rep. Ritchie Torres to donate to humanitarian efforts in Gaza after newly released disclosures revealed the politician’s investments in weapons contractors involved in Israel as he’s campaigned for the U.S.’s backing of Israel’s genocide.

officially adding "public health civil servants" to the list of professions giving a good account of themselves under authoritarianism in the US www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

adding "doctors" to the list of professions that, alongside judges and lawyers, have so far given a good account of themselves under authoritarianism

"We used to have only one genocide. / Now we have two. / The first was committed against us. / The second is being committed by us. / But each is ours, so now we have two." toddhasaklowy.substack.com/p/coming-soon

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.

Greenblatt of the ADL is using a classic "no true Scotsman" fallacy here - if Mamdani speaks to Jews, they aren't real Jews by definition of speaking to Mamdani, hence there is no way for Mamdani to actually meet with Jews. The ADL gets to be the sole arbiter of Jewishness in the US.

We are seeing in realtime that many US-born US citizens have been raised to believe that the US should be a white Christian Nationalist monarchy They are actively not committed to democracy And not enough people are talking about the significance of this as a feature of today’s political situation

"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”

There should be a League to prevent such Defamation

The road to hell is paved with people saying "That's not realistic."

The whole confederacy is getting in on it.

As we continue to obsess over discussions about left wing antisemitism, far right antisemitism continues to explode. The incidents are largely overlooked. They don’t fit the narrative for those most tasked with this fight. And they don’t get the clicks for media. But they are happening regardless.

I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.

164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

I fell in love with this sentence Audre Lorde wrote in her journal cuz discernment is so needed right now. We can have feelings and discernment. “My feelings are real but not always right.”

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.

"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The hostages' families called on the Israeli public to hold a general strike next Sunday against the government's decision to occupy Gaza City.

10 JFREJ members have been arrested

2,000+ Jews gathered in Columbus Circle this evening to say No More to starvation and ethnic cleansing. Led by rabbis, they of them moved to the front of Trump Tower, read the names of Palestinian children killed, and said Kaddish. The NYPD is currently arresting dozens of them.

Thousands of NY Jews demand an end to genocide, an end to mass starvation, and end to occupation. Never Again. #JewsSayNoMore @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org

Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary.” To claim condemning wrongdoing is “anti-Semitic” is to claim Judaism would remain mute at & allow for horrific violence against others. I cannot imagine a more anti-Semitic idea than that.

Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...

Unclench your jaw. Relax your shoulders. Get up and stretch. Drink your water.

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Imagine someone who refuses to condemn our closest ally inflicting mass starvation on a population of two million civilians on our dime, demanding that someone else condemn a slogan he doesn’t even use.

In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment. I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:

Good post laying out the truth that there are no conditions for ending the war in Gaza that could be minimally acceptable to both the Palestinian people and to Netanyahu's coalition govt. The implications of this are uncomfortable for American Jews still defending this war as justified by Oct 7.

I just saw one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen on IG. Every moment of silence is moral liability. This complicity is intolerable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...