Even Shapiro sees the writing on the wall. Any Democratic nominee for national office going forward is going to have to address tough questions re: their support for Palestinian rights.
In a separate letter, Governor Josh Shapiro wrote to the Attorney General of the United States and asked for a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli settler murder of Palestinian-American and Philadelphia-native Nasrallah Abu Siyam.
analysis Mirror, mirror: Dems’ Israel problems look a lot like the GOP on Ukraine In this polarized political landscape, support for Israel and Ukraine are now becoming partisan issues, with GOP elected officials and voters overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are standing by Ukraine
Jewish Insider fails to realize that Republicans oppose Ukraine for bad reasons and Democrats are increasingly opposed to Israel for good reasons
Let us pause and ponder the reaction if a Democrat called 6 deaths "light casualties."
Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data
A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z
Crazy to think that these people were doing actual jobs that might have been important
NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
put it in a museum
“In fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.” — Umberto Eco
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
US House Speaker Mike Johnson said the US is not at war with Iran and has no intention of starting one, describing the operation as limited. "Trump and the Defense Department have made that clear," Johnson said. #Iran
"SMO"
When the pain hits, I would love to hear from all the people who've been pushing hard to delay our energy transition.
…. seems to have had no plan beyond that is very clearly stated as a U.S.-Israel joint venture? Mad king Bibi fulfills his idiotic dream, and I’m 100% convinced that the timing is deliberate to give him the Purim-fantasy-as-reality talking point. Gut yontev, I suppose! 2/2
Bibi has ruined Purim forever, hasn’t he, turning the fantasy of revenge of a minority peoples into a real-life resolution of his decades-long obsession with Israel, a sovereign state, bombing Iran? Note how this war that now got rid of the ayatollah but …1/2
The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"
ADL Washington, D.C. @ADL_WashDC Any suggestion that @AIPAC — an American organization— is anything but pro-American is flat-out wrong and offensive. It's fine to disagree on policy, but it is a dual-loyalty trope dog whistle to denigrate the integrity of Americans working toward a strong US-Israel relationship.
OK obviously it's stupid on its face but did the ADL office in DC not read the article? Van Hollen actually said that AIPAC is neither pro America nor pro Israel.
Europe seems to be a comprehensively Do nothing continent sans Sanchez and Zelenskyy
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
"... the Democrats’ leadership has triangulated itself into no man’s land. It is neither sufficiently supportive of Israel to propitiate the country’s increasingly radical governing elite nor sufficiently critical of that elite to mollify the base of its own party."
In which a Wall Street Journal op-ed explicitly compares Erdogan to the Ayatollah after the fall of Saddam Hussein and implicitly makes the case for an eventual war of aggression against Turkey by the US and Israel.
It’s hard to buy the “serious person” rhetoric when it was Cuomo who was the alternative
I'm calling this "serious personism". They want their positions to be seen as the "serious person" position no matter where they stand in reality. There's a parallel to "the economy is when men hit steel with hammers" laborism
Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.
This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
Am reminded of the US military's deliberate bombing of a shelter in Baghdad during the first Gulf War, which killed over 400 civilians. At the time, the US said it mistook the shelter for a military command center. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriya...
Expert analysis indicates that the elementary school in Minab, Iran, was hit by the US military with "picture perfect" targeted strikes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
It's a simple matter of capacity when it comes to Iran. The US is set up to send little expeditionary units to do little ops all over the world; it is not set up to fight land wars against countries like Iran. US forces wouldn't lose, just that they couldn't hold more than a couple cities at a time.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
