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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey, @dieworkwear.bsky.social : This showed up on my feed. Now, to my untrained eye this is not only ugly, but ill-fitting. But this is Brooks Bros. What am I missing? Thanks. www.brooksbrothers.com/the-no.-1-sa...

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The No. 1 Sack Sport Coat in Patchwork Wool | Brooks Brothers

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ok, lesson learned. The second time we have to scrounge for dinner because @honeygrow.bsky.social sent the wrong order is the last time I’ll bother.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Court holds that enslaved people are not citizens, and that Congress has no authority to ban slavery from a federal territory.

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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am in the unfortunate position of being right, having said during the Iran war that it was a massive, lethal con. tiny.cc/7ti0101

tiny.cc

The Same War, on a Loop

We’ve gotten all too used to missile alerts, existential anxiety, and suspicions of political bad faith.

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The six real Talmudic genders are: - obligated in positive time-bound mitzvot - witches, probably - you thought it was a beautiful woman bathing in the river, but it's a beautiful rabbi instead - tumtum, the mystery gender - the Satan in a wig and dress, à la Bugs Bunny - Adam (pre-Eve)(look it up)

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BreadPanes 🍔🏳️‍🌈 @breadpanes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I haven't yet read the book on the Bund, but my grandfather had been a leader in pre-war Poland and then in NYC (he worked with Szmul Zygielbojm in London during the war). A brief thread of important things I learned from him that might be important in judging its relevance for today:

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anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

me, re: Super Bowl:

Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, commenting on the Super Bowl in a newspaper column: “Sports? The Super what? I didn't know there was a Super Bowl. My dear friend, you're asking the wrong person. I have never heard of a Super Bowl. I am so far from it that you really shouldn't ask me. It's as if I would ask you what is happening at the planet Mars. The president will watch? The president knows some thing about football? Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life. Sunday will be like any other day, doing my work.”

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If my uncle or my neighbor had reposted that video I'd see it as a gut-wrenching celebration of his racist ugliness of spirit. But when the President reposts it, it's a reminder that racist ugliness of spirit is part of the platform of the ruling party and official government policy.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@nytimes.com Re: “Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata” The word in the inscription is “hoping”, not “happy”.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Did Women of Valor Ruin the Workplace? I tried to buy some real estate, but by the time I considered it, she already considered it AND bought it AND planted a vineyard there by her own labors. And whenever I complain to HR, her loins are girded with strength and her arms strengthened with might.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

If you're looking for something to cheer you up, you could do worse than Gilbert and Sullivan. Like, maybe, the Wise Men's duet "In every mental lore..." from Utopia Limited.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Trump: I am literally going to destroy america Media: Trump pursues controversial policies Trump: Seriously just gonna fuck your shit up Media: Ever the iconoclast, Trump doubles down

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Tisha B’Av thoughts: I was thinking this year that rather than mourn the destruction of a physical structure that once gave our identity meaning, what needed to be mourned was the destruction of our communal ego-edifice; that is, the notion that Jews are somehow more moral than other people.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Tisha b'Av reminder: "Hinam" doesn't mean "without basis," but "without cost". If I forget that my rage, my hatred, no matter how righteous, has a cost - to me and to others - that's the point where I lose my connection to the Divine.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

So Tom Lehrer’s mother was named Alma?! Why isn’t this bigger news?

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Since all chatbots do is reflect the data set they were trained on, what we're really learning from the recent Grok debacle is that X is, indeed, a welcoming home for anti-semites. Not a surprise, but now proved by Science.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

That email from the Social Security Administration makes it official: we're a banana republic, and no Federal agency can be trusted about, well, anything. Every damn day it just gets harder to be the person the world needs me to be.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

M Gessen is right that too much criticism of Israel is labeled as anti-semitism; that the word intifada, like the word jihad, can have a variety of connotations, not all of them violent, and that that Zohran Mamdani is not an enemy of Jews.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I don't know what's really going on in Iran, or what the wisest approach would be or would have been. What I know is that two leaders whose wisdom, integrity, strategic thinking and general virtue I trust *least* are cheerleading the attack.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

And maybe it's just me, but if I were the head of a self-styled "civil rights organization" like the ADL, I'd be more worried about members of the majority party chanting "Mass deportations now!" than about some disaffected 20-somethings chanting "Globalize the Intifada."

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

For Juneteenth, I'm thinking about Psalm 126 - the "Shir Hama'alot" psalm. "When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, 'The Lord has done great things for them.'"

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hey, @asklyft.bsky.social . I ordered a #Lyft ride on Sunday. The driver never came, but the app showed the ride was completed and I was charged! There was no way to let you know that he never came. When I tried to dispute this through the site, it said that it found nothing wrong.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You may not like it, but this is what two high agency males look like:

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Was not expecting such a "Remember the good old days of Abe Foxman" vibe this year.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"I didn't think the secret police would send *me* to a concentration camp in the jungle," says man who voted for the secret-police-will-send-you-to-a-concentration-camp-in-the-jungle party.

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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#HandsOff protests across the country tomorrow. Let’s come together and rise up against fascism. Join in tomorrow April 5th.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

From a friend:

No. 16-46
4 April -
£2.99
PRIVATE EYE
ADOLESCENCE
A SHOCKING STORY OF TOXIC MASCULINITY, BULLYING AND ONLINE BRAINWASHING THAT LEADS TO TRAGEDY
MAKRAMARIA
ERRAT AGAIN
MAGA
OUNILE
DONALD
J.D.
ELON
WILL THESE DANGEROUS TEENAGE BOYS
ALL END UP IN CELLS?

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you've never seen "Thunderheart", watching it tonight would be a fine way to honor Val Kilmer.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today in 1924 Hitler was sentenced to a pathetic 5 yrs for trying to overthrow the government. He served 9 months. There might be a lesson here somewhere about being tough on people who assault democratic governance.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' travel advisory on the US pleading with French citizens weighing a trip Stateside to put a lid on their world-renowned sense of humor when crossing the border and speaking to CBP officers www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/conseils-...

screenshot from the French Ministry of Foreign Affair's travel advisory that reads "Il convient de ne pas plaisanter avec les officiers de CBP ... ou les policiers. Des propos, attitudes ou plaisanteries qui pourraient sembler anodins dans certains pays peuvent conduire aux États-Unis à l'arrestation immédiate et à des poursuites en justice."

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The whole world now feels this way toward us, TBH.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The "disappearing" of non-citizens is not because the Administration thinks those targets are dangerous. It's rather a kind of spring training for the secret police.

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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If US media isn't front-paging mass protests in Turkey, Israel, Serbia &elsewhere against autocrats, it's failing to provide crucial *domestic* news. The rise of elected autocrats is global. They inspire each other. Popular, non-violent resistance in every country should inspire resistance elsewhere

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Reading Francis Spufford's wonderful Cahokia Jazz. Is it just me, or does anyone else get some serious Sam Vimes vibes from it (esp. "Nightwatch" and "Bonk")?

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