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David Mizner

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writer | comms @ccrjustice.org | member UAW Local 2320

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Say what you will about eating bacon, it's more kosher than apartheid.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
With the Hasan Piker pandemonium, recall some of Israel's elites believe Israeli violence increases antisemitism & *wants* it to do so. In 1982 an IDF colonel said the "sweetest fruit" of Israel's invasion of Lebanon was it created hate for "all those Feinschmecker Jews":
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
More like a pretext to try to weaken the left-wing of the Democratic Party. All who want the Dems to take control of the Senate should be calling out the Zionist Dems who are denigrating and refusing to endorse AES. The moderate "big tent" Dems are awfully quiet right now
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The full text of Hasan Piker's statements, denounced by ppl from Hakeem Jeffries to Ben Shapiro. I am not sure the best way to respond to a moral panic, launched to stop progressive candidates & derail nec conversations re Israel's crimes, other than to call BS: there is nothing anti-Jewish here.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/08/2026
I went to look at what Hasan Piker’s latest on the stream, and the taking out of context is worse than I suspected. He was sympathetically answering a question from an Anti-Zionist Jewish listener frustrated with how hard it is to convince his Reform congregation to distance itself from Israel …
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ohio - 7th House Polling: 🔵 Poindexter: 47% 🔴 Miller: 33% (Trump + 11 District) co/efficient / Aug 6, 2026 (Republican Pollster) (Current model result has OH-7 at DEM 51% - GOP 49%) unitedstatespolling.com/p/the-republ...
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The Republican Collapse Is Picking Up Speed
Fresh surveys show Democrats strengthening their position with just months until election day
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Nearly 3 years of a genocide, and this morning Israel killed a number of children and adults in Gaza yet again. The video is shared by Mosab Abu Toha (obvious trigger warning: substack.com/@mosababutoh...) Nearly 3 years of dead children, every single day
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
also, if your proposed alternative to protesting is to “make clear that we stand with Israelis like former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid” who all oppose a Palestinian state, describing yourself as a liberal Zionist is just window dressing
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Wow, that was racist.
Alt: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Wow, that was racist.
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Gaza is running out of diesel engine oil, which is needed to power its generators, which are needed because Israel has cut electricity supply and fuel for the power plant, and which thus power water wells and desalination plants, which are needed because Israel has destroyed water infrastructure.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Haley Stevens voted to:






— Stop the Lebanon War Powers Resolution

— Send Israel $26 billion more in aid after it killed 34,000+ people

— Send Israel another $17.6 billion in aid (a failed bill Biden would've vetoed)

— Ban the State Department from citing Gaza Ministry of Health death tolls

— Sanction ICC officials as they sought justice against Israeli war criminals

— Express "disgust" at South Africa's suit accusing Israel of genocide & praise Biden spokesperson John Kirby calling the case “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever” (Israel had already killed 25,000+ people at this point)

