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12.09.2025 00:02 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
American Jews were played β now what?
Antisemitism was never the reason for the Trump administrationβs 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 π‘
From Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social:
"It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason..."
forward.com/opinion/7564...
21.07.2025 17:59 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll be on #CNN tonight from 10p-11p ET talking about... all of this.
15.04.2025 01:13 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 8 π 0
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.
11.04.2025 13:04 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1
Honored to be part of this amazing anthology.
09.04.2025 15:32 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
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
open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...
03.04.2025 14:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Mr. Beast meets Citizen Kane.
28.03.2025 14:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool β someone from his βTimcastβ channel will be part of todayβs pool duty covering the president.
Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didnβt know where it was coming from.
28.03.2025 12:47 β π 20042 π 7513 π¬ 803 π 573
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.
26.03.2025 23:49 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
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 β as long as βoptimismβ includes economic devastation, massive human rights abuses, and clear violations of the constitution. I call it βWaiting for Midnight.β
jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...
28.03.2025 13:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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."
23.03.2025 21:03 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
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.
www.instagram.com/reel/DHjg9G0...
24.03.2025 17:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Same! Tell me how it goes.
20.03.2025 13:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
20.03.2025 13:00 β π 778 π 307 π¬ 18 π 35
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
www.kvue.com/article/news...
14.03.2025 15:58 β π 103 π 13 π¬ 11 π 18
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
14.03.2025 16:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"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...."
Read more at jaymichaelson.substack.com
14.03.2025 16:05 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
www.danharris.com/p/reliving-a...
24.02.2025 15:27 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
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?
Read more at jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
19.02.2025 13:08 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 4 π 2
This aged perfectly.
13.02.2025 15:48 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Whatβs so bad about fascism?
And why this is not a rhetorical question.
Tragically, complaining about "fascism" is not persuading anyone. Progressives need to get more specific, and tell more stories, instead of talking about abstract concepts.
jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/whats-so-b...
13.02.2025 15:47 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Memo to all so-called "anti-woke" "Contrarians" from Serena Williams's husband & founder of Reddit Alex Ohanian:
13.02.2025 15:46 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
President Trump wants to send YOUR kids to die in Gaza so HIS kids can get rich there
05.02.2025 12:39 β π 142 π 76 π¬ 7 π 4
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