Jay Michaelson

The Real America is Not About Blood and Soil Ethnonationalist Garbage vs. Six Flags Great Adventure

"Once you strip away the false claims of criminality or violence or the stealing of American jobs, what you’re left with is the truth: that some mostly-white people don’t like the way the country is changing."

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The Trump administration is targeting Jewish organizations — what are we prepared to do? Even if you're not a fan of organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow, you need to stand with them nonetheless.

The Trump admin has vowed to go after organizations it vaguely (and falsely) claims support violence.

The list includes several Jewish groups.

Despite their insistence and smokescreen tactics, Trump and his allies do not care about Jews — only crushing dissent.

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Are We All Conspiracy Theorists Now? When questioning the right-wing conspiracy theory about a left-wing conspiracy sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory.

Are We All Conspiracy Theorists Now?

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The Faith of Charlie Kirk: A Guide To understand Charlie Kirk's political legacy, one must understand his religious beliefs.

To understand Charlie Kirk's political legacy, one must understand his religious beliefs.

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Just asking questions...

American Jews were played — now what? Antisemitism was never the reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What can we learn from this great exploitation?

It's not just that the administration never cared about antisemitism, rather, they used us for their own authoritarian goals.
And that, that's antisemitic 😡

From Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social:
"It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason..."
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What, to the Nationalist, is the Statue of Liberty? Right and Left live in different nomic countries.

What do MAGA nationalists see when they look at the Statue of Liberty?

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I'll be on #CNN tonight from 10p-11p ET talking about... all of this.

Stephen Miller's cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover With his cavalier cruelty, Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, seems to have forgotten that we, too, were once strangers in Egypt.

I usually look to @jaymichaelson.bsky.social for his brilliant application of Jewish insight to current politics. This piece in the Forward 2 days ago comes close... forward.com/opinion/7110...

We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.

Opportunism, Madness, Nihilism, & Terror Jesse Watters is really, really worried about men spontaneously turning into women.

The deep truth of Jesse Watters' conception of fragile masculinity:

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Honored to be part of this amazing anthology.

Stephen Miller's cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover With his cavalier cruelty, Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, seems to have forgotten that we, too, were once strangers in Egypt.

The Torah vs. Stephen Miller

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The Glass is Already Broken What happens when you accept that the worst might happen?

Letting go of anxiety and embracing grief -- a reflection on the last few months, entitled The Glass is Already Broken

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Mr. Beast meets Citizen Kane.

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president.

Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

What does the future hold for gay marriage in the US and what would Rabbi @jaymichaelson.bsky.social say to the MAGA gays?

"We will lose most of the rights which we worked hard to get, even if we retain marriage in some form or fashion," Rabbi Dr. Michaelson predicts.

Waiting for Midnight: A Quasi-Optimistic Take Things are yet not as bad as they need to be. But we're getting there.

Here's a vaguely optimistic perspective — as long as “optimism” includes economic devastation, massive human rights abuses, and clear violations of the constitution. I call it “Waiting for Midnight.”

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The Rule of Law and the Chaos of MAGA: Jay Michaelson The State of Belief Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson to discuss the role of the courts as a check on the powers claimed by the executive, tools for resilience,...

Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social returns to The State of Belief this week for a deep dive into the rule of law and the chaos of MAGA, including the weaponization of antisemitism accusations and the rise of the "woke right."

Trump admin official admits there's no due process. No due process at all. They "determined" these people were terrorists and deported them without trial of any kind.

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Same! Tell me how it goes.

Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
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Letter to a Trump-Supporting Technologist Why the costs of Trump outweigh the benefits

A Letter to a Trump-Supporting Technologist friend:

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FURRIES Act filed by Texas lawmakers targets non-human student behavior in schools The bill aims to ban students from non-human behavior with exceptions for days designated for costumes like Halloween.

"A new bill filed in the Texas House would prevent students from behaving like anything other than a human being at schools in the state."

Well there go the theater and band programs

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I would say:
1) Donating money to the ACLU and other orgs suing the govt
2) Sharing true stories of the human impact of what's happening in a way that can appeal to moderates rather than only to people who agree with us
3) Picking one or two issues to focus attention & money on
4) +Self-care

"The symposium was called Psychedelics and Monotheistic Religions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition, and responded to the dramatic increase, in recent years, of psychedelic use in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities...."

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Meditation: Reliving altered states By Jay Michaelson

Understatement of the year: these are challenging times. Over at Dan Harris's 10% Happier podcast, I shared the meditative practice of recalling and re-embodying past altered states of consciousness (whether psychedelic or not) to experience them anew.. now.

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Israel-Palestine Echo Chambers: Judaism Unbound Episode 471 - Jay Michaelson — Judaism Unbound Jay Michaelson , an award-winning journalist, professor, rabbi, and author, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation exploring centrism and radicalism, misinformation that circulates f...

It's good to talk with the folks at @judaismunbound.bsky.social about the insane hall of funhouse mirrors that is the American Jewish community right now.

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The Fight for the Rule of Law is On Don't be deceived by carnival hucksterism. The Trump Train is already derailing.

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The Most Important Sentence Donald Trump Has Ever Said The Three Phases of Constitutional Crisis, and How to Prepare for Them

We're in Phase One of a constitutional crisis: the president is doing manifestly illegal, unconstitutional things. In Phase Two, the courts will rule against him. In Phase Three, he will tell them to go to hell.

What then?

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This aged perfectly.