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By refusing to create community meeting spaces with bathrooms, Starbucks is giving our neighborhoods a giant FU, only locating here to serve the wealthier car commuters who use the major arterials that bisect our communities to commute from their exurban homes. 3/3

This is a polite way of saying that most of the Israeli electorate is delighted by the apocalyptic levels of destruction their government has inflicted and that whoever wins, the project of crushing and expelling millions of subject non-humans will continue at a somewhat higher or lesser intensity.

Matthew Yglesias • @mattygle.... 3h
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It's wild how well Netanyahu's polling is holding up given the objectively egregious security failings on 10/7, Israel's deteriorating international position, and how decidedly not left-wing the opposition is.
Israeli public opinion just seems really cooked.

This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.

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These people are simply not Americans. This is not how a free man behaves. These people are willing slaves to a man who would sell them out in an instant and spit on their wives and children if he thought he could make a buck from it. Disgusting, vile people, barely worthy to be called human.

It’s not super great that the two Muslim men running as progressives got a huge establishment backlash from the party’s old guard, while the white dude with a Nazi tattoo got nothing like it

"Jewish-related issues come up in politics and people will point to some poll or another of Jewish opinion. But Jewish public opinion doesn’t matter. When it comes to Jews in politics, what matters are the opinions and actions of campaign contributors and media executives."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

Some good data showing that the narrative of "Jews in the US moving to the right" is mostly about donors and wealthier Jews, but the organizations that claim to speak on behalf of Jews to the media and politicians are most responsive to those Jews. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/26/t...

Still angry that the Israeli government rushed to blame Mamdani for an antisemitic stabbing in New York this past week... when they also rushed to absolve Trump of any blame for the much deadlier 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, for which Trump was actually much more culpable.

"Israel Blames Mamdani for NYC Stabbings as Police Work to Establish Motive
Foreign Minister Sa'ar decries 'horrific antisemitic stabbing' as witnesses say assailant yelled 'Allahu Akbar' during the attacks; both victims - one of whom is Jewish - are expected to survive""Israeli Minister Calls It Unfair to Link Trump with Synagogue Shooting
Criticism highlights divide between conservative Israeli government and many American Jews"