Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Today it is a tool to appease, wield influence, and maintain alliances, to make a stance for “the free world” against Russia and its allies, to stroke the egos that drive geopolitics, while maintaining the optics of standing up for peace and human rights.

From a principled perspective on peace and human rights she’s not the ideal candidate. However, that is not necessarily what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. In today’s geopolitical puzzle, the Prize is primarily a political tool. Does that delegitimize the prize? Absolutely.

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same. They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

This is absolutely true. And also the least self-aware article ever, from the publication that brought you “The Gaza Famine Myth.” What do you think it’s like to watch your child starve to death?

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

"research generally concluded genetics play a very strong role in determining intelligence as measured by IQ tests...but for twins with “very dissimilar” educational experiences average IQ difference was 15 points, approaching the average difference between random unrelated individuals (~17 points)"

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said. The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.” By @deldeib.bsky.social

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

what percentage of social ills at the moment can be explained credibly by or at least betted understood through the lens of "a class of corrupt plutocrats is stealing from you and laughing at you?" i think it's a big number

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

Fellas is it antisemitic to blame the Bris

Those who built tombs, Their places are gone. What has become of them? I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hordedef, Whose sayings are recited everywhere. What of their places? Their walls have crumbled, Their places gone, As though they never existed. (Etc.)

"One reason: administrative actions increasing tariffs, restricting immigration, and otherwise constraining our ability for our healthcare system to adapt.... second: the largest healthcare cuts in federal history: $1.1 trillion was cut through HR 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

Just taught this today. 4000 year old dog prints.

We tend to assume every royal inscription was read, every instance of a king's name intended as a monument to his memory. Then a dog walks across the clay and the craftsman just lets it ride. How do we know if anyone paid attention to ancient "monuments"? sethlsanders.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/t...

The implacable Ron Mael talks Jeremy Allen through his 13 favourite albums, from fiery free jazz to cutting edge J-pop, via militant hip hop and Bach #RonMael of #Sparks’ Favourite Albums buff.ly/Aj85PWB

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza. Canada must demand their immediate release. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... #cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC

Ellis says the order will direct "agents and officers to follow the training they've already received... and is essentially directing them to follow their own rules, policies, regulations... and the behavior that the constitution demands."

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior. Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

CNN’s Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalists—including two New York Times reporters—serving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel's Likud regime win its “information war” against Palestinians.

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Ben Cowan-Dewar, the CEO of Cabot - he likes to position himself as the economic hero of western Cape Breton. He is also unscrupulous and predatory. He only needs to win once to ruin that land forever, but the community has win every time, and this is the third, and we are not the billionaires.

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

I've said this ten million times because this stupid take never dies. The BUSINESS VALUE is that you can teach a kid just about anything if they know how to read and write. I can teach a kid math, but they're useless to me if they can't at least outline the memo about what the math means

Check this *magnificent* song Iyer wrote for Baraka: youtu.be/0SWCvmHzm7I?...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

"300 people on their knees — in fear, no doubt — started shouting, 'Free Palestine! Free Palestine!' calling him a génocidaire and a baby killer ... You could see that Ben-Gvir was stunned by that. His people, the police, they were all stunned by it. They expected us to be cowed, and we weren't."

For those going to AAR/SBL in Boston next month, come join us to talk about @cbzeichmann.bsky.social’s Radical Antiquity!

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

bluesky decentralization in action: - bluesky the corp bans a user - user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server - blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else - user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, presumably read outraged local newspaper coverage of the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth when he was studying at Harvard

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965 - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

The discovery of a 17th-century musical score points to a larger question about what music *is*. This would be basically impossible for Jewish or Arab music, since although we like to write, Jews avoided writing ours down til the end of the 19th. Points to a larger divide in musical cultures....

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.