A new donation platform, Oath.vote, seeks to change donor behavior. Plus, the silence of the American Jewish establishment as Bibi threatens a million-plus Gazan civilians.
These sentence are confusing, "Before Latimer announced his candidacy in December, a group of 26 local rabbis wrote him a private letter urging him to run because they dislike how much he criticizes Israel. The letter was leaked, and it prompted a group of other Jewish residents, including me, to pen a similar letter to Latimer urging him not to run because we believed it would provoke a divisive and damaging primary."
I think the first "he" refers to Bowman but it looks like it refers to Latimer.
I noticed that the fallout from the NATO comment in Germany at least was overshadowed by the death of Navalny, but more interesting is just how little Germans seem anxious about Putin’s war in Ukraine. Sure, political leaders like Scholz are anxious, but right to far right of centre opposition is not. A recent poll showed that of the EU states, Germany is the biggest worrier of immigration. If that’s not the message Germans are sending back to relatives in the US, I’d be surprised. What has surprised me in my 3 years here is just how much ethnonationalism is still a very real drug. Jewish friends keep their identity to themselves, and right wing grievance politics and rhetoric is Miller lite (deportation and stripping Germans with a foreign background of their citizenship openly discussed, concentration camps in Germany verboten). I just hope my ballot makes it to me in the midst of relocating again. Living in Europe brought home just how powerful the American vote is, domestically and around the world (whether I like that latter power or not cannot matter).
Oath.vote sounds interesting! I hope they do set up a mechanism for donors to send money to community organizing efforts like Movement Voter Project. I just can’t not mention, though, that while Charles Booker may have been as unlikely to beat Mitch McConnell as Amy McGrath was, he would have challenged the conversation, which she certainly did not do. With his “From the Hood to the Holler” campaign, Booker drew attention to connections between the structural racism that led to Breonna Taylor’s murder in Louisville and the generational poverty that traps people living in Kentucky’s Appalachian mountains. Given that the Right has done a bang up job at describing where it wants the country to go: back, back, back to the bad old days when white straight men were in charge and there were no checks on corporations, and the Left hasn’t come close in its efforts to inject a vision into the public consciousness of a more just future, what Booker was up to was worthy of note, and donations. And yet, Chuck Schumer anointed McGrath in the primary, condescending that “those people” in Kentucky would love her because she’d been in the military, and the millions flowed her way.
Neither Biden nor Trump. If everyone who says they “like Cornel West but he can’t win” would just support and vote for him he would win—Cornel West for President!
These sentence are confusing, "Before Latimer announced his candidacy in December, a group of 26 local rabbis wrote him a private letter urging him to run because they dislike how much he criticizes Israel. The letter was leaked, and it prompted a group of other Jewish residents, including me, to pen a similar letter to Latimer urging him not to run because we believed it would provoke a divisive and damaging primary."
I think the first "he" refers to Bowman but it looks like it refers to Latimer.
I noticed that the fallout from the NATO comment in Germany at least was overshadowed by the death of Navalny, but more interesting is just how little Germans seem anxious about Putin’s war in Ukraine. Sure, political leaders like Scholz are anxious, but right to far right of centre opposition is not. A recent poll showed that of the EU states, Germany is the biggest worrier of immigration. If that’s not the message Germans are sending back to relatives in the US, I’d be surprised. What has surprised me in my 3 years here is just how much ethnonationalism is still a very real drug. Jewish friends keep their identity to themselves, and right wing grievance politics and rhetoric is Miller lite (deportation and stripping Germans with a foreign background of their citizenship openly discussed, concentration camps in Germany verboten). I just hope my ballot makes it to me in the midst of relocating again. Living in Europe brought home just how powerful the American vote is, domestically and around the world (whether I like that latter power or not cannot matter).
Oath.vote sounds interesting! I hope they do set up a mechanism for donors to send money to community organizing efforts like Movement Voter Project. I just can’t not mention, though, that while Charles Booker may have been as unlikely to beat Mitch McConnell as Amy McGrath was, he would have challenged the conversation, which she certainly did not do. With his “From the Hood to the Holler” campaign, Booker drew attention to connections between the structural racism that led to Breonna Taylor’s murder in Louisville and the generational poverty that traps people living in Kentucky’s Appalachian mountains. Given that the Right has done a bang up job at describing where it wants the country to go: back, back, back to the bad old days when white straight men were in charge and there were no checks on corporations, and the Left hasn’t come close in its efforts to inject a vision into the public consciousness of a more just future, what Booker was up to was worthy of note, and donations. And yet, Chuck Schumer anointed McGrath in the primary, condescending that “those people” in Kentucky would love her because she’d been in the military, and the millions flowed her way.
Neither Biden nor Trump. If everyone who says they “like Cornel West but he can’t win” would just support and vote for him he would win—Cornel West for President!
fantastic as always