"No leopards are eating anyone’s faces; genies can be neatly stuffed back into bottles." @emilyctamkin.bsky.social profiles unrepentant dweeb Ben Shapiro, editor of the failing Daily Wire.

Is Bari Weiss winning? A talk with the world's foremost Weiss expert @davidklion.bsky.social www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...

I'm in this @aljazeera.com documentary on Stephen Miller, if you can stand to watch the guy

when u hutt but the films keep sucking

For my latest column in @thenation.com, I wrote about the symbiotic relationship between the neo-Nazi right and the Jewish institutions that insist on equating Zionism and Judaism.

Join IPK & the Global New Right Working Group on April 9th for a hybrid seminar with @davidklion.bsky.social. Klion will discuss the legacy of neoconservatism with @ajbauer.bsky.social and Hannah Gurman. ipk.nyu.edu/events/globa...

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

I spoke with @davidklion.bsky.social about Epstein and the Jews and then Twitter vs. Bluesky. Which part of the conversation will make people madder? Stay tuned! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

My first byline in @equatormag.bsky.social, part of a package of reactions to Trump's mad war on Iran. I wrote about how the neocons have diverged into two camps over this, and how the scarier camp is winning.

„In this rhetorical world, Jews were at once the ultimate in-group and the ultimate outsiders; Epstein relied on the power of this bond to cultivate friends who at the very least overlooked and covered for his crimes, in some cases may have partaken themselves.“ jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

this is a brilliant piece by @davidklion.bsky.social. a real model for how to do careful and insightful analysis in areas where people easily slip into unhinged conspiracy theorizing or choose to ignore an entire range of phenomena. jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

This is a pretty good illustration of how to talk about the "Jewishness" of Epstein and some of his network. It's important to do this because antisemitism thrives on the claim that you "aren't allowed" to talk about when Jews in powerful positions commit crimes. Room to go deeper on gender, tho.

Enjoyed chatting with @wajali.bsky.social about Epstein and the Jews and the nuances of talking about that without indulging in antisemitism davidklion.substack.com/publish/post...

jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet... Interessante esse artigo (de um site judaico alinhado à esquerda) sobre o Epstein. Analisa como ele manipulou laços judaicos para se projetar em círculos de poder - o q virou um prato cheio pro conspiracionismo antissemita. cc @nietzsche4speed.bsky.social

Ah sinon, il est tout à fait possible de parler d'Epstein, y compris de son instrumentalisation de son identité juive pour se constituer un réseau en partie communautaire, et de l'insérer dans l'histoire des Juifs aux Etats-unis, sans le moindre relent antisémite jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

I hope someone is working on a big Madoff-Epstein project paralleling their path through the upper floors of American Jewry in the '90s and 2000s

Truly, truly outstanding piece by David Klion here.

Appreciate David for this but he’s a bit timid for my taste. Since I was a teenager it’s been clear to me that our defining ideologies, out dominant institutions, and our core rhetorics of peoplehood are deeply warped: we articulate ourselves in malign narcissistic delusion.

“There are lots of shocking revelations in the Epstein emails, but speaking as an American Jew myself, one of the most unsettling is just how familiar Epstein and his friends sometimes sound.” brilliant and important article by @davidklion.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Good piece by @davidklion.bsky.social. As he notes, Epstein was an identity fraudster who ingratiated himself with rich alter kakers. But Epstein's inner circle included Prince Andrew, a sultan from Dubai, a former Norwegian premier, a Japanese American tech bro, and other non-Jews.

“I am happy you are back among the ‘free,’” the soon-to- retire TNR editor-in-chief Marty Peretz emailed Jeffrey Epstein in September 2010, weeks after the end of the house arrest part of Epstein’s 18-month sentence for procuring a teenage girl for prostitution jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

Thoughtful piece on the "Epstein class" jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID THE THING. I'll even extend it-- when you're 2% of the nat'l population, the temptation to do the "oh you're my aunt's cousin's brother-in-law's rabbi's friend's nephew's friend from camp" thing is strong. (yes, there was even a game show + cot'd thread) (taps the sign 👇)

I don't think we can shy away from the very real and widespread perception that Epstein was surrounded by other wealthy, powerful Jews. Antisemites have their account of why this is, and everyone can see the basic facts. My piece was an attempt to engage that reality forthrightly and with nuance.

