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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The nurses are pissed

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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Despicable. Especially after all he and his family have been through. Let's be clear: This is a dry run for the Trump admin to test denaturalizing and deporting anyone they disagree with based on any criteria. As Jews, we vehemently reject the persecution of Mahmoud Khalil, especially in our name.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This certainly suggests that Cuomo and Trump came to an understanding when they talked earlier in the summer. Trump will discourage Republicans from voting for Sliwa and in exchange Cuomo will "cooperate" as mayor

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025

As I wrote last week, every time we deny what is being done by Israel to Palestinians, we deny what the Nazis did to Jews, Romani, and trans/queer and communist/socialist folks news.chanda.science/archive/refu...

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Refusing to name the Final Solution in Gaza

The ancestors demand justice for the living.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025

What Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova are doing here is science denial that is comparable to COVID denialism and vaccine denialism And scientists who are experts on nutrition and disease should speak out forcefully 🧪

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you ever asked yourself, “what would I have done in 1938 Germany” now is your chance to demonstrate what you would have done. Sign up with JFREJ or New Sanctuary Coalition for court watch and accompaniment.1/2

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

As Mayor, I’ve promised to build 500,000 new homes in NYC. 50,000 of those homes will be built in thriving new neighborhoods—on just four of the city’s 12 municipal golf courses.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The biggest divide on the Supreme Court today was between justices who assume Trump will follow the law in good faith and justices who are increasingly fearful that his administration can't be trusted to abide by court orders. Guess which faction represents a majority. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Supreme Court May Pick the Worst Possible Case to Cede More Power to Trump

Everyone at the Supreme Court seemed to agree that the United States is in the midst of an emergency.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 07/05/2025

Thank you for your excellent platform! We were so impressed by your commitment to NYC’s libraries

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/05/2025

that pcpsr poll i posted earlier says that support for binationalism is extremely low and that most palestinians want an independent state on '67 borders

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jewels13.bsky.social @jewels13.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Senator Murphy, you need to be on every news outlet explaining this to the world. It’s my understanding that if no one capitulates, then the plan does not work. I know there has already been some that have, but that needs to stop!!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow

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Release Mahmoud Khalil & Protect All Student Activists

Write to Columbia University and the Department of Homeland Security! Over the past two days, we have seen a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the suppression of free speech targeting our moveme...

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

This weekend, DHS targeted and seized Mahmoud Khalil as punishment for his political speech, and indicated that they are revoking his green card. They have since handed him over to ICE where he is being detained — his location unknown — and held for deportation without due process.

This is what fascist governments do, and it will not stop here. This extreme escalation is the test case; the Trump/Musk administration is trying to see how far they can go without public outrage and legal checks on their power. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Proud to have been with If Not Now, JFREJ & Rabbis4Ceasefire to say to the ADL, you don’t promote Jewish safety youtu.be/3p1UKvGG1co

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"They have a very warped idea of what constitutes Jewish safety."

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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yesterday, hundreds of Jews gathered outside of the ADL conference in Midtown Manhattan to show that the ADL does NOT speak for us– and is actively putting us in danger.

People holding black and white signs that say "ADL is bad for Jews" and "Jews say no to ethnic cleansing" photo by Daniel Efram

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I despise Musk, all he does and all he stands for, but SNL’s parody of Musk is a disgusting ableist mockery of neurodivergent people. Not funny. Just shameful.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This ad speaks for me. I am proud to use my voice in this moment to join this statement. If you would like to sign on, go to saynotoethniccleansing.org #SayNoToEthnicCleansing

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A powerful article that shows once again how prophetic Baldwin was.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

There is something malignant about using the space between the announcement of a ceasefire and its implementation to bomb as much as possible.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don’t want jail for Perry. I don’t believe in prisons. But this acquittal denies Jordon Neely’s humanity and the humanity of mentally ill people. Neely and his family deserve justice. Restorative justice shd be the outcome here.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Mayor Adams and Gov Hochel both ready to throw undocumented people under the Trump bus. Adams whines about migrant spending leaving no $$ for services but real source is bloated NYPD budget com/news/mayor-a...

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Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers aren’t owed due process, defying Constitution

“The Constitution is for Americans,” Adams said, contradicting amendments that grant due process to all persons regardless of immigration status.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Tomorrow SCOTUS hears a challenge to TN law banning puberty blockers & hormones prescribed by drs & consented to by parents of trans children. 1/2

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you aren’t yet following @theradr.bsky.social, you should.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Seconding this as a Jew and a rabbi.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

He got away with everything, and got rewarded with a second term. The list of people whose failure, cowardice, lack of imagination, and wishful thinking got us here will be longer than the "begats" in the Old Testament.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

JFREJ has stood with grass roots organizers in NYC for decades. They continue to fight more a more just, more caring, fairer NYC. Join us!

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Trying to get a sense of Bluesky. What I liked about Twitter was it pointed me to articles I might not otherwise have read & introduced me to smart people w neat takes on news and culture. Once I got comfortable I used it to amplify messages I thought important. 1/2

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Rabbi Alissa Wise @alissashira.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is why the ICC issued arrest warrants — horrific crimes like these everyday for over 13 months. It’s chilling how it now just happens in the background of our feeds. Shocking what we can become used to.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Call your senators today. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Call your senators tomorrow and tell them to vote for Bernie Sanders resolution to block $20 billion in aid to Israel. Stop the genocide in Gaza.

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RabbiBarat @baratellman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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