Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record: Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

4 months apart

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Something else that has never happened before in American history, as the Trump admin continues to piss on the Bill of Rights while Republicans in Congress continue to remain silent. Another thing to protest on Saturday.

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US. All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Here is an excellent guide by @crimethinc.com about wearing goggles and masks to demonstrations. crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a...

What was all the fan hate at Skylar about? She’s literally the only one having a reasonable set of reactions to events.

Man, Walt was a real bag of dicks.

One of my students told me they felt deeply conflicted about whether to attend the class walk-out for Palestine yesterday or my class on Talmud, and the debate between those two choices gave them a stomachache. I told them getting a stomachache over hard choices is the most Jewish thing there is.

Rewatching #BreakingBad and like Walter White is not a good teacher, is he?

Families of the hostages in Washington receiving the news of President Trump's announcement of the agreement to return all the hostages home. 📸 credit: Liri Agami and Alon Kaplan 🎗️

This is a critical and promising first step. If there will ever truly be a future in which both Israelis and Palestinians have safety, peace, and self-determination, it starts with releasing the remaining hostages, surging aid into Gaza, and ending this war.

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

Quite the headline. Will be forwarding to everyone who told me I was "overreacting."

Yidden, can we get a meshaberach for Dolly, please?!

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

“An ICE agent claimed someone was trying to force their way into a door, but it was just a CBS News Chicago photographer filming the exterior of the building.”

Is anybody out there?

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a 'stereotype' — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." 🔨

"When we use GenAI, [we] stuff the pockets of oligarchs... We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre... We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we wld rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

"Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI." (finally reading this)

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

HAPPY #HOBBITDAY and SHANA TOVA, EVERYBODY!!!

A Jewish man spewing full on Nazism while memorializing a white supremacist pains me to the very bottom of my Jewish soul.

A sake pot.

Canceled Disney+ and Hulu. #Disney+ #Hulu #FirstAmendment

Nested threads, and if you can, take that minute to type it out, stick it in an envelope, and mail it. They can ignore a lot of email, but letters get them scared. Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Is it officially fascism yet are is it still just sparkling totalitarianism

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

A lot of you are bringing a “I’ve never seen cabaret” energy to the current rise in fascism that’s pretty exhausting

I’m really beginning to think that translating Hebrew scripture into a language gentiles could read was a historical error.

The Third Reich had an agency called the Reichskulturkammer, "Reich Culture Chamber". All singers, writers, musicians, journalists, and actors had to apply for membership and were ideologically vetted. Expulsion or failure to gain admission resulted in an occupational ban. Jews were not admitted.

Pissed that I’m going to have to cancel Hulu before the Alien:Earth finale, but here we are.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

We have reached the point where it is no longer safe to criticize the regime as a public figure. A prominent regime critic may not be imprisoned as they were in mid-20th century fascism, but is at least in danger of losing their livelihood. A society like this fails the minimum test of a democracy.

I am an evolutionary dead end and I’m not sure entirely how I feel about that.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Musk also seems to be assuming whiteness is something innate and given, as opposed to culturally contingent and contextual. There is no way to calculate what percentage of the world "is white," because lots of people are white in some places but not others. Race is a social construct!

This is only something you see as a problem if you are a neo-Nazi or a white nationalist. Which the wealthiest person in the world quite obviously is.