Robin Broshi
@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social
Proud Mama of public school educated Jewish NYC Zoomers
It is possible to care deeply about antisemitism while rejecting Zionism as its solution
If you can afford it, give cash to people who ask
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It is possible to care deeply about antisemitism while rejecting Zionism as its solution
If you can afford it, give cash to people who ask
https://imdb.com/name/nm11733035/
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Robin Broshi
@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Back on Twitter there was a guy, probably one of the various YIMBY Jo(h)ns who I got into it with because I went on a tear about how tracking (splitting K-12 student populations into remedial, normal, and advanced classes) is Bad, Actually and he was very concerned about his children being Held Back
If anyone ever wants to do a long form essay about the link between parents who support academic tracking and deplorable racism and transphobia - have I got a story for you…
As COVID tore across the US and killed over a million Americans, The Atlantic conflated reasonable debate during a novel viral pandemic with gratuitous ego-driven contrarianism, and now the doctors they platformed and normalized are dismantling the best parts of American healthcare.
. @theatlantic.com has some some of the best writers around.
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
As COVID tore across the US and killed over a million Americans, The Atlantic conflated reasonable debate during a novel viral pandemic with gratuitous ego-driven contrarianism, and now the doctors they platformed and normalized are dismantling the best parts of American healthcare.
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writing CROATOAN everywhere i go just in case i gotta drop off the grid and go on the run real sudden like
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
writing CROATOAN everywhere i go just in case i gotta drop off the grid and go on the run real sudden like
I giggled imagining her and her advisors deciding exactly how to word it and whether to go with “shit” or “crap” and I’m delighted.
I’m fine with her saying it on TV. But putting it in a fundraising text seems both vulgar and trying too hard.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I giggled imagining her and her advisors deciding exactly how to word it and whether to go with “shit” or “crap” and I’m delighted.
If we redesign schooling for the kids that struggle with conventional schooling the most, everyone will win.
This article is why people should learn from neurodivergent people and the disability community before writing. It takes such an ableist tone toward our kids, and the writer seems to have never heard of the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, or the neurodiversity paradigm.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If we redesign schooling for the kids that struggle with conventional schooling the most, everyone will win.
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I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.
The Times just wrote a whole thing about a crisis of childhood and schooling and here’s the actual problem and solution in one post:
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Times just wrote a whole thing about a crisis of childhood and schooling and here’s the actual problem and solution in one post:
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Super belated update (sorry, faster on hellsite than here): 1 person was definitely detained (prompting alert) but ICE apparently dipped out immediately after.
Adjusting from ‘raid’ to ‘suspected targeted arrest.’ Neighbors & vendors all moved extremely fast, though.
Adjusting from ‘raid’ to ‘suspected targeted arrest.’ Neighbors & vendors all moved extremely fast, though.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Super belated update (sorry, faster on hellsite than here): 1 person was definitely detained (prompting alert) but ICE apparently dipped out immediately after.
Adjusting from ‘raid’ to ‘suspected targeted arrest.’ Neighbors & vendors all moved extremely fast, though.
Adjusting from ‘raid’ to ‘suspected targeted arrest.’ Neighbors & vendors all moved extremely fast, though.
Reposted by Robin Broshi
Honestly any time anyone our family needs me to fix something that isn't under my direct control I just sigh and they've started to feel pity for me
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Honestly any time anyone our family needs me to fix something that isn't under my direct control I just sigh and they've started to feel pity for me
Kids are definitely alright
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Kids are definitely alright
I wonder how many people learned about Trump’s rhetoric today from campaign spam and not journalists
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I wonder how many people learned about Trump’s rhetoric today from campaign spam and not journalists
I like how stopping him from having access to students was the last step and not the first step.
In no reality are the adults at Harvard the brightest minds in America.
In no reality are the adults at Harvard the brightest minds in America.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I like how stopping him from having access to students was the last step and not the first step.
In no reality are the adults at Harvard the brightest minds in America.
In no reality are the adults at Harvard the brightest minds in America.
Ok this is brilliant
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ok this is brilliant
Of course the elite completely lost their minds when young nonwhite people knew their worth and enough young white peers agreed with them
And yet people will still accuse you of lying or being stupid if you point out the Great Awokening etc was essentially an elite moral panic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Of course the elite completely lost their minds when young nonwhite people knew their worth and enough young white peers agreed with them
I assume this is about Epstein but it really goes for any kind of traumatic content. I don’t need to see or share Holocaust or Gaza footage to know where I stand or how to advocate effectively.
