Phil Mandelbaum
@philmandelbaum.bsky.social
Nonprofit x Political x Digital Strategy + Activation | Design | Journalism | Work: AP, NWU, Stand Up For Science, National Writers Union, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Melina Abdullah, Cat Brooks, Noelle Cook • philmandelbaum.com • aka @awkword.bsky.social
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How White Supremacist Fearmongering Broke Apart Black Lives Matter
"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the
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The *real* story of Black Lives Matter
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
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“… About the raping, murdering, civilized aristocrats
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“… About the raping, murdering, civilized aristocrats
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.
This is a crisis.
This is a crisis.
FBI Caught Spying on Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists
Keep a close eye on who’s joining your group chats.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.
This is a crisis.
This is a crisis.
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The Kids are OK…
“As thousands took to the streets to protest ICE in the offline world — Roblox players protested within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear”
www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...
“As thousands took to the streets to protest ICE in the offline world — Roblox players protested within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear”
www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Kids are OK…
“As thousands took to the streets to protest ICE in the offline world — Roblox players protested within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear”
www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...
“As thousands took to the streets to protest ICE in the offline world — Roblox players protested within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear”
www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...
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“Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and [‘Trump Whore’] scrawled across her torso. She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head…
Nearly every detail was fabricated.”
Republicans:
Nearly every detail was fabricated.”
Republicans:
Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body - New Jersey Globe
A 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the
newjerseyglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and [‘Trump Whore’] scrawled across her torso. She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head…
Nearly every detail was fabricated.”
Republicans:
Nearly every detail was fabricated.”
Republicans:
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Great watch 👇
“Trump is losing control of the Republican Party. And that's great. It seems like there's a lot of schisms. What worries me is I think people are sleeping on the fact that MAGA really isn't Trump… The energy that he has unleashed is here to stay."
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Great watch 👇
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🚨 ⬇️ Must Watch ⬇️ 🚨
“Trump is losing control of the Republican Party. And that's great. It seems like there's a lot of schisms. What worries me is I think people are sleeping on the fact that MAGA really isn't Trump… The energy that he has unleashed is here to stay."
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🚨 ⬇️ Must Watch ⬇️ 🚨
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I had a wonderful time speaking with @awkword.bsky.social about our current political moment, what we can do as individuals, and what we should watch out for as Trump loses his iron grip on the Republican party. Check it out if you would like to!
GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I had a wonderful time speaking with @awkword.bsky.social about our current political moment, what we can do as individuals, and what we should watch out for as Trump loses his iron grip on the Republican party. Check it out if you would like to!
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“Trump is losing control of the Republican Party. And that's great. It seems like there's a lot of schisms. What worries me is I think people are sleeping on the fact that MAGA really isn't Trump… The energy that he has unleashed is here to stay."
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“Trump is losing control of the Republican Party. And that's great. It seems like there's a lot of schisms. What worries me is I think people are sleeping on the fact that MAGA really isn't Trump… The energy that he has unleashed is here to stay."
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
- @laurajedeed.bsky.social
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“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”
- @emily.gorcen.ski
- @emily.gorcen.ski
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”
- @emily.gorcen.ski
- @emily.gorcen.ski
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The *real* story of Black Lives Matter
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
How White Supremacist Fearmongering Broke Apart Black Lives Matter
"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the
www.counterpunch.org
June 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The *real* story of Black Lives Matter
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social
My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...
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“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
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October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I went a little bit down memory lane on the whole "rehab a fascist when they speak lightly out against the fascism they still perpetuate."
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You Do Not In Fact "gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene"
MTG said she was "sorry" and was 'turning a new leaf' on CNN
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I went a little bit down memory lane on the whole "rehab a fascist when they speak lightly out against the fascism they still perpetuate."
open.substack.com/pub/visunews...
open.substack.com/pub/visunews...
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Thank you EBONY Magazine for shouting out #TheDoubleTax in a review of Rosario Dawson and Colin Kaepernick's latest project focused on Black women business owners in cannabis.
Glad to see the feature (pun intended)! #blacksky #news
Glad to see the feature (pun intended)! #blacksky #news
'Kiss My Grass' reveals inequity in cannabis industry
Rosario Dawson and Colin Kaepernick’s 'Kiss My Grass' follows five Black women fighting for equity, ownership, and mental health in the cannabis business.
www.ebony.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Thank you EBONY Magazine for shouting out #TheDoubleTax in a review of Rosario Dawson and Colin Kaepernick's latest project focused on Black women business owners in cannabis.
