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Ami Dar

@amidar.bsky.social
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Husband, father, brother. Started Idealist.org. Freedom and dignity for all.

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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We need to start from the dignity of every human life. Every person is precious. Forgetting that, or never accepting it, has left us here.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thank you! Now Twitter and LinkedIn :)
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It hurts to admit this, but in so many places around the world the thugs are winning. If the good guys - those who want more freedom and more dignity for more people - don’t start working together, we are screwed.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I’m a New Yorker. New York will be fine.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We have everything we need to build a better world for all of us. We just need to get organized
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I read news from all over the world, and almost everywhere there is a sense that we are stuck, that we are all growing farther apart, that there's no path and no horizon. And yet deep down many of us *know* that things could be better. Do you agree with both feelings?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
So no protests against the cold-blooded killing of Venezuelans and Colombians in international waters merely for the suspicion of smuggling? The silence is loud and weird.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
There are exactly zero excuses left for not letting international journalists into Gaza now. Open the damn gates.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
All the feelings: Happy and relieved this deal is finally happening. Angry it didn't happen earlier. Heartbroken by all the suffering. Hopeful and wary about what comes next. Determined to continue doing what I can. Loving the lovers and bored by the haters. Enough! And onward!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I was at a conference on Friday where someone said that as long as most people in the US have “lots of calories, cheap gas, and videos to watch,” there would be no real pushback against authoritarianism. We are about to find out if that’s true.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Ok it!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We so urgently need a global coalition of the kind and the reasonable. That’s the only thing I want to work on from now on.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My dream team for the Nobel Peace Prize when it's announced in October: the doctors and nurses of Gaza, and Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, the parents of Hersh, the hostage who was murdered there a year ago.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The power of words. Tom Barrack, Trump's special envoy to Lebanon, goes to Beirut and tells Lebanese journalists at a press conference not to be "animalistic," thereby reinforcing every anti-American stereotype in the region. Maybe professional diplomats are a good thing?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Yes! We were there on Sunday! Let’s do it!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Anyone can argue with Mamdani on the merits of what he says or does. That's America. But leave his religion out of it. That's also America.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
On a very different note, this week my wife and I went to the Whitney to see an exhibition of Amy Sherald’s paintings. It’s literally breathtaking. If you are in New York, don’t miss it.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Two of the proudest and most stubborn nations in history, each with its own myths and stories of martyrdom and survival, bashing each other in the delusional hope that the other one folds first. What could go wrong?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
God, we need better leaders.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Idealists of the world, unite! A better worid is possible. We all want this in our hearts. So let’s build it together, starting right now. Coming Tuesday to a website near you :)
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Netanyahu while visiting a hospital and talking about the dead and wounded: “We are all paying a price. Even my son had to cancel his wedding.” Despicable moral midget.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What’s wrong when “they” do it, is also wrong when we do it. And vice-versa. Why is this so hard to grasp? Don’t target civilians. Don’t bomb hospitals. Don’t starve and terrrorize entire populations. No exceptions. And stop justifying it when it happens. What is wrong is wrong.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Did you? Ever hear bullets whistling by your head?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
F-off pussycat.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I’m Jewish. Antisemitism is real. And *therefore* it pisses me off when it’s cheapened by calling just anyone an antisemite. Apply wherever you like.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
You must be fun.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I hate the feeling of being afraid to go to bed because of I might read or hear in the morning.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A cliché that never stops being true. Most people simply want to a) be left alone; and b) live their life and raise their family with some measure of freedom, dignity, and security. All this BS, all over the world, is caused by a tiny minority of sociopaths, with, yes, too many passive followers.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If any Iranians read this, I want to say that there is at least one Israeli (and many more) who thinks that a war between our countries is an idiotic tragedy. God, I am pissed now.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
To state the obvious: Trump should absolutely stop Netanyahu from launching an idiotic and politically self-serving attack on Iran.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We are all drowning in waves of BS.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
With everything that’s happening around us, we urgently need a global coalition of good people. Of the kind and the reasonable. Of all those who want to help build a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives. And if we can also laugh as we go, even better.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A sign at a protest in Tel Aviv tonight. Yes, they do. (And before someone jumps on me, yes, of course Jewish lives matter too. The people holding the sign are Jewish. And they believe Palestinian lives matter. Walk and chew gum. It’s possible.)
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
In this moment we are in, humanizing one another is more important than ever. A few weeks ago, a friend who works with children in Gaza sent me this photo from a workshop there. This could be my daughter, or yours.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The silence over the deliberate starvation of Gaza is the loudest I’ve heard in my life.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
No contradiction between being an idealist and a realist. Realist idealists are the best :)
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Few things are more urgent and important than seeing and *showing* that across so many of the lines that divide us there are good people who would give you a hand if you needed it.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A better world is crying and kicking to be born, and we can choose to be its doulas.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is the entrance to the bathrooms at the new train station in New York. The line on the left is for the women’s bathroom. The empty one on the right is for the men (with no one waiting). You’d think that by 2025 planners would know that women need more stalls?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ashoka Nadine? ❤️
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
More soon :). And we are in NYC and will be meeting in person as well.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Now more than ever we need a global coalition of good people, of the kind and the reasonable, of all those who want to help build a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives. In a few days I’ll invite you to make this happen, and I’m excited to see what we can all do together.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I admit I’m surprised by the number of cowards and the depth of their cowardice. If your university has a $40 billion endowment, you can fight back. If every partner in your law firm is a millionaire, you can fight back. Giving up without a fight is a choice.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The thing about this latest thing, is that every American - no exception - knows what would happen if they were this careless at work.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Three days after October 7th, I wrote on Twitter that revenge is not a strategy. Countless horrors have taken place since then. But it feels as if these past three days are the worst. A criminal decision to kill hundreds of people purely for internal political reasons. Nauseating.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Right now? Cowards across the board. 1,000 of them could have written a letter supporting Columbia. Silence.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Don’t give up. Don’t stand down. Don’t stop. Be yourself. Be true. Be proud. Be.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It took us six months to build our office. You could easily demolish it in one day. Building is hard. Destroying is easy. Too easy. As we are seeing every day now.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The whole point of the First Amendment - one of the greatest achievements in the history of civilization, and I’m not exaggerating - is to protect speech that most people, and specially the government, may hate. THAT is the point.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Praise someone today. In front of other people, if possible.
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