As of this moment 411 people of them 142 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza. These are the confirmed cases. The actual number is likely higher. This is unacceptable. Expect better. Demand better. Pressure your elected representatives to put an end to the madness.

Deleted a previous post indicating that we know the politics of Kirk’s assassin. I’m still seeing conflicting reports. Apologies for the haste.

If you’re celebrating political violence against Charlie Kirk at this moment, you don’t understand how authoritarianism operates. Trump will use this to further dismantle our civil liberties.

The problem with the iPhone as a serious video/filmmaking tool is the aggressive pace of change. The physical form changes every 3 years or so. Once it’s introduced, there’s like 4 months before the accessories that make it useful come out and then you have 2.5 years before they become obsolete.

There was a terror attack in Jerusalem today against innocent Israeli Jews. There have been ongoing terror attacks against innocent Palestinians in Gaza every day since Israel broke the last ceasefire on March 18. The violence needs to end.

I just read a criticism of something that I wrote that started with “I’m sorry but you have too much kindness in your heart...” Put it on my fucking tombstone.

An important shift is underway.

Yup.

I like @peterbeinart.bsky.social a lot and I think he’s demonstrated rare moral courage since 10/7. But I really don’t like this hand-wringing about “Will Judaism survive?” It strikes me as a category error and maybe even a sort of internalization of antisemitism.

These images and videos have been circulating for months. I know too many people who insisted against the evidence of their own senses that there is no hunger in Gaza. It’s difficult to overstate how much Palestinians have been dehumanized in Zionist circles.

On the *low end* we’re looking at an 83% civilian casualty rate. They think they’ve killed 8900 actual fighters. Let me ask the obvious question: How on earth is this a mistake? Either the IDF are the most incompetent military in modern history, or this ratio is born of a deliberate policy.

What they said.

I’m old enough to remember when annihilationist rhetoric was whispered at parties by a fringe of Israeli society.

A warning from a man who’s seen this movie before.

Let’s review: Israel won’t allow international journalists into Gaza to cover the situation and it’s…Checks notes…Killing the Palestinian journalists, but…Israel has nothing to hide about its conduct in Gaza. Did I get that right?

Bill Maher *still* hasn’t bothered to learn how to pronounce Mamdani’s name, but he’s apparently offended that he won’t come on Real Time. You know, because what Muslim politician wouldn’t want to field questions from Bill I-have-a-problem-with-Islam Maher?

Horse hitching post at Walmart, 2025. There’s a Mennonite community up here in the Soo, so Walmart reserved parking for them. This is what makes America great. Not cutting healthcare for the most vulnerable among us.

Jews around the world took a look at rising antisemitism post October 7 and then looked at what is happening in Israel and said “We’d rather deal with the antisemitism than live in Israel.”

There’s a kind of emotional labor that doesn’t get enough attention. That for many people feels like selling out. I’m referring to the emotional labor of forgiving people for their moral blind spots. Not only is it NOT selling out, but it is essential in the maintenance of our humanity.

I had a dream that Netanyahu was letting Yigal Amir out of prison and I was needing to explain to my Zionist friends why this is a problem.

LOL. No, you odious dolt. Hamas has more than enough weapons, because some small percentage of the bombs you dropped didn’t explode and a small percentage of the equivalent of 2 Hiroshimas is enough to keep them in weapons for a decade.

You know what would be better than recognizing the state of Palestine? Sanctioning the country engaged in a mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians. The “S” in BDS. Deep cut, I know, but I’ve been around a minute.

Bill Maher’s disdain for Mamdani is one of the clearest expressions of his Islamophobia that I’ve ever seen. He continues to paint him as a villain while refusing to learn how to pronounce his name.

This interview is infuriating for many reasons. But one moment kind of blew my mind. It’s near the end. She asks Greemblatt about anti-Zionist Jews and he basically denies that they exist. They’re probably 15% of Jewish-Americans. His denial is insane.

I don’t think most Jews understand what a dangerous moment this is for our people. Israel and its defenders are undoing decades and decades of goodwill and progress on antisemitism. The lack of self-awareness is staggering and I think most can’t even hear this argument from a place of self-interest.

