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Gail Labovitz

@gailsl.bsky.social
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That’s Rabbi Dr. Professor to you! Faculty (Rabbinic Literature and Halakhah) at the AJU/Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and Conservative rabbi. she/her

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14h
Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 05/10/2026
Reminder that Vice President JD Vance has said that he considers Curtis Yarvin a friend
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“But in Feb. 2025, Collins did make the choice to vote to confirm Vought…after he had established himself as an advocate of expansive executive branch power — in part by pushing the false claim that the president has the constitutional authority to impound funds appropriated by Congress.”
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts?
In recent weeks, as the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ...
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘These “Oops” Caucus stories share a few factors: a senator viewed by much of the media as more reasonable or centrist than their colleagues, and a Trump administration figure taking actions that are exactly in line with who they were publicly known to be.’ ‘“Oops” Caucus’ is imho way too generous…
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I always think of William Goldman’s great dialogue from CHINATOWN: “Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?”
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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean you wanna talk about a language that created an artificial sense of unity that enabled most of the colonial crimes of the past 300 years? תסתכל במראה, אנגלו
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The entire thread is quite thought provoking, so read up and down. But it occurs to me as someone who teaches Talmud/Rabbinic Lit. in a program training future rabbis, that this is pretty much exactly what we’re doing with beit midrash/hevruta requirements…
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is not good and doesn’t attest to good things about her or about her seriousness www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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UN's Francesca Albanese claims Jews in Nazi camps were called ‘Muslims' | The Jerusalem Post
“In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims,’” Albanese said.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course "transing your kids" is not a real thing. But "sex trafficking your kids" is a real thing that Matt Gaetz got caught doing.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread well worth a few minutes of your time…
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@CoffeeShopRabbi.com @rruth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Book of Isaiah says, "Nachamu, nachamu ami" ["Comfort, comfort My people"]. This thread about comfort and discomfort makes a good point.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is long, but it really sums up an important issue. If your rallying slogan is so broad that some people can say it to mean a substantive peace process and two state solution while other people are literally yelling it as they commit murder, it's a problem. 
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Kosherart @kosherart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do we all agree on what he slogan Free Palestine” means? I took screenshots of an illustrated post by Jordyn Tilchen on Instagram explaining how it was designed to be vague & sow chaos by not having a 100% clear definition. Please read this through this thread & understand the manipulation at work.>
THE PROBLEM WITH
"FREE PALESTINE”

It's probably the most successful slogan of the last decade.
It's also one of the least specific.
That's not a bug. It's a feature.

Thought bubble: “Okay, but… what does it actually mean?” (Asking for a friend)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They hate him. They really hate him.
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Pete Hegseth’s Ruthless Pentagon Nickname
They hate him.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.timesofisrael.com/el-sayed-and...
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El-Sayed and Vance call each other ‘evil,’ while both handling antisemitism the same way
The Republican US vice president and Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan each show reluctance to disavow inflammatory supporters, in sign of collapsing firewall between politicians and extremists
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How about neither association is okay? Antisemitism is an across the political spectrum problem, and denouncing theirs while pretending ours don’t exist, or excusing them for any reason, is a deeply unserious take no matter which side it comes from.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
as a jew who cares a lot about these issues, the fact that the worlds richest and perhaps most powerful man routinely spouts nazi propaganda is very bad and the main story here. But I'd note there's a bit of a gender story in this "poll" as well.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Settlements are pure business decisions. If Meta was willing to pay $18 billion, imagine how guilty they must’ve been, how big they feared the real damages would be, and how insanely profitable it was to do this wrong in the first place.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the deaths was a baby who was too young for vaccines. The other condition that led to that child's death was the fact that they were a fragile newborn infant. Mehmet Oz can go to hell. 
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Or will they be too busy arguing among themselves about who supposedly took AIPAC money?
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That movie was a huge part of my senior year of high school. It played at a theater in NE Philly, and the scene was the BEST (way better than Greenwich Village, actually, once I got there…).
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From the Empire State Building Observation Deck: Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: On holiday with the compulsive browsers 

Panel 1: Browsing in the airport bookstore despite already having bags filled with books 

Panel 2: Browsing in a charming local bookshop despite not speaking a word of the language 

Panel 3: Browsing in the Airbnb despite there being only four novels, the oven manual and a pizza menu
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stay safe - and may this be a better week!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 17/08/2026
democrats take money from investment bankers, lawyers, tech bros, health insurers, hollywood, oil & gas cos., telecom providers, and all manner of industries that engage in shitty behavior that's bad for people and the planet but only one lobby is seen as resolute evil despite all of them sucking
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Rabbi Sara Zober @rebbesmz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This thread 🔥🔥🔥
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
שבת שלום!
3 braided challahs cooling on a baking tray.
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 11/08/2026
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Women entering a voting booth with white hoods and red robes. Exiting the voting booth wearing whatever clothes they choose.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the press corps just held a dinner in his honor
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As we keep saying, the term “Zionist” is increasingly a cover for just doing “secret Jewish puppetmasters running everything” bog-standard antisemitism and y’all can just stop wasting everyone’s time and say what you mean, because it’s pretty transparent at this point.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cassidy's rational self-evidently bankrupt. He says another acting AG would be worse. But his vote secures the confirmation of the candidate who has been shown to champion the worst possible DOJ practices. That's what he's ratifying -- it's not a guessing game.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A special place in hell for Cassidy, Cornyn, Tillis. The only good R is a defeated R.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Springsteen, “She’s the One”
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 05/08/2026
I’m sure this will be a v popular take (lol) but the viciousness directed today at Stevens/supporters (see comments) show a mvmt that doesn’t appreciate what it takes to get out of authoritarianism. You don’t reverse backsliding w/o an awkward coalition. Stop shaming her supporters & try to win them
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Robert Brendel @robertbrendel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If Fauci had come back with "I'm a guy who would never ignore his son-in-law beating the shit out of his own daughter," I'd have asked for his hand in marriage.
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