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Jay Dobkin

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Jewish anarchist, grandson of 4 refugees. The photos in my profile are of me (as Socrates in a New York Times photo) & my հայ great-great-great-grandfather. We need to overthrow every fascist regime everywhere.

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Jay Dobkin @jaydobkin.bsky.social · Sep 24

If aliens in a movie did to Earth & humanity what fossil fuel executives do in real life, we'd cheer at the climax when their spaceships blow up & cheer even louder if their quislings (like bankers, politicians, PR hacks, & corporate lawyers) were aboard.

I'm just saying.

#climate

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11h

Left picture: Rubble of Gaza
Right picture: Pyramid of Giza

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) reports that the rubble in Gaza is estimated at around 55 million tons, equivalent to 13 Great Pyramids of Giza, reflecting the massive scale of destruction across the Strip.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 8h

Very excited to announce this major event in Los Angeles at the USC School of Journalism. It will be an important conversation about propaganda, government repression, and the role of liberal institutions like news media, pundits, universities, and nonprofits. annenberg.usc.edu/events/copag...

‘Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News’: Book Talk with Alec Karakatsanis

Join us in conversation with Alec Karakatsanis as he discusses his new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. In this groundbreaking exposé, essential for understanding the

annenberg.usc.edu

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Isaiah 1:23

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Daily Jewish quote 👇

שָׂרַיִךְ סוֹרְרִים וְחַבְרֵי גַּנָּבִים כֻּלּוֹ אֹהֵב שֹׁחַד וְרֹדֵף שַׁלְמֹנִים יָתוֹם לֹא יִשְׁפֹּטוּ וְרִיב אַלְמָנָה לֹא יָבוֹא אֲלֵיהֶם

Your rulers are rogues
And cronies of thieves,
Every one avid for presents
And greedy for gifts;
They do not judge the case of the orphan,
And the widow’s cause never reaches them

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇸🕎 Join the JVP Havurah Network for a virtual Rosh Chodesh (new moon) ritual led by Havurah network member leader, coco rosenberg on Thursday, 10/23/25 from 8:30-9pm ET / 5:30-6pm PT.

Register at tinyURL.com/JVPmoon5786

JVP Poster: Rosh Chodesh - A virtual new moon Jewish ritual gathering for Palestine solidarity

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 6d

Expert here. The weird thing is I don't expect people to trust me (on my specialty) just because. Expertise is all about knowing the broader context of new results, what's clear & what's not, and most experts are happy to help people through this if they're interested in 'doing their own research'.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 6d

What RFK Jr is actually pushing is the notion that experts are wrong per se if they have concluded something he doesn't like. And when he says people should 'do their own research', he means keep looking until you find something that confirms their prior beliefs. This is the opposite of research.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

Gaza has 2.2 million people. In 2 years, 10% of the population has been killed or wounded. Their entire infrastructure has been destroyed.

Instead of giving more military aid to Netanyahu’s extremist government, the US must work with the international community to rebuild Gaza.

‘Everything Is Gone’: Gazans Return Home to Find Devastation and Little Hope

www.nytimes.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Medical sources in Gaza report 51 deaths and more than 150 injuries caused by Israeli forces since the announcement of the end of the war on the Strip.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I fear he’s correct.

A tweet from Conor Rogers reads: “I mean this nicely: 75% of people have no idea what this says.” Below it, a retweeted post from Mark D. Levine says: “Every person in American politics should be forced to look at this map.” The image shows a U.S. map titled “The US Economy Split In Two.” Most of the country is shaded red, with small blue areas around major cities, and a circular key showing GDP split 50/50 between the red and blue regions, illustrating that half of the U.S. economy comes from a few dense metro areas.

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Jay Dobkin @jaydobkin.bsky.social · 4d

There were Jewish antifascists in Times Square today protesting Trump & Netanyahu's criminal regimes.

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Times Square in Manhattan today.

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Jay Dobkin @jaydobkin.bsky.social · 6d

All fascist regimes must be overthrown, and after the revolution their leaders and their violent thugs alike must be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

✡️Ⓐ Yiddish-Anarchist song "In ale gasn/Hey, hey, daloy politsey!" ("Down with the Police")

(Subtitles: FISHBI4)

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Jay Dobkin @jaydobkin.bsky.social · 6d

12 days before Hitler started WWII, 9 months after Kristallnacht & years after it was clear how brutal & vicious he was, the New York Times published a puff piece depicting him as a decent responsible leader & 86 years later it still sucks up to authority as long as it promotes corporate capitalism.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 10d

This is a really important thread for everyone who calls themselves a progressive. We need to challenge the narratives we’ve been told about safety and danger.

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

A simple answer is that the news makes people extremely scared of strangers--the person next to you at CVS, the person walking down the street, the unhoused person in a tent, the anonymous burglar, etc. These are the kinds of crimes associated with surveillance, policing, etc.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

And this leads to one thing, among many, that scares me a lot now: Things were already very bad on this front, but the unhinged gestapo tactics of ICE grant enormous power to predators across society in positions of power to prey upon vulnerable people: employers, abusers, etc.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone knows witnesses won't come forward, people will suffer in silence, etc. The scope of this harm is hard to overstate--nothing short of millions of people enduring grotesque physical and sexual harm.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10d

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11d

See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/ice-job-postings

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

That’s not how you science.

Tweet from Republicans Against Trump says: “RFK Jr: There’s no proof that Tylenol causes autism. We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” Below is a photo of a White House meeting showing RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump at a long conference table.

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