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Lucia Orth @luciaorth.bsky.social · 5h

"If your first amendment rights are threatened, and you don't show up because you're afraid, then you already don't have first amendment rights."

Ezra Levin

#Maddow
See you Saturday, October 18, for No Kings demonstration.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 21h

Israelis are "hostages"; Palestinians are "detainees." Israelis come home with worldwide media coverage, Palestinians are threatened by Israel if they dare talk about their release.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

If you look at this and say “there goes Europe, antisemitizing again” you have no idea what’s going on.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

World Cup Qualifiers Become a Venue for European Protests of Israel

www.nytimes.com

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

And he thinks not getting the Nobel is bad!

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s 23-year-old IDF soldier posting his depredations on TikTok is tomorrow’s 40 year-old father arrested while vacationing with his family in Ibiza.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 3d

I feel this way about Gaza

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

I am never ever going to forgive a single one of these motherfuckers.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 3d

This will gain its own momentum and become conventional wisdom among some folks whatever the truth, much like “the left cost Kamala the election”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

During the Red Scare of the 1950’s, two-thirds of the people questioned by McCarthy were Jewish. A war against the left is always going to disproportionately target Jews.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 5d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 6d

No doubt she appreciates being Mrs. Hippo

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

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The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 7d

Very "Pete Hegseth in front of the generals" vibe

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 7d

This is really true

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 7d

lol everything is either a vibe or a lie

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe it's a Sorkinesque walk-and-talk

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 7d

That the world is objectively better off and that violence is at an all-time low.

violence.it

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 8d

Can we take the current period as evidence that Steven Pinker has been proven wrong?

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 8d

You all look alike

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 8d

And you can own any and every gun.

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 9d

name: Moti
current read: Benjamin Balthasar, Citizens of the Whole World
last show: The Crown
last film: Superman I think, its been a while
fav book this year: @peterbeinart.bsky.social , Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
fave watch this year: Sinners

+something spooky:

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 9d

Can you call them up and send them to Champaign Urbana?

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe they should get a $200 million gift to pay for everybody's therapy

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 10d

Utter depravity

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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