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@hpollingalay.bsky.social
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Prof of Holocaust and Yiddish Studies, mother, author of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish, proud to be a political outsider in both Israel and US

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night. The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Congratulations to my friend Hannah Pollin-Galay, the new Holocaust chair at Umass Amherst (I knew but said nothing) www.umass.edu/news/article...
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Hannah Pollin-Galay Named Pen Tishkach Chair and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies | UMass Amherst
Pollin-Galay, whose role is effective Sept. 1, 2025, will also join the faculty with joint appointments to the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and the Department of History.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If there is a Rubicon, we have officially crossed it:
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Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
EMERGENCY ACTION Join us we’re actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is a really important response to the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by Kash Patel's lawless FBI. Good on Representative Clancy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2025
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
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RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking moment, Karoline Leavitt MOCKS the El Salvadoran immigrant mistakenly deported. “Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for Father of the year.” She’s despicable.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
Top aides to President Trump on Monday contradicted what other administration officials have said about the deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador last month. Here are some of the ways in which the White House has twisted the truth.
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What to Know About the Mistaken Deportation of a Maryland Man to El Salvador
President Trump’s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn praise a Blue Origin rocket. They’re going to space for 11 minutes on Monday with Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez. Just lost all respect for every one of them for sucking up to Bezos.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Big scoop from John Hudson at the Washington Post on Rumeysa Ozturk and the State Department. Full Story: bit.ly/3G72SZM
Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the government has alleged.
The finding, contained in a March memo that was described to The Washington Post, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient grounds for revoking Ozturk’s visa under an authority empowering the top U.S. diplomat to safeguard the foreign policy interests of the United States.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I will also know the cause by this fall, because I know it now? that cause is 'being human' humanity is diverse and that includes neurodiversity
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congratulations to author @hpollingalay.bsky.social, whose book OCCUPIED WORDS recently won a National Jewish Book Award from the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social! Learn more on our blog: bit.ly/3RxWVYp
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Occupied Words by Hannah Pollin-Galay wins a National Jewish Book Award! - University of Pennsylvania Press
Photography by Ethan Segal and Matt Clements / Image courtesy of the Jewish Book Council Penn Press is thrilled to announce that Hannah Pollin-Galay’s
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 10/04/2025
In any authoritarian regime, there are people who make a livelihood by rationalizing the actions of the leadership, making them palatable to a general audience by offering analogies with reasonable theoretical statements. Their profesisonal title is usually something like "chief propagandist"
This Instability May Be Worth It. Here’s Why. Oren Cass makes the case for tariffs. Hosted by Ross Douthat
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The climate crisis has entered an alarming new era. For orgs like Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, it's been a giant step backward. In our new podcast episode, we speak with Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, CEO of Dayenu:
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Episode 124: Dayenu: Jewish Climate Action Now | Jewish Women's Archive
The climate crisis has entered an alarming new era. Since President Trump started his second term, the Environmental Protection Agency has fired scores of climate scientists and is trying to roll…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our National Parks create 17x more economic activity than what we pay for it. You have to be economically illiterate to support cutting its budget. 🌲🌲🌲
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/04/2025
If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking statement, Karoline Leavitt confirms the Trump Administration is taking steps on a pathway to deport AMERICAN CITIZENS to El Salvador. This is absolutely insane.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Confirmed cases of measles in the US. 2020: 13 2021: 49 2022: 121 2023: 59 2024: 285 Total cases: 527 (5-years) 2025: (first 90 days) 628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2025
Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old. That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud. By @sengelberg.bsky.social
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How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse
While investigative journalists immerse themselves in minutiae to identify waste and fraud, Elon Musk’s team has taken a chainsaw approach to spending based on cursory examinations. That might help…
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Tracy Chapman is a Library Kid 🥹📚 “I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. I loved books. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get.”✨ nytimes.com/2025/04/04/arts/music/tracy-chapman-interview.html
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Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself
For years, the singer and songwriter has avoided the spotlight. But she is breaking her silence to look back on her self-titled debut and its powerful hit “Fast Car.”
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
greedy disgusting Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging wapo.st/4jfr8a9
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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2025
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.
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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for  reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
'The Israeli government no longer knows how to distinguish between real and imagined enemies. I will not retract my signature from an ICC petition to investigate IDF war crimes in the West Bank as quid pro quo for Israel's highest cultural award' -Eva Illouz
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Why Netanyahu's government blocked me from the Israel Prize | Opinion
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Donald's babysitters must have been *extra-busy* today keeping that thin-skinned toddler from seeing pics of all the thousands of people throughout America taking to streets to say they are OVER Trump and Musk and the chaos/destruction they bring.
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pikachu goes global — one in DC, one in Tel Aviv, same vibes, different skies! ⚡️✈️🌎
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
CALL THE BANNERS AOC! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits
The liberal group Data for Progress conducted the survey of likely Democratic voters.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Glenn once wrote a book about how it was bad that elites didn’t face consequences for their crimes
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
One day until the election. And one fact you need to know about the WI Supreme Court race. Donald Trump & Elon Musk endorsed Brad Schimel. Schimel on our Supreme Court = a rubber stamp for more Trumpian chaos in Wisconsin. Hard pass. Vote Judge Susan Crawford.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2025
Grok says Elon Musk has likely committed a crime in Wisconsin
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2025
This is what corruption looks like.
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