Jack Leff

Unlike the bots spreading hateful messages, im an actual constituent of Sam's, and a Jewish constituent to boot, and what he says here is right. Genocide should be condemned and shame on politicians who dont have Del. Rasoul's courage and clarity. Not in our name!

CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax, one of the subjects of this story, is freaking out about it on X and is furious at Jacqueline for reporting on what he’s been up to. He even tagged the head of the DOJ task force to combat antisemitism.

The Virginia Coalition for Human Rights in partnership with a big list of labor and grassroots groups are attempting to do precisely that if youre interested! 23.1-1400 through 2800 is a mess.

Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest Virginia Commonwealth University is withholding the diploma of a Palestinian American student because of her campus activism. In a hearing Tuesday, officials examined the case of VCU student Sereen Haddad,...

Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest

Opinion | The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason University This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.

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@aaup @aaupmason.bsky.social

Editorial | Penn descends into fascism The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

We simply cannot allow the world's most powerful antisemites to continue pretending they care about the safety or freedom of American Jews. They don't give a fuck about us, and no one should act like they do.

Tweet from Betar USA: "🇮🇱🇮🇱I am a man boiling with rage. Yesterday, I went with my son to watch the new Superman movie. Superman! The ultimate superhero, a character created by two Jewish immigrants, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, in the 1930s. The character is supposed to represent hope, justice, and light. The actor playing Superman? Jewish. The studios? Owned by Jews. Even the character of Superman himself, symbolically and historically, is considered to have Jewish roots. A refugee sent from crisis and war to save a better world, created to empower the Jews who returned from the Holocaust. And what did the pathetic progressives in Hollywood do? They trampled all over this. Instead of presenting a character who defends the weak and fights for justice, they turned it into a disgusting political caricature, where Israel (under a different name) is portrayed as a fascist state, a warmonger, and a close ally of the U.S., which supplies advanced weaponry to fight "poor and miserable farmers (the good Palestinians) with pitchforks and stones." And Superman? He comes to save them from bloodthirsty Israel. This is literally a film of incitement against us. I sat there, next to my son, watching how the film had one purpose: to brainwash the world. They took the ultimate childhood hero, who was supposed to represent absolute good, and turned him into a one-sided, distorted, superficial propaganda tool. They ruined my childhood, they ruined the experience for me, but not only for me, they ruined it for the next generation."

Tweet from Betar USA: "Because my son, with his innocent eyes, asks me: “Dad, why is Superman against Israel? Isn’t he Jewish?” So let's talk about hypocrisy. About how the progressive Jewish studio owners, who hate Israel, hide behind this movie, sitting in their luxurious homes in California, feeling safe in their ivory towers. Aside from having a bar mitzvah for their dog, they have no connection to Judaism and choose to disconnect from the homeland that was founded on the ruins of the people who behaved like them in Europe in the 1930s. It will come back to them like a boomerang. No matter how much they decorate their houses for Christmas, they will pay the price because history always repeats itself. They are turning Israelis into the "bad guys," the Palestinians into the "good guys," and missiles and terrorism into the "struggle of freedom fighters." This is their coffin nail as they align with the politically correct studios of Walt Disney. So yes, I am offended. I am angry. I am disgusted. They are cowards. And I will tell you here, clearly: The liberal Jews in America are the main contributors to anti-Semitism in the U.S. They, and the push for progressivism in America, the takeover of communication and financial power, and the use of tools to brainwash our children in order to spread your distorted nonsense."

Tweet from Betar USA: "Take your hands off Superman because those who believe in goodness, justice, family, and identity are we — you, your god, is money. Nothing more. You’re nothing but zeros! There is no greater enemy to an Israeli than the progressive American Jew. That’s it, I’ve vented. The End."

Betar USA, the far-right pro-Israel group with connections in the Trump administration, making it official by stating that "the real enemies of the nationalist state of Israel are the rootless cosmopolitan progressive Hollywood Jews."

Reinventing antisemitism from first principles.

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.

And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:

I've reviewed a copy of today's FEMA daily briefing and the numbers are damning.

Surge Capacity Force is activated when considered a "catastrophic disaster" response. The TX floods have not been classified as such, though that may change with rain/thunderstorms in the national weather forecast.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
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Howard Zinn is the main one that is firmly within the realm of historian for me. A lot of the best examples that come to mind probably wouldn't fall under history proper. Like, Angela Davis was part of the history of consciousness program but probably wouldn't be considered a disciplinary historian.

the sister of the race science "academic" quoted by the New York Times in their shameless hit piece on Zohran Mamdani seems like a lovely person and is insisting her brother was never awarded his PhD and is just pretending to be a professional academic

If government is allowed to break the law during emergencies. They'll CREATE emergencies to break the law.

Welcome back Car Schmitt

internationalpolicy.org/publications...

“this is just what ICE’s budget is now and we’ll be yelled at if we try to reduce it” is an unacceptable answer for any Dem going forward and anyone who makes this argument should be primaried

we simply cannot allow this apparatus to entrench itself

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it

yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

The logistics that ICE will be asked to handle here are nightmarish, and they are already finding difficulties in multiple locations with their current budget. ICE is deeply unpopular, and they can very quickly become the most loathed group in the US, with people getting bolder in resisting them

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

Eloquent article by @sivav.bsky.social on the cultural revolution going on in US universities: newrepublic.com/article/1973...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Woof, cops and ice working hand in fist

A lot of these in Virginia

Howdy! Im an organizer trying to do exactly that if you'd like to connect. (Also your chemical weapons article is a banger and I used it heavily in my diss)

the anti zohran mamdani coalition gains yet another close friend and associate of jeffery epstein

we all need the reminder; remember, we are not powerless

Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days ...

"Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests."

huge W

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Masked US Regime Officers Arrest Opposition Official After He Asked To See Warrant