Steve Jacobs

This meta image makes it look like Trump is responsible for the lab leak.

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

Probably less, because Joe Biden didn't surround himself with a bunch of people who are on the record as hating Minecraft.

Donald Trump cares as much about stopping antisemitism as Joe Biden cares about playing Minecraft.

Weird that after a prominent obviously antisemitic attack on a sitting governor after Seder that the supposedly antisemitism obsessed administration hasn't said or done anything.

Yesterday, in my small Hudson valley town of ~14k people I attended an anti-Trump rally and a minor league baseball game. The really was at a heavily trafficked intersection. The game was in a nice stadium with decent concessions.

There were way more people at the anti-Trump rally.

You should just describe the plot of mad Max without using any of the names. Seems like a safe bet.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.

What's especially pernicious of Trump's invocation of "Jewish safety" in his attacks on higher ed is that (1) it is antisemitic in and of itself and (2) it is intentionally designed to foster antisemitism by making people associate Jews with the fascist regime.

9 Mayoral Candidates Unite to Attack Cuomo on Nursing Home Deaths Nearly all the people running for New York City mayor appeared at a Covid memorial event with a shared message: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s pandemic response is a reason not to support him.

This, to me, seems more likely to demonstrate how desperate they are, rather than how bad a candidate Cuomo is. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/n...

I love this thread from Senator Whitehouse because what he does here--giving maximum good faith to the other side's argument--is exactly what we need more of. We need to be maximally intellectually humble and to show maximum good faith to people on our side. No, this doesn't mean total conformity.

Well said. Two things can be true at the same time.

I’ve suspected for a few years that Facebook has done way more damage than Fox News. Most non-conservatives roll their eyes at “I heard this on Fox”. Almost everyone I know over 35 is at least willing to give some credence to “I saw this on Facebook”

Cincinnati rabbi disinvited from rally against Nazis over his support for Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Rabbi Ari Jun is a self-described liberal Zionist who has advocated for the Palestinians.

The biggest problem, of course, is the white supremacy. But the persistent effort on the left to segregate Jews from the movement to counter white supremacy is...actually furthering the stated goals of white supremacy. www.jta.org/2025/03/07/u...

With egg, meat, and dairy prices on the rise, we just ask ourselves the serious question: Does Trump want to make all of America go vegan?

Well, when you put it like that...

At today’s Senate Judiciary hearing on antisemitism, Senator Durbin read our statement - led by JCPA and the Reform & Conservative movements and signed by 100+ Jewish orgs - making clear that Jewish safety is inextricably linked with a strong, inclusive democracy.

Yes, Trump just rescued the Russian economy

I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.

I'm going to keep repeating this until they haul me away but

-- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976)

-- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this

Heck yeah, "personal liberties and free markets." Looking forward to op-eds like "Trans Rights Are Human Rights" and "Elon Musk Should Go To Jail For Securities Fraud."

Oh, right, I forgot, Bezos and his ilk don't actually believe in either personal liberties or free markets.

a man in a suit says you 're home now ALT: a man in a suit says you 're home now

Make anybody else think of this guy?

Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter’s Name From ‘Unakite Thirteen Hotel’ The name, which appeared to be generated by a computer, was meant to be temporary after the mother surrendered the child. But two years later, the nonsensical name remains.

Unakite
Thirteen
Hotel
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Surprisingly few people have a basic understanding of communication.

#Swasticar

I am 6'4", which makes me the biggest person around most of the time. Freaks me the fuck out when I encounter someone taller. I don't know if I'd classify it as fear so much as a David Lynchian creepy "something is very off" sort of feeling.

Fair point, but this also feels like a distinction without a difference. We as consumers expect better from the press. I don't care about the inside baseball. I care about the results.

My gripe here is we already knew this. We knew this eight years ago. What has the press done about it other than cede ground in the name of "access"?