Moshe Feder

Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension Late-night host reinstated after brief suspension related to comments on Maga and Charlie Kirk that Disney called ‘insensitive’

Congratulations to Jimmy Kimmel and to all the Americans who swiftly used their spending power to let Disney know what we thought of their cowardice. That furious response was the most hopeful thing we’ve seen in our politics since Trump’s reelection.

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YouTube video by Marsh Family "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK

Grass-roots protest at its best, making great use of a Paul Simon classic.

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I hate to think of either future, but both look more likely as the insane voluntary self-destruction continues. It's incomprehensible and tragically sad and all the conceivable long-term consequences are bad. Our grandchildren will be living in the ruins. There is no life insurance for nations.

We will be a degraded, poorer nation when Trump is done, a sad second- or third-rate power with all its glories behind it. Perhaps then the Union will crumble at last, trashing Lincoln's legacy and bringing the grand American Experiment to a close.

Inside science labs trying to survive in the Trump era Anastasia Khvorova’s lab at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School shows how quickly the administration is dismantling an 80-year partnership that made the U.S. a scientific superpower.

The longer Trump is in office, the more he looks like an agent for Russia and China. I'm not saying he actually is one, but that his policies have the same effect, weakening us and strengthening them. Here’s an article describing what I mean.

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YouTube video by Curious Droid Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs?

This is the best video I’ve seen explaining what bunker-buster bombs can and maybe can’t do.

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Hegseth orders US navy to strip Harvey Milk name from ship amid Pride month Timing of announcement on ship named after prominent gay rights activist and veteran is intentional, reports say

It seems that every week or two the awful people who report to Trump feel a need to prove again that they are just as divisive and hateful as he is. They give fresh relevance to the term “Un-American,” which I never thought I’d use.

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Rep. Nadler Responds to DHS Raid on His Office: 'It Can Happen to Anyone' Trump's DHS entered a congressional office and detained a staffer without a warrant

Yes, we *are* becoming a police state. This should chill you to your bones.

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American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard University Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

In response to Trump’s trashing of democratic norms, Harvard University is offering a FREE online course titled American Government: Constitutional Foundations, taught by Prof. Thomas Patterson, the Bradlee Professor of Government at the Kennedy School.

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Photo of 747 jet Qatar is offering to Trump. Headline says “Largest BRIBE in World History!”

Singer-Songwriter Jill Sobule “Filled The Room With This Whirlwind of Whimsy” Michelle Lewis, CEO of the Songwriters of North America and a close friend of Sobule’s, remembers the groundbreaking artist after she tragically died in a house fire.

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Jill Sobule was as much a Jewish icon as a queer one The singer-songwriter's music spoke of Jesus' Judaism, Nazis and celebrated historical figures' blindspots for Jews.

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My longtime GF and I befriended Jill over many years of attending her shows and hoped to assist her with the SF musical she wanted to create. The pandemic postponed that possibility, which now becomes a melancholy “might have been.”

Her unique voice was so essential in this awful era… 😢

Jill Sobule, Singer of ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dies in House Fire (Gift Article) Ms. Sobule, known for her advocacy as well as her music, died in a house fire. She had been scheduled to perform songs from an autobiographical musical she wrote.

Jill was brilliant, funny, sweet, energetic, talented, principled, brave, profane, rebellious, enthusiastic, humble, kind, and well, just adorable.

I spoke with her many times about SF and other topics. I, and all her devoted fans, will miss her terribly.”

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Meme showing just Elon Musk looking straight at the camera with an expression between blank and stern. The text reads, “The richest man on Earth is dismantling the organization that feeds the poorest children on Earth.” The source is The London Economic, a British online newspaper with no connection to either The Economist or The London School of Economics.

No comment from me required.

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article) The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Trump proves he is an enemy of science and cares nothing about America’s natural world.

His proposed research cuts would reduce us to third-rate status. He is doing Xi and Putin’s work for them.

Contrary to his slogan, he is destroying American greatness.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

And unlike Trump, Satan actually keeps his deals!

(Yes, he will trick you if he can. Read the fine print and have a good lawyer review it for loopholes and trickery.)

H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain The finding suggests a new spillover event, further dashing hopes of containment.

More bad news for the hope of containing Bird Flu’s spread.

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There is literally no end to the stupidity.

Yesterday’s proposal from Trump that the U.S. take over Gaza took it to new heights. (See my post with a “Letter to God” reaction, and I’m an agnostic!)

Yikes! 2025 is turning into Orwell’s 1984. We must support resistance to neo-Stalinism.

This is getting positively Orwellian! Seeing 2025 turn into 1984 was not on my bingo card. I hope everyone will conscientiously refuse to comply with such a totalitarian demand.

That was another varied and engaging AMA. I’m glad you took the time at the top to provide historical context for the baffled listeners of the future. If it’s within their technological capacity, maybe they’ll send us help or at least advice.

The world’s richest man is trying to end a program that serves the world’s poorest people.

That’s the story of USAID.

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

It’s crazily stupid and stupidly crazy.

…they would be airplanes?

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to.

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I’m glad a prominent person is now bluntly saying this. Now how about getting some injunctions?

This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully.
Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