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Senior editor @slate.bsky.social, @slateunion stan. @sethmaxon on 🐦/🥚.
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New details are just now coming out about what police at Columbia did during their raid on campus. Students injured that night talked to recent Columbia J-School grad Jazzmin Jiwa about what really happened. Their stories are a warning for the summer of protest ahead. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Was at Columbia When the Police Raided the Protest. Few Understand What Really Happened—and What’s Coming Now.slate.com What that night on campus means for the summer ahead.
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It's gotten wishy washy to say that a political solution is the only answer here, but this is a great column that outlines the shared humanity of two peoples and why the only thing that can ever bring lasting peace and justice is a political solution
“The cure to the crisis is not the recognition of Palestine ... And it’s not the displacement of as many Israelis in a mass act of vengeance. That would just be a counter-Nakba. The fix is the undoing of the Nakba, not merely the mourning of it.” slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Day Most Important to Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict Is Hereslate.com Until it changes, war will go on forever.
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“The cure to the crisis is not the recognition of Palestine ... And it’s not the displacement of as many Israelis in a mass act of vengeance. That would just be a counter-Nakba. The fix is the undoing of the Nakba, not merely the mourning of it.” slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Day Most Important to Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict Is Hereslate.com Until it changes, war will go on forever.
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It's a tragedy for us all that @matthewdessem.bsky.social is not at Slate to write the definitive exclusive piece by the worm, from the worm's perspective, in the worm's voice, about eating RFK Jr.'s brain. Perhaps a snooty restaurant review.
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For @slate.bsky.social, I argue that legislating a definition of antisemitism will not keep US Jews safe, a thing that is actually accomplished by preserving robust civil rights and freedoms of expression/assembly slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why American Jews Should Oppose the Antisemitism Awareness Actslate.com Hatred in America is real. But the bill that passed the House will only make it worse.
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My colleague Aymann Ismail’s piece on how willing Dearborn’s voters are to punish Biden this fall really convinced me that, beyond the human cost, his campaign is at minimum mindbogglingly complacent about the fact that his policy is going to lose him Michigan in November. slate.com/human-intere...
Are Arabs in Michigan Really Prepared to Hand the Presidency Back to Donald Trump? In a Word: Yes.slate.com Michigan has the power to unravel a second Biden presidency. It just might.
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A new round of gross JewBelong posts are going around. In January, @emilyctamkin.bsky.social wrote about the group's maddening contradictions, and its stubborn insistence on making sure that a huge portion of Jews seeing its work feel that in fact, they (we) do not belong. slate.com/news-and-pol...
What Is the Deal With Those Hot-Pink Antisemitism Billboards?slate.com They think they’re bringing Jews together. About that.
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Can't really think about anything but the shitshows on campuses and how they're being misrepresented, poorly reported, poorly processed by the public including people close to me, successfully manipulated by politicians and political groups, and misunderstood by most people. 1/x
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Edited a couple pieces I'm proud to have in @slate.bsky.social today. First, this from famine scholar Yan Slobodkin on the ways many have misunderstood the famine in Gaza, and how to better understand it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Study Famine. The Conversation About Gaza Has Been Very Confused.slate.com There are three key factors to understand.
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If you are following the Columbia University story, I strongly recommend looking at the student newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, for student perspective. Here is the paper's strongly written and argued editorial. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...
Is Columbia in crisis?www.columbiaspectator.com The short answer? Yes, but not in the way the House Committee on Education and the Workforce would like you to believe.
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All I need is for the NBA playoffs to start and a few more solar eclipses, then I'll never need to think about anything shitty again
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New from Molly Olmstead on the new politics of IVF: “Huntsville tells us less about Alabama and more about the nation as a whole ... it’s a useful data point for Democrats strategizing around similar wealthy, educated suburbs around the country.” slate.com/news-and-pol...
Is the Flipped Alabama Seat a Sign IVF Will Be a Big Issue in November? It’s Complicated.slate.com It might say more about national politics than Alabama’s.
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Today is an excellent day to remind all of you Americans that the Brazilian electoral court banned Bolsonaro from running in the next election within six months from his attempted insurrection. By now, 14 months later, he’s had his passport confiscated so he won’t escape from punishment.
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. @kirshner.bsky.social got exclusive polling data from YouGov, which found that Nick Saban "is comfortably the most popular figure in Alabama public life." Favorability ratings: Saban: 81% Trump: 58% Tuberville: 49% Biden: 33% Charles Barkley: 62% Hugh Freeze: 30% slate.com/news-and-pol...
If Democrats Want to Win an Alabama Senate Seat, It’s Clear Whom They Should Recruitslate.com New polling proves that no Dem in the state has a better shot than the obvious choice.
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