They think you're stupid.

It's actually really bad that Bibi is not tied to a specific geographic constituency and is thus *completely immune* from being voted out of office so long as Likud is able to attain even a *single* seat in parliament. We call that a flaw in the system.

Controversial ET take, I guess, but the electoral politics of Japan and Israel have actually negatively polarized me against most conventionally popular electoral reforms (namely: proportional representation).

No one should ever work with the US again, our word is garbage, and we will treat our allies like shit.

Guy who somehow still hasn’t figured out that we’re in a cold civil war yet voice:

If anyone wants to try this again with the next MAGA bootlicker, first question:

“Did Kamala Harris lose the 2024 election?”

They will jump at the chance to say yes. These toads HAVE to.

Then the 2020 question.

Is there any scpaegoat in all of history that comes anywhere CLOSE to being as successful as that of Pontius "No, you see, guys, when I, the occupying Governor of Judea, crucified that Jewish man, it's only because the Jews, whom I was occupying, forced me to - I'm just a smol bean" Pilate?

No, we are not doing “Jewish deicide” on Bluesky, the Nostra aetate settled this decades ago.

The Roman authorities, with the support of local oligarchs, killed Jesus. There’s no “blood guilt on all Jewish people” (or on Italians).

The Adversus Judaeos bull is literally 1600 years out of date.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

You laugh, but this is how feudal kings funded their coffers for literal ~centuries~ through sumptuary laws.

no one will ever throw people under the bus like this guy, the best ever to do it

I’ve long said the worst thing we did in planning/zoning was grandfather anything in. We shouldn’t do that. Year down anything that doesn’t comply. I bet they’d think about those laws differently. Also, anything landmarked should change the code citywide to allow it or it’s bulldozed too

From parking to premises: Urbin Developments, Diamond Parking partner on redevelopment projects A local real estate development company is partnering with Diamond Parking Services LLC to convert underused parking lots into residential housing.

Spokane was the first (and I think still only?) city in Washington to authorize the Pavement to People tax incentive, which cuts the sales tax on new construction materials to 0 if developers build homes on a vacant parking lot.

Now it's finally bearing fruit! 🎉🏠

This is what almost every American longs for but doesn’t realize they long for it!

wrangling cardinals is harder than wrangling congress, the pope is almost by definition one of the most talented politicians alive

Incredible simultaneous Rorschach test for “are you a reactionary leftist uninterested in indisputable reality?” and, if so, “are you literate enough to understand a joke making fun of you?”

Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Peter Hungary may also be a right wing chud but he also ran on “I will imprison every one of these thieving goons” which the NYT will spend the next three years insisting no one ask for

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

israel is going to come to regret the long term consequences of netanyahu’s contempt for american democracy for a lot longer than netanyahu will be around

Objectively a victory for the pro-Palestinian bloc that J-Street has gone from being the center-left rearguard against any and all substantive criticism of Israel to relenting on one of the most perverse elements of the US-Israel relationship, which is unlimited, unconditional, free military aid.

This moment demands a reset. J Street is calling for the U.S. to end unconditional financial military subsidies to Israel and to move towards a relationship where we treat Israel like any other ally. 🧵 1/6

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.