Lisa Greenwald

#feminism #féminisme

[Susan Edelman @SusanBEdelman]

Timely advice by history teacher Lisa Greenwald, Stuyvesant HS's faculty commencement speaker, to the Class of 2026:
"Let your empathy extend beyond your people, whoever you have decided they are, to traditions and arguments you may not at first accept. Then translate that empathy into practices that make a difference. Do hard things with people who are not just like you. Find common cause."
https://t.co/KxOW17Ln8X

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Politicians and city officials keep blaming the violence at Free Palestine protests on crowd size, excusing vandalized Jewish businesses, hateful slogans, and blatant antisemitism as an inevitable byproduct of large demonstrations.

But this weekend, 350,000 Iranians gathered in Toronto, 250,000 in Munich, and thousands in London, Melbourne, Athens and Tokyo to condemn the Iranian regime and its mass slaughter.

And guess what? Not a single shop window was smashed. Not one act of violence.

Police officers were even given flowers to thank them for protecting the demonstrators. Many patrol cars were covered with letters and bouquets.

So no, the problem was never the number of people. It was the people themselves.

[Lisa Greenwald @Daughtersof1968]

@MicahLasher @ZohranKMamdani Thank you for this measured and intelligent explanation Micha!

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Enough talking, it’s time to act! 1. Let’s finance our aid for Ukraine from the Russian frozen assets. 2. Let’s strengthen air policing, the Baltic sentry and the EU borders with Russia. 3. Let’s swiftly adopt new fiscal rules to finance the EU security and defence. Now!

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Why do all decent people stand by Ukraine today? Why do free nations today pay a tribute to the heroes and victims of this inhuman war? Because this is a war in defense of us all: Ukraine, Poland, Europe and our values. Let no-one try to question the very sense of this fight.

[Lisa Greenwald @Daughtersof1968]

I’ve been very sensitive to the antisemitic tendencies of the progressive left but both the article and critical comments seem entirely self-serving and unnecessary character assassination. @CMShahanaHanif is a city council woman who serves her constituents. Let’s tone it down.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

🚨BREAKING: Prof. Dr. Salman Al-Daya, Dean of the College of Sharia and Law at the Islamic University of Gaza and Gaza’s foremost religious authority, has issued a series of six statements condemning Hamas leaders' blatant disregard for Gazan lives—and has called on Hamas to step down.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Vandalizing a Jewish business, like Levantine, simply because it is Jewish is not a protest. It is discrimination, pure and simple. Substituting the word ‘Zionist’ for ‘Jew’ makes it no less discriminatory.

NYC has become dangerously desensitized to the harassment and intimidation that has been routinely aimed at Jewish institutions. The desensitization of America to antisemitism is itself an insidious form of antisemitism—one that Americans ignore at our own peril. Speaking out against Jew-hatred is a civic duty, and never more so than in a post October 7th world.

[Luis Moreno @LuisMorenolg]

Last night windows were smashed and acid thrown on Haitian owned cars. Now these Neo-Nazis are on the streets of Springfield. Trump and company are sponsoring America's own "Kristallnacht." It's disturbing and-frightening.

[Lisa Greenwald @Daughtersof1968]

And this my radical friends is why Trump will win. You are neither saving Gaza/Palestinians or American democracy. Your movement is an abject failure and will ruin us all. Do you think a Trump presidency will be kinder to Palestinians?

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a terrifying moment, Donald Trump says that his Project 2025 plan to round up migrants will be a bloody operation. This is what fascism looks like. Retweet to make sure every American sees this and knows how dangerous Trump is.

[Lisa Greenwald @Daughtersof1968]

@NYCMayor Thank you.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Harris/Walz campaign just sent this media advisory out on Trump’s upcoming press conference

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

“By selecting Gov. Walz as her running mate, Vice President Harris has gone radically normal, picking an everyman who actually likes and cares about everyone, and Republicans have no idea how to react.” https://t.co/NDnXM2RZzR

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Let’s get 500 retweets on this new video highlighting who Tim Walz is

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning new leak, JD Vance completely endorses Project 2025. Donald Trump can’t run from this now. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The Democratic Party crushed all opposition during the primary with behind-the-scenes arm twisting and threats to discourage potential candidates from running, legal challenges to prevent NoLabels, @deanbphillips, @RobertKennedyJr and others from getting on the ballot in many states, and unprecedented limitations on the recent debate (which enabled the exclusion of @RobertKennedyJr) to limit the possibility of a third-party candidate successfully running for president.

The Party’s approach was based on the premise that Biden could beat Trump. Even when it was clear that Biden’s health had deteriorated and the polls were turning against him, the Party continued to move full speed ahead with its plan until last Thursday when Biden’s impairment was for all the world to see.

Now that it is untenable for Biden to be the candidate, the Democratic Party is working all angles to get @POTUS Biden to step aside so that a favored replacement can be anointed by the Party elders/big donors etc.

Once again the Democratic Party is making a catastrophic and highly undemocratic mistake.

In order to have a chance of redemption, the Party should:

Launch an open primary where candidates who meet certain sensible national recognition criteria can run. The criteria could include

(1) being a current or former senator, congressman, governor, senior military and/or business leader

(2) having a proven capability of raising or investing X dollars in their campaign,

(3) having more than X social media followers,

and/or other evidence of national name recognition/credibility.

Then each week for the next six weeks before the convention, launch a series of debates among the candidates where the field is narrrowed based upon reasonable measures of popular support for each candidate.

Narrow the field to two candidates by the week of August 12th and then have multiple final debates during the week of the 12th on different issues until a clear candidate emerges. That candidate can be anointed formally at the convention on August 19th. Then the Party would put its fundraising resources behind the candidate and a real contest could emerge by the time of the election.

The above approach would of course be a truly democratic process where the American people get to choose the candidate rather than a self-selected elite group of party members who to date have done more to destroy the Democratic Party and democracy than anyone else in our nearly 250-year history.

Because of the circumstances of the current state of our presidential election, this could be a unique opportunity for a first class candidate to emerge.

I am often asked by friends from other countries why the U.S. doesn’t field better candidates for the most important job in the land. The answer in part relates to how much of one’s life one needs to commit to the challenge without knowing about the potential outcome.

Consider that the above democratic approach would require a maximum of a six-week commitment of time before a potential candidate would know they won or lost the nomination compared with the typical two-year life commitment to consider a run. I expect that the reduced time commitment and the open nature of the field will attract a much higher quality pool of candidates than we have had in decades.

The only explanation one can glean from the Party-elite-pick-the-candidate-approach is that they care more about maintaining control over the Party and our democracy rather than what is best for our country and our citizens. Shame on them.

What do you think of this approach?

If you like this idea, please make your views known to the powers that be.

I have very little if any sway in the Democratic Party as you might expect based on my recent advocacy.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a terribly embarrassing moment for Trump, Fox News has to cut away from his speech because he isn’t making any coherent sense. It’s beyond clear Trump is senile. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Lisa Greenwald @Daughtersof1968]

Early voting starts Saturday, June 15! Please get out and vote!