Gee, what a surprise.

Does Israel deserve to exist as an ethnoreligious state? Why are so many people ok with Isreal being a lite theocracy when other theocratic states are lambasted in the same breath of politicians. 

I was uninvited from a nephew’s bar-mitzvah for claiming Israel is an apartheid state during a recent family gathering. Look, I can love Israel, the country of my religion, but I also need to call it when I believe basic human rights are being violated by said country. Sticking to my principals here and I will drown…

My biggest pet peeve is the presenation of Israel as “the only democracy in the middle east”.

It’s one of the oldest problems in the book for purportedly democratic governments: Israel would like to claim the land they captured in their wars with their neighbors openly by right of conquest, but they also don’t want to treat the people that were living there, and are now under their control, like citizens of…

Yes, it is so disingenuous when people conflate being against the policies of Israel the country with being against the Jewish people. Two separate issues entirely, but rather than address the substantive nature of the arguments about the way that Israel the country/government treats the Palestinian people, some…

Tell Congress that its not “good-vs-bad guys” because they’re the ones that overwhelmingly support the Israeli governments right wing policies.  Even our ‘opposition’ leader Chuck Schumer supported Trump’s inane embassy change.

There will always be higher turnover on the Hill because of the nature of the work. That’s normal. But you do see highER rates in Klobuchar and Lee offices. That part really isn’t normal. Plus that whole environment is really a small town. Staffers talk a lot because we all tend to know each other and look out for one…

From a memo assembled to instruct staff on those pesky other duties as assigned:

This is one of the stories where you find out who believes in feminism and who just wants white women to take the place of white men on the society’s totem pole. I mean, chalking up dismay at a boss throwing things at their staffers to “sexist double standards; if a man can do it, why not a woman?” Huh?

It feels like this is being done on purpose. Honestly, like it’s a world wide game show. It’s just so many things in a row I can’t help but feel punked. Who is left in the universe that can still look at that shoe and say “yep. Thats a winner”. Jesus H.

It’s about deliberately constructing a political third rail.

I would ‘like’ to think the over-the-top response is because she’s a Muslim woman, which is amongst the top Republican bogeymen.

I swear, the Omar thing pisses me off. You can’t even remotely criticize Israel or their cronies without immediately being labelled anti-semitic. From the same group of people that pull out their fainting couch every time a liberal calls someone racist for doing blatantly racist shit (like Trump, regularly). And the…

I mean “phrased a little better” is a bit of an understatement. Nuance on twitter never works, let alone when talking about a Jewish group (whether it be related to Israel or not) , so how a tweet simply referencing money would go down well in response to a tweet that doesn’t mention AIPAC once seems like a sloppy…

Israel is a country; not a religion.  Criticizing a political entity is not prejudice; despite what political lobby groups might tell you.

Look for reverse osmosis water. Sam’s water from walmart and certain packs of kroger water will be reserve osmosis’d. It tastes as neutral as water can get, it’s cheap, and a small nation isn’t getting fucked for it.

Hey! Mark Herring said his use of blackface "haunted" him for almost 40 years! He didn't bother to disclose that before seeking public office or until after he got caught. But he feels super bad about it.

It’s an excellent idea, really. He should spend the rest of the term focusing on racial equality.

Good news, everyone! The governor read some stuff and now he’s cured of racism! He’ll never say or do anything awful ever again! And he promised to do some stuff to solve racism, so everything will be perfect forever! And we all know that when a politician promises something, that means that they’ll keep their promise!