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A head-turning new "Michigan First" ad from @AbdulElSayed - he names some issue he agrees with MAGA voters on, then plays a supercut of Fox News hosts/Tucker praising him or bashing Mike Rogers. semafor.com/article/10/23/20…
I've been writing about Ed White all day and I can't remember the last time I had this much fun writing (let me say again that writing by hand has changed my life)
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The Tompkins Square basketball courts/exercise bars is as positive/wholesome/diverse public space as you're going to find anywhere. If you care about a thriving, healthy (spiritually, physically etc.) East Village, please attend Tuesday's community meeting with me.
For various reasons I was re-reading Ed introduction to the third volume of Isherwood's diaries, which is how I noticed Hitchens wrote the preface the the second volume of Isherwood's diaries—something of a curious choice IMO
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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Thank you to @KatrinaNation and @thenation for publishing my piece on the 10th anniversary of Tom Hayden's death. As caricatures of the New Left become more prevalent, reexamining his life offers a better understanding of the social movements of the 1960s thenation.com/article/politi…
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This is a really, really great piece.
I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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This afternoon, we toured the infrastructure of occupation in the West Bank:
Settler outposts that uproot groves full of olive trees & steal Palestinian land.
Gates arbitrarily closed by Israeli forces, forcing Palestinian villages to transfer construction supplies and bulk goods by hand.
Separation barriers that divide communities, and sometimes fully surround a single house.
Segregated roads for Palestinians and Israelis.
Features of apartheid, as B’tselem, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din and the ICJ rightly identify.
It’s long past time to stop the settlements and end the occupation. Great Britain recently announced a settlement trade ban & sanctions. Congress should pass @JoaquinCastrotx's bill to do the same.
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Creating life-changing experiences for students was not considered valuable. The strong endorsement I got from Blaine and other colleagues was not valuable. A professor making $68k is disposable. A rancid and underperforming D1 sports program is essential.
It's insane to think this, but it's also insane that the messaging inspiring such reactions are validated and shared by a fair number of Democrats. I genuinely can't wrap my head around fearing AES this much (or at all, frankly)
As I followed pro-El-Sayed Jewish canvasses, I found evidence that Rogers’s ethnic divide-and-conquer strategy was working with at least some Jews. Some expressed outright fear, with one saying that “if Abdul wins, there’s going to be another Holocaust.” jewishcurrents.org/in-michig…
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Anyone who posts like this about how "no one cares or should care" about Israel/Palestine are only loudly announcing how much *they* care but are upset with the current direction of public opinion.
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This is the image Trump wants from a papal visit. And this is a reason Pope Leo won't come while Trump is in the Oval Office.
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This is the best they got and it's all such weak sauce to anyone with a brain and a few basic facts about his family and the supposed terrorist groups
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I'm very alarmed that you haven't shown more support for the five nonnegotiables, a thing I invented just now
University of Michigan freshman Robert Kashan is one of many Jewish Michiganders who are alarmed that Dr. El-Sayed hasn't shown more support for the five nonnegotiables.
To Robert, these aren't crazy demands. They're a simple ask: affirmation of the same dignity, safety, and self-definition every other community receives, and the same legitimacy for Jewish statehood that every other nation receives.
Robert remains hopeful about the next couple of weeks. He is inviting Dr. El-Sayed to engage directly with his concerns and demonstrate with words and conduct that he understands and respects our community’s baseline needs.
Glass half full take: I appreciate them speed running their abandonment of principles and embrace of gutter politics rather than dragging it out
After some initial shock, MAGA media figures like Glenn Beck and Ben Shapiro have come to embrace Vivek Ramaswamy's ad starring Amy Acton's estranged mother.
My latest False Flag for @BulwarkOnline: thebulwark.com/p/maga-media-…