Glad to see the feature (pun intended)! #blacksky #news
Glad to see the feature (pun intended)! #blacksky #news
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With Epstein in the news, here are 2 pieces I wrote
From 2018: Epstein's 1980's boss Steven Hoffenberg spent 18 yrs in jail for $475M ponzi scheme - later claimed Epstein was co-conspirator who owed investors $1 Bil, Hoffenberg launched a pro-Trump PAC that claimed to have $50M in-kind donations
From 2018: Epstein's 1980's boss Steven Hoffenberg spent 18 yrs in jail for $475M ponzi scheme - later claimed Epstein was co-conspirator who owed investors $1 Bil, Hoffenberg launched a pro-Trump PAC that claimed to have $50M in-kind donations
Complaint against Jeffrey Epstein for $475M ponzi scheme losses
In 1995 Steven Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to a ponzi scheme. In 2016 he attempted to reclaim money for victims from Jeffrey Epstein.
newstracs.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
With Epstein in the news, here are 2 pieces I wrote
From 2018: Epstein's 1980's boss Steven Hoffenberg spent 18 yrs in jail for $475M ponzi scheme - later claimed Epstein was co-conspirator who owed investors $1 Bil, Hoffenberg launched a pro-Trump PAC that claimed to have $50M in-kind donations
From 2018: Epstein's 1980's boss Steven Hoffenberg spent 18 yrs in jail for $475M ponzi scheme - later claimed Epstein was co-conspirator who owed investors $1 Bil, Hoffenberg launched a pro-Trump PAC that claimed to have $50M in-kind donations
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When you remember that Hegseth wants the military clean shaven, ripped, white & lacking women? “Operation Rough Rider” is strangely the least unhinged thing he could name a military operation…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced widespread mockery for the cringeworthy names he gave to new U.S. military operations, such as "OPERATION ROUGH RIDER."
Pentagon Pete Brutally Roasted for Cringe Military Op Names
The defense secretary’s theatrics over military operation names sparked laughter heard round the world.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When you remember that Hegseth wants the military clean shaven, ripped, white & lacking women? “Operation Rough Rider” is strangely the least unhinged thing he could name a military operation…
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Poor people in the United States are a primary target for policing, especially those forced to live on the streets.
Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year.
Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Poor people in the United States are a primary target for policing, especially those forced to live on the streets.
Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year.
Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year.
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It seems a few Leftists are now discovering for the first time that the radical Right is also anti-establishment, and so if you squint at a few of its positions, from a tiny angle, they can kinda sound like our own. Don't get too excited! Learn about the 'three-way fight'
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It seems a few Leftists are now discovering for the first time that the radical Right is also anti-establishment, and so if you squint at a few of its positions, from a tiny angle, they can kinda sound like our own. Don't get too excited! Learn about the 'three-way fight'
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Dandy Andy’s excellent reflection from inside the antifascist struggle in Quebec utilizing the Three Way Fight perspective
Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec
The ideas advanced in the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism offer a useful set of tools to examine developments in Québec’s far right and antifascist movement over the past…
threewayfight.org
September 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Dandy Andy’s excellent reflection from inside the antifascist struggle in Quebec utilizing the Three Way Fight perspective
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“Megyn Kelly doesn’t think Muslims should hold office in America”. Meanwhile, “pro-Israel right-wingers…who seemed comfortable with intolerance when it was directed at Blacks, immigrants, trans people and other marginalized groups, are shocked (shocked!) that their former friends also hate Jews.”
Opinion | Megyn Kelly’s xenophobic rant against Zohran Mamdani is as MAGA as it gets
Amid an ideological civil war over antisemites in the MAGA movement, the right-wing podcast superstar unleashed a xenophobic attack on Zohran Mamdani.
www.msnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Megyn Kelly doesn’t think Muslims should hold office in America”. Meanwhile, “pro-Israel right-wingers…who seemed comfortable with intolerance when it was directed at Blacks, immigrants, trans people and other marginalized groups, are shocked (shocked!) that their former friends also hate Jews.”
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On the morning of February 6, 1919, Seattle, a city of 315,000 people, stopped working. 25,000 other union members had joined 35,000 shipyard workers already on strike. The city's AFL unions, 101 of them, had voted to walk out in a gesture of support and solidarity. #seattle #generalstrike #history
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
On the morning of February 6, 1919, Seattle, a city of 315,000 people, stopped working. 25,000 other union members had joined 35,000 shipyard workers already on strike. The city's AFL unions, 101 of them, had voted to walk out in a gesture of support and solidarity. #seattle #generalstrike #history
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Convicted (and then pardoned) seditious conspirator Enrique Tarrio of Proud Boys (and FBI informant) fame joined the very large MAGA media influencer contingent at Portland’s ICE facility last night.
Hahahahaha
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Convicted (and then pardoned) seditious conspirator Enrique Tarrio of Proud Boys (and FBI informant) fame joined the very large MAGA media influencer contingent at Portland’s ICE facility last night.