Hey there. Remember me? Back when I last posted in April, before my book-finishing break, the U.S. was at war in Iran — a war I warned was going to be antisemitism fuel — and the Supreme Court looked poised to overturn Trump’s order gutting birthright citizenship. Today, the U.S. is at war with Iran, the GOP is fracturing between philosemites and antisemites, and the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s birthright citizenship order (albeit far more narrowly than I and many others had hoped). So there you go, we didn’t miss much!

Joking, mostly. We are living in a perversion of the old Marx quote, often misattributed in pithier form to Lenin, about “days into which twenty years are compressed.” In the Trump era, decades routinely pass in a day, except it turns out to be the same day over and over again. Thursday, when the president is expected to make a major speech accusing the Democrats of stealing the 2020 election, likely in hopes of stealing the midterms himself, will be another one — a day which could have happened any time in the last six years and feels at this rate like it will keep happening forever.

Still, it is useful to keep track of events as they happen, which is the point of this newsletter. (And this life, in some respects.) I’d love to be doing more of it, and will soon. But while I have finished a draft, The Legend of Skokie needs a few more weeks of rewrites, fact-checks, and production to be truly finished. All I can ask is … please stay tuned. You are the reason I can make this book good instead of just done. Stay with me — I’ll make the wait worth it. And if you haven’t upgraded yet to support my work, now is a fine time:

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