Has there ever been a more quintessential Pelosi line than this? “You take a punch, but you have to be willing to throw a punch. For the children.” newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Donald Trump’s position on abortion rights, pretty much verbatim: “If you look at the new governor from Minnesota — he’s talking about, he’s like the governor previous — I don’t want to get them mixed up because Glenn is doing a good job he’s leading our whole campaign, he’s in

Striking, not least since Hillary Clinton did not visit a single union hall in Michigan in 2016. apnews.com/article/harris…

"A Gazan girl from a displaced persons camp asked me to convey her message to Israel: 'I want with all my heart that the Jews in Israel would know that we're human beings like them, that we have feelings and that we want to live'".

#TrumpOnX. Trump, while presenting himself as a champion of workers, just now praised Musk for firing striking workers. Maybe the most revealing moment of the "conversation."

Peter Falk telling Gena Rowlands that her performance in A Woman Under The Influence is the greatest ever and will be remembered 100 years from now and being absolutely correct

Hard to believe, but it really looks like U.S. Postal Service leadership doesn't care if postal workers are sickened or even killed by exposure to extreme heat. Great reporting by Ariel Wittenberg!

Less than an hour before the launch event for my book Tablets Shattered, a conversation with Rabbi Andy Bachman, powerHouse Books in Brooklyn told me they were unwilling to host the conversation with Andy because they would not permit a Zionist on the premises.

I wrote this book to explore debates within American Jewish life, which of course includes many people who identify as Zionists. My biggest worry was about synagogues not wanting to host me. I didn't think it would be bookstores in Brooklyn that would be closing their doors.

"Exclusive: Here is the speech the Uncommitted movement wants to give at the DNC" --and they should be allowed to give it. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

If you are in NYC, please join us for a discussion about social solidarity. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Eric Klinenberg, whose book 2020 is not to be missed, and the inimitable Chris Hayes. Sept 16 at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. ipk.nyu.edu/events/solidar…

"It’s like you’re watching institutions decline in real time. Anchors of the community are disappearing.” My latest, for ProPublica & The New Yorker, on the looming wave of school closures following the sharp post-pandemic decline in public school enrollment. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Far more than weird to people who live in countries without the electoral college.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign had a secret algorithm running 400K daily election simulations, which they were planning to publicize in the post-election victory lap. It told them they were doing great in Michigan and Wisconsin. (From Tim Shenk’s “Left Adrift”)

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis rally to demand a hostage deal/ceasefire, but sadly I doubt their government will listen (just as the gov ignored the opposition to its judicial overhaul). The callousness, recklessness, and cruelty of Netanyahu and his far-right henchmen is

Recommend this whole post by davidrlurie on Public Notice. About how KH campaign has absorbed the reality of how the big-time press works now, and adjusted to it. publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harri…

NEW: Abortion funds and clinics, still reeling after funding cuts from pro-choice groups, face yet another obstacle—the end of a program covering abortions for people from states w/ bans. The cuts total $1 million a month, per source. Me in The Nation: thenation.com/article/societ…

Today is the pub date of Chaos Comes Calling, my friend Sasha Abramsky’s riveting new book about how rightwing extremism engulfed two communities. Read this starred review in Kirkus, which called it an “excellent, fearless work of political reportage.” kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/s…

Chaos Comes Calling book launch at DC's Politics and Prose... followed by dinner at (where else) Comet Ping Pong. youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

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