“I’m not a far-right troll, please ignore the really boring far-right cliche I reference in the second clause of this sentence”. 

There’s always one of you worthless trolls. So opposing the Israeli Occupation makes you “disloyal to other Jews”. What horseshit. Are you angling to be a spokesperson for the far-right parties in Israel? That’s their ideology. 

This won’t get nearly as much play as various bad-faith claims about Omar, Tlaib, and other supposedly “anti-Israel” figures do. AIPAC will wring their hands and do nothing. The AJC will fully support Trump and toss in more Islamophobia. I expect Jake Tapper to find a way to blame this on Palestinians, and much of the…

Lying about things that can easily be checked is modern conservatism. He knows his hordes of idiots will believe whatever he says, even if he’s contradicting his past self. It’s collective self-delusion. 

I spent a lot of yesterday with conservative and libertarian bros screaming at me about “real history” while I explained that everything in this project is completely uncontroversial and has been for decades among academic historians. 

Odds he ends up at ICE or some obscure DHS political post if he does resign? Trump still likes him, and he’s no different than Miller and a number of others in the administration. That or some role with the Trump campaign that pays a salary but has no real responsibilities, which is how he’s bribed a lot of his…

Not that that’s a good thing, but I see it mostly as “prosecutors love to overcharge/cling to bad cases for ego reasons” in most cases. There’s ideological bias in there too, but a lot of those cases fail for a reason.

For the FTO list the requirements for designation are legal, not administrative. “Terrorism” is defined in US law, at least for foreign actors. There’s also judicial review (though only for 30 days after designation) and relisting an organization requires reviewing the evidence. Congress is also notified before the…

The FBI is a hotbed of conservative activism and regressive opinions, but they won’t go along with a plan like that without a fight and either will the career DHS. Most of the far-right specialists have already left, but the idea of throwing around the word “terrorism” so flippantly will rile a lot of people. It’s a…

There’s no way to label “Antifa” as an “organization of terror”. Right now, there’s no domestic terror list, and even Trump’s cronies couldn’t figure out a way to get Antifa on the FTO. You can’t lie your way out of everything.

I see a lot of people in this thread who don’t know the first fucking thing about the reality on the ground in the West Bank and have clearly never talked to a Palestinian about it. This thread is full of disgusting comments, racist trolls, and I’m sad to see it here.

Palestinians don’t get the luxury to “stop being political” because their identity is treated as fundamentally political and repressed. 

You want to know the funny part? My brain misread it to make it make more sense. I read it as “most successful story in the history of your state”. It wasn’t till your comment I read it correctly. My brain went “no, that’s stupid, put a correct word there”.

“Let’s vote for “The most successful tate in the history of your state, and in the history of the country, then you are going to vote for somebody else?” Trump asked the crowd, probably sarcastically. “Let’s vote for Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren.”

I’m not a centrist. I dismissed it because it was stupid and trollish. I support other outlets. I don’t pay the NYT. That doesn’t mean I’m going to throw some of their good writers and foreign journalists under the bus.

He’s an idiot, but his advisers would correct that. Since he has apparently had this interest for awhile, I find the “oil and mineral wealth” angle a lot more likely. 

There’s a few, not in their major marketed stable of op-ed writers, who merit their spots. Jamelle Bouie and Wajahat Ali come to mind immediately, and I’m sure there’s others I’ve read but I’m not remembering.

I saw Obama speak in Baltimore in late ‘07 (I think). The company my dad worked for happened to be their production staff on that local gig and so I took a friend who’d done a program called Youth in Government with me and we walked in the staff entrance and avoided the three block long line in the dead of winter (Feb…

There’s a lot of really good journalists there who deserve support. I’ve been very critical of the NYT lately, and that’ll likely continue as long as their executives and op-ed page are so awful, but it’s worth remembering that. A lot of people getting paid a lot less than the assholes like Bari Weiss are doing their…

It’s a semi-country with roughly 56,000 people. Gossip is gossip. Ever lived in a small town? It doesn’t matter if it’s 99% impossible. It’s something to talk about.