Sign of the Times: the number of fundraising texts I’m receiving from Democratic candidates for Congress promising not to take money from AIPAC. We’re winning. I know it doesn’t feel like it. But I assure you that we’re winning. #StopAIPAC’sHate
HEADS UP! While attention focuses (understandably) on the House effort to legislate new US-Israel military relations via the FY27 NDAA, the Senate is quietly doing something similar via the FY27 Intell Authorization bill. Buckle up — it's a big deal. 🧵
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Extraordinary Letter.
Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.
"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"
A network of ideological, openly pro Israel students are tasked with bullying and harassing educators using liberal antiracism laws, codes and norms and this cynical “reverse racism” dynamic is something we are supposed to take seriously as a good faith effort to combat bigotry
"Israeli officials and their allies in Congress and pro-Israel organizations are seeking to ensure that going forward, the Israeli prime minister and his/her officials will be functionally – and permanently – granted seats in the U.S. situation room."
That Graham Platner's main accuser led the campaign to demonize Brett Kavanaugh's main accuser as a scheming liar -- only to now present herself as a feminist icon courageously fighting for the dignity of female accusers -- is perfectly illustrative of partisan discourse.
I will deliver this speech Monday at approximately noon. I’m honored to report that some survivors have already indicated they will attend as my guests in the gallery. If you’re a survivor and would like to attend, please contact my office, or talk with leaders in your group.
Dan was “unaware” that far-right wing Israeli officials that openly call for genocide and war crimes would be marching in the parade celebrating a country actively committing genocide and war crimes (The Knesset Delgation were “honored guests”) 🤡
Several elected officials said they didn't know Smotrich was coming, but the pre-parade guest list already included an Israeli official who called to "get rid of all the mosques" and another who demanded "a Nakba worse than 1948."
https://t.co/mKE9ZgbWtT
🇺🇸 Rep. Mike Lawler says that if Democratic House candidate Dr. Adam Hamawy is elected in November, he will “demand a full congressional investigation into his connections and any links to terrorist organizations.”
Photograph: U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) meets with Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir during Ben-Gvir's visit to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in 2025. Ben-Gvir has been convicted at least eight times in Israel for offenses including incitement to racism, property destruction, and supporting a terrorist organization.
Despite Israel's deepening unpopularity in the United States because of its atrocities, Republicans are trying to rush through legislation that would permanently integrate the Israeli and American militaries in a way designed to avoid annual scrutiny. https://t.co/Vdyttxn5fd
26% (25 of 97) of the Congressional Progressive Caucus voted against the Lebanon war powers resolution.
Of those 25 who voted against it, 60% (15) are also members of the centrist New Democrat Coalition (including Dan Goldman).
Actual progressives overwhelmingly voted for it.
Graham Platner's primary accuser, Lyndsey Fifield, is a pathological liar (see below) whose main cause is Israel.
Make of that what what you will. I know one's views of the #BelieveWomen framework radically shifts based on the politics of the accused, but it's clearly relevant:
I don’t get what Mills is doing here. Run or don’t run! Everyone is worried about this race and desperate to win it, but her response throughout has just been to half-ass her way through it.