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Jessica

@jewishreader.bsky.social
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Educator, Ph.D. in Religious Studies, social democrat, women's sports fan (GO VALKS), hot sauce aficionado. Hoosier by birth now with 20+ years in the SF Bay Area. Cis 🏳️‍🌈 for 🏳️‍⚧️ rights. The Israeli government is a desecration of G-d's name.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 16h
the hell they can, three straight yamamoto splitters and khamenei's back in the dugout before he knows what happened
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1. Trump says Iran could hit Los Angeles
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 5h
Cranky reply deleted ;) This was a miracle shot and I'm grateful for it; that is all.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 5h
I'm sorry; I'm incredibly cranky for reasons that have zero to the do with the Valks so I'm taking it out on them, when I should just be grateful that we are ONE GAME FROM THE FINALS.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 5h
Natalie thinks Z is a stronger defensive player I guess? But god almighty if someone is the unanimous sixth player of the year maybe let her onto the court and she if she can get her shot going again.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 5h
I will say it: why the fuck isn't Salaün getting into games? Zandalasini is also not playing well and yet she's getting all kinds of minutes.
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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · 7h
What Kiah Stokes is doing in the 2026 playoffs will be studied. #GSV #Valkyries
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Ace Pedraz-AHHHH 🎃🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷 @candacepedraza.bsky.social · 7h
the Valkyries are 1 win away from advancing to their first WNBA Finals, 2 years into their franchise. absolute scenes.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 9h
There are so many incredibly talented early-career journalists and political analysts who actually understand American politics. We do not need to keep doing this.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h
muted the post but i'm aware it's still moving around so just want to register that if you read "there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america" and see the imaginary words "and that means everyone living there" and/or "so we should abandon it" you need to log off
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h
This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 11h
this is definitely what publishers do with books that are in high demand and not written by a toxically bigoted dented can of spray cheese
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h
Folks might think they want this, but they absolutely don't.
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Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social · 8h
That was not a shooting foul. Awful call. #WNBA
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 8h
This game is being officiated by OpenAI
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Mitchell Northam @northam67.bsky.social · 7h
After 61 days, Aminata Seck -- the Kentucky State women's basketball player detained by ICE -- has been released on bond. Her attorney, Hishem Alsalman, called it an "important victory." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
usatoday.com
Women’s college basketball player detained by ICE released on bond
After 61 days, Aminata Seck has been released from ICE custody. The Kentucky State women's basketball player was granted bond this week.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 7h
The refs are handing them the game.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 8h
Fire every ref in the league.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 8h
This is a #Valkyries post.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h
happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate!
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 8h
It's kind of hard to win the game when you're not allowed to defend the other team's best player.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 8h
damn that's crazy. did she ask the guy sitting next to her, who's supposed to know how many timeouts they have
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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 9h
You know who probably woulda used that reset timeout there? Sandy Brondello. #WNBA
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Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social · 9h
And if this was the position of the refs, you make a massive fuss about it *before* the free throws, and force them to acknowledge that they're wrong. Because you should know that you're right. #WNBA bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20h
Three years. May their memories be a blessing ז"ל. May their memories be a revolution. The only liberation is a shared liberation 🕯️💔
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 9h
Shit is exhausting, pocket friends, but today Dog Sadie found a secret outdoors-only toy in the hall closet and this is the best day of her life.
A sleeping brown dog with a blue long Nerf toy tucked under her paws like she's a toddler, 10/10
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 9h
This is why I donate money to Palestinian causes and never go to protests.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 11h
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
I had managed to avoid it for many years before yesterday and it's just so dispiriting.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
He won't be the speaker anymore, but even if were...this would be a coup attempt. Which is what happens when you don't arrest and jail ringleaders the first time.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
Not the point, but how fucking stupid are Republican mega-donors?
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Joseph Zucker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 14h
OK, for as much as I criticize the WNBPA for its general media approach, calling for the revocation of Christine's credential was one instance in which they were 100% in the right defector.com/christine-br...
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Christine Brennan Has Fully Lost It Over Caitlin Clark | Defector
If you listen to a certain subset of the media—not necessarily the sports media—the state of the WNBA is dire. A generational talent is being squandered. Weak leadership has failed a league on the cus...
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hamaapil.bsky.social @hamaapil.bsky.social · 14h
A small note of correction - Jews were never given citizenship by the Algerian state. In 1963, when the Algerian nationality law was passed, the 15,000 Jews who had remained in the country were denounced as “European Settlers” and denied citizenship.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13h
you. can't. purge. an. ethnic. group. ever. that means /ever./ it doesn't matter if 51%, 5%, or 102% of them are terrible people in your opinion
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
Well this is very sad.
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no, not that one @thatdosbox.bsky.social · 11h
From the MIT obituary: "She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened"
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
I'm pretty sure that most people use no data safety practices at all.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
I *just* read an article about how Margaret Hamilton did some of the early computation for chaos theory.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h
OH NO.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17h
This is very welcome news and will provide much needed relief to our youth and their families in the Tri-State Area. One of the likely contractors, Callen-Lorde, is where I got my first hormones in 2009 (yes I'm an old tran.) Families will be very well served by them.
gothamist.com
NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 18h
That is a deep cut!
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 20h
Tash is great; the problem is Court. She's got serious toxicity.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just re-watched The Residence and it was so fucking ridiculous they canceled that show.
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