Dr. Alana Baum

Hate-hater, music-lover, psychologist, adj. professor, Ed Post, Huff Post, Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times contributor. Proud Penn, NYU and Northwestern alum.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@AlinejadMasih @jaketapper Pure evil

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@SuzyQL @Acyn If you think that's all they stand for, please read their own words and literature. I'm a 60 year old slightly left of center as well and they do not represent me at all.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@WATT499663 @Acyn He's more true to Dems than these new radicals.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today.

His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child.

He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows.

Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him.

This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion.

Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@HillelNeuer Insanity

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary���s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

According to a source for the New York Post, Ro Khanna was invited to meet freed hostages and survivors of October 7th.

Khanna's team didn't even bother to respond.

His team was also offered an opportunity to meet with Druze civilians in the Golan Heights and a briefing on how aid is currently getting into Gaza. They didn't take it.

Now, if Ro Khanna genuinely believes that aid is not properly getting into Gaza, why not go to the briefing? If he thinks Israel is lying, wouldn't that be the perfect time to get proof?

But he didn't go, because those aren't his intentions. He didn't want to meet with victims of Hamas or those trying to get as much aid into Gaza as they can because they contradict his narrative.

And the narrative is all that matters.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Dr. @CochavElkayam is the human rights lawyer who spent the last few years documenting the sexual violence committed against women and children on Oct 7th. Amy and I were proud to help sponsor this essential work 3 years ago and ensure it received an international hearing, including before the UN. While in Tel Aviv, I was honored to meet with Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the researchers, lawyers, and victims who helped document these horrific crimes. Their work @theCC07 ensured that the world could never look away.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

One of the most inspiring examples of coexistence I saw in Israel was the partnership between Ichilov Hospital, Project Rozana and Al-Najah hospital, where Palestinian doctors are trained alongside Israeli colleagues to improve healthcare for everyone.

At @tasmc1, I met with Israeli and Arab doctors, nurses, and medical staff who work together, caring for every patient, no questions asked. Others have the luxury to debate whether coexistence is possible. The medical professionals at Ichilov Hospital do not debate it, they make it a practice of their profession.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@JonahDispatch No Jews, no Jews

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Hey Ro, Epstein wasn’t a billionaire and he’s dead (good riddance). How about talking how you want to confiscate the wealth of Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Kim Kardassian? They’re part of the “billionaire class.” Funny how you never talk about them.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@lawindsor @RahmEmanuel If you knew your history, you would know that Emanuel was the person in the administration who wanted to go after Wall Street bad actors. So stop.

[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@RoKhanna @bradlander Says the guy who went on Hasan Piker's podcast. Hate is never bold, singling out the one Jewish state is never brave or even new.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Nothing better captures the corruption and cruelty of Trump’s presidency. He made billions from crypto enriching himself while everyday American investors lost billions. On the same day, he flies on a Qatari $400m gifted jet. It’s come to define his idea of foreign aid, where everyone gives him money directly rather than making American richer, wealthier, and stronger as a nation. According to Trump, public service is all about acquiring personal wealth. Happy 250 years America!

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[Dr. Alana Baum @BAUMALANA]

@EdKrassen @qzeng You are very quick to minimize the pain he is causing so many Jewish Americans. It is striking to
me.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

URGENT:
"I reached out to almost every newspaper inside Iran. No one will touch this story."

Zeinab Mousavi known as "Aban" is dying quietly in Vakilabad Prison, and Iran’s regime wants no one to know.

A barista arrested alongside her brother Hassan on February 24, 2025, Zeinab has been charged with moharebeh, "enmity against God", for protesting. The charge carries the death penalty.

Now, her health is collapsing. For several consecutive nights, she has been suffering seizures in her sleep. Her family and supporters are demanding her immediate emergency transfer for medical treatment outside the prison walls. That demand has been ignored.

The silence around her case is not accidental.

Sepideh Qolian, an Iranian activist who was herself just released from prison, tried to break it. She reached out to most major Iranian newspapers to speak about the deteriorating conditions of the December protesters from Mashhad. Not one was willing to publish it.

"I'm at my most helpless," Qolian wrote. "If I speak to foreign media, I'll be arrested again. The conditions of the December prisoners are very bad."

Iran has built a perfect trap: beat them inside, silence those who witness it, and punish anyone who speaks out.

Zeinab Mousavi may be executed for protesting. She may also die waiting for medical care she is being denied.

Her story is being buried in real time. We refuse to let that happen.

#FreeZeinabMousavi

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

In 1790, President George Washington wrote in a letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, that the United States gives “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

Over two centuries later, those words remain one of the clearest expressions of the American ideal and a standard we must continue to hold ourselves to.

As we celebrate America's 250th birthday, let us honor this country for all it has provided to the Jewish community; let us celebrate all of our incredible, singular contributions to this democracy; and let us never fall prey to complacency. We must measure ourselves against an amazing legacy and continue working every single day to uphold it.

Happy birthday, America!
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[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

"Their owner passed away alone in his apartment. Nobody found him for three days. The dogs waited the whole time." When animal control finally arrived, Max and Buddy were sitting by the front door. Not destructive. Not panicked. Just sitting. Waiting. Doing what he had always taught them to do. They came to our shelter with nothing. No records. No vet history. No family contact. Just each other. And one old tennis ball that somebody thought to grab on the way out. That was eleven days ago. Every morning they sit at the kennel door and wait. Every time they hear footsteps they both stand up. Every time those footsteps pass — they go back and lie down together. They don't know he's not coming. They just know he always came back before. Max is 6. Buddy is 5. Both healthy. Both gentle. Both heartbreakingly good dogs. Neither one will do well separated. They have never spent a night apart. They were somebody's whole world. Now they need somebody to be theirs. If you are in the USA and you have room in your home and your heart — please share this until it reaches the right person. They've already waited long enough. Drop a ❤️ for Max and Buddy. And please — SHARE. One share could be everything.

[Elisha Wiesel @ElishaWiesel]

My father Elie Wiesel passed ten years ago, July 2nd 2016. Thank you to @wolfblitzer for having me on the @CNNSitRoom to remember his legacy. Our key message to young people who are falling for the DSA's lies and hatred: There is a way back. It's never too late.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

I'm not interested in turning blue districts to cobalt blue. Let’s focus on flipping red districts to blue to get a Democratic majority and hold the most corrupt administration in American history accountable.

While Americans are paying $4 a gallon and struggling to reach the middle class, Donald Trump has made more than $1.4 billion from crypto and meme coins, and $400 million from the Qatari plane, using public office for private gain.

We need an administration that works for the American people, not for themselves.