Jacob Rogers

@medillschool Grad MSJ '17, @presbycollege '14. SC to HK to Chi. Personal Account.

[Jacob Rogers @DJacobRogers]

If brevity is the soul of wit, verbosity is the soul of bullshit. Thanks for coming to my TEDx Talk.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7, there's a glass door, and officers just always standing, like sitting out there, the psychiatric nurse comes and checks on me once a day, and so from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon when I'm released, I'm literally on In that cell, naked just in that room, with the light on this real, like this is a nightmare."

@Timodc talked to a veteran and American citizen who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

[Jacob Rogers @DJacobRogers]

@DKThomp He literally said something about wanting "an abundance of eggs" in reference to eggs shortage on @ArmchairExpPod lol, hit him up for suuuure

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

In a world increasingly filled with leaders who have changed laws, killed people, and stormed parliaments to cling to power, Joe Biden just flipped the script.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

An actual hero.

This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

[Jacob Rogers @DJacobRogers]

@aliamjadrizvi @threadreaderapp unroll

[Jacob Rogers @DJacobRogers]

This is a very, very good insight. Especially if you are more of a casual reader of news.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid):

The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there’s more.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

As someone who frequently criticizes the media, I'd just say you should be approximately 10x more sympathetic to media fuck-ups on stories that are unfolding in real time (i.e. over minutes/hours versus days/weeks). It's literally 10x harder.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Re: the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests on college campuses and in cities... On the one hand, I find the whole thing pretty disturbing.

If you are someone who wants to both harshly criticize Israeli policy and condemn the genocidal slaughter of citizens, it is pretty easy to do. There are some high-profile Jewish voices (like Jonathan Katz, link below) doing it. This shouldn't be hard. Many Western leftists have simply lost the plot.

In case this point isn't clear enough, it is worth reminding everyone that the attack on Israel included the murder and kidnapping of infants, the elderly, and other civilians. Worse yet, many of the people killed in the attack were peacemakers who had lived and worked alongside Gazans — which is common among those who live in Kibbutzim near Gaza. It is also common among the kinds of Israelis you'd find at a late-night rave called the Festival of Peace and Love.

Civilians — Israeli or Gazan — do not fully bear the responsibility of their leaders' actions. Of course they don’t. Americans wouldn't (and shouldn't) try to excuse an Iraqi militant killing a six-year-old American because of George W. Bush's war in Iraq. For the same reason, we shouldn't excuse Hamas killing Israeli citizens in objection to their government, nor justify the death of Palestinian children in response to those actions.

And yet, most people seem only capable of condemning unthinkable violence when it's against “their side.” This conflict can break people's brains.

Here’s an analogy. As many of you who regularly read Tangle know, one of my more extreme political views is that I'm very critical of incarceration in the United States. But if there were a major, coordinated prison outbreak where a bunch of inmates murdered prison guards, then their wives and their children, I wouldn't go to the "rally against incarceration" the next day. I’d feel deeply troubled, and not at all gladdened by the news. And yet, there are numerous instances of students or protesters stating unambiguous support and glee for what Hamas has done.

On the other hand, I can't help but wonder: how much I should care about the statement from Black Lives Matter Chicago on this conflict. Or, say, "Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago," with its less than 100 followers on Twitter. Should these groups really be making national news? Support for Israel in the United States is still overwhelming, and the "pro-what-Hamas-did" position is miniscule. And, importantly, pro-Palestine protests are not at all synonymous with pro-Hamas sentiment.

To me, Hamas-condoning student organizations are not the power centers that actually matter.

I'm far more concerned about a sitting U.S. senator going on the most-watched cable news network in America and saying we are in a holy war before calling to "level the place" while talking about Gaza, where 2.3 million people live. I'm more worried about the collective swell of support for Hamas across the Arab world after the attacks. I'm more worried about Israel's president denying the concept of innocent civilians on the eve of a major military offensive. I'm more worried about Arab leaders, like those in Egypt, who are doing absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian people. I'm more worried about the former leaders of Hamas, who successfully rallied tens of thousands of people into the streets in Iraq, Iran, and Yemen with a global day of rage.