Been thinking this, didn’t have the courage/nuance to write it. Maybe I thought it was obvious & didn’t need me to say it. Now it’s said: “networks of friendship & favor-trading spanning decades..an ethnic community [whose] dizzying rise [was built] on relationships w/ ppl of similar background”

Epstein's Jewish Cohort: @davidklion.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social examines how Jeffrey Epstein exploited networks of Jewish elites through "affinity fraud," relying on shared cultural background and clannishness to facilitate his crimes. jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

This is a fucking amazing piece by @davidklion.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, and I wish everyone would read it

"Epstein’s humble Coney Island youth comes up frequently in his inbox. Hot dogs, boardwalks, amusement park rides … everyone who wrote Epstein seemed to understand that they were part of his whole schtick." New essay from @davidklion.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

Banger after banger. The Jewish males forming a "disproportionate part of that [Epstein] network" in emails "swap chauvinistic myths about Jewish superiority alongside intimate secrets, corrupt favors, and advice on finding Jewish lawyers to help navigate sexual misconduct allegations." 🧵

“Though the majority of American Jews bear no complicity in Epstein’s monstrous crimes, and we must resist any antisemitic insinuations to the contrary, it is worth interrogating how our communal institutions and the culture of proud separateness that sustains them may have facilitated his rise.”

Excellent article

Oh man. This is a tough one

This is an uncomfortable read if you’re a person who, like me, sometimes takes comfort in Jewish clannishness and self-mythologizing. I’ll be thinking about this piece for a long time.

This was a good read: "For all the moral panic about resurgent antisemitism over the past several years, much of it aimed at Palestine solidarity activists on the left, nothing has encouraged the real thing quite like the Epstein files." jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

In the Epstein emails, "one can recognize a nostalgic, almost kitschy relationship to Jewish identity that plenty of ordinary Jews tend to indulge in," @davidklion.bsky.social writes in his new essay.

"The Times assiduously charts how Epstein relied on his talents as a networker and schmoozer to win over one person, who in turn he would convince to introduce him to the next, working his way higher and higher into a particular segment of the ruling class." jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

Epstein relied on Jewish in-group bonds to cultivate the network that facilitated his crimes. New essay from @davidklion.bsky.social on the line between affinity and conspiracy

Wow this goes hard, in the best way. But it is NOT for the faint of nuance, fam. I really love the fearlessness of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social - not afraid to wade on into the tough stuff. 🙏

A must read

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about Epstein and the Jews

Please do not let Will’s tantrum over getting the attention he wanted distract you from the amazing Minneapolis coverage Gaby has been producing all month (all while also writing a book because she’s just that good)

Gaby del Valle is one of the best reporters I know and the attacks against her on here are not only shocking in their violence and bigotry but also incredibly bad-faith and utterly without merit.

It's wild how much Bluesky fundamentally hates journalism. Like, yes journalism right now has plenty of issues. (Ask any journalist about it! We love to bitch about journalism!) But on here the entire premise of "reporting" is reviled by people who think they're doing 'Spotlight' whenever they post.

this is correct. people have completely lost the plot on here

Gaby Del Valle is a great journalist with righteous politics, and the way this website is treating her for her completely fair reporting on Minneapolis is the reason why it's constantly hemorrhaging users, will never be relevant, and is seen as a joke across progressive media and activist circles.

i told you i was doing a mini-profile of you as part of a broader series out of minneapolis. and that’s what i did!

For my latest column in @thenation.com, I took a look at Stephen Miller's role as the unelected dark architect behind Trump's wildly unpopular authoritarian presidency

David Rieff: “Philip Roth told me that I come from an intellectual somewhere, but a geographic and ethnic nowhere... But I do come from an ethnic somewhere, and that’s lesbian America. I grew up surrounded largely by gay people in my childhood in New York.” www.theideasletter.org/essay/woke-o...

The @cipolicy.bsky.social, run by @mattduss.bsky.social and @nancyokail.bsky.social, has operated below the radar the last couple years, but could turn out to be a big deal in certain increasingly imaginable timelines... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...