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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Don't take the wrong lesson from El-Sayed's well deserved victory in the awful, Islamophobic Michigan primary. AIPAC isn't some all-powerful bogeyman that explains the whole of US politics. It's just a well funded lobby that *lost* a race it DESPERATELY wanted. And it blew $30M in the process 🥳.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Excellent corrective to the ignorance model by @kshwetz.bsky.social. And a Q for the research community: given the power of language, does it maybe make sense 2 move on from the "hesitancy" rubric to clearly distinguish groups w/ hesitancy from those who embrace an ideology that demonizes vaccines?

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Perfect that the NYT uses "insurgent" for Dems running from the Left (or far-right Repubs)... and for violent anti-state actors. Sure, it's dictionarily correct, but reveals the Times' obvious disdain for everything but the center (whatever it happens to be at a given moment).

new york times headline reads "Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado"

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Above all, this decision may reveal their conviction (& the conviction of the right-wing power structure that developed & underwrites them) that it's no longer necessary, for the sake of precedent, to uphold the religious rights of those they despise. They feel free to simply rule unequally.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Please, mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, I know you've already gotten an earful, but please cancel Thursday's regents... I'd love to have my son with me at the parade!

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It sincerely a pleasure to work with you!

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This interview in @bombmag.bsky.social (by Paul Maziar, whose insight is uncanny) doesn't just make me want to read these new poems again with fresh eyes, it makes me want to marry the person who wrote them all over again. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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BOMB Magazine | Jacqueline Waters by Paul Maziar

Poems that confont healing and pain with humor and unexpected turns.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The cowardice, yeah, but the fact that he's taking his cues from Thomas Friedman is just crushingly depressing. It's like cribbing from the test of a C- student.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Europe-focused but just as relevant to US & Trump/MAGA. And this line (about the BBC) just cuts to the heart of the problem with the NYT whose coverage "is all too often shaped by internal guidelines and a collapsing vision of performative neutrality."

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So, as you clearly signal that you will throw anyone under the bus that rural Missouri voters deem "not normal," you're humblebragging about your support for same sex marriage? He's clearly another sleazy pol lacking conviction and crafting a message... Voters will see that.

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Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @advocate.nyc.gov · 24/02/2026

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In this weeks Group Threat @victorerikray.bsky.social writes about the resurgence of unabashed defense of white supremacy & colonialism in Rubio’s Munich speech & how DuBois anticipated exactly this over 100 years ago. groupthreat.com/p/the-souls-...

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The Souls of White Folk in Munich

Marco Rubio’s speech in Munich yearned for a white nationalist international

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Darnit, just as the narcissist's rating is among the lowest since the 1930s. Sure. And bravo to The Hill's Dominick Mastrangelo for failing to mention that numerous federal agencies appear to be among Gallup's clients.

screenshot of The Hill saying that when asked if they'd gotten feedback from the president, Gallup said no.

Screenshot from Gallup website showing numerous federal agencies that Gallup appears to have contracts with.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

simply one of the greatest calls of all time

Washington Post endorsement of Pam Bondi for Attorney General: "Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious."

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'd love to see @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social cover Gen Z fave: Chan 5 w/ Andrew Callaghan. Not exactly standard IBCK, but I think it'll pique your interest partly bc it's hard to pin down politically (tho not nec in the good way). www.youtube.com/@Channel5You...

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Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

More content on https://www.patreon.com/channel5. Directed, produced, filmed, edited, and created by Andrew Callaghan

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

So my theory that Jonathan Chait is actually an AI project whose sole purpose is to demonstrate how vacuous ideological centrism can be... it's looking pretty convincing right now.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Democratic leadership are unlikely to ever “find their spines.” But that’s not entirely necessary. What’s necessary is to build so much resistance & so much support for the right path that they’re more worried about not doing the right thing than about taking a risk.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Bill Kristol is urging defunding ICE. BILL KRISTOL. And people still think it’s a political non-starter?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

They're "too nihilistic" for political classification? Nihilism has long been *the* go-to description of MAGA (incl. in The Atlantic several times). What he means is a data set of 1 tells him that bros. in this standard right-wing movement won't mindlessly vote 'R' every time.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

And our highest profile professional opinionators will continue to insist that Democrats aren't dominating elections because of trans people or identity politics or [insert some other Chait-ian, Chatterton-Williamsian hobby horse].

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Wait, delusional bigots want to leave NYC? Damn... the city's already a better place to live and he hasn't even taken office yet. Excellent work sir.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Watch with the sound off and not only do you appreciate the looks on Mika Brzezinski's face (!!) but it's so clear what a disingenuous liar Jonathan Greenblatt is.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Another NYJewish vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … as far as I can recall it’s the most positive and hopeful I’ve felt since my very first vote in 1989.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Yes, the Right is shamelessly promoting a fake outrage, but how are FL gov Ron DeSantis and Utah Sen Mike Lee still taken seriously by corporate media? The fact that they can do things like this and be treated as serious people by CNN and the NYTimes is a very real and very big problem.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani at jfrej.org/field 🗳️ 📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah! Benjamin Abrams sound & edit 📷: Dan Fridman

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The US right slowly realizing there’s always someone further to the right than they are (who is probably armed, angry, and losing touch with reality with each passing hour guzzling right wing media and message boards).

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Trump the president has been doing exactly what Trump the candidate promised to do. This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Not quite. What the nation's most Jewish city choosing Mamdani *actually* means is that we can retire faded and false accusations of antisemitism in NYC.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

One of the agents who arrested Brad Lander for asking to see a judicial warrant. ICE was involved, but who’s this ninja? An agent of Trump’s secret police. Fascism is an aesthetic. This black-masked man is a statement of intention & belief; the intention is sadism; the belief is in power.

A figure in black with a beige tactical vest that reads police; the figure's face is entirely hidden by some kind of black stocking beneath a black baseball cap.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17/06/2025

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Excellent thread on the shallow moralizing of Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

When an edgy "counterintuitive" idea demonstrates how valuable intuition can be...

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 10/06/2025

really? not to push israel to act in consonance with reform jewish values? not to push for a ceasefire? not to push for an end to the occupation and the settlement enterprise? not to oppose the pogroms in the west bank or the starvation of gaza? but “maintaining the security of israel?” 🤡💩

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Dear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, just wanted to make sure you saw my plaintive squeak.

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Michael and Peter, pretty pretty please... how nicely do I have to ask for you to cover this on @ifbookspod.bsky.social? You can pronounce anything any way you want for like 3 episodes. How's that? bookshop.org/p/books/in-c...

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In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

How Our Politics Failed Us

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Like, it's great they have a new pope -- and he even looks like a good choice, especially for the moment -- but I can't be the only Jew creeped out by the joy they get over smoke billowing from a building.

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