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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Anti-Dissolutionism
Anti-Jewish pogroms and terror campaigns aren’t the only threats to Jewish existence.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly
Lisa Murkowski : Senator Kelly valiantly served our country as an aviator in the U.S. Navy before later completing four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. To accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that servicemembers can refuse illegal orders is reckless and flat-out wrong. The Department of Defense and FBI surely have more important priorities than this frivolous investigation.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Went with my eldest to premier of an excellent documentary and Q&A about the antebellum tourism industry and its dark underbelly. The film, “Natchez,” named after the Mississippi city, won the Tribeca Festival’s Best Documentary award for 2025. Officially in theaters 1/30/26
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Fox News poll released today:
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We saw this sobering documentary at the “Other Israel” Film Festival the other night, which I recommend highly. Kudos to JCC Manhattan for being the only venue in the United States willing to screen this award-winning Israeli filmmaker, Tal Michael’s, latest work. www.mmjccm.org/event/festiv...
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Festival Film | The Village Leagues
Before the intifada, Israel’s experiment to create a new Palestinian leadership to replace the PLO left both sides with tragic consequences.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Epstein stuff thats already been released points to conduct so monstrous that I don’t think I want to know what the GOP (and surely others) are trying so hard to keep under wraps
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you told me in 1990 that, in 2025, a black President of South Africa had filed a lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians and, at the same time, a U.S. President named Donald Trump had accused South Africa of genocide against white Afrikaners, I wouldn't have believed you.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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12 experts on what might end the Gaza war - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
More than 19 months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, calls are mounting for the war to end, even among those who once supported it. We asked a collection of experts to weigh in.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Nottoway Reconstructed
I shed no tears for the owners and mourners of the Nottoway Plantation, the largest remaining antebellum slave plantation that burned down last week.
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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 08/04/2025
After chaotic hearing, High Court rules Netanyahu can’t fire Shin Bet chief Bar for now www.timesofisrael.com/after-chaotic…
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After chaotic hearing, High Court rules Netanyahu can’t fire Shin Bet chief Bar for now
Sides given until April 20 to reach a compromise; disturbances dominated start of 11-hour session, with court forced to remove all protesters, including Likud MK Tally Gotliv
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years." - France Minister for the EU
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I heard Mahmoud Khalil is being interviewed for an Ambassadorship position in the Trump administration while in detention www.ynetnews.com/article/s1mv...
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New US envoy to Kuwait denied Oct. 7 sexual violence, holds anti-Israel views
President Donald Trump appointed Amer Ghalib, a Michigan mayor, who denied reports of Hamas-led sexual violence on Oct. 7 and initiated a vote calling for an economic boycott of companies working with...
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Powerful. www.threads.net/@justcherie/...
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Cherie Atkinson Clark (@justcherie) on Threads
I don’t even know who this is but be made me cry this morning. Please take a few minutes to listen to what he’s saying!
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Another self-debasing national embarrassment.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you think it’s morally acceptable to oppose Israel’s nonnegotiable condition that Hamas be removed from control over neighboring Gaza then you have lost your way, at best. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...
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The Meaning of Kfir Bibas
If Hamas’s statement is true, this week will bring a tragic, though not unexpected, close to a painful episode: the fate of the rest of the Bibas family. Yarden Bibas
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
February 2025: Mitch McConnell and Steve Bannon join Mike Pence and Liz Cheney in The Resistance
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If "Trump Derangement Syndrome" exists, it appears that belief in the "The Russia Hoax" is a false positive diagnosis.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
When has a nation in a defensive war of survival ever before been pressured to disarm and sacrifice itself to avoid civilian casualties on the other side? Protests calling for an Israel arms embargo have only strengthened the extremists while impeding peaceful Israeli and Palestinian co-existence.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Here is a very helpful Project 2025 tracker: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Project 2025 tracker
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If Fox News’ own Juan Williams says so… thehill.com/opinion/colu...
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Now we know: Trump was planning to do Project 2025 all along
Donald Trump’s actions since his inauguration seem to be following the blueprint of Project 2025, a plan that aims to halt federal funds for education and social welfare programs, and end div…
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
There are even some creators who feel “ripped off” but can’t manage to absorb the hits like a billionaire tech bro
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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We passed a law. They don’t get to force people to petition the king for mercy. We are still a democracy and this will be found illegal.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dear Trump-voting Jews: Two things can be true at once: 1- the Democratic Party helped platform left-wing antisemitism in order to avoid alienating its base; and 2- the Trumpublican Party will platform right-wing antisemitism as long it's practiced by Trump loyalists who will serve the kleptocracy.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2025
The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Among the author's conclusions is that recent rumors of President Trump's promise as Israel's savior are greatly exaggerated.
