David Setton

Brinson Prize Fellow at Princeton studying the evolution of massive galaxies; Letterboxd:

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

One of the worst moments in my life was when my family saw Her and hated it, because they were so wrong but there was nothing I could do.

[🤠 @will_selecta]

Kurt Vonnegut kinda nailed it with this one

[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.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Oh my God she’s explicitly opposing the tax cut bullshit we might be saved

[The Goddamned Penguin @who_shot_jgr]

this article really changed my mind. the tax should be $10

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

@mindyisser A whole article about $8/month in expenses on rides that she absolutely does not justify as anything but a luxury

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

Huge news for guys who screened Spaceballs at every single one of their elementary school birthday parties

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First teaser for ‘SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE’.

In theaters on April 23, 2027.

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

@souljagoyteller Red Rooms! Deeply unsettling, and it’s all about our fucked up relationship with online horrors. I think you’d really like it.

[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

We love the Shrike, don't we folks? We love the Lord of Pain. And we love to be pinned to that Tree

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

lowkey what it feels like leaving 30th street station on the NE regional and seeing the Philly skyline

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

Passover has long been my favorite Jewish holiday. But I’ve always struggled with the Tenth Plague — and now more than ever. So for this year’s Haggadah, we added a midrash from Exodus Rabbah about Israelite parents who welcomed firstborn Egyptian kids into their homes on that fateful night.

Chag Pesach Sameach.
https://t.co/srka4LAY2r

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

@DavidAstinWalsh Truly such a shitty experience renting in Princeton as a postdoc. No subsidized housing at all available. I lasted one year paying an insane amount for a totally unremarkable apartment before moving to Philly and paying less living in center city and taking Amtrak up

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.

A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.

Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.

Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

[David Setton @davidjsetton]

@mindyisser South Square at 23rd and South has Streit’s!

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Even in the setting of a just war — which this war is absolutely not — I would find such puerile, callous zeal for killing stomach-turning. We are led by truly sick people with no decency and little regard for human life.

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.

"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

First they came for the Somalis, and I mistakenly believed I was very different and they would never come for me

[Adam Neely @its_adamneely]

Suno bad. Technocapitalism bad.

https://t.co/xQ7dsiyA0b

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Jews were not, in fact, citizens. They had their citizenship stripped in Germany and they were under foreign occupation everywhere else. Batya, whose dad worked at Harvard and who has a PhD in English lit from Berkeley, obviously knows this, but she thinks her audience is stupid.