Ethan Miller 🍉

CFP® professional. Union organizer turned financial planner for activists, organizers and public servants. Forever @NonProfitUnion. See website for disclosures.

[Ethan Miller 🍉 @ESMiller59]

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[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

“We are all shocked and horrified that a genocidal war criminal showed up to the parade celebrating a state committing genocidal war crimes”

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Unbelievable that Mamdani has gotten flak for skipping a parade that Smotrich—who is proudly overseeing the West Bank’s ethnic cleansing and annexation—and Eliyahu—who suggested nuking Gaza and bombing humanitarian aid—are marching in.

[Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @jewishaction]

Bend The Arc: Jewish Action Welcomes Mayor Mandani’s Veto of New York City Council’s Intro 175-B, A Bill To Restrict Free Speech Near Schools

Intro 175-B is ineffective, endangers communities it claims to protect, risks fueling antisemitism, and weakens the democracy we need to strengthen to fight against Trump’s authoritarianism.

The American Jewish community is living in a time of heightened fear — both from antisemitism and from the Trump regime’s attempts to dismantle our democracy. And American Jews know that our democracy is what keeps Jews — and all of us — safest. As we witness increased threats to Jews, Muslims, and Black, brown, trans, and immigrant people across our communities, we know that freedom of speech — as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution — is a non-negotiable pillar of that democracy.

During this time of unprecedented risk, legislation that curtails free speech undermines the safety of those targeted by the regime, including American Jews. In the face of efforts to subvert elections and ongoing attacks on civil liberties, local communities must strengthen protections for free expression — not expand law enforcement’s ability to criminalize it.

Crucially, using our community’s fear of antisemitism as a smokescreen to pass legislation that takes away the rights Americans cherish, is poised to fuel antisemitism, not dismantle it — creating further danger to American Jews, not less. Cities like New York, as well as universities themselves, are already equipped with agencies to respond to issues of harassment and discrimination. Increasing their resources would actually confront these issues head on without threatening our safety and our democracy.

Bills like Intro 175-B also risk setting national precedents; a Democrat member of Congress recently signaled interest in joining MAGA Republicans to use these measures as templates for national laws.

As the ACLU finds, this plan to attack free speech is so broad that it “could swallow up whole neighborhoods” just for being anywhere near what police decide is an “educational facility.” 175-B lends wide discretion to law enforcement to make these determinations. Historically, their broad interpretations have meant racial profiling, attacks on those struggling through mental health crises, and LGBTQIA+ discrimination. We know through decades of our work on policing that exposing students to more law enforcement decreases student safety.

From the Civil Rights movement, to the Vietnam and Iraq wars, to Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the fights against sexual violence on campus, and labor struggles, student protest has been a rightly celebrated feature in American culture. And Jewish students have played critical roles in the multifaith, multiracial coalitions that led them.

Criminalization of student protests recalls some of the most shameful moments in this nation’s history. At Kent State in 1970, the National Guard killed four peaceful, anti-war student protesters (three of whom were Jewish). More recently, we’ve witnessed McCarthy-esque hearings, evictions, suspensions, abductions, and even deportations of students — simply for exercising their right to free speech.

We support Mayor Mamdani’s veto and urge other elected officials to follow his lead favoring real solutions to safety and reject attacks on our civil liberties. Bend the Arc: Jewish Action calls on elected leaders to defend everyone’s right to be heard and all the constitutional rights we need to beat authoritarianism, so that we can build the safe, thriving nation of our dreams.

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[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

This nonsense is no longer going to fly. Every Democrat should denounce this and defend ⁦@ChrisVanHollen⁩ and ⁦@RoKhanna⁩ - two public servants with integrity who have always repudiated hate while defending the rights of all.

[Jewish Currents @JewishCurrents]

Jewish establishment groups are backing a war Americans don’t want, and they’re setting up American Jews to take the blame, @joshnathankazis writes. https://t.co/DdcaDnzW4W

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

If you cannot clearly say that you oppose an unauthorized, illegal war that lacks the support of 94% of Democratic voters, you cannot hope to represent them on the national stage or inspire them to help you take this country back.

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

George Orwell, 1944: “As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.”

“The calamities that are constantly being reported - battles, massacres, famines, revolutions - tend to inspire in the average person a feeling of unreality...Since nothing is ever quite proved or disproved, the most unmistakable fact can be impudently denied.

Moreover, although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to feel that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him.”

[Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein]

I’m running for the Congress in Maryland’s 6th district! https://t.co/bXLRkEuwKO

It’s always such an honor to join @democracynow. I’m thrilled I got to break this news with them. #MD06

[Patterico @Patterico]

The fact that Jeff Bezos is not paying for this is astoundingly offensive.

[shreya @shreyabasu003]

I went to Silver Spring Maryland and wept at the beauty of creation

[Ethan Miller 🍉 @ESMiller59]

Most of DC’s snowplows are actually private contractors.

[Tommy Wells 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @TommyWells]

This has to be one of the dumbest editorials the @washingtonpost has ever written

[Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere]

As DC continues struggling to dig out of the snow and ice, traffic stays snarled and schools are dealing with more delays tomorrow… Mayor Muriel Bowser spent part of her afternoon and evening … at the bar at the downtown Marriott Marquis, socializing with other mayors in town

[Ethan Miller 🍉 @ESMiller59]

I’ve never seen an invite with this kind of disclaimer language, suggesting the campaign is not doing their own vetting before asking prospective donors to come to fundraising events.

Do any of those invited hold DC contracts for snow removal? We might never know.

[Ethan Miller 🍉 @ESMiller59]

While DC residents were still digging out from the ice and snow this week, McDuffie and his PR and fundraising consultants were hosting a fundraiser on Capitol Hill.

[Ethan Miller 🍉 @ESMiller59]

Of course, raising money for a campaign is normal. What’s abnormal here is that the campaign presumably invited so many DC gov contractors that it felt the need to add a disclaimer directing invitees to seek legal advice to make sure they were eligible to contribute.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Good—but remember—ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed.

ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position.

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

anything less than abolishing ice is a cowardly capitulation to fascism