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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 03/10/2026

When you are definitely not Michael Tracey

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026

Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026

This was his response to being asked what parts of the Democratic platform he thinks are extremist. He didn’t start out too bright but the dude’s brain has been completely cooked by X and Substack.

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Good question. At the level of the national party, I'd say 1) categorical opposition to all immigration enforcement, 2) land acknowledgements and other anti-American rhetoric, 3) willingness to countenance explicit racial discrimination in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and/or the 14th Amendment), and 4) various minor positions on trans issues.
In terms of what people vote on, I'd say immigration and racial discrimination are much more important than land acknowledgements or trans issues. In terms of the actual future of the nation, I'd say that the ideology behind land acknowledgments -- which views America as a fundamentally illegitimate settler-colonialist entity whose dissolution is the only true path to historical and global justice -- is far more dangerous and damaging.
At the local level, there is some extremism connected to the Palestine movement, which is both deeply antisemitic and deeply anti-American.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18/09/2026

This is what’s happening here, imo. (From today’s Racket.) theracket.news/p/our-nazis-...

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If gas and food prices weren't soaring, if labor-force participation wasn't falling, if A.I. wasn't freaking everyone out and America's foreign policy and war machines weren't proving themselves empty shells in Trump's war of choice, then maybe enough people would have been in lock-step behind his paramilitary anti-immigrant surges and cheering on his open attempts to subvert the midterms for it to work this
time. But they aren't. So, from the looks of things in mid-September 2026 at least, it won't.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18/09/2026

lol what the hell is this AP headline

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/09/2026

It’s like he asked ChatGPT “draft a message perfectly tailored to bring out the guillotines”

Bret: Millions of Americans, including me, not only hate the parties but also hate the party for which we typically vote. That means there's a market of the dissatisfied. I hear this all the time among my friends in New York City: They can't believe they're stuck with Zohran Mamdani as mayor, and they felt the same way about Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio before him. But when you ask them if they voted in the primaries, the usual answer is: Uh, no - we were on the Vineyard or in Greece. The point is that it's on them, or us, and the remedy is some civic entrepreneurship, philanthropically funded, to change this.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 03/09/2026

Another senseless killing by the passive voice

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The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 02/09/2026

Stopped by X to see if there's any info on the Waynesboro, Virginia, elementary school shooting. Nothing of use, but there are a bunch of Nazis claiming 9/11 was caused by Woke. Thanks, Elon!

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Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the attacks, and fellow hijacker Abdulaziz al-Omari arrived at Portland International Jetport in Maine at 05:41 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2001. At the Portland ticket counter, Mike Tuohey asked the hijackers for their driver's licenses; Atta "threw his on the counter" while al-Omari simply held his under his chin and smiled. Tuohey became suspicious of Atta's demeanor and considered that he might be a terrorist, but let it go out of concern that he was racially profiling Atta.

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Reading about 9/11, and I'd never heard this part of the story. What the hell
Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the attacks, and fellow hijacker Abdulaziz al-Omari arrived at Portland International Jetport in Maine at 05:41 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2001. At the Portland ticket counter, Mike Tuohey asked the hijackers for their driver's licenses; Atta "threw his on the counter" while al-Omari simply held his under his chin and smiled. Tuohey became suspicious of Atta's demeanor and considered that he might be a terrorist, but let it go out of concern that he was racially profiling Atta.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/08/2026

THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE // ST. MARTIN’S PRESS // APRIL 2027 cc @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

Imagine if the A.C.L.U. didn't merely defend the free speech of Nazis in Illinois but put them on television, raised money for them online, gave them book deals and created a podcast — perhaps one called "Just Asking Questions" — that further injected their vile ideas deeper and deeper into the American bloodstream.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/08/2026

I’m not. But reading is free. Here’s the maximally bad faith ADL summary of his comment, and a Haaretz columnist making the same argument.

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• Piker asserted, 'it is literally the Jewish KKK brigades out there [in the West Bank].
Just a bunch of fucking inbred hicks literally doing pogroms to the Arab population." (Twitch stream, May 2024)

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Be aware that for every news report that you read about an act of settler terror, the Jewish Ku Klux Klan is carrying out dozens more acts of assault, harassment and bullying, while the army attacks and abuses Palestinians in dozens of neighborhoods and checkpoints to protect the KKK and its missions.
Be aware as well that these so-called rampages are part of a calculated, multi-pronged plan. Their ultimate goal is a land
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/08/2026

Don’t bother deleting it by the way I’m keeping this forever

the hopes someone will harm Jewish ppl in the US.
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Here's a 30-minute compilation of Hasan calling out anti-semitism

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/08/2026

Condemn Hasan Piker without approvingly restating Hasan Piker’s arguments challenge level: impossible

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... the same propaganda over and over again. This is precisely the reason why I am terrified of the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The conflation is dangerous. Valid criticisms against the state, especially as all of the violence is unfolding and everyone can see it ...
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... valid criticisms against the state committing these atrocities and tying it back to Judaism as a cynical ploy to stop all matter of of conversation is truly terrifying. And I think it directly causes antisemitism to fester."
— Hasan Piker, Oxford Union, May 2025

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/08/2026

This is literally just “if they’re so poor how can they afford Air Jordans”

