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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have just been informed that these candies are being discontinued?!? This, to me, is more anti-Jewish than anything Macklemore has ever said. You simply cannot discontinue these candies and expect Jewish continuity. ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-frui...

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Sunkist Fruit Gems, a colorful staple of synagogue celebrations, discontinued

The kosher confection appears to be the latest victim of private-equity firms acquiring classic candy brands and then shaping them for the mass market

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exactly. I am glad to be a loser in private

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love the idea that Stalin, Hitler, et al are being punished in hell by being forced to debate Charlie Kirk. Also, hard for me to zoom - is that Che next to another Che?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is fron a curb episode I am almost positive

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m sorry, the T needs improvements for sure, but this says WAY more about how out of touch the elite hostess is than the state of the T. It’s one thing to not ride the T despite living close to a major station — it’s another to not KNOW she lives close to Park St www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/06/b...

The Boston Globe
The Big Idea

The T's unreliability is outrageous and costly. Why do we put up with it?

By Kara Miller Globe Correspondent

Several years ago, I was invited to a fancy party on Beacon Hill. One of the invitees asked the hostess what T stop she lived near, and she replied she had no idea.

The answer floored me, because she probably lived 150 feet from the Park Street station. I bet you could have seen it from her amazing balcony.

But it served as a good reminder that lots of people with power - either financial or political - know next to nothing about the T.
Because they don't ride it.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why am I associating this with that time Ted Cruz liked a pornographic tweet?

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Easy: the first Tuesday after Labor Day

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. Her memory will surely be a blessing.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love people watching. There was a guy with an amazing mustache on the bus reading a book with a cover of a cartoon picture of a jar of fluff. I search it up & the book is "Fluff: The Sticky Sweet Story Of An American Icon,” by Mimi Graney, creator of the "What The Fluff?" festival in Somerville

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jon, I love ya, but your logic is flawed. We don't know how a Koh/Nguyen race would go in a General. 1) Don't assume conservative votes go to Koh. Why? Many conservatives may not like, say, Biden's pick for Congress. 2) candidates would campaign differently with different rules

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am LOSING MY MIND - just a 20 vote difference #mapoli

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I feel like Persis Yu’s victory should be a bigger story! There was tons of press about Brownsberger/Collins in the @bostonglobe.com but I think if you read the paper you wouldn’t barely know that the Rush/Yu was competitive. #mapoli

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh man. 61 votes separate Brownsberger from Lander. Lander was just a mailpiece or two away.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Should I go to bed or if I stay up a little longer will we have results for Brownsberger-Lander? #mapoli

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What’s going on in Cambridge, anybody know? #mapoli

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My take on Moulton is he lost for similar reasons that JK3 lost to Markey: no real message. Moulton’s message was just “Markey old.” Plus one more thing:

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Okay, who has Brownsberger-Lander live results???? #mapoli

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It certainly says something that nothing short of very credible rape allegations can topple a white man in the Democratic Party. Like can you imagine the amount of condemnation and backlash if either El-Sayed or Mamdani had even a FRACTION of the amount of scandals Platner had?

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey #Massachusetts! Don't forget to vote today! #mapoli Don't know where to vote? Go to: wheredoivotema.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

we should do this every year on the anniversary of her passing. think how much better the internet is today when everyone is just talking about one of the purest souls who ever lived. annual mandatory "1 out of every 3 posts must be about Dolly" day

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

imagine a world where Bezos and Musk gave the same percentage of their net worth to direct service - like physically putting books in kids’ hands and equipment in school band rooms - as she did, instead of putting their profits into their weird self-insert scifi fanfic

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

and one person choosing to demonstrate what the world COULD look like is such a scorching reproach to all the people in the world with more money even than Dolly earnestly trying to convince us that we are gullible rubes for expecting better

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh boy I cannot wait for the future “how it started / how it’s going” posts that will inevitably write themselves to manifest

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dan is correct here. Also, I think the problem is that (in the US) popular ideas of political ideologies have been scrambled from years of bad-faith mislabeling.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To answer the question posted in the headline without reading the article: 1. Because you strike when the iron is hot 2. Biden was 44 when he first ran for President in 1988 - it helps build a national profile

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It has become apparent that it was genuinely Obama not his advisors — not Axe or Gibbs or any of them. That said I do think there’s a difference between Axelrod of 08 and today — the Axelrod of today has spent many years on CNN getting his brain cooked by having to be a talking head.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do I need to know who Natalie Harp is?

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think most people understand that the solutions to most of these problems are interrelated. As we build housing we create jobs for the workers building houses + the rest of economy. More jobs mean more people have health care, etc. Build in a sustainable way to tackle climate and so on.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you pay child care workers more, then more people will become child care workers (or stay in field). If there are more child care workers, there are more child care seats. If there are more child care seats available, prices can go down. What a concept!! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/12/m...

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New study from Harvard offers a solution to the child care crisis: Pay workers more - The Boston Globe

Paying early child care workers $6 more an hour could increase formal child care enrollment from 53 percent to 65 percent in five years.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Actually no, I can’t let this one go. It is such an INSULT to the people who suffered under Soviet rule - who could not escape to the US or elsewhere - to compare a one-time tax on *billionaires* to Soviet totalitarian rule.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just learned that @wbur.org has a new podcast about poetry — will have to check it out!!!

You Could Make This Beautiful, a new WBUR podcast series about poetry, launches today. The series celebrates the ways poetry in all its forms —traditional, comedy, music, nature, relationships - can make life more beautiful. Co-hosted by poet Maggie Smith and frequent Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! panelist Faith Salie, the podcast features star guests like Henry Winkler, Mike Birbiglia, Peter Sagal and more. Listen to a teaser for the series here or check out the full episodes in the Dear Sugars feed.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The fact that these people have the nerve to open their mouths to talk about “protecting women and girls” while doing shit like this… whew!

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The most shareable part of this clip is certainly the part that's quoted in the post, but the broader message - of unity and why people are hurting so much being due to the system - is so good.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

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