the US Constitution has a Guarantee Clause and itâs ignored
A reminder that an audio version of the essays I sent out via the newsletter (read by me, not some AI voice) is also available, since these pieces are pretty long, and I understand it is tough to find the time to sit down and read.
ICYMI on the weekend: I wrote about how Project 2025 broke through the noise and became a toxic brand.  There is an important lesson here about how to cover and discuss the radicalizing Right.  Some thoughts from my new piece:  đ§ľ1/
The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme Right
We need to talk about right-wing students harassing professors
âI wasnât fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.â
Pennsylvaniaâs Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
The Republicans open embrace of this kind of information warfare is multi pronged and multiuse. Itâs both signaling to a core white supremacist and increasingly fascist voting block, but also it is mainstreaming and re-integrating open racism as a system of thought and action societally.
We are no longer at signaling and dog whistles. We are at open fascist rhetoric, and racism of a kind that America hasnât seen at this level of public discourse in a 100 years And that is partly the Republicans point: getting America back to its racist roots and itâs public embrace of white power.
my eyes read Onion
â[my god told me this was mine]â âThis promise from the Creator clearly places the land of Lebanon within the Promised Land of Israel, or what some refer to as "the Complete Land of Israel", or âThe greater Israelâ.
Really cool article about Lebanon in the Jerusalem Post this week
The Torah verses convey profound messages that we can insightfully extract for our daily lives. Rabbi Shay Tahan, the Rosh Kollel of Shaarei Ezra in Brooklyn, NY, graciously opens the gates to understand them.