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Garrett Eisler

@garretteisler.bsky.social
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Theatre & Film Historian. My new book: "Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest" from @RutgersUPress. Formerly of the blog "The Playgoer." Cohost of "1049 Park Ave: An Odd Couple Podcast." authory.com/GarrettEisler

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h
I wrote about how the Trump administration's campaign to fight "campus antisemitism" is actually a campaign to define Jewish identity in a particular nationalized form, and to force that onto Jews who do not accept that form of identity definition. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston," he said almost sadly. "Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The media has done a terrible job highlighting that the ONLY refugees the US has accepted over the past year are White South African farmers. No one else is deemed worthy of consideration. It's an explicitly racist policy of the worst sort.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2026
Financial Advisors Recommend Throwing Away Unopened Bills theonion.com/financial-advisors-rec…
Financial Advisors Recommend Throwing Away Unopened Bills
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 09/09/2026
Peter Sellers BOTD (1925-1980) never won an Oscar, but his best "chance" had to be for the performance of his life: Chance the gardener, in 1979's BEING THERE. Who was his competition that year? Well, let's just take a look and see who th- HOLY SHIT ARE YOU F*KING KIDDING ME?!? #filmsky #moviesky
1980 Actor in a Leading Role Nominee List:
WINNER:
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Kramer vs. Kramer

NOMINEES
JACK LEMMON
The China Syndrome
AL PACINO
...And Justice for All
ROY SCHEIDER
All That Jazz
PETER SELLERS
Being There
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about
ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This irresponsible WaPo headline implies that both sides are responsible for a Republican lunatic attacking the Democratic candidate. The “toxicity” is also mostly a Republican phenomenon.
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rosenman's work on Barry Lyndon may seem to be just selecting pre-existing classical music, but his contribution was much more profound. The main theme of the Handel Sarabande is his own completely original arrangement, expanding a simple instrumental piece into a powerful orchestral statement. 1/3
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I feel seen, as they say.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please, pretty please, ask him if it has Brawndo. I beg you, White House reporters. Just do it and be legends.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump leaving Air Force One:
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Lord Farquaad: Some Of You May Die
ALT: Lord Farquaad: Some Of You May Die
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”
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Pixie Casey @pixiecasey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
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VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
On a related note, I heard that Bibi Netanyahu drowned kittens in his sink. Like, multiple times. Laughing the whole time. It was disgusting. That's what I heard anyway.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The NYT fact-checks Whitney Cummings' Mark Twain Prize jokes about Trump better than they do Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
the image is a screencap from the NYT coverage of the Mark Twain Prize award and a Whitney Cummings' joke:  ""I actually heard Trump may have even wanted to come tonight, but he couldn't make it — he got caught in sex traffic," Ms. Cummings said from the stage.
The joke received modest laughter before Ms.
Cummings added, "They did tell me not to say that." Mr. Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse but has not been accused of sex trafficking. The joke seems to nod to his previous association with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who was charged with sex trafficking in 2019 before killing himself in jail."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Congratulations on confirming everything Judith Butler ever said about gender performativity, I guess.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despi…
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
These Catholics are not merely “traditionalist.” They specifically reject the Catholic Church’s statement in Vatican II that Jews do not as a people bear responsibility for the killing of Christ. They want the Church to return to its roots in historical anti-Judaism.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump as a two-term president is like some Bialystock and Bloom scheme where a guy says and does all the wrong things yet succeeds wildly.
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Trump went on to acknowledge that the GOP could face heavy midterm losses if the world was allowed to continue through November."
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wow, how have I never heard of this show? Written by Yip Harburg & Harold Arlen. DIrected by Bobby Lewis, produced by David Merrick. Orig cast not only featured Horne, but Ossie Davis, Ricardo Montalban, and--as "lead dancer"--one Alvin Ailey! And not a flop, ran for over a year.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/06/2026
“To no one’s surprise, the Democrats and their socialist allies botched America’s 250th anniversary with a so-called celebration that absolutely no one showed up for,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
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White House Mocks Paltry Attendance At Democrats’ Great American State Fair
WASHINGTON—Expressing delight at the complete humiliation of their political opponents, White House officials on Monday gleefully mocked the paltry attendance at Democrats’ Great American State Fair. ...
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Before Broadway success Loesser worked a lot on the war effort, including the hit song "Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition." Another wartime project was Ben Hecht's "We Will Never Die," for which he wrote lyrics for a "Battle Song of the Warsaw Ghetto," which I documented here: tiny.cc/o1u5101
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A Jewish Testament: The Story of Ben Hecht’s ‘Warsaw Ghetto’
In 1943, when the horrors of the Holocaust were still not widely known, the famed screenwriter joined other big names for a pageant that toured the U.S. to raise awareness—and to celebrate resistance ...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."
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Edum @edumblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The White House grounds look like the Pride Lands after Scar became king
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I heard that there are thousands and thousands of cases of Rep. Claudia Tenney drowning kittens in her kitchen sink. It happens all the time. But Rep. Claudia Tenney will tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
49. On January 8, the Kennedy Center’s Chief Financial Officer sent an email to
WNO’s General Director and Board President asserting for the first time and, contrary to the terms
of the 2024 Agreement, that the funds in the WNO BSRF belonged to the Kennedy Center. In
addition, the CFO disclosed that the Kennedy Center had used those funds—funds that the 2024
Agreement expressly required to be held for the long-term benefit of WNO—to collateralize the
Kennedy Center’s own line of credit.
50. The next day, on January 9, 2026, the WNO Board voted to terminate the 2024
Agreement. WNO’s Board President and Board Chair immediately notified the Kennedy Center
of that decision in a letter to Mr. Grenell and requested that the parties begin unwinding the
affiliation.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
Screenshot from the paywall on a Wired article that reads: “You’ve read your last free article.”
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Lesley Stahl is 84 years old, Bill Whitaker is 74. Have some SELF-RESPECT and follow your colleague out the door. Both of these people likely have more money than they know what to do with.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/06/2026
Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman theonion.com/trump-launches-88-bill…
Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/05/2026
What To Know About Pope Leo’s Encyclical On AI theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pop…
: Why did the pope write about AI?

A: The Vatican’s SEO rankings have been plummeting for months.
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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Trump's frequent trips to Walter Reed raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."
A screenshot of the Jubilee YouTube show, where some famous person debates 20 idiots.
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
!! @collinswatch.bsky.social !!
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/05/2026
can't imagine why this wapo opinions video isn't doing well on youtube! (one of them tells us he went to harvard within the first 30 seconds, i shit you not)
A screenshot from a "Make It Make Sense" video titled "Easy A's Are Ruining Education?" It's four white guys in button-downs and slacks sitting on a couch in front of office windows and white walls. It's pathetic.
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Please ask him how exactly does he *know* this. How does *anyone* know this? Who's collecting data on teenage boys' sperm counts? (Both now and in 1970.) Also, dare we ask *how* it is/was collected???
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Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Yes, people forget that Ted Turner only created TCM after being surprised by the huge backlash against his colorization campaign. He did a total 180.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The one big thing this guy could do to relieve depression in America is to quit and disappear. This nonsense he’s pushing will, like all his other pet policies, greatly increase many people’s suffering and mortality. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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