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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 1h

Proud to have played a part in The Shofar Report, @nexusproject.bsky.social's response to Project Esther, the Trump administration, and the idea that Jews should abandon liberal democracy. You can read about it in this thoughtful @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social write up 1/?
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Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 15h

Charlie Brown wants football guarantee from Lucy

Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15h

October 10: Harvard wants guarantees.

Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 16h

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social • 1h
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day by disrespecting Italians (eating a barbecue chicken pizza)

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Would you say something like that to a black person on MLK day? I doubt it, coward.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Broadview.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 17h

Well God dammit that place was uniquely great for HP.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump attorneys argue "neither the UC Regents nor the University of California broadly are parties to this suit," and cite that as UC's implied support for a stay.

That's right. Trump lawyers using UC's failure to stand up to them as consent for continued threats to 100k workers and students.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 Am I surprised they gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Does she deserve it? Also, no. There’s a reason she was barred from running for office in Venezuela: multiple violent coup attempts and calling of foreign governments, like Israel, to invade Venezuela.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

A lawyer was on here telling me she got escorted out of a town hall with Elizabeth Warren because she asked her about unanimous consent, Warren lied to her, she said that was she lying, and then was escorted out.

That stuff is really really important. It shows what these people are about.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

These people say a lot of words that sound very lefty. This is what they are good at.

Sometimes they genuinely don't know how to mechanically to turn it into reality and most of the time they are just being cynical and pandering for votes while winking at special interests.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

My big picture take is I think progressives need to get a lot better at questioning their progressive leaders because they are all part of the problem and everyone is too afraid to peer under the hood because it might ruin their "champions".

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

where's Lemmy?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

this feels like a wild further development in the ironic/surreal greeting card category pioneered by Lionel and Joanne Ziprin--did you ever see any Inkweed Press cards?

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 1d

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Practice your speech for when people ask, "How are you?"
Cartoon style depiction of a bedridden girl rehearsing an upbeat "Oh, fine!" response to the question "How are you?" as a humorous tip for handling visitors during illness.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 3d

Today it is a tool to appease, wield influence, and maintain alliances, to make a stance for “the free world” against Russia and its allies, to stroke the egos that drive geopolitics, while maintaining the optics of standing up for peace and human rights.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 3d

From a principled perspective on peace and human rights she’s not the ideal candidate. However, that is not necessarily what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. In today’s geopolitical puzzle, the Prize is primarily a political tool. Does that delegitimize the prize? Absolutely.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the same thing as patrol car cops saying they'll drive if he wins? Aren't beat cops going to walk anyway? I digress.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely true. And also the least self-aware article ever, from the publication that brought you “The Gaza Famine Myth.”

What do you think it’s like to watch your child starve to death?

The Free Press @thefp.com · 4d

The first time one of your children is seriously ill or hurt, you pass through a portal into a new world. You learn to recognize fear in its purest form—hot and metallic, writes Abigail Shrier for The Free Press.

Abigail Shrier: When Your Child Is Sick

The first time one of your children is seriously ill or hurt, you pass through a portal into a new world. You learn to recognize fear in its purest form—hot and metallic, writes Abigail Shrier for The Free Press.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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