Jesse Myerson

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Communications Director, IfNotNow. Views mine. I sometimes post about basketball and music.

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I guess I kind of ALWAYS figure that the president isn’t REALLY running the show, just mostly signing off on what his closest advisors advise. Like, do I think Biden being incapable of cogent thought for half his waking hours makes him especially less capable than George W. Bush was? Idk…

It is gratifying to see the Tories headed toward epic obliteration, but it would be thrilling if the Labour Party weren’t so feckless and anemic. Pity :/

Coconut tree is second to “and that time is every day” in my ranking

The reason I’m still skeptical Biden will step aside, even as consensus begins to emerge, is because for months he’s been like “Come November, Muslim voters in MI and Black voters in GA, who are desperately crying out against my relentless material support for genocide, will forget all about it.”

Recent years have certainly produced stupefying lurches toward dictatorship in our government, but I have to say: a system predicated on the dictatorship of the boss at work, the dictatorship of the landlord at home, and the dictatorship of the creditor in court contains the seeds from the outset.

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The thing about the immunity decision is that, it's gonna be like that til I die. Even if we stop Trump this time. Even if he dies never approaching the presidency again. It's a giant hole blown in the side of the ship of state and it's just a matter of time until it starts flooding.

The electoral college doesn’t empower rural voters, it empowers voters of all sorts in the small handful of states where the contest is closest.

When did people start calling jobs “roles”?

How can one imagine what will be unburdened by what was, when that selfsame one exists in the context of all in which they live and what came before them?

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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke: It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

Long, horrific post from Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has been convicted eight and indicted dozens of times for assorted acts of hate violence including supporting terrorism, and who here is speaking about Palestinian prisoners, thousands of whom have not even stood trial.

Thank goodness there are Jewish groups who support Cori Bush bc we agree with her positions on Israel/Palestine. Be nice if a Jewish group or two endorsed her despite disagreeing with those positions, on account of her many other great qualities & courageous acts. She won an eviction freeze, ppl!

The term “corrupt” implies an initial pristine state, but with the Supreme Court, we’re talking about an initially sullied institution further degraded. “Corrupt” doesn’t quite cover it.

Been sayin

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Thinking a lot about how the bipartisan project of police immunity to law helped set the stage for this.

The outlook is not brilliant, friends and comrades

Sad to lose iHart. Can’t blame him, because that’s an immense bag, but really really sad to lose him. Idk if Sims can compete as backup 5 at the level we’re gonna need from him. Rest of the bench (Deuce, DDV, Hart) is incredibly solid, but I think we need a serious big.

I wish the Israeli government’s support for neo-Nazi European parties troubled liberal US Jews more than it seems to. I fear they may only come to acknowledge it once it’s too late.

CP3 to San Antonio is really smart and good. I’m happy for everyone involved.

Still experiencing whiplash from last week. Tuesday, elite liberals ousted Jamaal Bowman for, allegedly, his insufficient fealty to Biden. Thursday night, elite liberals determined Biden should give up being the President.

I feel like a strangely large number of people are forgetting that Kamala Harris is… the Vice President of the United States.

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Columbia University: Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. #Palestine #Israel

Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22mondoweiss.net Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extrem...

Jamaal bowman has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Last time Democrats were this freaked out was when Sanders won Nevada, and their response was to impose Biden on us.

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Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

If you wouldn’t take money from a pro-Putin American Russia Public Affairs Committee during the Ukraine War or from a pro-Assad American Syria Public Affairs Committee during the Syrian Civil War, but you do from the pro-Netanyahu American Israel Public Affairs Committee during the Gaza Nakba…

The European-style capitalist ethnostate is a false idol of the basest, most wicked sort. We worship it at our own peril.

Putting my heartfelt hope out there that Schumer retires in 2028 and in the race to succeed him Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leaves Ritchie Torres in a putrid pile of smoldering ignominy, may it be so!

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AP just called it for Latimer. A huge victory for the forces of vengeance, racism, and oppression.