The inaugural Downtown First Thursday is off the hook! Huge crowd, great energy, great music. Downtown is truly alive.

“Antisemitism is wrong, but I will proceed to be antisemitic with the oldest blood libel.” -MTG

Yesterday, a US representative tweeted out one of the most deadly antisemitic lies in world history. Barely anybody is talking about it.

twitter.com/RepMTG/status/…

Your regular reminder that antisemitism comes in all political stripes, including the historically dominant form: Right wing deranged people who blame Jews for every known ill, including killing Jesus, creating pandemics, hoarding all the gold & even shooting space lasers.

Beyoncé asked me why this country isn’t heavily investing in bus service instead of highway expansions and I didn’t have a good answer for her. 🤷

The Jewish Caucus released the following statement regarding the recent violence and failure of leadership at UCLA:

Our nurse just filled out a prior authorization that had 61 questions & took 59 minutes to complete

For just one medication—and the patient is already on it & doing well

She could have cared for 4-5 patients/families during that time. This shouldn’t be legal

JCRC Bay Area SF State I have supported the free speech of many protestors and sympathize with the cause of ending the war and releasing hostages, but vile and toxic threats against Jews or any group is morally wrong and must be condemned.

A protest sign at SF State advocating violence against Jews — specifically, the 7 million Jews who live in Israel. I have no issue with anyone protesting the war, but this is absolutely vile.

I have no problem with anyone protesting against the war. I have a huge problem with people advocating for violence against Jews, glorifying the October 7 massacre, & calling for the violent destruction of Israel, home to half of all Jews on the planet.

It's been encouraging to see some Dems stepping up.

The New Democrat Coalition (NDC) put out a great housing supply agenda (newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/media-center/p…).

Senator Scott Wiener has led in CA (reason.com/2021/04/13/sco…)

Kathy Hochul has been leading in NY (politico.com/news/2024/04/2…)

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The #1 issue in the election? The ↗️ cost of living.

We don't have enough supply of housing, care, green energy.

Dems need an 'Abundance & Affordability' agenda.

Middlebury's Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 is joining Chamber of Progress to craft one ⤵️

bit.ly/3UEdBQ7

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Delegates within the United Methodist Church voted to repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy, showing overwhelming support that contrasts with decades of controversy over the issue. trib.al/FYIeQvh

Everyone (rightly) concerned about the return of rising electricity demand should pay close attention to reconductoring - a wonky but consequential way to get WAY more out of our electric grid. A 🧵

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Many who aggressively push a narrative demonizing Zionists believe Israel — home to 7 million Jews, half of all Jews on the planet, in addition to millions of Arabs — should not exist. They want it to be dissolved.

Some of these folks at times engage in harassment against Jews.

A Zionist is someone who believes Israel should exist as the Jewish homeland, in addition to the millions of Arabs living there. That describes a large majority of Jews. The orchestrated demonization of Zionists both before & since 10/7 is dangerous & fuels anti-Jewish hate. 🧵