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I anticipate that “painful irony” will be my most overused phrase these next four years. And yours? #MLKDay #USCapitol

If you care about what’s happening in Israel, this video is a must-watch.

Am Yisrael Chai

Does the Israeli government share blame for the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza? Absolutely. Do Israel’s disastrous policies justify delegitimizing the entire country? Absolutely not.

“[I]f you treat Democratic Socialism and Trumpism as equally dangerous threats, that’s a gift to Trump.” I’ll take the wrestlers over the lobsters.

Nation-building at its bloodiest - because Western powers imposed their definition of national entities on a part of the globe with a very different worldview. One of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

“I believe the following…remains true: If the Palestinians put down their weapons, there would be peace in the region. If the Israelis put down their weapons, there would be a genocide.This asymmetry contains all the information one needs to discern the moral high ground in the Middle East.”

A more nuanced perspective on Mamdani from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

So who’s going to indict him?

Trump just cancelled a classified House briefing on the Iran strikes with zero explanation.    The real reason?  He claims he destroyed “all nuclear facilities and capability;” his team knows they can’t back up his bluster and BS. Here's what they're scared we'll ask:  🧵

He should feel right at home.

I agree fully that “two (and sometimes three) contradictory things can be true at the same time.” Sometimes the worst motives can still result in positive outcomes.

Dear Leader’s mind is “whirring like a strobe light.” Too bad it isn’t illuminating any sort of plan.

Ready for the outrage. Aaaany day now.

“In the coverage of the conflict between Israel and Iran, we need to really emphasize the asymmetry between the interests of the two states: Iran would like to destroy Israel and Israel… would like not to be destroyed by Iran. This is not a situation where evenhandedness is appropriate.”

Thoughtful, expert analysis of the Israel-Iran situation and the possible ways for it to play out.

"The hurt inflicted when others deny your pain" is not just a Jewish problem - but it's especially prevalent in the Jewish community since Oct. 7. Dismissing someone's suffering attacks their sense of self. Respectful disagreement on issues is something else entirely.

As I predicted, #fascistPOTUS has created his Reichstag fire. “It is through fire and terror that one sows confusion in order in the general panic to grasp power for themselves.”

Greta's virtue signaling blew up in her face. www.facebook.com/share/p/16Sm...

Insanity reaches new heights…or is it depths??

Focus, folks.

"Note that neither Los Angeles nor the state of California is mentioned in the memorandum. Trump’s mobilization order is in no way limited as to time or place." We are not alarmed enough. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Thank you, Captain Obvious

nailed it

Translation, someone? Anyone?

They keep using this word. I do not think it means what they think it means. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

After millennia, Jews know antisemitism. "Stop gaslighting us, stop telling us that we are looking for darkness where it doesn’t exist. Stop bending over backward to defend anti-Zionists from charges of antisemitism when their fervent anti-Zionism leads to violence against Jews." #notmovingon

May their memories be a blessing. Hostages count is now 56 - most murdered.

Eli Sharabi: Hostages realized we would've been freed sooner if not for makeup of Israeli government #GetBibiOut

Nothing new here, but handy if you needed an audit trail of his true beliefs about Jews.

“It is eerie to watch how Trump and Netanyahu are using a similar playbook to undermine their respective democracies. My only question is whose authoritarian impulses will trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis first.”

Bedeviling

Better.

And still the Israelis think he’s the best POTUS ever. Seriously?

"Like other forms of bigotry, the problem of anti-Jewish prejudice will not be resolved by its targets. Anti-Semitism will not be expunged by the 0.2 percent of the world that is Jewish, but by the 99.8 percent that is not."

Watch what they do, not what they say.

“It’s moronic in America.”

Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Ultra-Zionist gentiles get to lecture Jews about antisemitism even as they lay waste to the liberal culture that has allowed American Jews to thrive.”

Are we great again? Asking for a friend. #trumpseconomy

“Hamas’s regime commits ‘major violations’ against press freedoms, including ‘summonses, interrogations, phone calls, threats, sometimes beatings and arrests, to harassment, publication bans, interference with content, and surveillance.’”

Say anything kind. It means more than you know.

The day I agree with a twice-impeached antisemitic white supremacist convicted felon over an Israeli prime minister is...here.

Airlines, hotels, restaurants, other service industries - all paying the price for this self-sabotaging administration.

Welcome to the 21st century version of the Trojan Horse. So like him to repeat history's biggest blunders.

The Great Orange Monstrosity once again demonstrates his deep empathy with suffering families.

#bringthemallhome #bringthemhomenow 58 to go

Israel's great friend Donald Trump has sidelined and sabotaged his BFF Bibi. #trumpjuden

Imagine the GOP uproar if Biden or Obama had put this pressure on Israel. But now…crickets.

The sooner, the better