Moving piece about Gaza, complicity, and resistance in @bostonglobe.com from my friend Noga Malkin, whose grandparents escaped death in Auschwitz. (Paywalled) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/o...

Is the big Palestinian statehood push at the UN this year anything more than "fantasy diplomacy"? www.vox.com/politics/462...

A good way to start this week in America is to catch up on Zack’s piece from Friday: The Trump administration has now shown us all what a fully authoritarian USA under the big guy would look like. 🧵👇

Classic antisemitism has been an obvious part of this political program for a decade now, which is to say this isn’t the quiet part loud as much as it is the bass line being moved to the front

Congratulations to Ben on his new job at Blackwater!!

The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers. www.wgaeast.org/wga-statemen...

What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

"Under Trump’s legal theory, he could have justified firing Cook 'for cause' by accusing her of being responsible for the 1881 assassination of President James Garfield, or for causing the fall of Rome." www.vox.com/politics/461...

This could not be more of a blatant lie. www.vox.com/politics/461...

The right's response to Charlie Kirk's murder is nightmarishly Orwellian. Conservatives are signaling that the truth will be no obstacle to the sating of their bloodlust, nor to the exploitation of tragedy for partisan gain. www.vox.com/politics/461...

Charlie Kirk's murder has plunged us into a democratic crisis www.vox.com/politics/461...

The shutdown debate is really about two competing visions of how to fight Trump — between Team Normal Politics and Team Abnormal. I wrote about why I'm (mostly) on the latter www.vox.com/on-the-right...

Heroic piece from Ian laying out all the ways Ketanji Brown Jackson's recent "Calvinball" allegation against her Republican colleagues defines this entire era of the Court.👇🏼

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...

“I don't now how many more days remain for me to live, because death surrounds me from all sides just like it's surrounding this city, which is bleeding incessantly.” Gift link: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

Why the Ukraine war is so hard to end. My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/world-politi...

This @joshuakeating.bsky.social joint from Trump 1.0 remains in indefinite detention in my head. slate.com/news-and-pol...

America isn't retreating from the world under Trump. It's doing something much weirder My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/world-politi...

Moving tribute and plea for the protection of journalists from Ruwaida Amer. www.972mag.com/maryam-abu-d...

Appreciate this interview my former colleague Aymann Ismail did with CPJ's CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social about the journalists killed in Gaza and the threats journalists all over face today. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“It’s not hard to see why even this Supreme Court is cautious about giving Trump the power to fire Federal Reserve leaders. The Republican justices may be zealous adherents to the unitary executive theory, but they also have stock portfolios.” www.vox.com/scotus/45937... by @imillhiser.bsky.social

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

Famine declarations can be useful in bringing global attention and unlocking resources to an ongoing crisis. In Gaza, those aren't the problem. Latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/world-politi...

Amazing country. The gulag is illegal because they built it on the wetlands without checking if that would be OK for the wetlands first. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants www.vox.com/scotus/45886...

Looking closely at the DC situation led me to a surprising realization — that the deportation campaign is actually *hurting* Trump's efforts to dismantle American democracy www.vox.com/politics/458...

ABMIS's masterpiece??

Why won't Ukraine just redraw its borders to end the war? I took a look at the risks of giving up the Donbas for Ukraine's military position, political future, and global security www.vox.com/world-politi...

Don’t expect the courts to keep ICE under control. www.vox.com/scotus/45824...

Trump’s DC deployment is both farcical and dangerous www.vox.com/politics/458...

It's a bit funny ("funny") that the government and higher ed's attacks on the humanities are cresting now, when America is careening into fascism because a critical mass of Americans decided that good reading comprehension was the real fascism all along.

The Supreme Court has a special set of rules for Trump www.vox.com/scotus/45817...

There is a temptation by some American Jews to say well this is just an extremist view which ignores that he is in the government, is finance minister, and that his absence from the war cabinet didn’t stop his call for revenge over concern for hostages from effectively being the policy

Grateful for this @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social interview with @dahliasc.bsky.social. Wish more Israelis and Americans, including several in my life, could see what Dahlia sees and articulates so clearly. www.vox.com/politics/457...

*hits blunt* The challenge of talking about anything these days is that stating or presenting realities that can be proved without assumption are no match for people who hold assumptions without proof as realities.

I wrote about the long history of engineering famines—and what makes Israel’s starvation of Gaza unique: www.vox.com/policy/42262...

Public support for the Supreme Court at its lowest point ever www.vox.com/scotus/42259...

Today was the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. @joshuakeating.bsky.social wrote about how the nuclear powers have unlearned their lesson — and are now preparing to use new versions of these ultimate weapons so they can "win" with them. www.vox.com/defense-and-...

The Supreme Court just revealed its plan to make gerrymandering even worse www.vox.com/scotus/42227...

Very useful and troubling explainer of what’s in the Columbia agreement, and why these Ivy League capitulations endanger every college and university, from Nicole Narea. www.vox.com/politics/421...

Am a broken record on this but do we think “your university is losing money and jobs because of The Jews for whom there are special exceptions to the rules” encourages or discourages antisemitism newrepublic.com/article/1925...

Really useful explainer from @joshuakeating.bsky.social on how—even after nearly two years of horrors—we got to this particularly horrific moment in Gaza. www.vox.com/world-politi...

Bracing interview from Nicole Narea with @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social on famine in Gaza. ”This is a ’do harm’ ethos...You’re creating a situation where, in order to access aid, you compel people to cross a military perimeter where they are routinely shot at.” www.vox.com/world-politi...

Few celebrities have a wider delta between “my love as a kid” and “my loathing as an adult” than Hulk Hogan. Grateful for the long-arc kiss-offs from queen of wrestling @josie.zone and king of bro-culture writing @lukewinkie.bsky.social. Read em. 1/ www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...

“An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Very good @ezraklein.bsky.social piece today imo. The schism among American Jews isn't easily bridged, and it's unlikely to be mended anytime soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

3 Supreme Court justices just said they’re fine with race discrimination in elections www.vox.com/scotus/42109...