At a @USJewishDems forum for Ohio-11 special election, each candidate was asked whether they support BDS.
@ninaturner: "No, I personally do not, but I also do not support the criminalization of people who are peacefully organizing for political change."
This is, to my knowledge, the first time Turner has clarified her position on BDS.
She supports tougher conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. Anti-BDS, pro-conditions is the stance Bowman took in NY-16 and it is already quite bold in a very Jewish seat: jewishinsider.com/2021/02/ohio-s…
Also interesting choice of tone and emphasis in Turner's climate answer: She talks about "kicking our addiction to fossil fuels," a "just transition" for fossil-fuel workers and "eradicating" environmental racism ...
... She does not use the term "Green New Deal," which she supports.
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-- Nursing home medical professionals and advocates for residents felt that they had an audience with Gov. Murphy's team.
Not so in New York.
“It was like talking to a wall. We told them to give [our members] a call. And we got nothing,” @PALTC_Chris.
-- On paper at least, this insight translated into smarter policy.
New Jersey took a more lenient approach toward nursing homes, offering help adhering to COVID guidelines. The state did not explicitly forbid turning away COVID-positive hospital patients.
New: Progressive Democrats have pushed for reforms based on Edward Snowden's leaks, but they have been relatively silent amid a campaign to get President Trump to pardon him. huffpost.com/entry/democrat… via @HuffPostPol
Very unlikely Trump will do it, but advocates think it is the best window they may ever have.
A lot of the post-election debate over the direction of the Democratic Party has been between the "center-left" and the "left" ...
... But there is also a more obscure, though fervent and important debate between what is sometimes called the paleo-left or conversely, "post-left," and both the neoliberal center and the intersectional, activist left embodied by the Squad ...
... Figures on the "post left" -- or traditional, Marxist or labor-oriented left -- believe that the intersectional left has become too focused on cultural movements and symbolic causes that lack a mass, working-class constituency ...
John McCain said the exact same thing in 2014 as part of a media blitz designed to pressure Obama into intervening more directly in Ukraine. Obama more or less didn't bite, refusing the Ukrainians lethal aid until the very end. politico.com/story/2014/03/…
Incidentally, when Romney called Russia the United States' biggest threat in 2012 it was also cause for mockery: washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec…
The facts about U.S.-Russia relations have since changed, but some of the fundamental questions about how to preserve peace in a world dominated by a handful of nuclear-armed nations remain roughly the same.
Ah yes, trying to score political points on a congresswoman frivolously accused of anti-semitism by ... mocking her Hanukkah greeting?
This is to say nothing of the merits of this historical parallel which are questionable. They were restoring Jewish sovereignty in response to religious repression imposed by an imperial power.
And as @NickBaumann and I noted in this deep dive, Hannukkah was a Jewish civil war and the rabbis of the Talmud downplayed the militaristic component of Hanukkah for a host of political reasons: huffpost.com/entry/real-his…
My one critique of the excellent @JaneMayerNYer report on Feinstein's decline is that she is a little too soft on Democrats for not nudging her out in 2018 ... newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
... Sure, Feinstein may have insisted on running again, but it was Democrats' choice to rally to her side against @kdeleon, an accomplished legislator and the son of Guatemalan immigrants.
This was Exhibit 1,783 in how the Democratic establishment selectively uses racial representation when it suits its interests.
Other examples include backing Cuomo over Nixon and Rahm over Chuy Garcia.