Jonathan Alter

It’s not just 2020 election denialism. Now Trump’s gutless judicial nominees are pretending not to understand the 22nd Amendment, @jonathanalter writes. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/07/thi…

Trump’s Pathetic Court Picks Hit New Low open.substack.com/pub/oldgoats/p…

The dumbest, most dishonest president in American history, Trump, posts FAKE photos comparing the Reflecting Pool under Barack Obama to its appearance under his administration. The problem for the serial lying psychopath is that both photos have the exact same clouds. 😂🤣👇

Great piece! open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

Is Gerrymandering Doomed? open.substack.com/pub/oldgoats/p…

Albert Einstein died with a speech for Israel in his hands. This day (April 17) in 1955, the world’s most celebrated genius was hospitalized with internal bleeding. It was just 9 days before Israel’s 7th Independence Day & Einstein was scheduled to give a major televised address (to air on ABC, NBC & CBS) - he had a draft of his speech with him in the hospital. Sadly for the world, Albert Einstein passed away the very next day. He was never able to share any more of his genius or the speech he intended to give marking Israel’s rebirth days later. However, you can read here what Einstein intended to say: “The establishment of Israel is an event which actively engages the conscience of this generation ... It is a bitter paradox to find that a State which was destined to be a shelter for a martyred people is itself threatened by grave dangers to its own security. The universal conscience cannot be indifferent to such peril.” Einstein had been a passionate Zionist for decades. In 1921, he toured America with Chaim Weizmann raising funds for Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The following year, he lectured there and proudly declared Jews were once again becoming “a force in the world.” In a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947, Einstein wrote: “Long before the emergence of Hitler I made the cause of Zionism mine because through it I saw a means of correcting a flagrant wrong ... The Jewish people alone has for centuries been in the anomalous position of being victimized and hounded as a people.” When Israel offered him the presidency (a largely ceremonial position) in 1952, he declined with characteristic humility: “I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel ... but I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions.” Here, in the picture below, he is smiling and laughing with Israel’s first Prime Minister - David Ben-Gurion. Einstein supported the project for Jewish sovereignty from its earliest days. He even spoke at the 1939 Palestine Pavilion (a purely Jewish pavilion at the time) at the New York World’s Fair, calling the Zionist project “a refuge in a stormy sea of turmoil.” Yet even in America, Einstein faced antisemitism. Princeton University wouldn’t hire Jewish professors until the late 1940s. That’s right - Princeton would not hire EINSTEIN to teach at its university because he was a Jew. So while people often say “Einstein taught at Princeton,” that’s inaccurate. In truth, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, a prestigious but entirely separate entity located in the town of Princeton that had to be created by American Jews as a haven for refugee scholars escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. While Einstein largely rejected organized religion, he described himself as having a “deep religiosity” rooted in wonder at the universe. For Einstein, Judaism was a cultural and ethical tradition; and he maintained his strong solidarity with the Jewish people. Regarding being a Jew, Einstein once famously remarked: “A Jew who abandons his Judaism is like a snail that abandons its shell. It’s still a snail.” Einstein’s mind helped change our understanding of the world. Einstein’s heart never abandoned his people.

Every single word of this by @havivrettiggur.👇

This is one of the funniest and most pathetic moment of 2026 (so far). And that's saying a lot. Who is Hegseth's speechwriter?

Bill Maher presents Israeli history for dummies

Bill Clinton said it outright: “The Palestinians were offered a state. THEY REFUSED. A state wasn’t their goal. Killing Jews was.”

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

Televisión 'Palestina': "Todos los homosexuales, sin excepción, deberían ser asesin@dos. Quem@rlos vivos, arroj@rlos desde un lugar alto o apedre@rlos hasta la mu3rte." ¿Qué piensan los Queers por Palestina sobre esto?

20 people were invited to see a video that exposes Palestinian propaganda. Every single one had the same response: “I feel like a moron.”

My pet theory is that Dem voters are going to square the anti-semitism vs anti-current-Israeli-leadership circle by electing a Jewish guy who is vocally critical of Israel and Bibi. I’ll get tons of pushback on this right now. But let’s check in a year from now.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists. wapo.st/4tFqKqY

In Nazi Germany, some Germans saved the lives of innocent Jews. Not a single Palestinian in Gaza saved a hostage. Not one.

This is one of the best succinct explanations of antizionism I’ve come across. Please take 3 minutes to listen.

“Beneath the dignity of the Office”

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

A top FEMA official is doubling down on his claims that he teleported to a Waffle House. @KFILE reports.