Liz Roemer

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The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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If you live in:

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Tennessee
Mississippi
Alaska

Call your right wing Senator and ask them why they're pushing to increase their constituents healthcare prices so much.

Mindfully Connecting With Nature Connecting to nature improves your mood, attention, and interconnection—and you don’t need hours or days to gain these benefits! Try these brief practices and see the impact.

Today is a good day to practice mindfully connecting to #nature This @psychologytoday.com post gives some suggestions for mindfulness practices that incorporate nature. #psychology #therapistsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

this is a good write up imo

There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is.

He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

Mindfully Connecting With Nature Connecting to nature improves your mood, attention, and interconnection—and you don’t need hours or days to gain these benefits! Try these brief practices and see the impact.

Today is a good day to practice mindfully connecting to #nature This @psychologytoday.com post gives some suggestions for mindfulness practices that incorporate nature. #psychology #therapistsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

For Trump Administration, Fighting Crime Takes a Backseat to Immigration Arrests “It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement.

The administration is shifting tens of thousands of personnel from other federal agencies to help ICE, raising concerns that other law enforcement priorities are being neglected.

“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert.

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Cement tiles with a green stalk growing between them and part of a brick wall on the top of the frame

A trunk with peeling bark and green grass around it.

Some images from my walk to the office this morning. See @joshbartok.bsky.social ‘s blog (link above) for suggestions for a mindful 📷 practice above. #therapysky

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW | Israel has hired Clock Tower X LLC, a conservative-aligned firm led by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, on a $6M contract to flood Gen Z platforms with pro-Israel content. At least 80% of the output will target TikTok…

@nick_clevelands (on X) reports for Responsible Statecraft ⬇️

Amazing victory for the actual law

"By gently attending to, and then engaging in, actions that are possible, even when they don’t feel possible, you can counter the overwhelming sense of helplessness that can easily descend...This is the compassionate practice of doing what you can, when you can, in the amount you can."

What We Do Matters, Especially When Things Are Hardest Four ways to tap into meaning and get yourself unstuck—even when things are hardest.

So grateful to everyone managing to do meaningful, kind, just things amid so much pain and cruelty. For folks feeling understandably stuck, here are some suggestions. #therapysky #psychology #academicsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

The whole outrageous story:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

The entire piece is worth a read.

"The evidence suggests that compromising on basic humanity doesn’t broaden coalitions; it hollows them out. The work now is to find ways to expand our reach without abandoning our foundation—to bridge gaps, yes, but never at the expense of our neighbor’s humanity."

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This isn’t just explicit antisemitism (which it is), it’s a continuation of the Christian nationalist cooption of Jewish history, ritual & trauma for their own supersessionist purposes—

Jews don’t count / aren’t real, we’re the real victims, let’s blow a shofar, etc. and of course: