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Kosher Nostra

@harfenist.bsky.social
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Freelance journo | Pursuing an MLIS @ CUNY QC Work in SPLC, LA Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, CJR, VICE, Quartz, NowThis, Mongabay, DNAinfo, PPP, BOMB, UpperEastSite, more “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Democracy simply doesn’t work.”

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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 1h
Do 200 in a tesla “autonomous“ next time please
thehill.com
Trump’s motorcade neared 100 mph en route to Oklahoma after helicopter, airplane ruled out
President Trump’s motorcade put the pedal to the metal Thursday as stormy weather in the South spurred the president to drive from rallies in Texas to Oklahoma rather than fly. Trump took the motor…
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h
Trump never threw Epstein out. Never happened. Zero evidence. What IS there evidence of? This:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7h
my biggest no shit ever
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 7h
- Authoritarians have significant control of this new uh entity - Buy physical media from affected companies now; it is likely that a whole lot of their works will be disappearing soon - Support independent alternatives where artists/writers can publish, broadcast freely - Vote for a Dem congress
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 7h
Yemenite Jewish woman lighting Shabbat candles, 1950s (via Jewish Women’s Archives)
Yemenite Jewish woman lighting Shabbat candles, 1950s (via Jewish Women’s Archives)
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 8h
“Back of the napkin math, looking fucking stupid ‘Alas,’ all I said when I seen how they plan to use it Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human Mind, that's the rubric Deep Blue verse Vladimir Putin”
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 9h
These things wear human skin.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9h
the expert literary science, expert data analysis, and even more expert deep investigative reporting in this piece powerfully dispel PEN's insidious mythology of the publishing industry this jewish author is thankful for the research
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h
This directly echoes "the Jewish Question." Not just in the language, but also in the framing of a group that is seen as a threat to the Volk because they are seen as too smart, successful, and intellectually accomplished.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h
Republicans treat public service like a fucking slush fund
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 18h
The most famous German is Austrian
The most famous
Indonesian is Indian
The most famous
Chinese is Turkic
The most famous French is Italian
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
jewishcurrents.org
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the phenomenon where trump is totally hypnotized by the last person he talked to extends to chatbots
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More people should know about the 1930s plot hatched by American businessmen to raise an army to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship -- all ratted out by USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, who the NY Times later admitted was telling the truth.
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Never forget en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
en.wikipedia.org
Business Plot - Wikipedia
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
“The film, with the working title Pawn Shop, centers on an Antifa siege of a Minneapolis pawn shop amid anti-ICE unrest.” My thing about all of these movies is that “End of Watch” exists. Hollywood is not opposed to portraying marginalized people as monsters at all.
thebulwark.com
The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I cannot believe Le Tigre sold “Decepticon” for a fucking Starbucks commercial.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 01/10/2026
True all over the world, global feudalism but with the worst, dullest, most destructive, most ignoble 'nobility' at the top
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abolish the death penalty
nbcnews.com
‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the botched execution “a mess...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only day this meme makes sense
Wake me up when September ends
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does “100 Years of Solitude” count as a romance?
theguardian.com
The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026
turns out it's pretty easy to trick America's vast population of ignorant rubes, you just buy up all the media companies and stuff them full of propaganda. Trump's problem is that he then immediately stabbed them in the back, repeatedly
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US military has many types of institutions within it. In addition to the armed services, it also has a media and educational wing. Hegseth's assault on all these institutions shows how authoritarians operate. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
militarytimes.com
Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration continue deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy.
bit.ly
Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume while justices weigh Trump policy
The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation” 2 year olds In deportation hearings Without lawyers Hillary was right. Trump and his followers-in particular ICE-are truly deplorable
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone should ask Trump, just as a lark, how far Iran is from closest point in the US—and what the range of their missiles is. He won't know the answer to either. (During Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK pointed out that Soviet missiles had range of 1,000+ miles, so from Cuba could hit DC etc)
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/09/2026
How can we ensure access to heritage in the face of conflict? The Sudan Virtual Museum offers virtual access to the Sudan National Museum, displaying the artefacts that were exhibited there before the war #MuseumMonday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
View through broken windows from the inside of a building, looking towards another damaged building.3D reconstruction of the interior of a museum. On a doorway is written 'welcome to the Virtual Sudan National Museum'. The doorway leads into a room with a museum display depicting a timeline of Sudanese history.
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LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hate to be so basic as to admit that this is everything i want in a political ad
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eichmann would be proud.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Has there ever been a bigger downgrade in corporate logo history?
Comedy Central original logo featuring the earth on the western hemisphere and three gigantic sky scrapers, and a sash with the network name This sorry excuse for a logo meant to look like a fucking iPhone or something. Two Cs intertwined like they sell juice made of nanobots
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
united24media.com
Russian Drone Slams Into National Academy of Sciences Building in Central Kyiv, Killing One
A Russian UAV directly hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine building in central Kyiv on September 28.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Critical reporting by @theguardian.com: The SS goes stealth. Their quiet crimes are all around us. Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Jewish War Medal from the grandfather I never knew—my dad gave it to me on my birthday the other week. He fought in Fiji. I’m going to get it restored and framed.
Jewish war veteran medal in bronze. Missing the enamel along the star and the red white and blue ribbon.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the first time in my life in New York, I heard the phrase, “Jews and Italians: Same corporation, different division” and holy shit is that accurate.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
excellent community service work here, ladies
Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. “Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he says.

Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid. “I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he says. (Gary, along with the other daters in this piece, have been given pseudonyms to protect against professional, if not romantic, repercussions.)
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 24/09/2026
‘Pinkerton’ came out 30 years ago today. 💿 What’s your favorite track?
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah I’m no longer gonna take Canadians “checking in on the U.S.” seriously after seeing this. Get your shit together first.
financialpost.com
KD launches mac n' cheese flavoured soda in Canada
Kraft Heinz has teamed up with a Canadian soda maker on the limited-edition beverage only available in Canada. Read more
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026
Ladies and gentlethings, I present to you the first excerpt from @beckbook.com Many thanks to @nymag.com for putting it in print and to @vulture.com for presenting it so beautifully online Please read, if you are so inclined CW: Uh… intense emotional distress? I don't want to give anything away…
vulture.com
Losing Beck
His acclaimed album, Sea Change, was inspired by a breakup. For his ex-partner, it was the story of how the Church of Scientology took over his life.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first on what will be the very long list of Things We Did Not Mention to Attorney Generals When Negotiating the Merger
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Kaja Kallas: Trump's inviting Putin to the G20 was very hard to hear, because considering that even a few days ago, there were Russian intelligence officers charged for murders of Americans on American soil.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.
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