jon ben-menachem

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criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. UAW 2710

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I’ve been 30 for 3 days and these are the ads I’m getting 💀

compared to journalism, is there any other profession where more laypeople think they could do a better job than the professionals?

President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.

Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades. apnews.com/article/isra...

Settlement tracking group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure in 3 decadesapnews.com A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

A detainee at the city’s jail barge who is paralyzed from the neck down after several correction officers tackled him last May remains quadriplegic in Bellevue Hospital more than a year later — while the official who oversaw the lockup has just been promoted. www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/03/j...

Jail Official Promoted After Detainee Under His Watch Paralyzed in Officer Takedownwww.thecity.nyc Carlton James has been in a hospital since being tackled by a group of guards over a year ago. The man who oversaw the unit is back with a raise.

did anyone catch the protest-bashing line in gorsuch's homelessness decision? "It makes no difference whether the defendant is a person experiencing homelessness, on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building"

very important news: i can now bench press my body weight for working sets 😎

yesterday, i thought joe biden should resign. today, i think joe biden should do one very funny and legal thing before he resigns

i’m 30 😎

i heard that if we all write a sternly worded op ed, joe will drop out

the new season of the bear was a large downgrade

Norway’s largest pension fund has cut ties with Caterpillar due to the US bulldozer company’s alleged contribution to the construction of illegal settlements and other human rights violations by Israel’s armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Norway pension fund sells $69m stake in Caterpillar over alleged involvement in Gaza destructionwww.theguardian.com KLP divests from US bulldozer company over alleged contribution to construction of illegal Israeli settlements

amazing post lol. i apologize for smugposting as someone who spent last night playing video games but i think watching that debate without being paid probably constitutes an act of self loathing

I’ve never really understood why people are so into quoting liberal dissents when bad decisions come down. These texts are basically the impotent insistences of losers…

things are fine haha :)

The ACLU of Southern California is calling for a federal investigation into LASD’s deputy-led jail violence after the LA District Attorney declined to prosecute deputies who were caught on video forcibly slamming an incarcerated man into a cement wall. lapublicpress.org/2024/06/aclu...

The ACLU calls for federal investigation into LASD's deputy-led jail violencelapublicpress.org The call comes after the LA District Attorney declined to prosecute deputies despite video of them forcibly slamming an incarcerated man into a wall.

The Bronx Defenders Union just announced that their strike authorization vote succeeded (93%). Solidarity! "Today, we became the first of the alternate providers formed after '94 to authorize a strike in 30 years, since Legal Aid Attorneys United went on strike under Guiliani."

After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays. gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fallwww.nytimes.com As the virus continues to mutate, scientific advisers to the C.D.C. are urging Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

“While the dwindling of the Israeli left is a tragedy, the reality is that in some way there never was an Israeli left to begin with.” nymag.com/intelligence...

My Father and the Withering of Liberal Zionismnymag.com Was my family’s dream of a Jewish socialist utopia all a lie?

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IDK what the Urban League could possibly be thinking by giving police a new avenue to harass Black people (who wear masks at higher rates than white people, for many good reasons). Shameful.

The National Urban League, ADL, Jewish Community Relations Council, UJA-Federation and "leading Black pastors" are launching a new campaign called #UnmaskHateNY to push for a mask ban in NY state. At least 10 state lawmakers have signed on to it. h/t @petersterne.com

Cuomo at +18 net favorability, Lander at +10, Adams at -14. This is making me more confident in my theory that Adams’ more recent embrace of Zionism is an effort to shore up his right flank against Cuomo’s primary challenge www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

It’s repulsive to see yet another bad faith invocation of Jewish safety to justify yet another expansion of police power to brutalize protesters.

it’s striking how many charges against palestine protesters have been dropped. it’s good that reform prosecutors are doing the right thing. but at the same time, this shows how “the law” really boils down to cops deciding who they’ll brutalize apnews.com/article/univ...

Prosecutors drop nearly 80 arrests from a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texasapnews.com Nearly 80 criminal trespass arrests stemming from a pro-Palestinian protest in April at the University of Texas have been dismissed.

if the bear was about zoomers they would say “yes chat” instead of “yes chef”

The PSA we needed, wow

Hopefully you all heard that FX/Hulu bumped up the S3 drop of THE BEAR, and all episodes will drop in … 15 minutes! Enjoy.

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NEW: Activists disrupted an AWS conference in DC today to protest Amazon and Google's Project Nimbus contract with Israel. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israelwww.wired.com Members of the activist group No Tech for Apartheid interrupted a senior Amazon executive's speech at a conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday over the company's Project Nimbus cloud contract.

money in politics matters, but it doesn't matter as much as ppl think. imo, folks should pay more attention to interest groups, media, and the structural power of capital

the zionist billionaire whatsapp chat with eric adams and aipac's $15m spend against bowman are really not helping american jews beat back the antisemitic conspiracy theories