Lily Greenberg Call

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

ICE is straightforwardly a gestapo secret police now, disappearing people at the president’s personal direction for simply crossing one of his cronies

a trillion dollars spent on ai risk teams and no one thought to hard code into the model to not tell Bernie Sanders that you do crime

@adammocklerr 💯💯💯

This is the wrong takeaway. Kat’s loss was not a referendum on progressive politics in the way people claim. While it is true that many young progressive candidates over-index on social media, Kat clearly broke through that noise and ran a genuinely captivating+ high-energy campaign. The very simple reasons my friends in IL-09 have consistently given me is that it came down to not having enough time to build deep trust in the district. This is bigger than people on here think. I’ve noticed this doesn’t matter to a lot of people online, but to residents inside IL-09, having someone who has been in Chicago for decades, has taught in this city, and is actively mayor here - it’s legit just proof of concept. People are being incredibly unfair to Kat after she built something amazing. Also lots of unfairness towards Biss and Bushra to be honest.

The people who are upset that Kat lost to Biss (whose ideological/issue differences are very minor) should be directing their anger at the fact that Melissa Bean — a former Blue Dog who was supported by AIPAC, pro-crypto & pro-AI PACs — is going back to Congress.

When will @aipac & @ADL be merging? Greenblatt you've sucked up enough to Trump you can probably get the merger approved in this Administration.

Did we have a single defection at such senior levels of national security under Biden during the entire Gaza complicity? Nope. They’ve all just gone on podcasts after the fact to express “concerns”.

I just visited Dilley and met with kids who are too scared and traumatized to eat and go to the bathroom – let alone play. It’s horrific and should alarm everyone in our country. We can’t let them do this in our name. We need to shut down Dilley. propublica.org/article/life-i…

Joachim Trier, Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, who won an Oscar, "The world is at a moment where we are getting more information ever about the wrongdoings made towards children, with several wars going on at the moment" "I have two small kids, and to be personal for a moment" "Me and most of the people around me have been crying a lot, weekly, daily, feeling incapable of doing stuff" "Because we're seeing Palestinian children suffer" "We're seeing people in Ukraine suffer" "People in Sudan suffer" "There doesn't seem to be any accountability at the moment" "I can mention many other conflicts" "Any child that dies at war is a responsibility for all adults that elect politicians" "Dictatorships. We're in a time of strong men. What happened during the Holocaust during WWII" "My grandfather was a resistance fighter during the war" "When you're young, you think these things are far away in time, but actually, they happened quite recently and it happens again and again" "As an artist, I'm not a politician, but I do believe that we need to be more collaborative about how we protect children in conflict situations and in society in general"

Two completely different worlds on the same red carpet: a millionaire flaunting his NBA cards worth $30 million in a Tiffany & Co. case made of white gold, diamonds, and rubies, next to an Iranian filmmaker who faces prison when he returns to Iran after the Oscars.

Hundreds have called our hotline. The most common thing we hear from service members and their families is that the Minab school bombing was the catalyst that turned them against the war and the military as a whole.

Jewish institutions have to distance themselves from Israel if they want Jews to be safe. You cannot tie your entire religion to a genocidal apartheid state and then be shocked when you are held accountable for their actions, especially if you are contributing to those actions.

Hey friends. I’ve got a big announcement to make. After listening to the encouragement of many people and leaders here in Arizona and beyond, I’ve decided to run for Congress. We’re launching a primary challenge to our incumbent Democrat in the 4th congressional district. We need a Democrat who will fight for democracy, reject AIPAC and stop the genocide in Gaza, end ICE’s reign of terror once and for all, and take on the billionaire class to make a good life affordable for us all. If you agree, let’s make it happen together. Sign my E-Qual petition to get on the ballot and join our movement of love, truth, and people power at KaiforAZ.com.

His message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working class men—more political power to transfer to you. trib.al/N2l8EDM

I am an American, a candidate for public office, and my 91-year-old grandmother’s home in Lebanon was destroyed by the Israeli military in an escalation of violence enabled by Trump’s illegal war, which is costing Americans nearly $900 million per day. My grandmother is the most peaceful a human being can be. She, like all elders, deserves dignity in her old age. I am grappling with why my own government has aided and abetted the process of displacing her and destroying her home, a place that is central to my family’s story. I am criss-crossing Senate District 2 and hearing from seniors in our communities who feel left behind by our government and society, who feel ignored and disrespected. I am fighting to ensure we take care of and invest in our elders right here at home. The fact that our federal government is denying our elders here the dignity they deserve while prioritizing billions for destroying homes like my grandmother’s abroad is an abomination. I am running to represent a community where my experience is not unique. Many in Metro Detroit have lost not just homes, but loved ones. We are living through an immensely difficult moment. After hearing from countless directly impacted Metro Detroiters whose stories must be heard, I reached out to U.S. Senators Peters and Slotkins’ offices. I’m calling on them to come to Metro Detroit and meet urgently with directly impacted Metro Detroit families who are experiencing intense pain and grief as a result of Trump’s illegal war. I also urge our Senators to categorically and proactively reject more war funding should the Trump White House request it. PHOTO: the attached photo shows the view of my grandmother’s home before and after it was destroyed. #abbasformi #likefamily

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

It is a little astonishing to me how much we've pretty much just accepted that Trump, his family, and his friends are making hundreds of millions of dollars in obvious, completely unhidden graft, and there's not really anything anyone can do about it.

This story cannot keep flying under the radar. A ProPublica investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate. That is not just a conflict of interest. It is corruption, plain and simple. This is the most corrupt administration in American history, by far. propublica.org/article/trump-…

This is the front page of the Tehran Times today. Trump fired a Tomahawk missile on a school full of children in Minab, Iran. Then launched another missile to kill the parents who rushed in to rescue them. 168 schoolkids killed. Then their parents. History will never forget.

We got a call yesterday from a spouse of a sailor deployed overseas. Her husband told her that once the news broke of the U.S. being responsible for the massacre at the girls school, they shut down all news & social media access on the ship.

Everyone should call their lawmakers to tell them to pass this bill. Obviously, I’m under no illusion that this bill has an easy path — but I’m also under no illusion that trying to pass it is pointless. We’re talking about the prospect of a nuclear apocalypse. So pass it on.