Writer. Emmy award winning producer, formerly of @theview. Words in @nytimes @wsj @washingtonpost, and elsewhere. Mom.
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My great great grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz. My great grandmother lived under the Nuremberg laws. My grandmother survived Bergen Belsen. Jews, despite the anguish, never forget: we will survive this too. But the trauma is imprinted on our genes.
This…. Is not good.
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
“It’s the economy, stupid” has been the sole scrap of political analysis that has held up as true and relevant in every single election since it was first uttered by @JamesCarville in 1992.
OF COURSE the Muslim brotherhood is a terrorist organization and OF COURSE @AbdulElSayed, in supporting it, is evil and unfit for office.
BUT
how many Americans go to the polls thinking about the Muslim brotherhood? We’re busy telling people the guy is bad for them because he supports an organization they’ve probably never heard of.
Meantime, he’s busy telling people he’s going to make their groceries affordable.
Hard things are hard. This isn’t hard.
@POTUS seems to be the only Republican who understands the basics of campaigning.
Keep it simple. Keep it relevant. It’s the economy, stupid.
I know this isn’t meant to be funny, but I’m literally cackling. “My decades long thesis on just war demonstrates israel has been fighting one, therefore I am revising my decades long thesis because it cannot possibly be that israel is doing something right”
Michael Walzer published “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct, in 1977. In the nearly 50 years since, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. The precepts are not complicated: it is just to defend your country from an invasion and it is unjust to invade a country that has not attacked you—although Walzer does allow for exceptions, mostly for humanitarian causes. It is just to assume certain risks to avoid civilian casualties and it is unjust to bomb towns indiscriminately to compel an enemy to surrender. The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought.
The war in Gaza has made Walzer rethink one of the book’s fundamental principles. “The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy,” Jordi Graupera writes. As Walzer said to him, “There is a sense in which the carnage of Gaza, the ongoing carnage, simply made the war unjust.” Read about why a philosopher of war is now reconsidering his seminal work: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/T7…
Of course blaming Jews for the rising cost of your bananas is antisemitic. But you can’t win by just saying that. You have to give people A DIFFERENT MESSAGE TO GLOM ONTO.
One side is telling Americans they can fix the economy. Our side is telling people that the other side’s fix for the economy is antisemitic.
Hard things are hard. This isn’t hard. Who is running comms for the GOP Jesus fucking Christ.
Pretty insane manipulation by @ft of @USAmbUN Mike Waltz.
Waltz says, “The president and the U.S. Navy can maintain this blockade for their foreseeable future,” flexing American power. FT turns that into a click-bait headline implying policy signals he didn't say
Garbage, completely fabricated headline from @FT and @ahauslohner.
The description of my comments in this article as well as in the podcast is conjecture on their part and they should correct it immediately.
Here is the full exchange:
“How long do you think it'll take to get Iran to capitulate under this status quo pressure?”
“Well, we'll see. The president and the U.S. Navy can maintain this blockade for their foreseeable future. The maximum pressure campaign is only tightening. The regime, which controls 40-50% of the Iranian economy, continues to suffer under the pressure. So our pursuit of a diplomatic solution is bolstered and backed by both economic and military, if necessary. That's the president's decision—pressure.”
“Do you think this could still be largely the status quo a year from now?”
“I'm not gonna put out hypotheticals. One would hope that they'll come to the table in a meaningful way before that.
“But if they don't—“
“Well, again, these are decisions for the president, how long he wants to sustain the blockade, how long he wants to pursue a diplomatic track with a mix of economic, diplomatic, and military pressure. Those are the decisions and the tough decisions and the hard truth that the American people elected him to follow and to do.”
Silence is a privilege of the grave, a right of the departed — Wordsworth
Leave Lindsey Graham and his memory alone. The man can’t defend himself. It’s gross to speak ill of the dead.
“Os gevept” is a Yiddish phrase I recently learned meaning “I’m empty of bubbles” as in, I’m a seltzer that’s gone flat, as in, my social battery is drained pls leave me alone to get bubbly again, and I think it may be my new favorite Yiddish phrase.
I don’t want to brag but none of my siblings or parents have ever worked for or donated to a terrorist organization including but not limited to the Muslim brotherhood, ISIS and Hamas.
My extremely luke-warm take is that if you record your boss in internal meetings and leak them to the media reporters obsessed with your boss and their direct reports, you should be fired from your job.
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🚨 Israeli journalist and host of the Ask Haviv Anything podcast, @havivrettiggur joins the conversation to discuss his criticism of the Israeli government and weigh in on the ongoing battle over information, media narratives, and how the conflict is being presented to the public. Listen live ➡️ breakfastclubonline.com/list… or stream on @Netflix RN! 📺
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Brad Lander went all the way to Israel hoping that he would get a photo op to show he's being oppressed by the Israeli government, and the best he could do is a sad face picture on an air conditioned bus passing a security checkpoint.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Brad.
You’ll have to pause your “advocacy”? Oh no!!!! I’m devastated!
TikTok just permanently banned my verified page for my advocacy for people with 3.7M followers. I am blacklisted from using Meta. I am demonetized on YouTube.
I lost my college education, career, and now my platforms.
Don’t know what to do right now. If you can support my voice/work please get a subscription to my publication yourfavoriteguy.com if we cannot rally enough support I fear I’ll have no choice but to pause my advocacy while I figure out how to get stable again.
It’s funny how “vote against your interests” wasn’t a winning strategy
My latest @WSJFreeEx: A majority of American Jews will vote for Democrats next month. But data suggest, particularly when compared with demographically similar groups, the Democratic Party can no longer rely on automatic Jewish support. The party has only itself to blame.
He’ll put more social workers on duty tho
Mamdani refuses to say whether he'll boost cops in subways after man shot dead on Midtown platform trib.al/VcSYTc4
.@elonmusk out here single handedly saving the human race before we make it to the stars, donating to American kids, raising the birth rate, building flying cars.