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Ceasefire in Gaza
Winners and losers from the proposed deal
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Here’s Volume I of the Special Counsel’s report, along with a cover letter from Smith to Garland: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Even those who would prefer to hold Bibi and Gallant responsible for the carnage in Gaza rather than Iran and its proxies should support H.R. 23. The ICC can't claim Palestine is stateless and under occupation and yet also a nation state sufficient to establish ICC jurisdiction. tinyurl.com/yhczxdd7
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Jewish organizations, pro-Israel groups laud passage of bill sanctioning ICC - JNS.org
The ICC's actions "distort the truth and undermine justice," the ADL wrote, adding it "must be held accountable for prioritizing bias over facts."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico by pointing to a 17th century map of greater Mexico and suggesting a new name for the US. “We are going to call it América Mexicana. It sounds pretty, no?” Trump is a global laughingstock. 🤣
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C. MICHEL WEINBERG ✡️ @cmichelw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#Canadian Official Trolls #Trump Right Back With A Counteroffer. "How about if we buy #Alaska? And we’ll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time," said Ontario Premier Doug Ford. www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-f...
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Canadian Official Trolls Trump Right Back With A Counteroffer
"How about if we buy Alaska? And we’ll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time," said Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
1/ Qatar is not a party to the treaty that created the ICC and could not be compelled to cooperate with the ICC. But if the protest movement were really about saving Gazans and not condemning Israel, then it could’ve pressured Qatar — an important U.S. ally — to extradite Hamas’ leaders on 10/8/23
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Neither impressed with McConnell’s 12th hour politically bulletproof display of moral outrage, nor convinced it’s not just another cynical performance (this even despite he himself is a polio survivor) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...
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McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The Trumps say that “the crypto industry will do ‘a great job’ of policing itself when it comes to illicit flows” of terrorist cash. Evidently a corrupt industry’s investment in a corrupt politician yields better returns than an ordinary investor’s bet on the company itself, and much greater danger.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
New: Liz Cheney statement on Trump latest on January 6 committee (thread) mailchi.mp/greattask/ch...
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Cheney Statement In Response To President-Elect Trump's Lies About The Jan. 6 Committee
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reports that Bashar al-Assad on plane to do Joe Rogan’s podcast in desperate attempt to save his regime
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How is it that the oldest and (we claim) most exceptional democracy in the world is so bad at it? We look more like Orban's Hungary every day, and meanwhile South Korea and even Romania seem to have gotten the memo that foreign interference, cult leaders and oligarchs all threaten their democracies.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 06/12/2024
NEW: Elon Musk spent a total of $238 million to elect Donald Trump
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I don’t find it complicated to believe that cold-blooded murder is not a morally acceptable way to combat corporate greed, or even to honor a loved one whose life was claimed by it.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New research shows that social media users share information they know to be false, motivated to signal political loyalty. What does this mean for the effectiveness of fact-checking initiatives? Prithvi Iyer considers the findings.
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Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media | TechPolicy.Press
New research shows that social media users share information they know to be false, motivated to signal political loyalty. Prithvi Iyer considers the findings.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
1/ The MAGA GOP's casual inclusion of Social Security in discussions of entitlement cuts is the culmination of its relentless conditioning of the Trump voter over time to embrace self-sabotaging public policies that few Americans would have countenanced even a generation ago. tinyurl.com/497jxb9w
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Column: GOP and Musk unveil a threat to Social Security
Rep. Mike Lee and Elon Musk put their heads together to craft an attack on Social Security utterly devoid of truth.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
1/ Not at all surprising that, according to Spotify, my most played songs for 2023 included three by Israeli artists. Two of whom I’d not heard of until after 10/7. The third, Avishai Cohen, could easily have been listed anyway since he's already one of my favorite contemporary jazz trumpeters.
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Ross Brooks @brooksrossb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Much will depend on John Thune's leadership approach as successor to Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the OG of Trump-enablers. The cowardice that Sen. Thune and so many of his GOP colleagues displayed during the Trump impeachment proceedings and on other occasions does not inspire confidence.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander. And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
After securing a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2022, Republican justices promptly overturned a ruling that had struck down GOP gerrymanders, paving the way for their party’s lawmakers to draw a new map designed to hand them several congressional districts. By then, Democrats already had no recourse outside of state courts: This U.S. Supreme Court has shut the door on complaints of partisan gerrymandering proceeding in federal courts.

The maneuver paid off last week. The GOP flipped three U.S. House seats, a windfall in light of that chamber’s tiny overall margin.
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