Sarah Marian Seltzer

Starbucks spent $240 million on union busting last year. If they'd chosen not to fight unionization, every worker could have gotten $630 instead. If their CEO made less than $96 million a year (the avg worker makes $15k), the company could give workers all of what they've asked for.

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

I say this as a Jewish journalist myself, NY Jewish publications have got to stop covering Mamdani and Khalil like US Weekly covering starlets in the 2000s. It’s racist and inappropriate!

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

I don't think we are prepared for what is going to happen to the US public opinion of the state of Israel - and the spillover onto people's opinions of American Jews - if it comes to be widely believed that Israel started a war that led people to be unable to afford gas.

Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.

"While Trump and others in the GOP seem most concerned about Noem’s many other scandals... Noem is leaving a trail of death and constitutional destruction behind her."

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GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

The Christian nationalist Republicans who feel comfortable saying this about Muslims in public undoubtedly say it about Jews in private too. www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

a woman is covering her mouth with her hand in a field . ALT: a woman is covering her mouth with her hand in a field .

happy first Monday of daylight savings to all my fellow parents of small children

Oh my god it’s torture

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston

This is what they've done.

ENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. – As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region. Major combat operations continue. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.

Trump’s war on Iran has now claimed six American lives in addition to many more Iranians

We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

In the last 18 hours:

(1) I had a 70+ year old almost hit my kids in a stroller, and
(2) had an elderly oncoming driver drift into my lane, passing me as I dodged her seemingly unaware of my presence.

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So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

They can be funny at times but wow tonight is ... unworthy…

They are so adorable and perfect how did they find them both

Also, watching the players try to deliver their lines with any semblance of timing has me realizing that heated rivalry is a fantasy in more ways than one: its taciturn yet expressive heartthrobs are far more literate than their irl counterparts.

If the dumbass men‘s hockey players are on this show and Hudson Williams is not I shall riot

The idea that the US is Israel's puppet state is really dumb antisemitism, like it's unironically the ZOG conspiracy theory

It's the other way around. The US needs Israel as a strategically placed ally in the MENA region. It creates leverage that Israel uses to make demands, but the US is boss here

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

Trump’s case for the Iran war makes no sense The scary incoherence at the heart of Trump’s latest, biggest war.

We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...

It’s the yearning!!

Yup. People are so eager to be antisemitic about it even tho it plays right into the fascists’ hands

If you want to be a good ally to your Jewish friends, just gently correct the second statement when you hear it (and you will!) Easy peasy.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Israel is doing great evil“ is not antisemitic. “Israel is pulling the levers on all the world’s evil” is both antisemitic and also passing the buck on how bad the US is, and our role now and historically.