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David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social · 9h

When someone tells you that they are a morning person what they are really saying is that they are better than you.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Senior members of the Democratic Party didn't and don't seem to yet mind

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Amid all the plaudits of Trump for getting this deal done, I've yet to see mention of the fact that Netanyahu has turned the Israeli govt into an arm of the Republican Party and manages relations with the US administration in power at any given time accordingly.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas agreed to this same deal by Dec 2024. But “Baskin would soon learn that the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington…”
Reminiscent of Reagan/Carter and a different hostage release…

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Amid all the plaudits of Trump for getting this deal done, I've yet to see mention of the fact that Netanyahu has turned the Israeli govt into an arm of the Republican Party and manages relations with the US administration in power at any given time accordingly.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas agreed to this same deal by Dec 2024. But “Baskin would soon learn that the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington…”
Reminiscent of Reagan/Carter and a different hostage release…

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5d

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas accuses Israel of violating cease-fire deal by killing several Palestinians in Gaza after IDF says it fired at "suspects" who approached troops

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Trump-Gaza latest: Six killed after Israel opens fire over ‘violation’ of ceasefire

Health authorities said that the fatalities had occurred across two separate incidents

www.independent.co.uk

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Deir Istiya early this morning, the day of the Israel-Hamas hostage-detainee swap.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration is suggesting that Jewish groups critical of its foreign policy vis a vis Israel are engaging in terrorism.

This is appalling politicization of the term and gross executive overreach.

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

www.reuters.com

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is true. It's also true Biden - and any American president - could have been far more aggressive and forceful with the Israeli government than he was.

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter @thewriteverdict.bsky.social · 3d

Still one the biggest factors - no way in hell he was ever giving a win to Biden.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

One of my students told me they felt deeply conflicted about whether to attend the class walk-out for Palestine yesterday or my class on Talmud, and the debate between those two choices gave them a stomachache.

I told them getting a stomachache over hard choices is the most Jewish thing there is.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 6d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social · 7d

This article says it all. The Trump administration is the enemy of the university project, a project I've dedicated most of my life to and firmly believe makes the world a better place.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 8d

Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 7d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 8d

My statement on the two-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel and Netanyahu's ongoing war against the Palestinian people:

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8d

Zohran making a statement that he had to know would enrage the more deranged of his supporters is more evidence of him juice-having I think.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 8d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8d

I hope Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and Garland (among others) come to fully recognize how they were our era’s Chamberlains before they leave this earth, since there will never be any real accountability for their gross negligence while they held power.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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