Magdi Jacobs

I write about politics, culture, & science. Bylines in WAPO, Slate, DAME, & Foreign Policy. She/her. Venmo: @ maggi_jay

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

Please really try to watch what Russia does to Ukraine.

[Anastasiya Paraskevova @UkrainianAna]

So... Do you see the boy on a scooter?
That was a 16 year old son of my mother's nurse.
Nothing left of him.
That was this woman's only child.
I don't think I have much else to say.
Russians killed him and ripped this woman's heart out.
Trump assists Russia in this.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@agraybee Also I want to correct your Russian imitation 😂. Sorry but this is an area in which I excel.

"It is me. Johnny American. I not US Republican. I eat much hamburgers."

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@agraybee I love it that they make not one, but (arguably) two grammatical article errors.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@JewishWonk This would be particularly interesting in a historical sense. Looking at accent/dialect variation in each group born into Israel since the 1950s. I've poked around some but haven't found much in English. I'd be surprised if Israeli linguists weren't on the case.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@JewishWonk You might already know, but that would explain the differences in accent. I want so badly to be a Hebrew dialectologist 😭. Language contact is so cool and there is no historical analogue for language contact at this scale within a language revival framework.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@krubner It's definitely more rural/suburban than urban, though some urban spaces, like Minneapolis, really have seen a decline since the pandemic. (Operation Surge didn't help) Then people not wanting to go out is a big social effect related to covid/social media/internet more broadly.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

This is great. I'd argue that we should stop the decline of video game stores like we should have stopped the decline of malls. Anything that's physical & communal in this world should be fought for. Especially given issues of loneliness. The decline of malls was bad for society.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The shift toward digital-only gaming is restricting gamers’ affordability and access to their own games.

Imagine purchasing a video game, only to discover a few years later that you can no longer play it—even though you paid for it.

I am introducing the Power to the Players Act to defend your right to own, transfer, and play the games you purchase.

It’s time to return power where it belongs: to the players.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@JewishWonk Were your younger cousins born in Israel?

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@Cincinnatus56 I want someone to ask them to give a working model of human intelligence before they go on to claim AI superintelligence is on the horizon.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

“Even if X’s influence on the mass public is limited, because so many mainstream institutions and figures have remained on the platform, it can skew their perceptions of what is popular, just, or wise, and by extension their decision making.”
https://t.co/OQitNEQv1g

[Alice Poole (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @shesrightshow]

Anti-Indian racism has been a long weirdly specific 4chan alt-right thing, and now it's a widespread weirdly specific alt-left thing, and it makes me question who's in current alt-left communities. Where do we think all the qanoners went? Those people didn't stop existing.

(And it's not because Ro's a rich silicon valley Cali tech guy: Tom Steyer controls for those factors and passed the vibe check in leftist communities. They love rich California leftie streamers, too.)

[WhickTV - Bane of Christian Nationalists @WhickTv]

To the veterans: thank you for your service

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

Yeah, being able to wander around the mall with your friends was a societal good that we never really recognized.

[THEE Pro-Democracy Voter 🇵🇷🇺🇸🐝🪷 @BklynDin]

@magi_jay A lot of teens in NYC complain that they don’t have anything to do. No communal spaces, “everything cost money”, no rec centers, banned from hanging out at McDonald’s, being targeted by cops for loitering and we’re seeing increased gang/gun violence and antisocial behavior.

[oof @timeoutoutout]

So many people call out the grift of the other side and we can still do that but we also need to amplify the understanding that there are people grifting on outrage farming purportedly on our side.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

This man gets it.

[Tater Tots McGee @tatertotsconor]

When the fuck are we going to come together as a planet and stop Russia? Like why has this been allowed to continue for years?

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Today CAP is announcing a bold and robust anti-corruption agenda that will ensure Trump and no future President could engage in the blatant corruption of the last 2 years ever again. https://t.co/an6NpPGonC

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@shesrightshow This is fucking insane.

[Kaitlyn Hennessy @Kdoespolitics]

You did not Free Palestine by throwing milk and screaming at an 83 year old man battling cancer.

You did, however, get to perform your activism, get some footage for a viral video, and hopefully get a performance selfie upon arrest.

[Kraut @The_Davos_Man]

One of my dads closest friends was a man who was arrested by the communist secret police, tied to a chair, had his fingernails torn out with pliers until he gave a false confession.

I learned everything I need to know about people like you from talking to him about those people.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@Fat_DTEA @Wilson__Valdez Yeah, I'd buy that, but what a miscalculation lol.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@Wilson__Valdez He went hard for Platner after the domestic violence story came out.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

@h1ren @lilbabygandhi One of my best friends is Hindu/Indian and he's not religious at all, but is still culturally Hindu and somewhat spiritually influenced, but not in a devout way. More like he'll randomly bring up 11 angels and relate them to something in the world. It's quite lovely, really.