@peterfeld
Progressive strategist (polling, persuasion direct mail, voter-facing digital). Ex: NY Observer, Conde Nast, Global Strategy Group, Lake Research, Hart Research, Dukakis and Tsongas for President, Jessica Savitch backup guitarist. He/him.
NEW: A group of Hollywood execs are running a smear campaign against "The Voice of Hind Rajab" to stop it from winning an Oscar.
The group has ties to the Israeli government & received support from foundations of Russian oligarch Len Blavatnik & Casey Wasserman (both featured in the Epstein Files).
No matter how desperately our politicians try to convince us otherwise, Israel isn't good for us. The new U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which Americans overwhelmingly do not want, is the latest proof of that. It's time for us to end the relationship.
mondoweiss.net/2026/03/its-...
So best.
So much winning.
You photographed him literally in a booth at a diner and we're supposed to take your journalism seriously?
Assemblymember Claire Valdez, a democratic socialist who’s running for Congress, told POLITICO on Monday she was disturbed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s focus on whether Trump went through the proper channels before launching the strikes. “I think it could be a real dividing line,” Valdez said. “The emphasis on procedure and expecting the Trump administration to provide some evidence or rationale that supports this war is an abdication of our responsibility to say that we don’t want another endless war, we don’t want to be locked into another forever war that doesn’t make our lives here at home any better, that just destroys lives abroad, that siphons off so much of our taxpayer dollars.”
As I told @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social in @politico.com this morning, it's not enough for Congressional Democrats to insist on proper procedure or demand the Trump administration explain itself, as if they aren't constantly lying.
We need unequivocal opposition to this war.
Daily Mail graphic with photo of Marco Rubio, standing before microphones in a blue suit and magenta tie, over headline: "Fury as Marco Rubio admits Israel forced US into war with Iran".
I...screamed this for 20 years...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
To mix a metaphor, this is taking all the chess pieces and putting them on one end of the scale.
One of the first things I learned about polling from @peterfeld.bsky.social was the difference between “research to know” and “research to show”. This is the latter. The question is framed in a way that makes abolition look like an extreme and conflates it with no enforcement
Kat Abughazaleh, a socialist Democratic candidate in Illinois’ 9th District and one of the only Palestinian-Americans seeking office in 2026, was described by her national security adviser as “firmly an interventionist” who “won’t stop until Russia is made to pay for its crimes,” in written responses detailing her foreign policy vision, obtained by Drop Site. Ben Mermel wrote in an email to a Washington-based progressive foreign policy activist that Abughazaleh believes “the world is better off when America takes a leading role” and that the U.S. has “an obligation to support pro-democracy movements around the world, from Iran to Venezuela.” He added that “Kat wholly supports the National Endowment for Democracy, as well as its affiliated organizations (NDI, IRI, and the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center),” and said Congress should expand tools “from sanctions to NGO support” to advance those efforts without always resorting to “kinetic force.” The DC-based activist had written to Mermel saying he had noticed unusually hawkish language on the campaign website related to Ukraine and Taiwan and was looking for clarification. In his response, Mermel said that on Taiwan she would amend the Taiwan Relations Act by “dropping our strategic ambiguity” and make clear the U.S. would counter Chinese aggression “with force,” arguing the region now requires “a firmer hand.”
On Ukraine, Mermel wrote she would “hold the line,” support “funding the Ukrainian war effort to the hilt,” back long-range strikes on Russian strategic targets, deploy additional U.S. “air, naval, and ground assets” to NATO’s front line, and that “She supports the seizure and redistribution of Russian assets in Europe and the United States, for the purpose of financing the war effort.” Abughazaleh did not respond to a request for comment, but a source close to the campaign told Drop Site that the adviser’s email did not accurately represent her views, saying, “Kat is committed to taking on authoritarianism but is vehemently against the military industrial complex and the continuation of failed US intervention approaches.” Abughazaleh has consistently argued against U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and, at a recent forum, said she opposes U.S. strikes on Iran. Mermel in 2024 attended a pro-Israel protest held to counter the encampment at George Washington University. He has been Abughazaleh’s National Security Adviser since July 2025, according to Legistorm. The full exchange is posted below. Watch the report on Breaking Points:
⭕️ LEAKED Email: Kat Abughazeleh “firmly an interventionist,” foreign policy adviser says
Kat Abughazaleh, a socialist Dem. candidate in IL’ 9th District and one of the only Palestinian-Americans seeking office in 2026, was described by her national security adviser as “firmly an interventionist”...
Iranian Ministry of Health: The number of martyrs from the girls' school in Minab has risen to 85 martyrs.
#Iran
I wonder why they call the US the Great Satan
2 min ago Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism Tal Shalev By Tal Shalev The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor. The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land. The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.
This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in
VIDEO | Explosions reported in Jufair, Bahrain, the area housing the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet.
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A senior Iranian official:
- All American and Israeli assets and interests in the Middle East have become legitimate targets.
- There are no red lines after this aggression, & everything is possible, including scenarios that were not previously considered
#IranUnderAttack #fuckisrael #FuckTrump
I hope to god it does not.
Iranian offical: All US and Israeli assets in Middle East legitimate targets - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/all-us-and-israeli-assets-middle-east-legitimate-targets-says-iran
I will work to defeat any Democrat who does not promise to fire and prosecute every ICE agent on Day One.
Free Sirhan.
Republicans will never again give up power in our lifetime.
Trump bc Reps will never cede power. In the off chance he tosses to Vance, Vance will be declared winner in 1/29 by a rigged GOP Congress still in power due to 2026 voter suppression. The courts will bless it.
Predictions:
1) Trump = GOP nominee
2) Trump = POTUS 1/21/29
3) The GOP nominee wins 2028
how Tom Friedman cleaned up Trump in 2016
Get America's ass!
The only solution is one Palestinian state from the river to the sea, full return of all Palestinian refugees, all stolen land back, and no ethnic privileges for settlers. The two-state solution is dead and rotting, and it does no good to cling to it.
Anybody who wants to help reject an ICE prison camp in their community, this has some concrete things you can do to get the project killed
ICE was founded in 2003.
Conditioning aid is so 2019. Anyone who won't cut off ALL aid to Israel is not getting my vote. That includes November.
