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Conservative heads San Jose mayor's governor campaign - San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he's a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign could fuel fresh skepticism.

Diverse Jewish cultures
– from the Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) of Azerbaijan, to the mellahs and haras of North Africa, to the shtetls of Eastern Europe
– have been supplanted by an increasingly homogenized and diminished Israeli colonial culture modelled on German “high culture”.
Rich creolized languages such as Ladino, Krymchak, Kayliñña, Judeo-Arabic, Yevanic, Gruzinic, and Yiddish are now endangered or extinguished,
eroded in part by the imposition of German-acce…

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue
Israel bombed Tehran’s Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism’s willingness to treat Jewish life as disposable in the service of its ideological project.

Europe’s Far Right Want to Be American Vassals https://jacobin.com/2026/03/europe-iran-us-meloni-sanchez/

Europe’s Far Right Want to Be American Vassals
Europe’s far-right parties have long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first but now slavishly support the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.

RE: #PublicHealth

> Fowlkes’s alleged crime is using Signal, [...], telling people how to delete messages, and removing people from group chats,
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines/

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Michigan synagogue attacker lost family in Israeli airstrike on Lebanon, mayor says | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/michigan-synagogue-attack-ayman-mohamad-ghazali-b2937888.html

Michigan synagogue car-ramming suspect bought $2,000 worth of fireworks before attack (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-synagogue-car-ramming-suspect-obtained-fireworks-attack-rcna263365
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p2#a260314p2

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into the nation's largest Reform synagogue, in a Detroit suburb,
and was fatally shot by security, The Associated Press has learned.
That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday.
The vehicle caught on fire after crashing into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, the person said

Police respond to a report of an active shooter at a Detroit-area synagogue
FBI Director Kash Patel says agents are on scene of an "apparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation" at the synagogue.

Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/suspect-michigan-synagogue-attack-lost-family-lebanon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p104#a260313p104

A recent survey by the American Jewish Committee, a nonprofit, found that
91 percent of American Jews say they feel less safe in the United States in the wake of high-profile attacks last year,
including the arson attack at the home of Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro,
and the killing of two Israeli Embassy aides last spring outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
More than half said that they had changed their behavior out of fear.

After Synagogue Attack in Michigan, Some Jews Wonder How Much More Security Is Possible
“We are synagogues — we are houses of worship,” one rabbi said. “We are not Fort Knox.”