Why do we need to remove water from sludge?

I don't think most Jews felt we'd live in an age where concentration camps would be built in the US. But here we are. And seeing how... it seems relatively unnoticed... it taps open something deep, something in the genes. Like watching a tape of the past transposed on today.

The ADL has yet to comment on this. But they did make the time for a five-tweet thread today about Zohran Mamdani appearing with an imam.

the NYT's opinion is that the Democrats should take the position which upper-class Connecticut Republicans held in 2012 and that politics should be preserved in amber in that state until the sun runs out of hydrogen and swallows the earth

“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies." Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration. #Peston

As far as I can tell, the ADL and AJC have yet to comment on this.

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“ Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

I was honored to work with Arthur over the last few months on his memoir. 'Tales of Spirit Rising and Sometimes Falling' publishes in January. Arthur Waskow, activist rabbi who brought Jewish spiritual wisdom to bear on progressive politics, dies at 92 forward.com/fast-forward...

Dutch intelligence chiefs said the Netherlands scaled back intelligence sharing with CIA under US President Trump's administration Meanwhile, Amsterdam ramped up information flow with the UK, Germany, France, and Poland to counter Russian threat euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/20/s...

americans are increasingly supportive of immigration rights in light of ICE crackdowns but they are also less supportive of trans rights amid attacks on trans care, per polling the difference? politicians and cultural figures are talking about the first thing and not the second

Trump on Putin and Zelensky: "They hate each other, and it makes it a little bit difficult." Look, we “hate” Russia, including Putin, because they kill us, destroy our cities, abduct our children, and do everything they can to erase Ukraine from existence.

loser stuff

Anarchists from #Belarus and #Dresden organized an exhibition about the protests against the dictatorship in 2020. The exhibition tells the story of those who fought and are still fighting against Lukashenko's regime and Russian empire. #Anarchism

The Republican Party will simultaneously claim that they are prioritizing fighting antisemitism above all else, when it allows them to crack down on higher education and foreign students, and also that the Jewish puppet master is pulling the strings behind all progressive social movements in the US.

He seems to be an expert.

Quick, someone get her a Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta shirt.

I was having trouble sourcing some non-Israeli judaica for my new apartment, so in order to save the rest of my Jewish followers some trouble I’ll boost some of the sources I found:

21/ Factions of the Western left continue to excuse or romanticize the Soviet Union, framing it as a counterweight to Western imperialism or neoliberal capitalism. In this narrative, the USSR is remembered as a noble experiment, its crimes downplayed as unfortunate “mistakes” or denied entirely.

1/ a letter to the western left - I’d say we need to talk about your silence, but really, we need to talk about your noise. Specifically, all the noise you make about empire, liberation, and solidarity, while finding a thousand reasons to avert your gaze from Russian imperialism.

It really comes down to this: If Democrats don’t prosecute members of the Trump administration after this is over — especially for literal murder in the Caribbean — then nothing they say or do matters from there. The country is done for and not worth saving if you can do that and get away with it.

Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I think we can discuss the cynical motivations of Russia exploiting desperate people without dehumanising terms like "pouring migrants into Europe". We're not going to beat these far-right parties like the AfD by accepting their framing.

what if we all just pretended the ny times no longer exists

Little joy update: I am exhausted because my little orange cat jumped into bed at 2 AM and purred so loud she woke me up. This is not the first time it’s happened and I will never be mad about it.

No you are not the greatest country in the world and no you are not the worst country in the world, like most countries you are just kinda mid and it is way past time to grow up and accept this

Sending big Diwali blessings to everyone who celebrates!! 🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟🪔🌟

I really need Americans to get past this stage of silly exceptionalism where they run around claiming that other countries are incapable of doing evil or awful things unless they're directly copying what some idiot in Idaho wants

The status quo may have failed disastrously and led to fascism in America but you know what the best solution to that is? More status quo.

This war could’ve ended if Trump had done the right thing. Just a few simple policy shifts. But no. Noooo. That’s too hard. Instead, we’re flinging war maps across the room and screaming. What did Ukrainians ever do to deserve putin and Trump at the same time?

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO (next major politician who's in)

Why do we need to protect the perimeter of our construction site from releasing sediment with stormwater runoff?

What makes areas populated by reeds so special?

This is what happens to your brain on utilitarianism.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

A great program is in trouble due to direct, political interference by administration. Jewish Studies is only to be allowed to serve the purposes of the U.S. and Israeli states. Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.

As I begin punching my opponent in the face again, the precarious agreement we had to not punch each other in the face comes under threat

Most dimwit comparison of all time that I saw all last year was the idea that Biden withholding aid to Israel would have been an impeachable offense like Trump's attempt to blackmail Ukraine. First of all, the crime in the latter was the interpersonal blackmail. Secondly, aid is executive purview.

😡 Russians hit power plant in Chernihiv region again. Almost 55 thousand subscribers are without electricity.

Russia-Ukraine is in the same place it's been this entire year, with Trump telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin or else, as Ukraine continues to stand up for its own freedom in the face of the best "or else" Russia is able to muster.

Interesting internal poll of Democratic primary voters that some campaigns have been using

my favorite sign from No Kings in Boston:

“test of ceasefire” ??????????????

If, as appears to be the case, pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhürman has won a decisive victory in the Northern Cyprus presidential election, I'm feeling slightly more vindicated about my piece on the decline of ethnic partitionism. Also, just generally good news, and a big blow to Erdoğan.

4000 people have joined the Green Party today alone. And we're close to breaking the target for the most in one day! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Mexico city: “doctors cannot stop the genocide but global leaders can” Doctors without borders

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

to be cringe is to be FREE

Every single word.