Also by day (and occasionally by night) he runs a Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed campaign for the New York State Assembly, knocking on doors in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where he lives in a three-bedroom apartment with his two daughters and his wife, Rebecca, a teacher.
Some would find it difficult to bridge these categories. As self-avowed democratic socialists have burst into the spotlight, critics have been quick to slap the
"champagne socialist" label on anyone who dabbles in luxury goods. And opinions abound about what those aligned with left-wing causes should look like: Some expect a Karl Marx T-shirt or a workman's jacket and have slammed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for his $700 Burton coat or Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York, for her borrowed $600 boots.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/08/2026

Does anyone in the newsroom know what working means

The Democratic Socialist Running for Office While Working at Bergdorf For Eon Huntley, who won his primary in New York in June, good clothes and populist policies go together.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/08/2026

This is also false, @olivia-reingold.bsky.social. (Surprise!) 0.5% was just for one way of measuring. The report overall reported 1.3% malnutrition across the strip and over 2% in Deir al Balah. You also just straight up lied about the MENA stunting rate. It was 18% in 2024, not 26%. @thefp.com

At the rate of 0.5 percent, Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute child malnutrition
in the region, according to an analysis by The Free Press of data from the World Bank and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-affiliated hunger-monitoring system. The researchers also concluded that about 12 percent of children in Gaza had stunting, or impaired growth and development that is the result of poor nutrition. That is less than half of the region's 26 percent
stunting rate, according to the latest report on child malnutrition by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/08/2026

Love to throw a “to be sure” graf in the middle of my famine denial that blows up the entire story around it like an Israeli JDAM in a refugee camp www.thefp.com/p/unicef-dat...

Alex de Waal, a British anthropologist and one of the world's foremost experts on
famine, told me that none of the new data were "cause to question the accuracy" of the IPC's previous famine declaration.
"Children can rebound very quickly from acute malnutrition," he wrote in an email,
"so with the food going into Gaza since the onset of the quasi-ceasefire, the low levels are unsurprising." The low stunting rates were the "single most encouraging finding" from the survey, he added, since they suggest that "among surviving children, the longer-term impact of the food crisis [is] not as severe as was feared."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13/08/2026

It’s good! Wrote pretty much the same thing six years ago: theracket.news/p/illiberali...

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The "intolerant climate" alleged in the open letter is the opposite of McCarthyism. The witch hunts of the Red Scare were made possible by McCarthy and HUAC's government power-the ability to intimidate, arrest, and persecute political opponents, rivals, and ordinary citizens. In short, they created a police state.
The people the letter seems to be aimed at
-protesters, activists, and those who sympathize with them-have far more in common with the people the McCarthyites attacked: opponents of segregation, LGBT folk, and anti-fascists. (A common reason for being fired during the scare was having supported efforts to help refugees from fascism during the 1936 Spanish Civil War.)

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The closest analogue to McCarthy living today, of course, is Roy Cohn's own protege: Donald Trump. No one has learned more (or less) from his example-to follow lies with more lies, to sow
paranoia, slander and defame at will, and use all the powers available to him in the police state for his benefit. Just this week, we have seen officers hounded out of jobs for upholding the law instead of the president's will, and threats to tax out of existence universities that refuse to
conform to his ideology.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10/08/2026

Preserving before I block this guy. "Racial grifter," incredible.

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Nah, it’s peak Bluesky to blow past another example of the left ignoring an embarrassing example of a racial grifter academic clowning them

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10/08/2026

Two thousandish words to do a victory lap on behalf of a disgraced racist and say “let’s be more skeptical of minority scholars” Nice to see Jesse’s branching out into new forms of bigotry.

If Mr. Arday isn't just a scholar, but a symbol of his university's commitment to social justice, perhaps that made it more difficult for Cambridge to examine its own role in his ascent — and to delay, by several damaging years, the full investigation Mr. Arday's case so obviously warranted.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026

Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11

Fauci’s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he’s telling Congress it was ‘molecularly impossible’

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026

If there were still a public editor at the Times, they might have written about a White House correspondent doing a newsless beat-sweetener hit piece on a target of the president's ire. But you know, Twitter's the public editor now, so ...

On May 11, 2020, Dr. Fauci wrote: "Hilarious video of Billy Crystal playing me in a Trump dungeon prison,” with a link to this video.

Hovering over it all was the pandemic that would leave more than a million Americans dead.

“I’m supposed to go to an even bigger black tie affair at the home of the French ambassador tomorrow,” Dr. Fauci wrote in November 2021. “I think I am going to cancel out since I don’t want to go through the nerve-wracking experience that I did last night worrying about having gotten infected.”

On May 11, 2020, Dr. Fauci wrote: "Hilarious video of Billy Crystal playing me in a Trump dungeon prison,” with a link to this video.

Hovering over it all was the pandemic that would leave more than a million Americans dead.

Shawn McCreesh is a White House reporter for The Times covering the Trump administration.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/07/2026

“To prove we are anti-authoritarian liberals we must purge members of our party who win more votes than us on promises of reviving the New Deal” we are the Atlantic and we are very smart

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/07/2026

This is just straight up segregationist rhetoric, exemplified by the conservative movement’s favorite president [checks notes] Woodrow Wilson From GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM:

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