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Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
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The creepy fixation on two Jewish kids' red hair, paired with indifference to the thousands of dark-haired Palestinian children who have been killed in the same conflict, strikes me as straightforwardly racist.

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

The death of any child is an unspeakable tragedy. Since October 7, Israel has murdered, at a conservative estimate, around 16,000 children.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Some folk won't let the crook mayor stay But then again some folk'll Like Kathy the slack-jawed Hochul

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Do people really not understand how journalism works? This is obviously not like a “answer me yes or no” question, it’s an invitation to tell your stories to use as cases to show this is happening and how it’s affecting people. There’s plenty to criticize in journalism but this is so stupid

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

i don't think reading this to yourself does justice to how bad it is. read it out loud. you'll immediately notice how stilted and uncomfortable the prose is, like someone struggling to articulate an actual thought

submitted 4 days ago • 443 comments

This is 2005 Legacy Sports Columnist prose.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Not breaking any new ground here, but my god is Bari a bad writer and thinker

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

Elon Musk doesn’t just want federal workers fired. He wants public services erased. Social Security, veterans’ care, the Postal Service, the IRS—he wants them gone so billionaires + corporations can profit off our suffering. 2/19 in your city. Join us in fighting back. go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Have been thinking that the deep state’s failure to stop any of this in a perverse way validates the right’s critique that they’re just fleecing the public.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Inspiring! One guy has an untreated substance abuse problem, a dozen other guys fail to help him, and finally one guy helps him in the sense of battering down a bathroom door so he can resume his alcoholism. Front-row kids don't want this kind of heroism to exist.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The purpose of a system is what it does, and given that I find constitutional/legal objections to what Trump is doing bizarre. The Constitution led us here. The people in charge are acting with the authority it grants them. Our failed interpretation of the law is not going to save us.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Dark thoughts I keep having: -the regime’s methods can reasonably be described as violence -violence is the only adequate response -however, it would fail badly -but it’s a moot point because those of us most upset right now are unwilling to even contemplate violence, and instead just post a lot

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments