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Kenneth Baer

@KennethBaer

Founder Crosscut Strategies, LLC and @DemJournal, former Associate Director at WH OMB, author of Reinventing Democrats, reformed speechwriter.

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Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro@DanielBShapiro·
This rational makes no sense. When Israel had no Iron Dome, terrorist rockets just crashed into Israeli towns. Israel had to respond. From the advent of Iron Dome in 2011 until October 7, Israel absorbed many rocket attacks and responded more moderately - because of Iron Dome.
David Weigel@daveweigel

The rationale, explained to me by a Dem who wants to stop funding Iron Dome: The defense system makes Israel more aggressive, confident that it can launch operations without much damage to its own cities. (Most Dems are still at "no offensive weapons, missile shield okay.")

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Nadav Pollak
Nadav Pollak@NadavPollak·
I think that a ceasefire is a positive development but several quick thoughts: 1. Insane that Israelis hear on a ceasefire from Trump and not Bibi. 2. This is not the end of the war as Trump put it. The underlying reasons for escalation are still here. 3. It appears that Trump might be giving Iran a small win here by announcing a ceasefire as they wanted. 4. Anyone still thinks that Trump does what Bibi wishes? Bibi really didn’t want this ceasefire and still Trump decided to do it. 5. Bibi has several problems politically now - he promised to defeat Hezbollah (he did not). He promised to remove the Iranian threat (he did not, yet). Elections are soon and Bibi is in a bind
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel. These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST. On Tuesday, the two Countries met for the first time in 34 years here in Washington, D.C., with our Great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. I have directed Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Rubio, together with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Razin' Caine, to work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a Lasting PEACE. It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World, and this will be my 10th, so let's, GET IT DONE!

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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
This is interesting: When New York State randomly forced some outpatient providers to make their prices transparent, the result was... Prices increased! Prices went up by about 1%, seemingly because low-priced providers realized they could charge people more!
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Hunter📈🌈📊
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
If the US copied Hungary's anti-fascist strategy, the Democrats would run Mitt Romney or Susan Collins and every single third party/organization including the Greens and the DSA would endorse them.
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ADL
ADL@ADL·
Over the last few weeks, content creator Penofein has traveled to London to repeatedly harass the city's Jewish community for viral content. The response so far is deeply inadequate. @YouTube and @Instagram should not reward content that exploits Jews for engagement. Hosting this content normalizes it, which can quickly lead to escalation and harm offline. It is appalling to see these platforms continuously allow antisemitic abuse.
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Kenneth Baer
Kenneth Baer@KennethBaer·
Again, is there any other Democrat in America putting forth innovative policy ideas -- as many and as novel -- as @RahmEmanuel is?
Rahm Emanuel@RahmEmanuel

Let’s bet on America — not against it. I’m proposing a 10% fee on prediction markets and online gambling to fund an American Innovation Fund—investing in AI, quantum computing, fusion energy, life sciences, and national security tech. President Xi is investing in the future, whereas President Trump’s cuts in NIH and NSF is defaulting on America’s preeminence. That’s not how you win. Let’s fund cures, build new energy resources, lead in defense technologies and quantum tech. Stop falling further behind, start investing in winning again. That’s the American way. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Barak Ravid
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid·
🚨40 out of 47 Senate Democrats voted tonight against supplying bulldozers to the Israeli military 🚨36 out of 47 Senate Democrats voted against supplying bombs to IDF 🚨Not one Democratic Senator considering running for president voted tonight in favor of arms sales to Israel
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Kenneth Baer@KennethBaer·
@howiewolf Doing events with tenured economists is definitely a man-of-the-people move... 🤔
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Sruli Fruchter
Sruli Fruchter@SruliFruchter·
👀 SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner praised Hamas tactics in 2014 Reddit posts, calling a graphic video of a raid that killed Israeli soldiers "damn fine looking and successful." jewishinsider.com/2026/04/graham…
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Sruli Fruchter
Sruli Fruchter@SruliFruchter·
I'm no pollster, but this doesn't seem the proper way to frame a question...
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J Street@jstreetdotorg

FIRST in @playbookdc: “40% percent of American Jewish voters say they’re less likely to support Democratic primary candidates if they’ve been endorsed by AIPAC, and two-thirds oppose AIPAC spending money raised by Republican donors in Democratic primaries, according to new polling released by J Street.” politico.com/playbook

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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
There's incredible stuff happening at Columbia University in particular, I guess the good news is the loans are federally subsidized.
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
The good news about taking an academic job is there are no possible ethical questions about the business model, since the institutions are nonprofits.
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Jacob N. Kornbluh
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh·
J Street/GBAO poll of 800 American Jews: 40%, including 66% of younger Jewish Democrats, say that an AIPAC endorsement makes them less likely to support that candidate. 66% oppose AIPAC spending in Dem primaries.
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Josh Kraushaar
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar·
“J Street, which came out last week against funding Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system, held a net unfavorable rating with Jewish voters, according to the Mellman Group poll. Just 18% viewed the group favorably” jewishinsider.com/2026/04/survey…
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Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸@ethanmwolf·
When given the opportunity to walk back his remarks saying Hamas is better than Israel, Hasan Piker doubled down. There are lots of acceptable viewpoints on Israel. Endorsing the perpetrators who killed the most Jews in a single day since the Holocaust isn't one of them.
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