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Emil Kerenji

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Washington-based historian, writer, translator. Yugoslav antifascist. Jew. Ajvar, travel, געשיכטע. Views mine.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.
Mayor Mamdani stands in a sukkah with Brad Landwr under warm lights and strings of pomegranates. Mayor Mamdani and Asm Claire Valdez and Sen Jabari Brisport join New Yorkers for Sukkot.Mayor Mamdani visits New Yorkers for Sukkot.Mayor Mamdani sits in a sukkah with New Yorkers.
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbilisi now. The 675th consecutive day of protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know he wanted to say, "Go back to Africa," but racists are cowards.
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unlamented. Imagine being trusted by generations of students and then heading up into the hills to shoot at them. She was a disgrace to her profession, her people, and her species. n1info.rs/region/premi...
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Preminula Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić, nekadašnja predsednica Republike Srpske koja je u Hagu osuđena za ratne zločine preminula je jutros u Beogradu u 96. godini
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022. trib.al/JEL6WB3
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John Fetterman Helps GOP Block Probe Into Israeli Murders of Americans
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

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@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed
and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does
not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an
emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes
it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded
hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of
which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in
office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses
to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He
has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups
have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant
to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds
gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the
same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his
anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to
Jewish New Yorkers.
Our expectations have not changed: zero tolerance for
antisemitism and extremism in city government, real
protection for Jewish institutions, a clear and formal
definition of antisemitism that the city actually uses, and city
contracts, pensions and procurement kept free of ideological
boycotts. ADL will keep tracking and fighting antisemitism in
New York City and across the country, whether or not this
mayor is willing to do the same.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani © @NYCMayor - 6h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has
sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers
have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever
municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Over the last vear, I've met with
Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good thread 👇🏻
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
especially if you work at the FBI
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And do not ever fucking dare to put other people’s writing into an LLM without consen : no matter why you’ve been asked to read it, for feedback or reviews. Have some decency.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men feel entitled to our bodies, lives, and futures and it makes me want to scream. Sure yes teach your boys about consent but I am sure that it isnt enough to undo this rot.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...
open.spotify.com
After Ceuta
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone writing about U.S. backlash politics, its daunting to think about the success of efforts to undo so many post-WWII achievements, including civil rights (including CRA/VRA), vaccines/public health, women’s rights (Roe), environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, massive expansion of higher ed, etc.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@mashagessen.bsky.social, brilliant as always. Gift link
nytimes.com
Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Far Right politicians: "I apologise for the antisemitic remarks I made on as a teenager. I was young and naive. Now that I am mature and respectable I promise I only hate muslims now"
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com
What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ADAM BRODY (who is Jewish): “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine… it feels like it’s reaching a breaking point it should have a while ago.” www.gq.com/story/knock-...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
how is silicon valley real
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is it quite right to call him “populist”? He occasionally mimics things that he imagines normal people do, like drinking rakija, driving a car, or eating parizer. But his greasy mechanical heart is not into it. Basically he is an instrument of organised crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Serbia’s populist president Aleksandar Vučić resigns to run for prime minister
Vučić not allowed to seek third presidential term and election will test his grip on rule after widespread protests
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You misspelled "war crime"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Confusion everywhere in the land... Writers writing seemingly unaware of the moment we are in.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope this scumbag is enjoying one of his last trips outside Israel. It'll be risky to leave that place very soon.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2026
‘The culture minister, Miki Zohar, has accused Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham of treason and said they should lose their Israeli citizenship. Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to introduce legislation to enable this.’ Alona Ferber on the response to the documentary 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Alona Ferber | Layers of Denial
The frenzy in Israel surrounding the documentary NAZA is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of...
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of New Yorkers are risking arrest outside the UN as Netanyahu prepares to speak. We say NO to perpetrators of genocide & war criminals in our city!
Photo of a protest in a New York City street  hundreds of people in the street hold signs that say end the genocide, stop bombing Iran, Lebanon, Palestine. Stop the U.S. Israel war machine.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only democracy in the Middle East
haaretz.com
Israel's elections committee votes to bar all Arab parties
The decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins learned her lesson
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why does everyone who was opposed to the outcome rush in to declare themselves individually. "We" means exactly what the fuck it says. Collectively, the United States chose this grifting submoron under its laws to lead us. Collectively, he is the president over all of us as a nation. We the People.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just as they won't convene to impeach that human trash, they won't convene to seat the new majority in January.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cue the chorus of "a caricatured fringe, far from the Israeli consensus!" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
timesofisrael.com
Israel will ‘finish the job’ in Gaza and seek Palestinians’ migration — defense minister
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