Eric Alterman

‘Melania’ Arrives With Strong Box Office Showing for a Documentary

@nytimes.com headline writers are having a contest to see who can write the stupidest, most misleading, sanewashed pro-Trump headlines imaginable. I think they must expect all the real reporters and editors to be sent to concentration camps and this will save them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...

Brett Ratner and Jeff Epstein with young women

Just emailed this to the NYT reporter who published that credulous Ratner profile yesterday:

www.thedailybeast.com/melania-doc-...

"The Epstein Files" Dress

Opinion | Donald J. Trump: My Tariffs Have Brought America Back The ‘experts’ predicted market crashes, massive inflation and recession. They were all wrong.

@WSJopinion has no editorial standards whatsoever:
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

This is terrifically sad news. One of the true giants of the historical profession, endlessly curious and creative, and a genuine pioneer of new kinds of international history, especially using NGOs and culture as topics/methodology.

I know this is supposed to be a liberal elite thing, but no one is more convinced that Trump supporters are morons than his own people.

Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort at watchdog Nexus - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Aryeh Tuchman will direct a new Nexus research center focused on improving data, definitions and public understanding of antisemitism.

Announcing the creation of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), Aryeh Tuchman, Director, Eric Alterman, Director of Scholarship.
www.jta.org/2026/01/29/u...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Another of Trump's “hardened, vicious, horrible criminals”
(and they stole his backpack).

Thanks, but dude, one doesn't part with Distinguished Professorships except if they drag it from my cold, dead hands. It's a part-time gig

Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort at watchdog Nexus - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Aryeh Tuchman will direct a new Nexus research center focused on improving data, definitions and public understanding of antisemitism.

Announcing the creation of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), Aryeh Tuchman, Director, Eric Alterman, Director of Scholarship.
www.jta.org/2026/01/29/u...

YouTube video by biggestkkfan Kris Kristofferson & Johnny Cash - Sunday morning coming down (1978 Johnny Cash Christmas Show)

Hey, remember that video with Sinead O'Connor that made the rounds when we lost Kris Kristofferson?

This made me think of it. Cuz @chanda.blacksky.app had a #Thread ( #MustRead) yesterday about raising up the next generation leaders & it kinda is *everything* ?

music.youtube.com/watch?v=IRU9...

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

"Domestic Terrorist" Go Git him

America in for a crash course in the meaning of the word "exponential."

Thoughts on the 2026 Jewish Film Festival and the Threats to the Israeli Film Industry (and Bruce...)

altercation.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis [for] the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good."
Stay free, Bruce Springsteen

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Under the circumstances, the people of MN continue to show remarkable restraint, not giving them the violent resistance they are obviously trying to provoke. By tear gassing toddlers. Monsters

“This is a preschool you stupid motherf*ckers!”

(From Somali Snaps)

just brazen assault, the dude is backing up

The final expulsion of Palestinians is underway – and your indifference enables it | Opinion The Changes in the West Bank – Being Made Under the Umbrella of Decisiveness – Are Tectonic and Occur at Lightning Speed. The Israeli Opposition Remains Silent

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

We need more intellectual diversity of this sort in our business schools.

Opinion | Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota Federal officials are lying. My state’s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.

Tim Walz did a WSJ op-ed yesterday that I missed.
It debunks key lies:
>ICE said it was too busy invading to pick up child predator in Cottonwood
>MN has 207 non-citizens in jails, not 1360
>"Worst of worst" arrested by MN and turned over before invasion

www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...