Jacob T. Levy

Unfortunately if current numbers hold up, Eisenkot can't afford to lose YB even with the Arab parties. If the numbers change such that opposition bloc - YB + Arab parties gets to 61, then I think new things become possible. But this looks like "new elections in a few months stalemate."

I'm 5'2". I look after a very old building. I am now training an assistant to also look after this very old building. He is well over 6'. This man is hitting his head on things I didn't even know existed.

The 2024 campaign did not have a lot of fun moments but the manifest disgust that Nikki Haley and Mike Pence demonstrated towards Vivek Ramaswamy on the debate stage was genuinely enjoyable.

No unity government with Bibi No soliciting Arab party support No election rematch The opposition is going to have to break one of those promises.

The elder Dukes all joined a cult in the 60s and wound up in jail/dead/disappeared following an Incident

In his EJIR article, @amozhor.bsky.social shows how “Western civilization” legitimized US commitments to the North Atlantic while justifying colonialism in the name of “freedom abroad.”. You can read it here: t1p.de/8q20t

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

I know, DFTT, but, man, in a lifetime of highly contrarian takes, Tyler has outdone himself. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Regal doesn’t have any theaters near me or I would definitely purely go to some of these. gizmodo.com/regal-deep-c...

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

"[I]t feels like it dragged on a bit, but it was under two hours, which is crazy. Like, I watched The Odyssey and thought that flew by, and this felt like the longest movie of my life." www.refinery29.com/en-au/klara-...

“The Court would much prefer not to have to resolve Lorax v. Once‑ler redux.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

"Democrats have campaigned for two years on the claim that this is an emergency. If they win, they should act like it."

Oh no! You guys, what if I miss the deadline? Obviously I have to drop everything and get to it; it's an MPSA deadline, after all! #polisky

And then there were two. (And they don’t speak to each other.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

it’s a rare month when theee isn’t some SMBC that might qualify, and I wouldn’t know how to rank them,but this certainly goes on the list.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

I don't even much like swearing but Tig Notaro's line, and delivery, "Wow! I just sounded like a woo-woo asshole" just redeemed my choice to keep watching Discovery into season 5. Helpfully, the scene also satisfies my Discovery Bechdel Test: two people talking about something other than Michael.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

"off the record, women yes, men no" plus teenage girls when he bought a teen girl beauty pageant so he could walk into their dressing room and no one could tell him no.

The complete madness: www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

oh, thank forking heck.

everything that I know about him makes me think he's slimy as hell, but you go to war with the non-fascist that you have, not the one you want

If Lula pulls this off he gets to do a little more corruption, as a treat.

Serbia, Brazil, and Israel in ~48 hours— that's a lot of elections all at once, isn't it?

I didn't even recognize her name, but I immediately knew her face and a bunch of the roles she played, starting with Eve on Northern Exposure. She excelled at various degrees of unhinged. It was hard to steal scenes from the leads in Dead to Me, but she did! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

Yup. Look: We don't know. It's possible that there's polling error that will turn a Dem landslide into a mild Dem win. But people have been underrating the downside risks for Republicans all cycle, and are still doing so.