Gal in MA
@macgyveringthis.bsky.social
Work in a software company, two kids and a neurospicey household, lots of random interests.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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27 December 1879 | A French Jew, Sylvain Schnerb, was born in Colmar. During the war he lived in Paris.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
27 December 1879 | A French Jew, Sylvain Schnerb, was born in Colmar. During the war he lived in Paris.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Kyiv did not sleep once again last night. On the last weekend of the year, the capital should have smelled of mulled wine, cinnamon, chocolate and joy.
Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses.
The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.
Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses.
The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Kyiv did not sleep once again last night. On the last weekend of the year, the capital should have smelled of mulled wine, cinnamon, chocolate and joy.
Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses.
The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.
Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses.
The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.
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Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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CNN covers the Epstein-Nassar letter about Trump
December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
CNN covers the Epstein-Nassar letter about Trump
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “Two gunmen opened fire at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding multiple others in a "terrorist incident" during a gathering for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah...” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “Two gunmen opened fire at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding multiple others in a "terrorist incident" during a gathering for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah...” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
Great article by @caseynewton.bsky.social on Platformer today. (And yeah the interview with the Roblox CEO was infuriating) www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
www.platformer.news
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Great article by @caseynewton.bsky.social on Platformer today. (And yeah the interview with the Roblox CEO was infuriating) www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
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Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to
#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 1:01 AM
Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Because of the drama with the PM in Australia, I dug up this article from 10 years ago and learned A TON
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-...
An unlikely tribute: How cult U.K. band Joy Division found inspiration in Auschwitz
From Its Name to the Themes of Its Songs, the Now-defunct British Cult Band Seemed Obsessed by the Holocaust.
www.haaretz.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Because of the drama with the PM in Australia, I dug up this article from 10 years ago and learned A TON
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-...
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Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
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They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
Funny because I’m still spending a good bit of money, just not at Target since they abandoned all morals. My affluent money is going elsewhere.
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer
A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising
qz.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Funny because I’m still spending a good bit of money, just not at Target since they abandoned all morals. My affluent money is going elsewhere.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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“I by no means think that punk should be uniformly one thing,” Casey tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview. “But the punk that I was raised to listen to, it should be speaking up against abuses in the government.”
Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys: 'I Will Go to the Mat' for 'True American' Bad Bunny
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“I by no means think that punk should be uniformly one thing,” Casey tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview. “But the punk that I was raised to listen to, it should be speaking up against abuses in the government.”
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Shame we don't have a name for this phenomenon, maybe @mmasnick.bsky.social can come up with one.
Trump’s Attack on Ontario’s Reagan Ad Helped Amplify Its Reach
In the global portfolio of political ads that changed history, a handful stand out.
www.bloomberg.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Shame we don't have a name for this phenomenon, maybe @mmasnick.bsky.social can come up with one.
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
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"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
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No Kings-San Francisco, CA
October 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No Kings-San Francisco, CA