Sasha Senderovich 🌻

Trump is out to kill is all, it would seem.

The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.

We Computers: A Ghazal Novel - National Book Foundation In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon‑Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he lea...

Really excited for Seattle’s own Shelley Fairweather-Vega for being named, together with the Uzbek-language author Hamid Ismailov, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Awards (in the Translated Literature category). www.nationalbook.org/books/we-com... @nationalbook.bsky.social

https://jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-cbs-news-1964

Eli Valley on Bari Weiss’s appointment to lead the CBS newsroom. Looks about right. @elivalley.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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

Shaul Magid @theguardian.com, two years after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ongoing war of revenge against Gaza and what many conclude to be an ongoing genocide, on the disappearance of the American Jewish consensus on Israel and Zionism. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

That’s our timeline.

A right-wing hack with zero experience in reporting who rode the wave of grievance culture (on the backs of “concerned liberals” whose fears she successfully stoked) to power, that’s who Bari Weiss is.

One would have to agree, I’m afraid.

Whether a hysterical fascist of a plain regular fascist, he’s a fucking fascist.

BIG news here: the second judge to find at least some aspect of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard is unlawful. This comes as Governor Pritzker says Trump is going to federalize the Illinois National Guard.

Good for Dartmouth for being the first to set the example that one has to say “no” to this totalitarian bullshit quickly.

On the other hand, if you signed that Harper’s letter back in 2020, you can probably make a quick buck as a talking head on CBS!

Failing upward, this one. Nothing but the culture of grievance and resentment. On the other hand, an excellent choice to run Pravda.

Frame from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with Russian troops shooting at civilians in Odesa.

Re-watched "Battleship Potemkin" for tomorrow's class. The Odesa staircase sequence in these United States in 2025: it’s about the use of the military to suppress a peaceful urban protest, isn’t it?

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Good thing that Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, defended Musk’s Nazi salute on Trump’s inauguration day.

Pass the leadership to someone with more spine, please. As quickly as possible.

Coates has this verbal tick, saying “you know what I mean?” frequently. But I was thinking about while listening to this conversation how if we take his question literally, Ezra Klein maybe actually has no idea what Coates means and what experience and historical memory he is speaking from. 3/3

… naively thinks that liberals should adopt Kirk’s approach to preach some version of a modified gospel (which Coates tells him would require overlooking / ignoring / denying the humanity of many in the democratic polity) to get back to a “more effective” politics. 2/3

In his interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates @ezraklein.bsky.social comes off as ignorant and extremely privileged, committed to some idea that Coates tells him again and again America never was. Coates is clear-eyed about the animating force that is the kind of hate practiced by C. Kirk while Klein
…1/3

Spot on.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Yes he is!

We just need to tell stick together and tell them to get fucked more often.

I just hope Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social was in the audience at the Arizona “memorial” — politics done the right way, etc. etc., I hope he didn’t miss it.

Corruption all the way down — that’s one of the three key pillars of the current regime. Fear mongering and utter depravity are the other two.

Mob rule.

Yup.

Apropos of nothing in particular.