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Assistant Research Prof, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies @ Brandeis University. Jewish studies and sociology. Writes broadly about contemporary Jewish life using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Might have a space laser.
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My state has had a legislative GOP supermajority for 22 years. Missouri is ranked: 50th in classroom funding 49th in starting teacher pay 7th highest in gun deaths 6th highest in maternal mortality Republicans can’t govern and you can look at every red state to come to that conclusion.

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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

submitted 10 hours ago • 546 comments

And, naturally, if a miracle occurred and impeachment succeeded, it's not like Shillbilly Elegy is going to be any better.

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And yet if anyone were to ask their state to defund any provider that uses a so-called "conscience clause" to deprive patients of medical care they need and to which they are legally entitled, I'm pretty sure Gorsuch would call that a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

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Not even the first time -- Trump knew about Russia offering the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers, and he was just fine with that. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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I know it's by design, but it's something how brazenly stupid this entire cabinet is.

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It's true. "They're not real Christians" means Martin Luther's antisemitic screeds aren't Christian, the Inquisition isn't Christian, the Crusades weren't Christian, and Christian antisemitism had nothing to do with 2,000 years of persecution and mass murder, culminating in the Holocaust.

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Once again, this is why you don't put a serial killer who is a member of a homicidal cult in charge of public health.

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The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

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Ironically, in the 1920s Stephen Miller's grandparents, Jewish immigrants who settled in central Pennsylvania where they created the inter-generational wealth that helped fund Miller's lifestyle, were attacked with this exact same rhetoric from the immigration restrictionists of their day, the KKK.

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Real bummer to be separated from your family because people you've never met are threatening to harm you, huh. Wonder if there's any kind of lesson one might take from an experience like that 🤔

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This is how you know the Republican Party is nothing more than the US branch of the Russian Communist Party. As my father taught me from an early age, only communists hate the ice cream man.

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The Nobel Committee has the opportunity to do the funniest thing now...

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Once again, this is why you never put a homicidal cult in charge of public health.

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For the record, lying under oath in a confirmation hearing is perjury, and it's a federal crime. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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Tell me you've invested heavily in wearables without telling me you've invested heavily in wearables.

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"Pro-life."

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But it does explain why they're so set on eliminating the Department of Education.

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Which works out, because the six-justice majority deserves a tremendous degree of contempt.

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Low info voters aside…anybody that thought Trump was “anti-war” is either a liar or a fucking idiot.

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I always wonder about survey questions like this. Why not just ask how many people want to get a colonoscopy? It's a tiny number who *want* it, but that's different from thinking it's a good idea. (Caveat: Following good medical advice ≠ bombing another country.)

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"Forget about intelligence" -- the motto of the GOP for my entire adult life.

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To paraphrase fictional journalist Will McAvoy, if Democrats are so f***ing smart, how come they lose so g**d*** always? I can't imagine it has anything to do with recycling terrible people for important jobs.

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Normally, I'm a Red Sox fan, but let's go Dodgers!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Maureen Dowd lied.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, but they're a big-tent party now too -- Nazis are welcome.

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I had a school bus driver behind me honk and tailgate me the other day because I gradually slowed down to 20 mph when I got to a school zone with the lights on the sign flashing. So my question is this: Exactly how fast do you have to be going before you get ticketed for speeding in a school zone?

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I think we're past the point where any legal accusation from ICE should be summarily dismissed on the grounds that they lie habitually.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is... a start. But true repentance requires that he make a sincere effort to undo the harm he's done. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

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Essential point in this exchange with @willsommer.bsky.social: Trump-Miller have to target noncriminals for deportation because it's the only way to get the numbers they need to try for "full-scale ethnic change." Terror is central to this. Will is very good here: newrepublic.com/article/1968...

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Making America "healthy" again by legalizing one carcinogen after another. This is why you never put a homicidal cult in charge of public health.

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I hope this will show up on billboards all over Utah the next time Mike Smith runs for office. He should be reminded of this every day for the rest of his life. And though I don't believe in Hell, if it existed, there'd be a special corner of it for him to be tortured for eternity over his conduct.

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There are lots of very nice, very kind people in Utah. An awful lot of them voted for this... *person*, and they will do so again given the chance. Nice people make the most valuable fascists because they provide plenty of cover for the ones like Mike Lee who don't even try to hide their cruelty.

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This Alabama town offered Jews $50,000 to move there. Sixteen years later, what’s left? My latest > forward.com/news/728485/...

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In the context of "peace officers" firing "non-lethal bullets" at journalists: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

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Just got back from an inspiring weekend with representatives of Jewish communities across Maine and other small Jewish communities around the US. First bit of news I get as I walk in the door: someone threw a brick scrawled with "free Palestine" through a window of a kosher grocery in Brookline.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I see a whole bunch of scumbags who ought to be relegated to the general population of a California state prison for a few years after they're convicted of assault.

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Good thread. One detail not covered: UM and MSU, like many major Midwestern universities, are the economic engines of their state. Damage them and all the poor and middle-class people the Republicans are pretending to care about pay a steep price.

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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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“Pro-vaccine groups” are not a special interest group to be skeptical of they are ALL OF THE FUCKING MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS AND DOCTORS

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