My family is in crisis. Aaron, my brother in-law, suffered a massive stroke and died at 48. To make matters worse, he was my mother in-law’s primary caregiver. Mom has severe dementia. My wife and I are in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to manage the situation, but we need all the help we can get.

This is disgusting and Tim Cook has been disgusting me more and more over the last few years, but man alive does he understand Donald Trump. Like maybe better than anyone save the Saudis.

Israel-defenders are repeating the line that Evyatar David is not on the front pages of any newspapers. Umm…This took one search.

Hamas are in the tunnels. Israel decided in the first few months that they weren’t going to fight in the tunnels. Remember that the next time you see one of those before and after satellite images of Gaza.

The psychological warfare of showing the emaciated body of a starving Israeli hostage digging his own grave is so bone-chilling and awful. The cruelty is the point. The hostages need to be returned to their families.

I don’t know why so many people need to hear this, but here’s your daily dose of what used to just be obvious: The fact that Hamas says something doesn’t make it false and the fact that the IDF says something doesn’t make it true.

The Grey Lady retires another ridiculous talking point.

The bad faith Israel defenders are at it again. They can no longer deny that there is a famine in Gaza, so now they’re…Get this…Blaming the UN. You can’t make this shit up. Pressure your elected officials to force Israel to change course.

Every single First Flush Darjeeling tea that I have ever had the pleasure of consuming was at its best when brewed at 175F(80C) for 4 minutes.

Stick, on Apple TV+ is an absolute delight. Heart-warming and funny without being sentimental. A spiritual successor to Ted Lasso in the best way. Season 1 is all up and season 2 just got green lit.

I honestly don’t know whether Israel will follow through on plans to deport hundreds of thousands or indeed millions of Palestinians from Gaza. What I do know is that as some of us predicted, Trump’s second term has made the possibility more thinkable than ever.

First he defended Musk’s sieg heil. Now he’s giving interviews to White Nationalists. Greenblatt is a bad joke. You have my permission to dismiss his views on the subject of antisemitism with prejudice.

A famine expert talks about the situation in Gaza. Measured, nuanced, and worth listening to in full.

Gaza has been on my mind today. Rabbi Rosen sums it up well here. I don’t know what to do. That refrain that I learned growing up of Never Again? I took that seriously. I’m realizing that lots of people who learned it alongside me did not.

Like a line from a dystopic science fiction novel: “Someone who walks too fast is suspicious because he is fleeing. Someone who walks too slowly is also suspicious because [it suggests] he knows he’s being watched.”

We’ve now crossed the 1,000 mark. That’s one thousand people who have been murdered trying to get basic humanitarian assistance in Gaza since this insane system was set up a few months ago. But, you know, UNRWA is the problem.

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was caught publicly expressing romantic affection towards a woman who wasn’t his wife. I get the comedy of it all, but the moralistic undertones of the public conversation are a reminder of how unsophisticated our culture is when it comes to thinking about relationships.

Every single day since January of 2024, 10 Gazan children have had a limb amputated. I don’t care what word people use to describe this reality. I want us all to agree that this is unacceptable.

An arrest has been made! Good job to everyone who shared the last post.

I honestly don’t know what to make of Trump’s about face on Ukraine, but my instinct is to assume that he is so lacking in basic understanding that it took him this long to realize that Putin was playing him.

I dare you not to be inspired by this man. Legend.

There’s a scene in season 2 of the Netflix show Mo where the main character is visiting the West Bank and he encounters a heavily-armed settler. I remember seeing people on social media criticize this tense scene for being unrealistic.

Natalie Cohen Vaxberg does it again. One of the most important Israeli artists working today.

I’m probably more disturbed by what’s happening in Gaza than most, but I try to be disciplined about my description of the situation. I know that many people are prepared to believe that things are much worse than we know, but spreading unsubstantiated and inflated estimates DOES NOT help anyone.

Can someone just please state the obvious already? The Israeli and American strikes make it more likely that Iran will go nuclear.