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In as few of words as he possibly could, Bernie quitely revokes his support for Platner. I wonder if he will apologize to any of us for sharing a stage with a man who had a Nazi tattoo. I also wonder what his holocaust surviving parents would think? I am glad Bernie is doing the right thing now, but this feels like too little too late. Bernie sold us out for the progressive left and it's backfiring on him.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5957071-bernie-sanders-graham-platner-maine-senate/

‘There’s nothing I can say to her’: Boulder attack survivors have words on antisemitism for Congressional nominee Melat Kiros,
by Louis Keene, Forward, 2026-07-02.

 

> In an interview on CNN the day after her primary win, > Kiros tried to allay fears, adding that the “conflation of the > actions of the state of Israel and the Jewish people … is putting > them at greater risk.” > > “My commitment is to protecting the sanctity of human life and > dignity and that includes combating the hate and the rising > antisemitism that we are seeing,” she said. > > But for the survivors of that day’s attack who heard Kiros’ > equivocation ahead of the primary, it was hard not to feel fear – > and fury. Reznik saw Kiros’ refusal to call the attack antisemitic > as the height of hypocrisy. > > “There’s nothing I can say to her,” she said, “because I know she’s > one of the people who’s not listening.”

Looking for a precedent for the Supreme Court’s decisions? Try Germany in the 1930s.,
by Robert Zaretsky, Forward, 2026-07-02.

 

> In October 1936, German law professors held their annual meeting in > Berlin. In his welcoming address, the meeting’s chairperson turned > to the pressing issue of Jewish influence. “The Jew’s relationship > to our intellectual work is parasitical, tactical and commercial,” > he warned. Thanks to the Nazi state’s “healthy exorcism” of this > malign presence from their profession, though, German “ethnic honor” > would triumph over Jewish “cruelty and impudence.” > > The chairperson was Carl Schmitt, the political philosopher whose > prominence during the Nazi era earned him the moniker of the “crown > jurist.” Neither his name nor his jurisprudence was cited by the > Supreme Court’s Chief Justice John Roberts in his majority opinion > in this week’s ruling in the case of Trump v Slaughter. > Nevertheless, this decision that, by neutering the independence of > federal agencies like the FTC and FCC and stretching the already > expansive powers of the president, makes for a distinct Schmittian > chill.