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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 · 16h
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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fascism. Full stop.
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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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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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2026 version of "Papiere bitte!"
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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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I recommended the book in a union bargaining session at Northwestern U when interest in Russian history came up on both sides of the table. Also to a Chi Sun Times reporter who just did a series on Lithuania (she has family roots there).
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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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There is a tradition at work here. Jewish history since the days of the Hebrew prophets was very often recorded by the losers....
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The one consistent lesson to take away from all the various versions of The Blob, Alien, Life, etc: If you come across a little weird looking possibly alien thing, do NOT go poking it with a stick or finger. It will not end well.
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As unsurprising as it is disturbing.
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yep. There is an anarquist podcast on historical tyrants, grifters, conspiricists and so on. A running joke is how often "the Jews" come up as a throughline from Madam Blavatsky to the Crusades to the Tsars to Hobbs to Fr Coughlin to the Crusades to Flat Earthers to New Agers on and on. Now this?🤣
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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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seeing it tonight I believe. A nice follow up, the Coen Brothers version:
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O Brother Where Art Thou: Men in Forest
ALT: O Brother Where Art Thou: Men in Forest
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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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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A few years back, an act of antisemitic violence made national news and WSJ ran a piece in essence arguing that US Jews would be perfectly safe if we stopped being outwardly Jewish. So, no surprise here. As a cohost at a Jewish fandom show said on Twitter "Yep, that has worked so well in the past".😂
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frankbenk.bsky.social @frankbenk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wear it like a badge of honor
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NYC DSA: Solidarity, Socialism, Real Freedom Poster
ALT: NYC DSA: Solidarity, Socialism, Real Freedom Poster
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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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