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El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s hard to imagine how @bardcollege.bsky.social could have handled this worse. The administration, and many faculty members, stood by Botstein, defended him in the press, and made efforts to prolong his affiliation with the college. It is clear what their values are.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The House Judiciary Committee is now demanding an investigation into Botstein’s possible involvement in Epstein’s trafficking, as well as allegations that Botstein groped women and intervened on behalf of sexual abuse perpetrators in Bard’s Title IX investigations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Prime Minister of the Jewish state is committing war crimes. To say that holding him accountable for that is in some way a personal attack on American Jewish identity says deeply troubling things about American Jewish identity. If that makes me less safe, he should stop doing war crimes.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Protesters cheer and ICE agents silently look on while detainees at Delaney Hall flash the lights inside the facility.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/04/2026

I know things feel helpless in the United States. But they are not. Orbán was in power for sixteen consecutive years. He was the spoke at the center of the global far-right. He built the network, wrote the playbook, modeled competitive authoritarianism. His long reign seemed a sure thing.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/04/2026

Imagine an electoral campaign like this in Russia today. You can’t. Too many have died under mysterious circumstances or rotted in prison. No one is left to push back against Putin without extraordinary risk. Hungary is a reminder it's critical to contest power forcefully while you still can.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/04/2026

After sixteen years in power, his loss is a searing rebuke for the global far-right and a warning to leaders from Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi to Donald Trump that Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” isn’t the magical system hack they hoped it was.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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Sophie EG @egsophie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Tucker Carlson is very good at what he does. It is what makes him so dangerous. As long as Dems and centrist & liberal public figures continue running cover for genocide & apartheid, the more effective and powerful Tucker will become.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.

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Dove Kent @dovekent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

ALL 4 Democratic lawmakers in NC who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills have lost their primaries to progressive challengers. It is indeed a major night for NC.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Israel simply does not have the power to force the US government to do something it does not want to do. What Rubio is doing here, by claiming Israel forced the US hand, is making Israel the scapegoat for a US policy he knows is unpopular. This framing is going to be so bad for Diaspora Jews.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The fact that Lockheed Martin’s stock rose since Feb 27th shows us that private companies trading weapons, mercenaries, airplanes etc are all increasing their profit margins as people from Sudan to Iran to Congo to Palestine are being murdered. Lockheed Martin is implicated in all four places.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Obviously, Israel is taking part in this attack, and that should be condemned as much as the US role. But if you’re saying that Israel is really driving it and the US is a helpless puppet, then please, learn a tiny bit of US history.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The fact that the Union for Reform Judaism feels the need to support this illegal war just because the Israeli government supports it - even though the Israeli government openly disdains Reform Jews in return - is part of why institutional American Judaism is in crisis.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New polling suggests American Jews don’t know what the word “Zionism” means. Should it change the way the Jewish left organizes? Arielle Angel speaks with Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, @dovekent.bsky.social, and @fadiqu.bsky.social on the JC podcast. jewishcurrents.org/whos-afraid-...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The contrast between the complete cowardice of our civic institutions in the face of creeping authoritarianism, compared to the bravery and fortitude of ordinary citizens, is so glaring.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/01/2026

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/01/2026

CAN WE ALL CAPS THIS "A chronic mistake organizers make is basically organizing people around their lack of agency."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

People talk about who has citizenship and who does not as though these are absolute, ontological qualities that confer moral worth, as opposed to legal fictions invented by the state to distinguish between an in-group and an out-group, and can be conferred or withdrawn at any time.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Anne Frank is culturally coded today as "innocent victim" because we beat the Nazis, so we back-project modern concepts of stable citizenship onto her to maintain our cultural view of her as innocent. If we beat ICE, maybe 80 years from now, we will look back similarly on ICE victims today.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

For example, a reform that restricts ICE’s ability to interact with the public in specific ways takes power away. Body cams, on the other hand, are an expensive non-solution that increases mass surveillance of the public. “Police reform” has proven they don’t stop shootings.

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Dove Kent @dovekent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

These ICE killings are "the blueprint for how NSPM-7 will be enforced against community members and rapid responders". This order can "retroactively justify the extrajudicial killing of a community rapid responder by a federal agent [in] the worst-case scenario long feared by frontline responders."

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Renee Good’s Extrajudicial Killing Escalated the Normalization of State Terror

What happens next will determine whether Good’s killing sets a precedent for more state violence.

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Dove Kent @dovekent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"The lies this administration is telling... aren't those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They're those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything." When they raise the cost of unity, its on us to raise the solidarity.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is a paramilitary that summarily executes people who dare to protest against them. That is who they are. They cannot be reformed. Everyone who works for them at this point must face consequences.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Exact same playbook as the reaction to BLM. Same wording and conspiracy theories. Except this time it looks like fewer people are buying it. Hopefully Dems don’t legitimize it.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The political ground is shifting on ICE. Your own Dem rep or senator may not have caught up yet. Now - before the 1/30 funding deadline - is the time to push.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/01/2026

Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 15/01/2026

I am heavy-hearted to learn that a federal appeals court ruled against Mahmoud Khalil. The Trump administration’s persecution of him is unconscionable. I stand with Mahmoud and the Constitution. Khalil has not been rearrested. This legal battle is not over.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/01/2026

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I don't mean to be Polyanna-ish, but history is littered with examples of change being collectively forced on rulers who think themselves omnipotent, often starting from things that seem small, and examples of strongmen overreaching towards their doom. In fact that *is* the paradigm, on the whole.

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