Several readers have asked about who I’m reading on Substack or elsewhere who’s writing with smarts about Trump 2.0. So I'm sharing my go-to 'stacks and other voices and invite you to share yours.
Yes, good point on antisemitism. It’s being weaponized alongside Islamophobia ans the EOs attacking DEI on campus and targeting student protesters esp pro-Palestinian students.
The Intercept may have quantified a pro-Israel stance in the first 6 weeks of the war, but they made up for it by orders of magnitude afterword. There are some who believe the latest Gaza Riviera talk is a fake-out to distract from the heist of domestic agencies; and some who are now blaming pro-Palestinian protestors for enabling Trump into office. I share a little of those opinions, but mostly as a Jewish person, I see Donald Trump using Netanyahu and Israel to set up American Jews as targets for more antisemitism -- in his first term, by giving Jerusalem to Israel without anyone even asking for it, and in this term by inviting Netanyahu to sit beside him like a puppet while he proposes moving Palestinians like so many American public housing 'undesirables' when it's time to gentrify the neighborhood.
Yes, good point on antisemitism. It’s being weaponized alongside Islamophobia ans the EOs attacking DEI on campus and targeting student protesters esp pro-Palestinian students.
So much hateful prejudice animating this coup.
So very helpful - thank you for sharing all these resources!
Thank you for sharing what you then sent: the Indivisible/Move On Toolkit for Senate visits. We’re posting to Resisting Project 2025 campaign website.
The Intercept may have quantified a pro-Israel stance in the first 6 weeks of the war, but they made up for it by orders of magnitude afterword. There are some who believe the latest Gaza Riviera talk is a fake-out to distract from the heist of domestic agencies; and some who are now blaming pro-Palestinian protestors for enabling Trump into office. I share a little of those opinions, but mostly as a Jewish person, I see Donald Trump using Netanyahu and Israel to set up American Jews as targets for more antisemitism -- in his first term, by giving Jerusalem to Israel without anyone even asking for it, and in this term by inviting Netanyahu to sit beside him like a puppet while he proposes moving Palestinians like so many American public housing 'undesirables' when it's time to gentrify the neighborhood.