Tonight
@CBSReport
described as "mostly peaceful" a march at which protesters were filmed trying to kick in the doors of Grand Central, shouting "Cry, bitch, cry" at an Israeli woman, and screaming "You Zionist pig."
If that's peace, what does violence look like?
@Vagoish
"If I had to single out one feature of cooperative living I find attractive, it would be regular contact with people of all ages. I’m nostalgic for an intergenerational experience I never had."--from my essay on why we need a new way to live together.
We coastal elites have failed to note *this* angle on Ilhan Omar. From her hometown paper: "Is she just going to blurt every thoughtless, bigoted, agenda-derailing thing that pops into her head and then conduct the Fifth District's business in the middle of that toxic cloud?"
One Columbia professor encountering a Jewish-sounding surname asked the student to explain their views on the Israeli government's actions in Gaza. Another told a class to avoid reading mainstream media because "it is owned by Jews."
Being as how I live right next to the Columbia campus, I've been listening to the chanting for months now. Here's where they come from and what they mean. In
@TheAtlantic
Me on a socialist, atheist, Polish-Jewish, 19th-century, American feminist more famous, more notorious, and more radical than Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony--a woman hardly anyone remembers anymore.
Cuomo refuses to call special elections to fill Dem seats in state senate. Only one possible reason: he doesn't want them around in time for March budget negotiations. Our DINO governor would rather negotiate with Republicanss than Democrats.
Last night, the homes of the
@brooklynmuseum
director and multiple Jewish board members were vandalized.
Make no mistake: this is vile antisemitism and it is making Jews - and everyone - unsafe.
My political imagination was too impoverished to imagine the federal government called for armed insurrection against the states in the middle of a public health emergency. Shame on me.
The best and most nuanced analysis of the hard moral questions facing Israel I've read so far. No surprise that it's by the great political philosopher Michael Walzer.
Yes, he's my husband, but he happens to know more about this subject than any other journalist in America. So if you can't not obsess about college admissions, read this.
The mindless mob on a NYC subway car: "Raise your hands if you're a Zionist. This is your chance to get out."
That's an explicit threat
@NYPDnews
@NYCMayor
Whether you feel that current draconian measures are warranted or not, the fact remains that our president is trying to use a public health emergency to start a civil war.
Even more offensive: "There's a 'core Israeli identity' at play but it's not 'hostage rescue.'" How much you want to bet *his* phrase includes "Zionist" (spat out with disgust) and "genocidal"? If maligning "core Israeli identity" isn't antisemitic, I don't know what is.
From The Nation:
@NicholasLemann
's Transaction Man, "which tracks how the United States went from a largely Polanyian society to one defined by ideas like Friedman’s, is his best—and most sweeping—yet."
@JillFilipovic
1. If domestic labor were compensated, it could count as a job. I've never understood why helping to raise other people's children is a job, and raising your own is dropping out of the workforce. Domestic labor's status as non-work is decidedly gendered as well as...
"The keyword here is blackwhite. ... Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this."
Reproductive rights org
@ARC_Southeast
writes "You cannot be Pro-Choice without being Pro-Palestine." Really? Abortion's illegal in Gaza and West Bank: 1-3 years for having one, up to 15 for performing one. The morning-after pill is also illegal.
SJP's "Day of Resistance Toolkit" is an extraordinary artifact, written in stilted, triumphalist prose that could have been airlifted out of a badly translated Soviet parade speech.
Me on where the chants come from and what they mean.
@TheAtlantic
Voices that come out of cylinders and cars and appliances are getting more personable and more intimate. What does that mean for us? My cover story in
@TheAtlantic
Not persuaded that there's a complete break b/old-school Ivy League anti-semitism and new left anti-semitism. Same tropes carry over: pushy, money-grubbing, scheming, all-powerful...
From
@laurakipnis
's excellent review of Claire Dederer's Monsters: "It’s easy to fulminate about consumer capitalism, less easy to contemplate the extent to which the carceral mentalité of our political-economic moment saturates even our imaginations."
With newspaper chain McClatchy filing for bankruptcy, now is the moment to read Nick Lemann's diagnosis of what went wrong in journalism and how to fix it, if you haven't read it already:
One scandal of the night is that one cannot find a single story noting that the NY State Senate has just flipped Democratic. Another symptom of our national media's inability to think locally--and our local media unable to think at a statewide level.
Thank you
@jonathanchait
for pointing out the insanity of teachers unions' being both anti-vaccine-mandate *and* anti-school-opening. Can you detect any logic here other than the desire to do whatever they want to do, whenever?
Just have to repeat this, because it seems to me the key to it all. Anyone who wonders why Ford remembers this so vividly should imagine what it would be like to be laughed at *while* being assaulted, *for* being assaulted. No one *ever* forgets humiliation of that magnitude.
When people tell you "there is no disagreement" about something being urgently debated, you know their main goal is to stop you from thinking.
@PENamerica
@SuzanneNossel
@JennyBoylan
So many writers signing a statement claiming “among writers of conscience, there is no disagreement.”
I’ve publicly criticized US support for the war in Gaza (and I’m still being called a Nazi for it), but on this, I side with
@PENamerica
and “the right to disagree.”
Met up at the culvert to smoke weed and waste an afternoon. Hung out in finished basements and listened to whole entire albums. Smeared avocado on each others' faces and called it a facial, because there was no Youtube either and who the hell knew.
On Mother's Day we should honor Anna Jarvis, who invented it, then turned against the commercialized version of it, then found herself in a "sanitarium" paid for by the flower and card industry who didn't want her interfering with their profits. She died there in 1948.