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Jesse Myerson

@jessemyerson.bsky.social
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Judaism, politics, music, basketball, New York City

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sophie Cunningham finishing with a game-worst -18 as the Fever’s season comes to an end. Oh well, sucks to suck I guess!
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Antisemitic conspiracy theory acts as an ideological binding agent cohering other bigotries (see “great replacement”) and a key conceptual framework for entrenching anti-Bkack racial capitalism. As such, Jews are far from the only population who stand to benefit from efforts to combat antisemitism.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And if you’re opposed to Ovadia’s deportation – as I hope you are – but you haven’t spoken out against Mahmoud Khalil’s or Mohsen Mahdawi’s: it’s not too late to do so.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Simchat Torah, I’m going to buck tradition: Rather than starting again at B’reshit, I’m going to continue on and read roughly a parsha’s worth every week from Joshua though II Kings. Anyone interested?
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sorry but it has to be called Brejoin
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
According to the far right — with at least tacit and sometimes even vocal cooperation from the center left — Judaism doesn’t include Antizionist Jews, but does include Zionist Christians. Needless to say, this is flagrantly antisemitic and constitutes a substantial danger to Jews of all sorts.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
45 for Arike is toughhhhhhh
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting an AI PAC. Thinking of calling it AIPAC.
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Union workers on Mars submitting their demands: 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for work 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for rest 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for what we will
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL
•@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He is asserting before all the world that healthcare, wages, housing, unions, reproductive rights, civil rights, democracy, &c. are not as important to Jews as defending a genocidal apartheid regime from criticism. How could this not intensify resentment of Jews?? jewishinsider.com/2026/09/risi...
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Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed
Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are no US forces in Iraq for the first time in two decades I need people to remember this when some folks say deploying troops to Iran or Yemen will be a six month op.
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US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran
The departure is celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies ​who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Solid half of ball. Even without Stewie producing a ton, up a dozen at the break. Olivia Miles thoroughly in check. Would be so sick for the last seed team to sweep the top seed team in the first round, especially since it’s Minnesota lore that the Liberty don’t deserve their lone championship.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Record High 47 Senators Vote To Hold Israel Accountable For Human Rights Violations
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re a leftist who spends most of your time online denouncing Zohran, AOC and Bernie, then no you’re not.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone find it strange that the Indiana Fever’s best player, Kelsey Mitchell, never seems to get any press?
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It doesn’t matter whether an act is harmful or helpful, legal or illegal. All that matters is whether it reinforces or subverts established systems of hierarchy and domination.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Ivy League campuses, gang rape is more permissible than demonstrating opposition to genocide.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
North American Jews have played a key role in enabling Israel's worst impulses. Israel has played a key role in binding North American Jews to its crimes. You can't begin to fix Israel without creating a productive and healthy distance between itself and the diaspora.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t wanna bore you with it, but Songs In The Key of Life dropped 50 years ago today.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Birthright,” they call it
Israel Freezes Aliyah for Two Jews Over West Bank Activism Protecting Palestinian Communities

In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities appear to be violating the Law of Return
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Plus 12 boards
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I say again
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨ALERT🚨 “Jalen Brunson can’t act” “Every time he spoke I cringed” “This was the worst SNL episode in years” BE ADVISED: The above are extremely No Larry-type opinions. Please adjust accordingly.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pretty sad that people use “vanilla” to mean “bland” or whatever, because man! What a delicious flavor that is.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 25/09/2026
!!! Some other versions: everland-music.bandcamp.com/track/let-ma... (I suspect independently derived from the same original source) lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/track/goles-...
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I regret to inform the chat that Hop Little Bunnies has the same melody as Hatikvah only in a major key
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only prominent NYC Jewish leaders I’ve seen rising to the defense of the Mayor in the wake of Netanyahu’s UN speech are Moshe Indig and Brad Lander. Can it be that those two are the only ones? Please tell me I’m missing people!
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people you’re laughing at in the article you’re sharing: do they have any power? If they’re powerless, please consider who benefits from making you laugh at them.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The old chestnut was that the easiest way to sell a million records was getting banned by the BBC. Oftentimes censorship works. Best results are when the censored position is minoritarian. But when the position has reached critical mass, censorship stands to backfire. Oh well Robert Kraft!
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu is a pathetic weakling and a sniveling coward, which is why he would never dare set foot in a country that is a signatory to the ICC, preferring instead to be a cowering, pitiful fugitive from international justice.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May all Netanyahu’s teeth fall out, save for one, and may that one give him a toothache.
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