And while I'm sure many of the protests here in America include Palestinian-Americans whose voices I genuinely think we should hear, I'm much more concerned about what is happening in those power centers than the en massed voices of — in many cases — a bunch of college students and young liberals westernizing this conflict and hitting the streets in support of Hamas's actions.

But while we're here, let me also say I am glad these protests can happen in our country. Although Mark Weaver makes a cogent argument that a letter supporting Hamas can be viewed as "a resignation letter from civil society," there are documented cases of people being fired for far less, which is very concerning.

I’m actually thankful that — unlike in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, where police are breaking up pro-Palestine protests — these demonstrations have gone on here mostly uninhibited. As much as I abhor some of the things I am seeing or hearing at those rallies, any attempt to shut them down is both a violation of civil liberties and antithetical to the American spirit. And many of the rallies are uplifting, at least in the sense they are an opportunity for an often less-seen community to have their voices heard.

A lot of people have called this Israel's 9/11. I typically think these kinds of historical metaphors are overblown, but in this case it is a pretty fair comparison. Accordingly, we should remember all the mistakes we made after 9/11 right now. We should expect the “with-us-or-against-us” mentality, the bigotry, the blind lust for revenge; and we should be watchful of their recurrence.

Israel could be on the brink of similar mistakes. There are already thousands of civilians being killed in Gaza in response to the thousands of Israelis killed by Hamas. And now signals are blaring that this battle may set off a larger, regional war that could include Iran, Lebanon, and potentially even the United States and lord knows who else. Potential allies on both sides of this conflict should understand how bad that would be for the region and the entire world, and should understand that avoiding it will require necessary restraint. Otherwise, we’re just headed for more dead innocents.

[Jonathan Rosenthal @rosenthal_jon]

I have been struggling to articulate the complex emotions I've been feeling since Saturday morning as a Jew, a liberal/progressive, a believer that Palestinians and Jews have a right to a homeland, to safety and dignity. A thread 1/

[Andrea Adelson @aadelsonESPN]

Clemson is being out-coached out-schemed out-played and out-efforted. Bottom line. Deficiencies at WR and QB have not gone away.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

I drove 40 hours to attend a Northwestern football game and Clemson is doing something even stupider right now

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

TSMC...should have been TEXAS Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp

We cannot make the mistake again where brilliant diverse talent feels more comfortable OUTSIDE the US than INSIDE 🇺🇸

The movement of a single brilliant scientist––can and has lead to movement of militaries...

[Matt Tebbe @matttebbe]

Luke 18-19: widows, tax collectors, kids, blind beggars - interspersed in there are two rich men: A Young Ruler and Zacchaeus.

This is part of the gospel that's dealing with: fictive groups (family), economics of Rome/Israel, and the Kingdom of God. Some thoughts: +

[Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez]

I find very little in the political realm funny these days.

Except this. 😂

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

This man has angered the gods and we must cast him out to the wilderness

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

🎯response to @JohnPiper's assertion that women shouldn't lead parachurch organizations.

Read more at end of article here: https://t.co/KoJGuRFxfB

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

middle out

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

This is nuts. Now women can't lead parachurch orgs, according to @JohnPiper.

Let's be clear. This has nothing to do with doctrine, but everything to do with misogyny.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Gavin Newsom’s recent appearance on Hannity is a masterclass in communication and debate. A must-watch for all leaders — no matter what field you’re in or what party you belong to.

How Newsom took on Hannity, a thread🧵

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. The US murder rate is down an 12% year-to-date, based on 90 cities that have released data.

If the trend holds it will be the single largest annual decline in the murder rate ever recorded.

And yet, you probably haven't heard anything about it.

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