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Every day I push back on the lie that Israelis are cruel. That we have no decent people. That we’re the villains the anti-Israel crowd says we are.
Then you open your mouth, Ben Gvir, and prove them right.
The flotilla are useful idiots. You’re the gift they prayed for. You don’t deserve to be in this government or any government. Actually, I wouldn’t trust you to wash my car.
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
It should be possible, indeed necessary, to hold two thoughts at once.
First, despite the pervasive amnesia about 10/7, the world should never forget that Hamas is the central cause of the war in Gaza and the untold suffering it has unleashed. The primary responsibility for the war lies with its cause: Hamas.
Second, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is morally unacceptable, and all parties, including the US and Israel, have a moral obligation to do their part in alleviating the hunger and hardship that have taken hold in Gaza. Hamas couldn’t care less if every Palestinian starved to death. But the free world must care. And more than care, we must act to prevent the crisis from deepening.
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
We have to have the difficult conversation with friends saying they'll rank Mamdani on their list. We can engage by asking questions, and by being open about our concerns and just how profound they are. And we have to encourage those already convinced he shouldn't be our mayor -- to get to the polls and cast their vote. I hope this video helps. #DontRankMamdani
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
DACA was exactly the right policy. We need a path of citizenship, especially for children that had no say in coming here illegally.
I’m all for aggressively enforcing our borders, but we have to have a humane way to treat people that are already here.
Thirteen years ago, my administration acted to protect young people who were American in every single way but one: on paper.
DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies.
We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect. In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.
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In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy, and faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving and momentous for us all.
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
The constitutional crisis is here.
President Trump is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
Every word of this.
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
Dangling our economy off a cliff, then claiming victory for pulling it back. The “Art of the Deal.” The tariffs he left in place will keep raising costs for working families and small businesses.
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#HandsOffProtests today in Detroit. Look who’s on the other side supporting! Our Canadian brothers and sisters!
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025
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Alisa Weilerstein premieres Thomas Larcher’s new cello work with the New York Phil, Anne-Sophie Mutter and a world premiere at Carnegie Hall, Kim Sae-hyun wins the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, and more.
Read at moto-perpetuo.com/quick-upda…
@nyphil @AWeilerstein
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@AWeilerstein and the @nyphil perform the world premiere of Thomas Larcher's "returning into darkness" under the baton of Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, April 3-5 at David Geffen Hall.
More information & tickets here: nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/…
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Gallup Poll: 69% of Americans want to sustain military aid to Ukraine at current or higher levels. news.gallup.com/poll/658193/…
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Exciting month ahead for composer Thomas Larcher with a new production of The Hunting Gun with the @bay_staatsoper & the world premiere of his new cello concerto 'returning into darkness' with the @nyphil & @AWeilerstein
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down.
And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.
Alisa Weilerstein 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 retweeted
The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom writes.
“The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/UAJzd1RQ
