I just subscribed to Liberal Currents and everyone should too. They do liberalism without any fecklessness.

Sounds like a Jenny Nicholson post.

Yeah, I just called and they are closed, and there's no option to leave a voicemail message.

I'm so happy for her.

You're instinct is right, that's Lena Dunham. www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03...

Demanding crackdowns on protest will make the world less safe for Jews.

Will have the effect of reinforcing people’s belief that our institutions are more responsive to to one group (Jews) than other groups. The trope of Jewish people controlling the government to ignore popular will is classic antisemitism. But it’s hard for me to see how this won’t fuel that notion.

So if you are concerned about antisemitism like I am, the sight of Jewish individuals leveraging resources to get preferrable treatment (no one has gotten a million dollar settlement for crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech as far as I know), at a time when popular support for Israel has crashed…

Meanwhile, some Jewish students and a professor teamed up with the right wing legal org that represented Hobby Lobby to win a multimillion dollar settlement against the UC, at a time when we are experiencing hiring freezes and cutbacks thanks to the Trump admin’s assault on higher education. 3/

Did someone at the encampments say or do some questionable stuff at some point? Sure. But they did not block access to campus buildings - campus security did. The pro-Palestinian protestors were also brutalized, first by masked thugs, then by the police. Encampment students were disciplined. 2/

This is one charge I’m happy to have autorenew indefinitely. And I’ll be eating pain bagnat for lunch all this week.

I once went with a date to see “The Diving Bell and Butterfly”.

Former LA Times writer Brian Merchant!

My grandparents fled Germany in the 30s, just like Stanley’s father.

“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”

— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president

Sunkara is quoted, yes.

Funny, I was just in the Hiller Highlands neighborhood of Oakland today. It's totally rebuilt now, much the way it was before except the houses look a bit newer.

I want to like this post but I have no idea what it means.

About to head down to my Alamo to see it tonight.