Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙

Arguing w/ myself. News EP at Osprey. Host of @uncertainpod. Once upon a time @TheDispatch, Ark Media, @cnn & AxiosOnHBO. Pharisee fan of cognitive dissonance.

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

I love how the Dems’ new message is affordability, communism, emptying the prisons and driving the Jews into the sea

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Lateness can simply be a mistake, and people should have tolerance for mistakes — we all make them. But being late is a broken promise and it is inherently disrespectful. It’s a minor thing when it’s a one-off mistake. When it is a pattern, it’s evidence that you don’t care about other people’s time, which again is disrespectful.

The rest of this nonsense about capitalism and control strikes me as evidence that this person has reified their self-centeredness into an embarrassingly stupid ideological justification for their chronic disrespect for other people.

[natalie 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @primadonnatella]

dude im not gonna lie.

i dont blame the right for wanting to protect western values and opposing mass immigration, bc what the fuck is this shit?

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

This is the only correct combination.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I'm very unusual in being pro-AI, pro-internet, pro-computer, pro-TV, pro-video-game, pro-industrial revolution, and virulently anti-smartphone

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

You can be alarmed or you can…I dunno…do the right thing and just vote against passage of the amendment.

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

Classic. Reverse causality is like a second language for Antizionists.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Good riddance Dan Goldman who ended his career by targeting an immigrant small business with a press tour, inspiring Trump DOJ and death threats. All because he couldn’t say no to genocide. Let his children remember that his feelings in a coffee shop overrides thousands of families bombed by his approved funds, weapons and narrative. Let his legacy be crying about a refund when anyone doing what he does should be tried in The Hague.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

They completely got away with it.

Lawyers for the pair argued the Sydney jihadi nurses were recorded without their consent when they promised to kill Jewish patients.

We are one of the most cucked nations in the world. Australia is broken

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

Did she ever try employment?

[Brecca Stoll @breccastoll]

Darializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own grapples with affordability motivated her to run for Congress.

Chevalier is in the seventh year of her PhD program at CUNY in NYC.

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

Antizionism

[MEMRI @MEMRIReports]

Ohio Immigration Attorney Shayan Parsai at California Usuli Institute: The Wailing Wall Has Nothing to Do with Jewish History; Jews Wail and Kiss the Wall Because They Seek to Crush Al-Aqsa; They Have Engaged in Child Sacrifice and Cannibalism for Centuries

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

@JasonBeeferman @bradlander Can't spot the lie.

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

Unbelievable humiliation.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Vance suggests there's now a direct line between the IRGC and CENTCOM, which of course he describes like a junior high school student: https://t.co/7VL3m6dNSG

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

@JonahDispatch In English, I opt for Can't because my accent struggles to differentiate Khant from cunt. But I'm pretty sure it's Khant.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

I have no words. The IRGC is a designated terror group because they plan dozens of terror attacks each year in other countries.

Celebrating the fact that our military is now coordinating with them is insane.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Vance is openly celebrating his success in alienating a formerly staunch American ally in the Arab world, and driving them to seek an accommodation with an implacable American enemy.

He's touting this as a great achievemnt.
A triumph.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

You might not care about the fact that they hate Jews, but how about them being fucking morons?? What does this have to do with fixing NYC?? The inmates are running the asylum (and they let everyone out because they are abolitionists)

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

Tis always been thus. Revolutions are the power trips of bored and bitter elite.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

NY-15 is the West and South Bronx, mostly Latino and Black, with a minority of Whites and Asians. It is the poorest Congressional district in the US, with a median household income under 45K, and one of the youngest, with a median age of about 31. Nearly everyone there is a renter, over a third were born outside of the US, and most are employed as essential workers.

On paper, working-class, young, and majority-minority should be the prime terrain for the DSA, right? Well, that's wrong. Socialist candidates in NYC do best in young, college-educated, and economically mobile gentrifying areas like Queens, Brooklyn, or Western Astoria, not the Bronx, where the median voter is focused on their own economic survival, not the minutia of foreign policy.

Voters in the Bronx do not have aspirational and rigid ideologies. They are pragmatic, because they have to be. They prioritize voting for candidates who bring services and tangible benefits to their constituents. Earning social media points for progressive goals feels good in Queens, but in the Bronx, young families want Child Tax Credits and funding to fix dilapidated local infrastructure.

Rep. Torres himself is also not an ideologue or carpet bagger with coastal elite funding. He was raised by a single mother in the Bronx, and built his political reputation in the NYC Council hyper-focused on fixing up public housing. He has a history of delivering results directly to his own district, and that is why progressives do not appeal to his constituents.

The DSA has also not caught on that working class Hispanics and Blacks are much more socially moderate than progressive activists. Abolish the Police would poll terribly in the Bronx, where voters are much more besieged by public disorder than highly educated white people in gentrifying areas of Brooklyn.

But most importantly, and what the chattering class who are mostly progressive refuse to admit, Rep. Torres has smartly created a model of how to leverage a public anti-far left reputation into massive electoral success.

In aggressively breaking with progressives on issues like Israel, he deliberately draws fire from the far left. This positions him to gather nationwide attention he would not otherwise gain, so that he can amass a huge campaign war chest long before his primary. FEC filings show Torres raked in >6.5 million during the election, while Blake struggled to raise just a tad over 400K. This allowed Torres to flood his district with ads and completely lock down important institutional support from local unions and other Bronx political leaders, so Blake had no chance at at all. By the end of the primary, Torres still had over $14 million on hand, while Blake had less than 100K.

What political commentators miss is that Torres has created a political juggernaut of liberal success that should be replicable in any district, even heavily blue ones, that are not likely to break ultra-progressive, because he knows what working class liberals actually care about. Hint: it's not aggressive rhetoric on Israel or policing.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism."

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

@Jakegreeneggs The only comedians I know about have podcasts and late night shows where they confidently opine on sociopolitical issues they don't understand.

[Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙 @AmsterdamLost]

I'm old enough to remember when comedians were funny people who told jokes.

[Matthew RJ Brodsky @MattRJBrodsky]

Congrats Trump - you killed the Abraham Accords for nothing.