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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3h

This is...a huge deal.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 7h

We are horrified by this plot and relieved no one was hurt. We stand with Hindu and Indian Americans. No one should fear being murdered at prayer. The white supremacist behind it targeted Jews and Black people too, as often happens. Showing up for others is how we protect ourselves.

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Teen accused of plotting mass shooting at Chicago-area Hindu temple | CNN

Police in a Chicago suburb announced Wednesday that they had thwarted a potential mass shooting, arresting a 19-year-old man who they said may have planned to target a Hindu place of worship.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"She also felt a kinship between Yiddish and Ukrainian, two languages that she learned had both been dismissed by Russian imperial officials as zhargon, or “jargon”: disposable dialects." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Man Who Wanted to Understand Every Aspect of Jewish Life

In the Pale of Settlement, the writer S. An-Sky made an ecstatic, obsessive attempt to wrap his arms around an entire people just as it was disappearing.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16h

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid want Diaspora Jews to elect a “non-voting observer” to the Israeli Knesset, just as Washington DC gets a non-voting observer in Congress. If this passes, Diaspora Jews should refuse to participate. I am not Israeli and their government does not represent me.

“Israel-Diaspora relations will be made a top priority for former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid if their B’Yachad party joins the next Israeli government, according to a working plan shared with JTA.

Under the plan, the party seeks to elevate the importance of Diaspora Jewry by transferring responsibility for relations from the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The plan also envisions the election by Diaspora Jewry of a non-voting observer to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h

Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.

from Melissa Braunstein: "Nobody waged war against civilians. Lies like this from authority figures set dangerous things in motion that negatively affect *American* Jews."

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 14/10/2026

Khaveyrim, We're proud to announce that, after many months of work, Der Spekter magazines are now available for purchase in Europe! We've collaborated with the Amsterdam-based leftist bookstore Het Fort van Sjakoo on local printing and distribution.

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Home - Het Fort van Sjakoo

Gespecialiseerd in libertaire en radicale ideeën van de eerste tot de vijfde wereld en daarbuiten … Actueel / Nieuw Laatste nieuws Evenementen

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

god i love Taiwan

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When pundits talk about the Democrats needing to reach “Working class voters” this is who they are actually referring to.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

America’s finest news source

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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Redistribute wealth to people whose ancestral lands you’re on! In the DMV that’s the Piscataway people — support the Piscataway Land Trust & other programs here: throughpiscatawayeyes.networkforgood.com/projects/186... Drop donation links for your area in the replies

An Indigenous woman holds up a middle finger with the caption “Fuck Christopher Columbus”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When a progressive or DSA member launches a primary campaign against a sitting House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries and other leaders go nuclear to defend that sitting member. But what if Republicans threaten a sitting Democrat with arrest after raiding her home? Same vigor and intensity, I'm sure, no?

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12/10/2026

A reminder on Indigenous Peoples' Day: Native people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons at more than 4x the rate of white people. This is the direct result of centuries of oppression and theft from Native people.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :)

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is a win-win-win: Hungary and Hungarians get minority language rights, Ukraine gets to continue derussification, road to EU entry unblocked.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

please mr zelenskyy bomb a refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb another refinery and then bomb an

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Understanding the parallels between Ruling Party politics in the US and China -- where Party members are required to repeat the words of the singular Party Leader -- helps us see how far authoritarianism has infected American governance. Views my own: unexemptional.substack.com/p/si-and-lak...

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Christopher Columbus was a failed navigator funded by murdering colonizers and we shouldn’t be celebrating him. Happy Monday!

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fantastic panel at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social live on the future of the Palestinian national movement, moderated by @danaelkurd.bsky.social featuring Fadi Quran, Abed Abu Shehadeh, Muhammad Shehada and Inès Abdel Razek.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/10/2026

centrists the world over would rather figure out ways to reach across the aisle and work with fascists than form any kind of alliance with the left to block the fascists out

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’re probably one week away from “Israel forced Zelenskyy to provoke the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

From Cenk Uygur: “Israel had Zelensky attack an Iranian ship to try to merge Iran and Ukranian wars. In that scenario, we’d be at war with Russia. So, yes, Israel is definitely pulling the strings on this, too. And as usual, it has a disastrous plan. They won’t be satisfied until they cause WWIII.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"The whole discourse... boils down to “support the Muslim” or “support the Jew”, as if this were some ancient racial animosity – natural enemies “fighting”... It is not good for the Jews – or for anyone. And it is deadly for a secular, pluralistic democracy." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Stop talking about the US ‘Jewish vote’. It's not that simple | Judith Levine

Political parties vie for Jewish support based on false assumptions that boil down to one issue: Israel

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this sentence from old yishuv era yiddish has words from arabic, polish, and ladino in it

335. kada'mes = قضامي qḍāme = roasted chickpeas
(BW, 185: dürre geröstěte [Kichererbse]).

* kadames pražet men in a sakhten afn fayer, 'Chick-peas are roasted in a frying-pan over fire'

pra'žet = Yiddish present tense of Polish infinitive prażyć = to fry.
sakhte'n = Ladino sarten = frying-pan.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is how you write a headline.

Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is why Americans who say they’re ok with tolerating China because ‘hey, they’ve been peacefully and not started any forever wars’ annoy me. You can say that because China probably won’t touch the US. But Beijing is definitely involved in quite a few wars right now

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No amount of hate, fear, or bigotry can stop our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ukraine has targeted Russia's: -oil infrastructure, especially refineries, which fund the war -warehouses that hold materials for troops -data centers that aid comms and spread propaganda Smartly hitting pillars of Russia's aggressive war effort while Russia bombs civilians for the thousandth time.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 11/10/2026

Jfc, Germany would be almost totally decarbonized today if not for shutting down all of its unclear plants

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There is a long history of this white supremacist international that developed out of the French New Right in the 1960s as a reaction to the Algerian Revolution.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/10/2026

Many homes in the northeast & in Alaska are heated with heating oil- basically diesel fuel. Now because of the administration’s war & energy policies, families are going to pay a lot more to heat their homes this winter. Our paper shows how folks heat their homes: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Map of primary heating fuel by US census tract, from our paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/ae69e6/meta

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 09/10/2026

This is a deal between two men who are desperate to look like they have cards on their hands: 1. Putin had to lift an export ban after Ukrainian drone strikes to deliver a symbolic amount of diesel. 2. Trump pretends that it will make a difference for diesel prices in America.

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