Jonathan Borowsky

By staying silent about what the Israeli government is doing, Jewish institutions are losing people who care deeply about Israel. A new essay in the Forward is a reminder that the future of Jewish communal life depends on making room for disagreement and a commitment to human rights.

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

Look, you may have thought this was just a vanity project, but we have very important plans to shoot a lot of sniper ammunition in Washington DC and we really do need somewhere to store it.

So, am I reading the news correctly that there is a new cruise missile named after Ayn Rand's most irritating book, being built by a Peter Thiel-backed defense contractor named after the bad guys in Halo?

In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it.

ICE killed a father of three yesterday and no one is talking about it. /1

Early care & education services are spatially differentiated. Using cell-phone mobility data, we measure worker & consumer commutes in a novel way, at the provider level. Great working with @gabriellepepin.bsky.social, @jborowsky.bsky.social & Liz Davis. research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...

I’m proud to have the endorsement of 10 out of 10 members of the Minneapolis House legislative delegation for my candidacy for Hennepin County Attorney.

No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.

Guess what everyone, the spoils system is constitutionally mandatory! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

"We are party to a services agreement with a security company owned by Mr. Musk and organized to provide security services concerning him, .... $4 million for such security services in 2025, and $1 million for such security services from January 1, 2026 through February 28, 2026."!

Someone's bankers have a sense of humor #SpaceXIPO

SpaceX's prospectus is WILD: "We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (“TAM”) in human history" Fascinatingly, very little of the projected market is space-related. 90% of it (26.5T/28.5T) is AI. "Our AI business is in a relatively early stage"

So... I wonder what the founders would think about the fact that our constitutional institutions have deteriorated so far that Congress is now getting lectures about checks and balances from the King of England.

This discriminatory death penalty law moves Israel further from the Jewish and democratic values on which it was founded – and from the core values of American Jews. 1/3

Trump isn't just contending that a narrower interpretation of the Citizenship Clause is preferable. He is saying there is a class of persons without rights, the aim of every authoritarian throughout history. Further, he argues that he has the unreviewable power to decide who is in that class.

Republican negotiation: Fund ICE or we'll defund food stamps. Dems: Okay you win. Dem negotiation: Reform ICE or we'll defund airport security. Republicans: No. Also, give me your shirt, loser. Dems: OK lets fund airport security. Can I put out a press release saying I am a tough and strong?

Removing sanctions on Iran oil will bring supply to ports, US energy secretary says reut.rs/47Zrpea

Can this be a solution?

"No stupid rules of engagement" -- Pete Hegseth www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u... www.military.com/feature/2026...

Maine is 95% White and 61% Rural (cf Ohio 70% White, much less Rural) bsky.app/profile/shar...

"[L]ight the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon" is one of the more coherent theories of the Iran war that the administration has offered so far.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

bsky.app/profile/marc...

still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.

Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social FYI www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

No one can deny the reality of climate change. Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels. bsky.app/profile/carl...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!

Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing? It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.

Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.

BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.

the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...