David Klion

a) Worth watching 👇🏻

b) On accountability: Happy to see more marginal politicians respond to new political incentives and improve on Gaza/Israel-Palestine. But, at minimum, the Biden administration officials most directly responsible for Gaza should be exiled forever.

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As @mpaarlberg.bsky.social pointed out - if the democrats are serious about moving forward, business as usual in DC cant continue. We need to name names, and the people who enabled this genocide cant be allowed to rotate back into power

YouTube video by Pod Save the World On Gaza: What Does an Anti-War Coalition Look Like?

I went on Pod Save the World with Tommy Vietor to discuss liberals' sudden shift on Gaza and how to balance moral accountability with welcoming latecomers to the cause.

Man @davidklion.bsky.social worked on this for years and the previous owner of Ganz' copy of Arendt's "Antisemitism" just wrote it on the cover page.

Unfortunately she’s immune to charges of hypocrisy

Yeah I’m in Japan lol

imagine how bad things must be there if larry summers is saying this

It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter

Yes, however Zohran is the likely next mayor of a city that is only about 19% Manhattan

It's not a clever enough line to justify being literally incorrect (he actually says "most New Yorkers"!). But it's a perfectly Friedman line.

Tom Friedman's advice to Zohran is annoying across the board but I want to highlight this classic Friedmanism; a solid majority of Zohran's likely future constituents actually live east of the East River in Brooklyn and Queens. Very NYT to think Manhattan is all that counts!

You will not regret it, especially as the exchange rate is quite favorable now. Am getting extraordinary quality meals at like half the price they'd be in NYC

Am finally in Tokyo, a long-deferred dream. Like the Beatles and the Godfather, it is properly rated.

State of Exception National Security Governance, Then and Now

@davidklion.bsky.social on how “the post-9/11 state of exception never definitively ended”:

www.thedriftmag.com/state-of-exc...

Narrow analogy but there are aspects of the attacks on Zohran (who is good) that are reminiscent of the attacks on Bill Clinton (who is bad) in 1992, where the charge is basically “he is a member of a generation we despise and embodies what we despise about it.” It’s loser shit.

The proverbial daddy is home

Imagine giving a single shit

The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?

“His ideology is not refined, abstracted, or euphemized away from its real object. He’s told us exactly what he intends to do.”

Geordi no: Sub text Geordi yes: Alt text

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The Complete Andor Mini-Series Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete!

Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete! Shoutout to @jennygzhang.bsky.social, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, @davidklion.bsky.social, and Matt Duss for helping us explore every political nook and cranny of the Andor universe www.bangbangpod.com/p/the-comple...

Brad Lander and the Collapse of NYC’s Jewish-Political Establishment The night before the New York mayoral primary, late-night host Stephen Colbert’s guest was Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner who went on to effectively win the Democratic nomination yesterday. But Mamda...

It’s fun watching Commentary try to make a scandal out of the existence of the Jewish left

Zionism: A People Reborn

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/zionism-peop...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

somehow bloggingheads returned.

Appreciate that! Like I more or less say in the piece, some people are just rotten to the core

State of Exception National Security Governance, Then and Now

Congrats to @thedrift-mag.bsky.social on its 5th birthday! I've got a piece in the 15th issue, out today, on what Trump draws upon from past states of exception (the McCarthy era, the War on Terror) as well as how he represents something disturbing and new.

State of Exception National Security Governance, Then and Now

Using the concept of the “state of exception,” @davidklion.bsky.social locates the sources of Trump’s unconstitutional militarism in the War on Terror and the Cold War.
www.thedriftmag.com/state-of-exc...

The “Harper’s Letter” five years later, with David Klion A recording from Mark Oppenheimer's live video

I did a Substack Live (my first, it's a bit of an awkward format) with Mark Oppenheimer yesterday, debating the Harper's Letter and more generally free speech and the responsibility of the public intellectual. You can watch that here, if that's your thing.

The coveted Klion endorsement slate:

1. Zohran
2. Brad
3. Zellnor
4. Scott
5. Adrienne

A personal note: I know both Brad and Zellnor a bit and think both would be terrific mayors. I don’t know Zohran at all but I’m blown away by his campaign and badly want to see him win.