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Gail Jaitin

@gailnyc.bsky.social
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Avid cyclist, pedestrian, and taker of public transit. Lifelong Mets fan. Bronx resident but my heart is in Queens.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 5h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 02/10/2026
Over a hundred protesters picketed NewYork-Presbyterian for ending care for trans youth. We're picketing a hospital on the first Thursday of each month through Pride. See you on the streets Nov. 5
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Omg getting gang raped by seven men while unconscious is NOT CASUAL SEX. WTF
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE
two carnivorous mammals of the subfamily Lutrinae in a steeply angled water-filled chute
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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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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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Down with Citizens United.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 23/09/2026
Elon is now above $16,000,000 spent on the mid-terms. Top races so far: -$5,174,007.32 in TX against @jamestalarico.bsky.social -$3,193,553.94 in OH against @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social -$3,092,319.94 in MI against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hahaha right?
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John Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All it takes is loving one person with an intellectual disability, or one person who themselves loves a person like that in their life, for you to stop saying that word. We grew up with it in the 80s. And I stopped using it when I saw I'd hurt someone I cared about. Everyone can and should.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Insane
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans' fear of fake socialism in the United States is bringing about real fascism in the United States. Mainly because they are too ignorant to know the difference.
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TalkTeaV @talkteav.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bicycle helmets will fill the Grand Concourse when the Tour de Bronx returns Oct. 4 for its 32nd ride. Cyclists will start at 161st Street and Grand Concourse, choose from three routes, and finish at the New York Botanical Garden. #newyorkcity #bronxevents #bikenyc www.talkteav.com/tour-de-bron...
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Tour de Bronx Returns for Its 32nd Ride Across the Borough
More than three decades after the first Tour de Bronx, thousands of cyclists are preparing for another trip through the borough Oct. 4 with three cycling routes.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But cars… #WarOnWalking youtube.com/shorts/yX2iK...
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Sidewalk driving near Yonge & Bloor in Toronto
YouTube video by Johnny Strides
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent article
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And who will be able to afford it?
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16/09/2026
“Neither the political left nor the Muslim world...has in the past century offered a form of anti-Jewish prejudice anywhere near as coherent, influential, and dangerous as that of their right-wing counterparts.” —Omer Bartov
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Where Hatred Lies | Omer Bartov
A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed an...
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did Howie just say the Florida school system has a great reputation? Maybe I misheard. It most certainly does not.
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JNYSPORTS @jnysports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mets fans mood today #mets #lgm #pete
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“It’s probably the worst of what we’ve seen,” said Saher Selod, director of research at the non-partisan Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)... “We’re certainly seeing in 2025 and 2026, ahead of these midterms, really very Islamophobic ads – more so than what we saw after 9/11.”
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‘It’s just straight bigotry’: wave of Islamophobic rhetoric looms over US midterm elections
As Muslims win historic victories, experts describe rise in anti-Islamic sentiment that rivals post-9/11 climate
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Jackson Heights Indivisible @jh-indivisible.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One strategy to ensure a secure election is to encourage people to VOTE EARLY! Post this image on your social media today and every week until Nov 3!! 💪🇺🇸🗳️ Never underestimate the power of annoying everyone with reminders! #midterms #voteearly #electionprotection #nokings #democracy
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Great job, Queens!
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Outrageous
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only in Republican America is it illegal to give water to people waiting in line to vote, but it's OK for the president to bribe them with a promise of $5,000 to influence *how* they vote.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking
Same text message as in the post, on a new poster from the Urban Truth Collective. Background image is a massive wide freeway, splitting neighbourhoods and filled with cars. #CarDependency #Traffic #Congestion
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you live in an urban or suburban area and most or all public amenities are too far away for most people to walk, that did not happen by accident and it does not have to stay that way.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Juan Solo. ☹️ #metsky
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So gross.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Reduce costs, maybe. Improve teaching and research? Fuck no. The answer to faculty overwork is not to spend money on AI snake oil, but on supporting your faculty and hiring more of them. This article is gross and insulting. "Hey professors! Save time by having ChatGPT plan your classes!" Fuck you.
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Is AI finally a way to reduce higher ed costs? (opinion)
AI could free up faculty time to focus on the teaching and relationship-building that matter most, José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson write.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To be clear, the #WARonWALKING is a big tent that includes the war on safe and efficient urban biking, on workable and well connected public transit, on all ages and abilities accessibility, and more. It’s a war against better cities with more real options, and a war for car dependency. #UrbanTruth
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wow.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Agree so hard!
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🤣🤣
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I love a good 1984 reference.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Zetsubo @zetsubo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The ancient paranoia of the slavers. Your oppression brings you no peace, for the ghosts of those you've damned torment your every dream.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whoa.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One way you could respond: "Are you kidding me? You have an incredibly powerful position as a member of the elite media to inform Americans and set the terms of debate. THIS is what you think is important? Not the war, the economy, the climate crisis, but Hasan Piker? What is wrong with you?"
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally! That's what I'm talking about! #politics
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026
Few things make New York feel more like New York than the sounds, traditions and joy of our Caribbean community.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That is a nice outfit!
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is great.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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Gail Jaitin @gailnyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Slings &Arrows is my favorite show of all time. @emilynussbaum.bsky.social agrees. All episodes available for free on YouTube!
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Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows”
Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · August 20 · 37m
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