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Jennifer Mendelsohn

@jmendelsohn.bsky.social
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The artist formerly known as @clevertitletk. Journalist turned genealogical sleuth. Created #resistancegenealogy; co-founded the Holocaust Reunion Project. Lover of receipts. Recovering Long Islander. "The genealogy burn is one of the rarest of them all."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As an American, I just don’t know who to trust when it comes to my young child’s wellbeing, a pedophile or their pediatrician?
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lol
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Sean Vanderfluit @deckofancestors.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Please turn your attention to this public service announcement from @jmendelsohn.bsky.social. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I did the lawyers. I ain't got time for all these members of congress. <ducking>
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
News flash: his ancestors were immigrants. #askmehowIknow
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Republican Party.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/01/2026
Would also think now would be a good time for the same media folks who beat the “Biden is old and feeble” drumbeat to do similarly.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
To quote my brother's award-winning 1999 independent film "Judy Berlin," "There's no sub to it. You're all liminal."
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It cannot be repeated enough that branding immigrants as criminals responsible for bringing social ills to the U.S. is as American as apple pie. Look at this cartoon from 1903. Those rats in the water are the ancestors of Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller and Howard Lutnick, among many others.
A cartoon of Uncle Sam towering over the American shoreline, flag in hand looking down at the ocean. “Danger to American Ideas and Institutions” is engraved on the mountain he leans against. The heads of dozens of immigrants float above the water, some with words like “criminal, mafia, outlaw, illeterate, pauper, and anarchist” on their hats. The words “Riff Raff Immigration” are spelled out on the waves.

Original caption: The High Tide of Immigration—A National Menace. Immigration statistics for the past yer show that the influx of foreigners was the greatest in our history, and also that the hard-working peasants are now being supplanted by the criminals and outlaws of all Europe.

Copyright 1903 by Judge Company of New York.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE Agents Murder Woman in Minnesota
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This story is gutting.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/01/2026
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Well this is awkward 😬
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I would pay cash money to watch someone ask Trump to explain the Monroe Doctrine.
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a man wearing a purple top hat and bow tie
ALT: a man wearing a purple top hat and bow tie
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Watching this happen in real-time is...something else.
screenshot of tweet from the official cbs evening news account "On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
And donate! (I did.)
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Every accusation is a...
FB post reading 
This is interesting:
"Paul and Brooke Shirley (Nick Shirley's parents) were defendants in a 2018 Utah bankruptcy proceedings after Thrive National / Thrive Systems collapsed and went into Chapter 7.
During the bankruptcy, the court-appointed trustee sued Paul and Brooke Shirley, along with Brooke's sister Amy Hall and a related entity (Maiton, LLC), alleging fraudulent transfers and improper diversion of estate assets to insiders.
At the same time, closely related family members (the Halls) were running to a third-party gym billing operation that allegedly collected membership dues, stopped paying gyms, and left club owners in financial ruin before running bankruptcy themselves.
As part of untangling that mess, the trustee alleged that assets from the failed business were transferred to or held by Nick Shirley's parents and other family-linked entities, and moved to claw those assets back for creditors.
The case was litigated for years and later jointly dismissed in 2021, consistent with a settlement. No public trial, no public judgment, but very real allegations involving insider transfers and family-run entities orbiting the same collapse.
Anyway, here's a news story and court docs connecting the dots back to Nick Shirley's parents.
Nick are your parents fraudsters that helped people hide money they stole from small business owners? g"
https://www.utb.uscourts.gov.../case.../18-02076_dkt_37.pdf
https://www.americanspa.com/.../national-fitness…
https://www.pacermonitor.com/.../Rushton_v_Shirley_et_al
Nick's family fraud
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Well that explains a lot.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This American has an idea.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Miller knows exactly what he’s doing. The last couple of takes — including the Sinatra/ Martin one —have been so epically ahistorical that it’s hard to believe he really doesn’t know. (Even though he went to Duke. 😜) www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
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Stephen Miller rewrites history in wild rant as he melts down about immigration
Miller has largely been credited with spearheading the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policy
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Has anyone here met me? 🤔
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Yes exactly. That’s the thing that’s always differentiated us, we’re the only “Christian nation.” Yup.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
As I just said, same shit different day. 1903
In the cartoon itself you see Uncle Sam on the shore of the United States holding onto the cliff
with an American flag. The cliff reads “Danger to American Ideals and Institutions” this is
because the new flow of immigrants which are the riff raff immigrants pictured as heads in the
water near Uncle Sam are the undesirable immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe who
were mentally ill, prostitutes, anarchists, and others.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Stephen Miller out here re-enacting this 1893 cartoon from Puck.
Five well-dressed men in top hats stand in a row on a dock. The man in the middle has hands out saying "halt" to an immigrant. Behind them on the wall are the shadows of their immigrant selves.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Had never seen this before. Wow. Just wow. No notes.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
More about anti-Italian discrimination. The historical amnesia on display in the Trump administration is dazzling.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Here. Everything I wrote about Cuccinelli (whose Italian family also came from Hoboken) applies to Sinatra and Martin. clevertitletk.medium.com/their-own-tw...
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Their Own Two Feet
As the new public face of the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies, acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli has wasted no…
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
If only someone had been screaming this from the rooftops for the last seven years. 👋🏼
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
“[Italians] are coming in waves and think they have a right to come….There has been a surfeit of unskilled illiterates for years and the people do not want any more of them.” — the Jersey (City) Journal, November 29, 1902, a year before Frank Sinatra‘s father arrived from Italy.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
He’s punking us now.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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British Columbia Genealogical Society @bcgs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Worth repeating. (via @jmendelsohn.bsky.social) blog.myheritage.com/archive/2017...
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Children Can't be Born Before Their Parents: A common-sense guide for genealogical beginners - MyHeritage Blog
This is a guest post by Jennifer Mendelsohn. A freelance journalist for more than 20 years, Jennifer Mendelsohn's work has appeared in The New York Times,
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Kristi Noem's family's Homestead act land grant was taken from inside an Indian reservation. Well, knock me over with a feather. www.tiktok.com/@caitlinspea...
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How ironic, and yet completely unsurprising. Kristi Noem’s family history is rooted in a documented federal land appropriation from the very Native tribal lands she’s now banned from. #KristiNoem #gen...
TikTok video by Caitlin Speaks
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This outstanding piece focuses on Miller's maternal roots. But let's not forget that genealogist Renee Steinig discovered that Miller had a paternal ancestor whose naturalization petition was denied on grounds of "ignorance." www.facebook.com/ReneeSteinig...
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Renee Stern Steinig
Just found the Petition for Naturalization of Nison (aka Max) Miller, immigrant great-grandfather of Trump aide Stephen Miller. Tough looking guy! His petition was rejected. Reason: Ignorance. L'dor....
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ya think? 🤔
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Very #resistancegenealogy adjacent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFm...
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Kristi Noem: Ethics, Power, and a Newly Uncovered Family History
YouTube video by Caitlin Speaks
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
BTW, here's a Life Magazine cartoon from 1911, two years after Michele Bovino came to the US:
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Was asked repeatedly about this one. Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Seemed like a good day to re-share this one.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Soccer peace is my favorite kind of peace.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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