— Express "gratitude" for ICE

— Force through the TikTok sale, or ban it in the U.S. if it wasn't sold
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Palestinians in Gaza celebrating Egypt’s victory x.com/ehajjarr/sta...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yeah, I’m afraid ethnic cleansing and genocide is the only option, nothing else is possible - The great hope of American liberalism
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ruwa Romman, who in 2024 was denied a speaking slot at the DNC on behalf of the Uncommitted movement, has won her Democratic primary runoff in Georgia tonight to join the state Senate. (Romman was in the state House.)
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bernie Sanders' plan for an AI sovereign wealth fund is likely to be a gift to Elon Musk and his billionaire buffoon clique cepr.net/publications...
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Just Say No to Bernie Sanders’s AI Sovereign Wealth Fund
The case against an AI sovereign wealth fund: weak productivity growth and concerns about government involvement.
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In this otherwise largely predicable discussion, Duss says (correctly) that Biden "took steps that led to October 7th." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Stevens and McMorrow should have moderated their extreme views on Middle East policy, views which are increasingly out of step with Michigan voters
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THAT JAW IS LOOKING EXTRA SHARP AND HELLA DEFINED.
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I know people were all exicted when Sherill & Spanberger won, but electing cops comes with a steep cost. Dems should really stop doing that.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Of $2.5 billion of fire relief funds, $0 went to fire victims. $75 million went to the military. $14 million went to pay cops to tear gas civilians who were protesting against ICE. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
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Victims get little relief from Newsom's $2.5 billion fire fund
Most of California’s $2.5-billion fire relief fund is still unspent, according to records, & some money was diverted to CHP at protests.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/05/2026
oh wow it's that thing that was only happening in everybody's heads
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Two Black families whose children died after they were used as test subjects in a vaccine trial without their parents’ consent have sued the federal government. Sample tissues from the boys’ autopsies were stolen to develop the RSV vaccine that is now used around the world.
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Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My final piece on Graham Platner and the US Senate race. At almost 5000 words, it's long but based on several meetings with Platner and others. I'm not arguing with people online, so there are no comments. Life is too short to be stressed. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...
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Platner is the presumptive candidate, but is he the right person? My Final Thoughts
NOTE: Almost certainly this piece will travel beyond my usual readership, so I thought it wise to add a quick preface.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Bluesky Buster Bomb A new UNH poll of Maine shows -Graham Platner 51% -Susan Collins 42% 1/ #MESen scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...
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Platner Leads Collins in Maine Senate Race 5/27/2026
With the Maine primary only two weeks away, Graham Platner holds a dominant lead in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate following the withdrawal of Governor Janet Mills. Platner leads incumbent Rep...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wrote about the man Tennessee plans to kill today. There is so much more to this story than one article can capture and it’s going to bother me for a long time. For @theintercept.com
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False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Is About to Kill Him.
Carruthers’s murder conviction hinged on the claims of paid informant, who has repeatedly recanted his testimony.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If I were Susan Collins, I'd probably take this off my website.
Screenshot of press release that says Susan Collins announces support of Bipartisan Resolution Authorizing the Use of Military Force Against Iraq
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New poll in Michigan (May 1-7): Abdul El-Sayed 27% Haley Stevens 18% Mallory McMorrow 17% November 18-21, 2025: Haley Stevens 27% Mallory McMorrow 24% Abdul El-Sayed 16% From Mitchell Research & Communications:
New poll in Michigan (May 1-7):
Abdul El-Sayed 27%
Haley Stevens 18%
Mallory McMorrow 17%
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
whoa
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1. A reader asked me whether I thought Graham Platner or other Dems should appear on Tucker Carlson's show. You can read my answer below. But what happened next is more interesting. www.offmessage.net/p/in-defense...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/04/2026
At our city-owned grocery stores, staples like eggs and bread will actually be affordable. And we're going to do it the right way, without cutting workers' pay or dignity. Because in the wealthiest city in this country, buying groceries shouldn't be an unsolvable equation.
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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a really great dive into the smear jobs against Hasan Piker, in particular I must thank the author for this clarification around Piker's comments about rape on October 7th, imo the most egregious and prolific deliberate distortions of Piker's commentary--which I was a witness to, live. Here:
"The most widely circulated quote used against Piker is just as distorted as the ‘pig dog’ one. And it is perhaps the most widely cited as evidence of his antisemitism. It also appeared in the Third Way op-ed, cited by Torres, spread by Jonathan Greenblatt, called out by Dana Bash on CNN, published in many outlets, and on and on.

The clip most often cited is 17 seconds long. In it he says, “It doesn’t matter if fucking rapes happened on October 7th. It doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much.”

Here’s what was actually happening in that clip, taken from a larger segment (timestamp included).

The larger clip is a discussion between him and his viewers about the need not to discount “non-firsthand accounts” of sexual assault and rape on October 7th. He cites a commenter who says, “  But it’s sad to see people just dismiss any non firsthand account out of hand. Firsthand accounts are always going to be rare for extreme sexual violence and extremists. It takes so much bravery to come out.”

More to the point, the reason he says that “it doesn’t matter if rapes occurred” was because he was actually debating one of his viewers who was spreading a conspiracy theory that the hostages who claimed they were sexually assaulted were forced by the Israeli government to say so. He calls that idea “ridiculous.”

It is after that when he goes on to say that you can accept that without saying that these assaults justify a genocide or denying the Palestinians “a right to, to dignity, a right to emancipation, a right to live fucking free lives free from this occupation.”

To summarize: the very segment that has been used to claim Piker denies the rapes and sexual assaults that occurred on October 7th (that, yes, did occur) are actually in the context of him claiming they did occur. And, more than that, calling out his viewers for saying they might not have occurred."
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
things you love to see:
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There are just four Senators who both voted for the Iraq War in the Senate in 2002 and voted for the war in Iran twenty-four years later. Susan Collins is the only Senator out of those four shameless enough to run for re-election.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Mamdani had a great response to this question; Abdul El-Sayed's may be even better bsky.app/profile/dipl...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Whoa
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/04/2026
Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will. We're announcing the opening of NYC’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital for people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable Rikers Island detainees. The journey to close Rikers has begun.
Mayor Mamdani tours the new Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital with DOC Commissioner Stanley Richards and SVP of Correctional Health Patsy Yang.
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Anti-semites are ruining "the Epstein class" as a useful rhetorical frame.
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I feel like Israel's seizure of land in southern Lebanon -- and its ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of people there -- should be getting a lot more attention. bsky.app/profile/drop...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The level of across-the-board destruction spiralling out of this war is genuinely beyond anyone's ability to entirely grasp at the moment, and that's if things end tomorrow. They do not seem likely to end tomorrow
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David Mizner @davidmizner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is a brave and fairly sophisticated message to put out in the middle of a political campaign bsky.app/profile/abdu...
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump: “Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”
Mar Espinar criticized Isabel Diaz Ayuso for her alignment with Trump during a government hearing: (English translation in the post)

“Cójase al mafioso de su jefe de Gabinete, tire para Mar-a-Lago y déjenos aquí — que somos más de los valientes de Minnesota”
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Not great how the project of both the worst antisemites in the world and the prime minister of Israel is to convince everyone that the Jewish faith and the state of Israel are one and the same
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