The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

Synagogues that hold these events are giving a giant middle finger to the rest of the Jewish community while willfully putting us all at increased risk

One more reason to detest the settler movement: modern multifamily housing that is desperately needed elsewhere getting tarred by association

okay I meant to write final thoughts last night, but couldn't be asked, so here they are now If you're looking for a history of the Bund you will be bitterly disappointed. Because of Crabapple's limitations as both a writer and a human being you will not be getting a history of a mass movement.

She was there and still managed to get the name of the organization wrong

Thousands of Mississippi voters receive wrong polling-place information from the state's elections database each year, causing some to miss their chance to vote. Experts point to potential solutions, including systems other states have adopted that could help. buff.ly/jNtiFbN

If your brain doesn't make the chemicals it needs, there is nothing shameful or dependent on getting those chemicals from a doctor. Saying elsewise is saying that glasses, shoes, and clothing are all shameful, as our bodies are not naturally equipped to walk on broken glass without injury.

The water thing is fake. The infrasound thing is fake. Most of the other issues are at least mostly fake. The mind-losers are QAnon-level gullible but somehow even more resistant to evidence. It's great. Great epistemic environment we've got going here. Really loving it.

you know people don’t have a good grasp on cause and effect bc they blame this on datacenters rather than immediate answers (Trump killing all renewable projects he could) and long term answers (people spent decades crusading against nuclear power).

Unbelievable lack of reading comprehension. “People who believe that [being part of a marginalized group] gives them unlimited license to torture others” only refers to a SUBSET of people in those groups!!! You would only need to worry if you act like a massive asshole which is identity indifferent!

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the most dangerous thing to believe is "I am the victim and therefore whatever I do is righteous and justified" This mindset is most obvious in fascists but it's most dangerous when one's grievances and claims of victimhood are very real!

Like they just can't see how you can make a rule against what they consider shitty but not illegal behavior. But you absolutely can do that, you just need a better theoretical framework that can conceptualize harms above and beyond the breaking of contracts

worth noting here it's not just Wyoming where Republican lawmakers are openly saying they want to boost the state's population by forcing people--even teenagers--into childbirth From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Welcoming depressed cis people onto the 'NYT laundering a campaign by reactionary freaks to take away our healthcare' bus. Enjoy being lectured about how your medicine is dangerous and untested by a MAHA chud who's taking 14 different steroids and loaded to the gills on cocaine.

Got in a small argument with a friend that works for the city sewer about if nurses were blue collar or not. We work shifts, wear a uniform, have a name tag, and sometimes come home with shit on us the only reason you don't think nurses are blue collar is because nursing is for girls.

It's legit really funny that Trump has managed to be the greatest anti-fossil fuel terrorist of all time.

BART needs an artist to put a mosaic/tile mural on this wall!!! One artist or team will be commissioned to design an artwork to be translated into a mosaic/tile mural at North Berkeley Station. Find a detailed FAQ and other application information: www.bart.gov/about/planni...

"I can't even take public transit to the public library!!!" he also said. I do not want to put the weight of shattering the chokehold that capitalism has on the world onto the shoulders of today's teens, but I do think they're radicalized in a way we've never seen before and it gives me hope.

Hope Platner doesn’t Fetterman. That’s really all I got.

1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA

The Supreme Court just said that is unconstitutional! The court had the be reformed before first.

i would like to read a review from someone who doesn't obviously hate the author/have a major ideological opposition to bundism or someone who isn't a neo-bundist themselves bc i don't wanna read that brick of a book if it's not worth it. but i'm not sure i'll ever get either review :/

Median voter develop object permanence challenge: impossible.

ME: Did you know that koalas have fingerprints almost identical to humans? COP: We also have footage of you crawling through the window.

I think its becoming clear to me what Crabapple wants is not a vision for 21st century post/anti-Zionist Jewish life but rather to say all the Jews should have died in a glorious struggle for humanity and the working class, a kind of mass socialists Jesus for the sins of the proletariat

David Vital's "A People Apart" is a detailed (and extremely dry) introduction to the general history of modern European Jewry. academic.oup.com/book/10010?l...

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

I…was not aware this happened!

It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

39/ But when the Israeli flag gets taken off the bimah, wealthy donors complain or pull their money or cancel their membership. And when there's too much Torah talk or vague nods to mystical ideas, the Israel-right-or-wrongniks get bored. Synagogues are catering to their revenue sources.

37/ US suburban synagogue boards are wringing their hands over two conflicting issues: a) a drop in membership that shifts revenue from general members to a few wealthy donors, and b) a fear that young people aren't doing enough to support Israel. The wealthy donors are particularly pro-Israel.

29/ How do you foment a sense of Jewish identity in a mass-market way in the USA? One way is to make Judaism cool or meaningful or relevant to them, but that's hard work. Or you can tie your identity to Israel, see that Israel is under threat, and get folks to rally to Israel's side. That's easier.

I ride for Barty

So instead we get all these bad faith, motte-and-bailey flights from unvarnished statements of fact - Zionists appealing to the brutal arithmetic of community survival & the need to survive under siege, pro-Palestine nationalists appealing to the supposedly absolute right to destroy one's oppressor.

If your stance is “my position is morally right so candidates should adopt it even if it costs them votes,” that requires actual persuasion, not blackmail.

it’s also darkly funny that they cloak their anti-vax agenda in the language of choice, like the abortion rights they’re committed to annihilating

I see Adam logged on and decided to do battle with bluesky idiots today. Godspeed, sir

Unfortunately for literally everyone on earth, the answer to every question about Israel’s conduct is “yes, and.” Yes, they’ve been perpetrating war crimes for years, AND they have been under near-constant attack by these same border countries for a long time.

Just listened to this and was on board until the prescription for Democrats to say that “the problems at the border are because legal immigration is too difficult.” I have a very hard time believing they could build an electoral majority behind that message.

Unfunded IZ presupposes a permenant housing shortage: the moment rents fall too low to cross-subsidize the unfunded mandate, development stops until rents rise again. It's housing policy pseudoscience.

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

I mean the hard truth is that when a dude falls off the edge and murders his family we don’t think of it as a “mass shooting” in the same way as when it’s other people.

There should be Dem Fight caucuses, and members with genuine hunger for aggressive oversight should demand enforceable concessions that prevent leadership + frontline members from shutting down promising inquiries. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-det...

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

On some level, I believe this is exactly what Netanyahu wants.

My coping strategy was investing as little though or emotional energy in Israel as possible. I resented the idea that my identity as a Jew should be bound up with some distant country I've never been to and can't vote in.

The question, as always: “who’s the ‘we’ you’re talking about?”

This is both (1) some of the most important SCOTUS reporting ever, and (2) far too generous to the Republican justices in framing of many pieces and omissions of Trump-era developments