Elad Nehorai

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Ex-Hasidic, pro-good-trouble | Writer: extremism, antisemitism, & how tech spreads both | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com

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I feel like an under-discussed thing right now is how the vast majority of people paid to be smart are not smart.

I listened to NPR for like five minutes today. They had on Sarah Isgur to talk about what a tough spot Roberts was in because Biden was prosecuting his opponent for a crime for which he wasn’t impeached.

Everyone is saying Hawk Tuah this and Hawk Tuah that, but no one is saying worship this and Jericho that!

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The point was wasting time. And a lot of people fell for it. You cannot reason with bad faith "arguments" and ill intent. So don't. Focus on the Day After. What happens when the issue is resolved and how do we achieve that goal? No one ever thinks of their why first which is how we got here.

Coup talk. Just out in the open. And not addressed as such by the opposing party or the sitting president.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

I think what reveals how unaware of this they are is that they don’t realize that their lives actually hang in the balance here. They will be the first targeted. And they just seem to be completely unaware of this.

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I know it’s scary as hell out here right now and it feels like things are coming apart at the seams, but this isn’t a done deal yet and we have a very real window of opportunity to at least mount serious pushback to the encroaching autocratic state. We need to start now though and not hesitate.

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I've been inactive here for a bit, so I haven't shared my writing. But my most recent seems kind of relevant today. open.substack.com/pub/eladneho...

The Second Phase of the Fascist Invasion Has Begunopen.substack.com It's time to change how we think of the way fascists are winning. And, as a result, how we can fight back.

I've been inactive here for a bit, so I haven't shared my writing. But my most recent seems kind of relevant today. open.substack.com/pub/eladneho...

The Second Phase of the Fascist Invasion Has Begunopen.substack.com It's time to change how we think of the way fascists are winning. And, as a result, how we can fight back.

This is so important because the fascists are depending on us to be cynical and hopeless. It is literally part of their strategy.

The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

Everything Biden has failed at over the last two weeks has been things he's failed at since elected, but the stakes seemed lower so people felt comfortable ignoring it. Like climate change, we quietly see the problem but stay passive as we see the danger looming on the horizon.

You know it's not just about business when it's an indisputable fact that focusing on results instead of process is by far the better approach, and somehow this stuff is seen as legitimate. It's just about control, not productivity, and that's how it should be framed.

Major employers are using surveillance tools to ensure that no matter where people work, they're at their computers — but polls suggest doing so is risky for morale. www.axios.com/2024/06/14/w...

Caught you faking: Wells Fargo firings expose workplace surveillance dilemmawww.axios.com Some workers aren't working, but snooping is bad for morale.

Gonna be honest, Twitter is a joy right now

I didn't think it was possible to come up with even worse both sides takes, but life, uh, finds a way

I think it’s a testament to the fact that they don’t actually really care about those people and are largely interested in appeasing and appealing to the “middle” (aka conservatives)

At some point Democratic elected officials will notice that when Donald Trump has a personal setback the majority of the population literally celebrates in the street, I hope.

Exactly. I’m honestly amazed by anyone, from judge to jury to prosecution, that put themselves on the line like this. It’s a testament to how many people still believe in justice and will do a lot to preserve it.

It’s not just that the jurors have to fear Trump’s deranged followers. They also just convicted someone who may have the full resources of the US national security state at his disposal in less than a year. Real bravery.

Wow

I don’t know how much more obvious it has to be that Hamas wants these kinds of casualties and is baiting Israel. This all serves their ends. The goal is to isolate and devastate Israel politically. Israel’s government, apparently, is happy to oblige as long as the blood keeps flowing.

As the war progresses and it becomes clearer this was never about hostages, the talking points are predictably evolving. If only they had been this honest when they hoodwinked the Israeli and American Jewish public that actually cared about the hostages.

They could not care less about the hostages, and yet in America you’d think this war is actually to save them.

The images out of Rafah are beyond horrific. None of this will keep Israelis or Jews safe. It is simply revenge and pure bloodshed in the name of extending the occupation. All so Netanyahu can stay in power. What a horror.

Really good example of how the desire to win elections over saving democracy is how Democrats themselves become tools of fascism.

Even if you want to be pro institutions and anti Republicans, I don't understand what's so hard about saying 'Republicans have corrupted this institution; we need an independent judiciary, not MAGA in robes'

Just about every single anti-extremist researcher & writer specializing in fascism I know has been laid off. Those who aren't laid off work for "establishment" orgs that largely go against their own stated goals. This to me is one of the biggest signs of the danger we're in.

🧵… The layoffs of today at @mmfa.bsky.social highlight the fact that organizations that produce investigative journalism, research, and analysis of far right extremism and authoritarian movements are systemically underfunded — an institutional failure to respond to the current moment …

This is part of the reason we need to be openly, vocally critical of America’s structure itself (including Democrats) while still warning of the dangers of the right’s fascism. Too many see these as opposition positions as opposed to intricately connected ones.

The hostage families are crying for their children, relatives, spouses. They are crying out for help, crying out for a solution, with many crying out for a deal. All along, this was never about choosing between Gazans or hostages. It was about choosing war or innocent people.

It is very very very hard to keep holding the trauma and pain of the pro-Israel Jewish community in America along with the Palestinian diaspora. The pain and fear is just deeply palpable in so many ways and to advocate for Palestinians in this time is seen as an attack on their very identities.

I don't think we can really be "anti-extremist" or "anti-authoritarian" or "anti-fascist" without understanding how these things exist in America with or without Trump and Trumpism. Otherwise we're just defending centrism, an ideology that itself has aspects of these things.

It is far more useful to listen to Ben Gvir when imagining what Israel’s government actually intends to do “after” the war. And he lays it out publicly:

My latest for @MSNBC: Why Altman's Ursula-style attempted theft of Scarlett Johansson's voice is not just about one case. It is a smaller version of what he plans to do to society itself. Just like the many tech bros before him.

Opinion | Scarlett Johansson didn't like the voice of OpenAi's new chat bot. We shouldn't either.www.msnbc.com The actor said the voice of a new chat bot “sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference.”