Also, I don't think I've felt someone else's joy more strongly, more contagiously, than when I've seen friends grow more confident and comfortable with them selves by being who they are. I don't think I've ever been able to say "I'm so happy for you" with such honesty.

Every time someone I follow posts heartfelt concerns about the rising antisemitism, they get replies asking why they're Netanyahu apologists (they're not) who hate Palestinians (they don't), and if I wasn't so busy being furious about the antisemitism I'd be furious at the inability to see the irony

I’m REALLY disturbed by how much horrific anti-Semitic bigotry I’m seeing casually thrown around these days, yes. Becoming a virulent anti-Semite is not doing a damn thing to alleviate the very real suffering of Palestinians. But somehow, I don’t think that’s what it’s about for these people.

I wrote about Kat.

I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont

Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet

I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.

A fabulous decision!!!

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

feel like the casual antisemitism prompted by epstein is bleeding beyond X. i don't care for it.

Absolutely fucking vile how quickly antisemitism is now spreading on the left. Fix your fucking heads

Great conversation with @andreapitzer.bsky.social today on @jamellebouie.net’s newsletter messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

The only immigration crisis this country has ever had is nativism.

Yeah, baby! @rerbelding.bsky.social ♥️

He is the one who heard the Watergate burglary on the scanner. www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/307...

Marty worked at the Post for 60 years. Not a typo. SIXTY YEARS. Until, apparently, today.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

A genius.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the millions who were brutally murdered by Nazi terror and in concentration camps. Let today be a reminder for all people to confront antisemitism, fascism and race hatred wherever they threaten human freedom.

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Yes.

It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians. Sincerely, A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there

Feels like a good day to introduce everyone to my new favorite song, "Nazi," by [checks notes]..... Chumbawamba "They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlMA...

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

to give ICE the benefit of the doubt is to be an agent of ICE — that’s what benefit means

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Fuck off, 2025. But huge high five to everyone who pushed back against fascists and bigots and will continue to do so in 2026 and beyond! We are going to win. All these fascists bound to lose.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Holding my trans friends and family especially close today. You deserve to live with dignity as your full beautiful selves, and may the ghouls who are trying to vote and bureaucratize you away never find peace.

My big tent doesn't include transphobes who want children to die. Sorry, not sorry, throw them all into the sun.

There's a joke about the origins of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat." But some of us *were* killed in those days, and some were killed today. This is a holiday about hope, persistence, and light shining when it shouldn't be possible. May all the killing end.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

Absolutely correct

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

There are issues we can compromise on! But if you let bigots into the “big tent” you’re actually shrinking it because you’ve just told whole demographics that they’re not really welcome.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Merry Wives @shakespeareindc.bsky.social was so much fun. If you need a break from scrolling and the doom of DC, go see this show. 10/10, just a room of joy.

I know it's ethically a no-no, but I still think the New Yorker could make a fortune if they had a Cameo-like service where you could pay for Isaac Chotiner to call a friend saying he'd like to schedule an interview to ask them a few questions.

beautiful

I Am An AI Hater. “But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” [anthonymoser.github.io]