Enough already!

little known facts: Israel has shari'a laws as part of its legal codex

The New Jersey governor’s race between Mikie Sherrill (D) and Jack Ciattarelli (R) is tied, according to a new poll by Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill. If you can donate money, help phone bank, or call your friends in New Jersey, please do it now. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Prezydent Trump stwierdził, że Ukraina może, ze wsparciem Unii Europejskiej, odzyskać całe swoje terytorium. Za tym zaskakującym optymizmem kryje się zapowiedź mniejszego zaangażowania USA i przerzucenie odpowiedzialności za zakończenie wojny na Europę. Lepsza prawda niż iluzje.

⚡️ Zelenskyy: The Budapest Memorandum, meant to guarantee Ukraine’s security in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons, has failed. It proved that international promises can turn into blabbering.

🔴 Zelenskyy: "International law does not work unless you have powerful friends who are willing to stand up for it."

This is exactly why it’s so infuriating that @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social refuse to press any advantage they might have.

Busy day. Going to this today, right after a Ukrainian Studies symposium featuring Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska, as keynote.

I had missed this: In a small, rural Iowa county, Floyd County, a Democrat won one of the three seats on the county's board of supervisors tonight. He ousted the Republican who'd been appointed to replace the Republican supervisor who passed away.

hey it worked for me too #RepositoryOfKnowledge

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

@ktgerbs.bsky.social provides an essential link in understanding the creation of racialized slavery. She demonstrates how Christians—intentionally & not—tied bondage to status as a Christian and, ultimately, how this tied assumptions about the heathen to enslaved Black people. 2/

👋 Whether it’s via truck or @wmata.com train, we mean it when we say: *We want to meet people where they are.* Current and former federal workers.: Reach out at 917-512-0201 on Signal or propublica.org/tips 👇

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

Let me go ahead and send my thoughts and prayers to all that plan to take their medical advice from someone who I am old enough to remember also told people to inject themselves with bleach. Why is ignorance being elevated while intelligence is being denigrated?

Kamala Harris was held to a higher standard than any vice president in history—an impossible one. She was locked into Biden’s playbook, yet the media still expected her to be everywhere, doing everything, for everyone. “Where is Kamala?” Busy being the VP to President Joe Biden, as was her job.

Lindsey Graham is one of the biggest promoters & enablers of Donald Trump's anti-science agenda that we saw on full display at Trump's embarrassing Tylenol event yesterday. Fortunately his Democratic opponent, @drannieandrews.com, is literally a doctor.

I keep saying, this guys numbers are TERRIBLE, he is VULNERABLE...now is the time for people to push back against Trumpism

Fact Check: TRUE

That health care briefing today had to make Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins damn proud of their votes to confirm RFK Jr. At least while selling out the public health of a nation they avoided a mean post from Trump on Truth Social. Priorities.

Kimmel wasn’t fired because he said something his bosses didn’t like. Kimmel was fired because the government pressured his bosses over something Trump didn’t like. 

Palestinian president calls for Hamas to surrender weapons "We also condemn the killing and detention of civilians, including Hamas actions on October 7, 2023” www.thedailystar.net/news/world/i...?

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

U.S. Democrats badly need actual fighters in charge.

Kids, get off TikTok

Today we saw a glimpse of the future of MAGA. Less Trumpism. More white Christian nationalism.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Yet another BRILLIANT analysis by the great Raghida Dergham: A Modest Guide to a Packed Week at the United Nations: Between Diplomatic Pageantry, Military Intimidation, and the Star of the Year Best on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/modest... Another version in The National

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

I know, I know, but ten years ago, a brief conversation between former President Clinton and Loretta Lynch, Obama's AG, while the DOJ was investigating Hillary Clinton was a national political scandal. Candidate Trump called it, "so terrible... so out of bounds.” share.google/i2JTNXfNROcy...

For all the concern about the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment, what about all the amendments that the children in Sandy Hook, Parkland, Uvalde, and-for that matter-Charlie Kirk lost Because they have no amendments rights now. None.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

In a big victory, a court blocked the federal administration from forcing states to turn over SNAP recipients' personal information while our lawsuit continues. I’ll always fight to protect the privacy of millions and ensure families have access to the food assistance they need.

Trump’s strategic weaponization of Charlie Kirk’s murder is just an apparatus to crack down on thought and speech in unthinkable ways. This moment is as close to Orwellian as we’ve come, and the fictitious “Thought Police” is becoming our new reality.

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

This 🧵 and responses ⬇️

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

This illustrates the contradiction precisely. H/t @reaproy.bsky.social

Similar to how Bush Admin knew immediately after 9/11 they were going to blame and invade Iraq. Facts were beside the point.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

The Orbanization of American media advances MAGA’s authoritarian project. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Out in less than a month, an incredible volume on how specific themes have been addressed in Jewish Studies as a field. Mine is a contribution about "Difference and Violence." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Excellent piece by @jenrubin.bsky.social, studded with real action items for @democrats.org and their leaders, CC: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The response to Trump’s dictatorial crusade to crush political opponents cannot be defensive or timid. The imbalance between micro-responses liberals too often confuse for effective political action and the enormity of the threat is deeply disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)

NEW: Georgia this fall has 2 statewide races, for 2 seats on its utility commission: These are statewide officials who decide electricity rates, & set future of green energy. Two GOP incumbents are on ballot, against Dems. BUT the races are clouded by a convergence of concerns over democracy: