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anthony russell

@mordkhetzvi.bsky.social

me, re: Super Bowl:

Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, commenting on the Super Bowl in a newspaper column: “Sports? The Super what? I didn't know there was a Super Bowl. My dear friend, you're asking the wrong person. I have never heard of a Super Bowl. I am so far from it that you really shouldn't ask me. It's as if I would ask you what is happening at the planet Mars. The president will watch? The president knows some thing about football? Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life. Sunday will be like any other day, doing my work.”

February 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Look at this pos

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

Looks like lying Mike here just signed up for a heap of 9th Commandment, bearing false witness smiting. Unless, of course, he doesn't actually believe those Commandments apply to him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"

February 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

This effing pos www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

At the Center of the ICE Uproar, a Familiar Figure: Corey Lewandowski

www.nytimes.com

January 29, 2026 at 4:24 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Gee, ya think? After this b*st*rd pushed this kind of thing
Miller Suggests Federal Agents May Have Diverted From ‘Protocol’ Before Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Miller Suggests Federal Agents May Have Diverted From ‘Protocol’ Before Pretti Shooting

www.nytimes.com

January 28, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Good God. A child.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19d

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN

January 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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MinnMax

@minnmax.com

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

“Tame”: that snarling beast, higher education. How about destroy or muzzle or corrupt or weaponize?

January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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Melissa Gira Grant

@melissagiragrant.com

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

He says he will meet with Trump on Wednesday, accompanied by the Belgian monarch Philippe:

"But it will have a different character than we had planned.
It will probably be the message that we have to send: you're crossing red lines here.
We either stand together or we will stand divided, and if we are divided, there is the end of an era, of 80 years of atlanticism, really drawing to a close.
And you know, as Gramsci said, 'if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters, and it's up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster - yes or no."

January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

🐷🐷🐖🐽

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Trump: "Somalia -- they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say, 'These are low IQ people.' How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?"

January 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

www.huffpost.com/entry/john-a...

‘The World Needs To See It’: The Moment A Photographer Saved A Camera From ICE

John Abernathy was tackled by federal agents in Minneapolis and threw his Leica to safety.

www.huffpost.com

January 21, 2026 at 2:13 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Susan Collins has “concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’

www.nytimes.com

January 21, 2026 at 1:40 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

For those who look only to the left for anti-semitism: bsky.app/profile/dber...

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 26d

You may be missing this (lucky you), but Matt Gaetz says that there is a global Jewish fire-setting conspiracy, and doesn’t think it’s anti-Semitic to say so because it’s true.

January 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

The network's top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.
"There was big internal dissension about the
'internal bleeding' report here last night," the
CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said. "It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who'd carry it online."
"Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin's justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources," said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

January 16, 2026 at 5:28 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Well worth doing: www.instagram.com/reel/DTfKINR...

Museum of Jewish Heritage on Instagram: "Max and his mom, Emily, stopped by the first floor of the Museum to visit the Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Research Center, where they worked with one of our onsit...

99 likes, 4 comments - museumjewishheritage on January 14, 2026: "Max and his mom, Emily, stopped by the first floor of the Museum to visit the Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Research Center, where they wor...

www.instagram.com

January 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Well, that was the endgame, right? Everybody who voted for him happy now, you dumb fuckers?

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minneapolis Protests www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minneapolis Protests

www.nytimes.com

January 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

I’d had him longlisted for my biggest Shondas. I shouldn’t have taken him off.

bsky.app/profile/luck...

Lucky LaRue @luckylarue.bsky.social · Jan 11

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/did...

Did Bill Ackman donate for ICE officer Jonathan Ross who shot Minneapolis woman Renee Good dead? - The Times of India

US News: Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman shared a fundraising campaign for ICE officer Jonathan Ross who shot Minneapolis woman Renee Good dead -- triggering sp.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

January 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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Jon Collins

@jcollins.bsky.social

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

So we’re back to this: www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_b...

The White Man’s Burden

1 Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-ca…

www.kiplingsociety.co.uk

January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

List of living American shondas, top 10:
Stephen Miller
Katie Miller
Jared Kushner
Harvey Weinstein
Howard Lutnick
Ben Shapiro
Lee Zeldin
Laura Loomer
Chaya Raichik
Bruce Blakeman

Biggest dead American shondas:
Jeffrey Epstein
Roy Cohn

January 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

The late lamented Tom Lehrer: youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

youtu.be

January 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM

Emily Raphael

@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social

Movie idea: Hannah, a big-city lawyer, comes home to help her mother prepare one last Seder for her Bubbie. When she meets her old flame, a kosher butcher whose business is going under, sparks fly! Hallmark, call me!

December 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM