Mara Novak
@maranovak.bsky.social
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Co-Executive Director, NJ 11th For Change LFGM! Shakespeare, words, birds, flowers, math. Dog person. Abortion rights voter. Apparently I'm a Jersey girl now
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Jack is unraveling, and it’s no secret why: he’s 25 days away from becoming a three-time loser.
maranovak.bsky.social
I adapted The Tempest for a bunch of 4 year olds back when I taught Pre-K, it was a huge hit.
maranovak.bsky.social
My daughter and I loved the show! Possibly the finest Godot I've seen
maranovak.bsky.social
high waisted pants and a perfectly fitted t shirt for the win
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
New Jersey — voter registration closes tomorrow! Go to nj.gov/vote to check your registration, make a plan to vote on or before November 4, and check with your friends and family to make sure they’ve done the same!
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jcmutualaid.org
Our monthly distro at The Sharing Place is coming up and we are desperately low on baby diapers, sizes 2 and up. If you have any extras let us know and we’ll arrange pick-up. Or if you can, buy some through our registry and have them delivered to us directly. www.jcmutualaid.org/donate
Donate — Jersey City Mutual Aid Society (JCMAS)
www.jcmutualaid.org
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.
Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention.

There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies.

The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
The bodies of those who died must soon follow, so that their families can bury and mourn them. This is a meaningful step in the long road to a lasting peace.
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Today, I join our friends and neighbors in New Jersey and across the world in celebrating the return of the 20 living hostages, who have spent more than two years in Hamas captivity.
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kim.senate.gov
My statement on the release of the remaining twenty hostages by Hamas to Israel.
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repsherrill.bsky.social
Today is an emotional day as we see the 20 living hostages reunite with their families after two years in captivity by Hamas. I join people across the globe in celebrating their return. (1/2)
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maranovak.bsky.social
Oh god he needs to go away
maranovak.bsky.social
Listen, I know there’s a lot going on. Everybody needs to do something.

For the next 23 days I am going to do everything I can to get @mikiesherrill.bsky.social elected Governor of NJ.
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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mollyknight.bsky.social
If you are buying silly costumes and whistles to help stop our country from sliding into fascism: congratulations on doing more than our elected Democratic congresspeople!
mollyknight.bsky.social
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." 

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
maranovak.bsky.social
I just started making these this year, but in a loaf pan. So delicious!
maranovak.bsky.social
2yos are the absolute best. Chaotic but amazing
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
“Did he set fire to the convent?”

“I’m sure he’s started many fires. He barbecues a lot.”
atrupar.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)