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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 17h

Somebody on my red line train is blasting Stairway to Heaven. We are on a crowded T during rush hour. Haven’t we suffered enough??

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why does this Celtics gear look like green Star Trek The Next Generation uniforms? I’m not complaining, just asking. #celtics

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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...

ejewishphilanthropy.com

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 · 19/09/2026

Same reason why I find many "trend" pieces I read annoying. In politics especially, but also in fashion/culture or other areas. OK, a reporter found a handful of people who believe X thing or wear a style. Unless the article demonstrates these are influential folks or is very widespread...so what?

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So like even if one finds like 300 annoying accounts poasting in support of Mao…. like, okay? Who cares? Do they have any power or influence? Are there many more of them in the population?

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just feel like there’s enough people of many backgrounds in the US that any ideology that can exist…does. (At least in a small % of the 341m in US.) Some of those people post online. So one can always find a handful — or maybe even more than a handful! — of people with that worldview.

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How many people do you actually see defending Mao and Stalin? How widespread is this phenomenon

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ayn Rand? Absolutely not. But also… what does my Rorschach response say about me???

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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh I thought that was supposed to be like a bad AI slop version of Simone de Beauvoir — I know it doesn’t look like her, but like kinda?

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

lol that’s funny bsky.app/profile/absi...

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

Or is the idea that Charlie Kirk’s idea of Heaven is hanging out and debating Osama???

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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

Don’t google Behind Open Doors film

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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

It may still be hot much of the time, but climate change is gonna make it so that it’s hot in like November. Labor Day is the official end of summer and when school ought to begin.

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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

Yes, also gets you the people who are like “what about this thing - is THIS a sandwich”?

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

*sigh* real quick, an elephant is a large gray mammal which has large ears, a long trunk, and tusks — whereas a sandwich is a type of food which has a filling such as vegetables, cheese, spreads, or meat between two slices or pieces of bread. Now that that’s out of the way,

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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

This guy is wearing a bright turquoise paisley button down short sleeve shirt and I am obsessed with this human

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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 · 03/09/2026

I think we all know that was implied!!

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

You and almost exactly half his district!

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

Why would he? It will be recounted

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

The outcome may or may not still be the same in terms of who gets elected (Koh wins), but the difference in HOW the 6th district gets there could be dramatic.

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

Even if Koh ultimately still wins against Nguyen, the narrative of the race changes. Framing changes. General Election voters are exposed to 2 Democrats, rather than usual GOP vs Dem. AND more voters participate in the election - instead of the only election that really matters being the primary.

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

In a Koh v. Jones debate, Koh will have to debate GOP framing when talking to a General Election audience (which is way larger a voting pool, we can all agree.) What would it be like to shift the media/voter attention to a two-way all Democratic debate? It changes whole narrative/overton window.

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

In addition, we don't know how the other candidates or their supporters would act. Would Belsito endorse Nguyen in a head-to-head against Koh? Would Beccia stay out altogether or direct funds one way or another? One more thing:

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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 assume after that will come the recount. I am not sure how many auxiliary votes still have to be counted in Belmont. So it's not lights out for either candidate from what I understand...

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

At least according to WBUR/AP www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

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

Boston still has 3% of votes to be counted - possible Lander gains more votes.

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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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