In this example of the removal of Jewish hostage posters from public space, an older lady with a walker does the scraping as a man on East 86th Street tells her she is offending him. I think it was the walker that most caught my eye.

I was ashamed to hear the recent testimony of 3 top university presidents. In my personal opinion, it was one of the most despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia. The 3 Presidents were offered numerous opportunities to condemn racist, antisemitic, hate rhetoric and

"Yes, you heard me correctly, I am a Jew. That may surprise some people. It surprises me really. I don’t think of myself as especially Jewish" @Stephenfry has come out of the Jewish closet I'm British born and raised + never knew he was Jewish. Nor, evidently, did many others,

Just re-read Marie Brenner’s great 1990 @vanityfair piece about Trump. With his admission of keeping a book by Hitler. And quotes his lawyer saying Trump’s “a believer in the big-lie theory.” The unconnected dots: “big lie” was a concept and term Hitler introduced in Mein Kampf.

He's been all around New York City, leaving admirers gawking at his iridescent coat and spellbound by his orange eyes. This is how Flaco, a runaway owl from the Central Park Zoo, has become an international celebrity with a legion of admirers and fans: trib.al/L15PuaC

In May 1941 Louis Gillet wrote to Paul Valery about their mutual friend James Joyce

A “Unified Reich”—sanctioned by Team Trump. Saying the 2025 vision out loud nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/…

Collect them all

Democracy has won. The people of India have shown once more than they can never be taken for granted.

Most absurd item of the month: Wikileaks, according to CNN, now labels the ADL, the chief provider of data on anti-Semitic incidents, as being an unreliable source … on anti-Semitism. cnn.com/2024/06/19/med…

A Template for Palestine—For a Postwar, Two-State Future | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/story/arc…

Q: You have pushed false claims about people like President Barack Obama, saying he was not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen, women of color who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like

This is a Rachel Scott appreciate tweet. Thank you for showing the country what real journalism looks like.

We’re living in turbulent times. But Michigan will always be my anchor. Was glad to get the chance to talk about the importance of service, invite some new people to Holly, and discuss the critical moment we find ourselves in as a nation with VANITY FAIR.

This is insane. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

“DOGE leaders pressured agency executives to hire a 21-year-old former intern at Palantir, a data analysis and technology firm, and grant him access to the personal data of every Social Security cardholder despite the executives’ concerns that he lacked sufficient training to

Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was a symbol of everything they hate. Maya Sulkin reports on the frenzy of social media users who celebrated LePatner’s death on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram.

Wesley LePatner--a wife, a mother--was murdered in midtown Manhattan. Then a bunch of people on this platform and others tried to make her into a symbol of evil. No. They are evil for justifying murder and turning a human being into a voodoo doll. thefp.com/p/she-was-murd…

What decade is this