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@frankbenk.bsky.social
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Worker advocate SEIU L. 73, formerly with ILGWU/UNITE, guide to Padawans, Pilgrim Sojourner...."Chiming for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight"

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Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 13h
Hey this one is important #alaskasky, get the word out: Alaska gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson openly, proudly consorts with open, proud, and violent Nazis @boltsmag.org @deecherrywriter.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Well said, Dan! 👏🏼
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Dan Levy Rips 'SNL' Host Shane Gillis For Claiming Women At Gym 'Dress Like Wh*res' In Misogynistic Monologue
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
According to a new NYT investigation, at least 44 governors, 70 US senators, and 185 House members have faced violent threats over the past two years. Their staff and families as well. A key source of this danger is Donald Trump, as I documented earlier this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump is using violent tragedies to divide America
ICE shootings, assassinations, mass attacks, and other traumas all serve as ammo for the demagogue in chief.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee sues the Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded television ads violate propaganda law.
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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law
The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Runs in Jewish tradition. The TANAKH was compiled by the survivors of exile in Babylon. The Talmud written by survivors of Greek and Roman invasions.Kabbalah's musings by survivors of Crusader pogroms and expulsion from Iberia. Tikkun, the concept of repairing the world, emerged from this process.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Winners generally write history, but sometimes history has a way of resurrecting buried legacies. In "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," Molly Crabapple has unearthed an important part of the democratic socialist tradition. dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-…
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JD Vance is bragging about stopping Obamacare enrollment for roughly 750,000 people on the premise they’re fraudulently enrolled, with zero proof they are. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
America defeated fascism. We don’t need its aesthetics decorating the White House.
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More apparent racial profiling by ICE courtesy of the Roberts Court: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Evanston man, a U.S. citizen, injured in Sunday confrontation with U.S. immigration officers
ICE officers later determined the man was not the person they were seeking, and he was released. Evanston police are investigating.
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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gmar Chatima Tovah. Have a meaningful Yom Kippur
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.
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The Jewish Socialists Who Fought the Tsar and Zionism
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Ave NE Washington, DC 20002 4pm. Every Thursday.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you loved my book on The Bund and want to go deeper into primary sources, this is the book for you
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court is building its own police. While the security seems necessary, the change is also the product of the world the Roberts Court has built: one where the executive can't be trusted, a violence-prone political movement is in power, and dangerous people have readier access to firearms.
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Supreme Court’s security upgrade fits the world it helped make
The justices keep ruling for Trump—but don't trust him to keep them safe.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... More GOP family values. Imagine the GOP outcry if this was Gov Pritzker.
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Darren Bailey accepts campaign money from sex offender who's now pastor, attends service at his church
Victor D. Barr was convicted of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl when she was a Rockford high school student and he was a teacher. He and his household have made three campaign donations to the Rep...
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fascism in plain sight.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Honored
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I got the coolest message from a reader who found one of the copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY that we left in Coney Island
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just published first in two-part interview w/ @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. This installment covers the foundation of the Bund through emigration to NYC to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maki...
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Making the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple
Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. The first episode of a two-part interview.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Absolutely delighted to spend the next year making brutal and beautiful covers for @inthesetimes.com
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Holy shit, this is an extraordinarily broad and inflammatory ethnically bigoted statement. You can condemn Hamas without declaring millions of people biologically incapable of peace. This is indefensible, Joe. Shame on you.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
gorgeous review in The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/2121...
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The Jewish Radicals Who Wanted Equality for All
In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mad Men
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 31/07/2026
“Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist.” Citing Black history and the labor movement, Michigan congressional candidate Donavan McKinney talks about why he’s a Democratic socialist — and challenges the media treating Black voters as a monolith of moderates. zeteo.com/p/this-black...
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
huffpost.com/entry/fired-60-minutes-cecilia-vega-cbs-news_n_6a63806ce4b0811ae0401d43 reporting on things that did not happen, as CBS reporters seem to be ordered to do or lose their jobs, is kind of the definition of disinformation
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Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter Says CBS Bosses Asked Her To Cover News ‘That Never Happened’
Cecilia Vega says she still hasn’t been given a reason for her May dismissal: “It’s not that I just lost a job. There is a lot at stake.”
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The only thing China interfered with was Trump’s ability to read the teleprompter. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies
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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've been of the opinion that attempting impeachment is not a worthwhile use of time or resources if the votes don't exist to convict but, man, thing after thing… fuck it. Dems, campaign on impeachment
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15/07/2026
Watch @premthakker.bsky.social ask Sen. Susan Collins if she regrets funding ICE given its recent killing, including of 26-year-old Maine resident Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Collins defends herself saying it went to bodycams & training. ICE wasn’t wearing bodycams when they killed Guerrero.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Welp. Elon Musk could finally face criminal charges in Wisconsin for handing out million dollar checks to voters in that 2025 state’s Supreme Court election.A bipartisan election commission just voted 5-1 across party lines to refer Musk’s vote bribes to a local prosecutor. It gets murky from there.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed another person.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My book got the Wall Street Journal angry because it tells the truth
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The arrogance is unreal.
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JD Vance Sparks Outrage After Bragging About How His Life 'Transformed' With Luxuries As Vice President
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE has killed again. Make a call to all 3 of your reps. Tell them it MUST STOP. This is simply a suggested script—you’re best off using your own words to express just how outraged and heartsick you are. But failing that, say this:
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents fatally shot a Colombian man who was authorized to work in the U.S. and had an SSN. He may have been ordered to leave the country, but even if so, the penalty for not complying is NOT DEATH. It’s not even a criminal offense; it’s a civil one.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/07/2026
On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting. This time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine said the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the US.
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Colombian immigrant in Maine reportedly killed by ICE agents
The victim is one at least 9 people who have been killed by immigration agents since last year.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
After receiving urgent medical treatment, Palestinian-American Sama Safi is being forced back into detention by the Israeli military, despite being wrongfully detained in the first place. Tell your Senators to demand Sama’s immediate, unconditional freedom so she can go home to her family safely.
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Call Your Senator: Bring American-Palestinian Student Sama Safi Home Now — IMEU Policy Project
Sama was abducted and now her life is in danger. The U.S. government must act now for her immediate and safe release.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh WOW!!!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
creeping anti-semitism, all the same old canards
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
AOC staying out of the Platner race reflecting better and better on her political instincts
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He made corrupt FIFA even more corrupt, which is his super power.
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
RETVRN to when "foreign communists running New York" meant Jews too lol
'new york will now be run by foreign communists'
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wrote this in 2020 and am thinking about it again today
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How Donald Trump took a broken asylum system and turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty
Declaring "our country is full," the president killed the myth of American decency
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/06/2026
No. Stop being weird.
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Is it time for Jews to leave New York?
No. Stop being weird.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The man in the Oval Office thinks touching peeling paint is a crime, but touching children isn’t. Drain the pool. Drain the swamp.
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