Reminder that, if you are already sympathetic, you do not need to traumatize yourself with the details of the horror. Witnessing the degradation by reading the article / seeing the video doesn't actually help the victims.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I assume this is about Epstein but it really goes for any kind of traumatic content. I don’t need to see or share Holocaust or Gaza footage to know where I stand or how to advocate effectively.
I’m feeling ever so slightly bullish on there being free and fair (enough) elections in our future - but I’m cynical that Dems will be able to take the steps needed to hold MAGA accountable and shore up institutions in a way that truly course corrects. Replacing the leadership of the party is huge.
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m feeling ever so slightly bullish on there being free and fair (enough) elections in our future - but I’m cynical that Dems will be able to take the steps needed to hold MAGA accountable and shore up institutions in a way that truly course corrects. Replacing the leadership of the party is huge.
I’d believe this is a reasonable hypothesis holding constant for so many variables it hardly has any real world applications
Worth a read:
"A person’s relationship with their mother does shape their..attachment style and...relationships.. But early friendship bonds played an even bigger part than maternal relationships in the ways people navigated adult friendships and romantic partnerships."
nautil.us/childhood-fr...
"A person’s relationship with their mother does shape their..attachment style and...relationships.. But early friendship bonds played an even bigger part than maternal relationships in the ways people navigated adult friendships and romantic partnerships."
nautil.us/childhood-fr...
Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most: A new study upends conventional wisdom about how we relate to those closest to us.
nautil.us
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’d believe this is a reasonable hypothesis holding constant for so many variables it hardly has any real world applications
You had your bear set to pedophile
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
You had your bear set to pedophile
Dem Project 2029 (or whatever) should fund researching connections to slavery in every commercial and nonprofit institution that can trace its existence back far enough. There doesn’t even need to be a next step per se - but everyone should know.
One common response to research on universities and slavery is that all the money is dirty, all the way down, no matter the era or the donor or the investments, so why bother knowing the details? To me, that seems like an excuse to keep causing harm and pretending to be surprised every time.
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Dem Project 2029 (or whatever) should fund researching connections to slavery in every commercial and nonprofit institution that can trace its existence back far enough. There doesn’t even need to be a next step per se - but everyone should know.
The most honest and accurate coverage of last spring’s Pro-Palestine protests was in college newspapers. The Columbia Spectator should have been everyone’s primary source.
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The most honest and accurate coverage of last spring’s Pro-Palestine protests was in college newspapers. The Columbia Spectator should have been everyone’s primary source.
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It’s weird when people make I/P their entire personality. Especially non-Palestinian gentiles. Like, what are you doing Katie and Christopher? You don’t even go here.
Like, if you think about I/P more than Israelis and Palestinians, seek help.
Like, if you think about I/P more than Israelis and Palestinians, seek help.
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It’s weird when people make I/P their entire personality. Especially non-Palestinian gentiles. Like, what are you doing Katie and Christopher? You don’t even go here.
Like, if you think about I/P more than Israelis and Palestinians, seek help.
Like, if you think about I/P more than Israelis and Palestinians, seek help.
The white, affluent learning loss people pretended to care about the impact of closed school buildings on Black and brown children but in fact demanding they reopen before the virus was being managed was in many cases sentencing them and their families to contracting a deadly virus.
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The white, affluent learning loss people pretended to care about the impact of closed school buildings on Black and brown children but in fact demanding they reopen before the virus was being managed was in many cases sentencing them and their families to contracting a deadly virus.
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I dunno man, if a talking duck was a returning customer I would probably just stock some fucking grapes?!
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I dunno man, if a talking duck was a returning customer I would probably just stock some fucking grapes?!
It did fall in January and lots of people were freaking out about but not enough of the correct people so here we are - and still trusting the voices who didn’t freak out.
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It did fall in January and lots of people were freaking out about but not enough of the correct people so here we are - and still trusting the voices who didn’t freak out.
Listen at least he endorsed Mamdani. But any Dem who says anything nice about her but hasn’t fallen over supporting Mamdani can definitely fuck off.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Listen at least he endorsed Mamdani. But any Dem who says anything nice about her but hasn’t fallen over supporting Mamdani can definitely fuck off.