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Jack Leff

@jrlefftist.bsky.social
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Grassroots organizer, abolitionist, tear gas scholar, and good Jewish boy.

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Jack Leff @jrlefftist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Id watch ten seasons of this
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just so everyone understands how cruel this is, they are weaponizing a CHILD WELFARE PROGRAM just so they can break up families and punish immigrants. This is meant to deter and scare immigrant households from coming forward to take custody of unaccompanied minors in the US who they're related to.
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
enshittification ouroboros
the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heartthe anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New AP polling of Jewish Americans— Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Anyway, join the Left(s) where we may be neurotic but we are also creative and many of us have a sense of humor and whimsy.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mamdani: When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:
thehandbasket.co
ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?
A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!
nytimes.com
ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.
Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security: “Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸”
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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Jennifer Rokasky @envirodance.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Regular people (you + I), pay Virginia's 4.3% sales tax on all purchases. We buy a laptop, we pay sales tax. Amazon buys warehouse-sized computer systems that power their entire operation, and pays $0 sales tax. #KidsOverCorporations #VEAVotes app.sosha.ai/s/5moHV12s
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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 25/05/2026
Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. George was a beloved father, grandfather, brother, and friend. His life mattered and he should still be here.
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Meg Gruber @meggie1922.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Princess Moss @neapresident.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Virginia’s public-sector bargaining ban is rooted in a Jim Crow-era effort to silence Black workers at the University of Virginia Hospital who organized for fair pay and dignity. Now, Gov. Spanberger taking away a seat at the table for millions of Virginian workers is a profound disappointment.
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Spanberger to veto collective bargaining bill passed by General Assembly
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is vetoing legislation that would allow public employees to bargain collectively for wages and benefits, according to the bill's patron, Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, ...
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Carla Okouchi (She/Her) @carlaokouchi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In 1946, Virginia banned public sector collective bargaining specifically to stop Black hospital workers at UVA from organizing. It was a Jim Crow-era law. This new bill destroys old frameworks + powers the collective. #VEAVotes #CollectiveBargaining app.sosha.ai/s/jCcCXIMA
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I know it's been said a million times but honestly, honestly, the US-Israeli war on Iran is genuinely one of the most fucked up things I have seen in international affairs in my life. It is genuinely shocking to me, in a way I think it would be bad to lose sight of, just how bad this has been.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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Jack Leff @jrlefftist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Really vital reporting on an understudied weapon.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
lmao far right content makers are getting almost all of their revenue from rich benefactors and supplement sales, not paid subscribers. It's smoke and mirrors.
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Jennifer Rokasky @envirodance.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Protect employees’ rights! Gov. Spanberger, it’s time to sign the collective bargaining bill. All public sector workers deserve the right to collectively bargain – and you can make it happen! #VEAVotes app.sosha.ai/s/EeaY5ErN
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Organized Power in Numbers @opinorg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Labor author & historian, @kimkelly.bsky.social talks about the importance of channeling momentum into action, and how May Day Strong can help do that. #mayday #workersoverbillionaires #kimkelly
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Elon Musk

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The ADL is a hate group
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
tiny blue penguins!!!!!!!!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Campus antisemitism is a genuine problem that has, since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, been manipulated by the American right as part of a sustained effort to delegitimize universities. Jewish students are not the constituency this campaign is designed to serve." forward.com/opinion/8197...
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Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree
A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
ICE is alive and well in Los Angeles, aided and abetted by the County, and the City. They're trafficking people, who increasingly have nothing left to lose. part 1
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
God help us.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Leaving out key parts of a direct quote from the president is lying.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I was sufficiently struck by the way in which the Israeli government is using historic antisemitic tropes in its messaging against Iran that I wrote about the trend, and what it says about the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora: forward.com/opinion/8151...
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Israel is gleefully copying Nazi imagery in the propaganda war with Iran
New social media posts are a reminder that far-right Zionism shares roots with other forms of nationalism
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If someone yelled "9/11 was bad" at my wife while she's wearing a hijab, our being angry about that would not mean we co-signed 9/11. If you cannot understand that an anodyne (or even correct!) moral sentiment can be weaponized by racist assholes, your brain is cheese.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I’m outraged and heartsick that someone attacked a synagogue in Michigan, and I’m outraged and heartsick that the IDF dropped charges against Israeli soldiers who we know sexually assaulted Palestinian detainees, and I’m outraged and heartsick that some will suggest one of these mitigates the other.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Ben Shapiro is obviously correct about the absurdity of Third Temple claim, but his entire project is in crisis. He thought he could let the bigots in but that Jews would still be allowed to pass as good allies of the Christian right. Turns out when you open that door, you can’t close it again.
“Ben Shapiro says Tucker Carlson is having a “psychotic break” after criticizing Chabad-Lubavitch calling Carlson’s claim that they want to rebuild the Third Temple over the Al-Aqsa Mosque “clinically insane.””
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Anyone who still claims CBS has not been captured is ignoring very clear evidence to the contrary. Not only is the network pushing falsehoods (no, Iran doesn't have nukes & no, the US hasn't been at war with Iran since 1979), it is overtly partisan.
During a Saturday night special on the war, Dokoupil sounded more like a White House surrogate than an objective news reporter as he repeated administration talking points and interviewed right-wing conspiracy theorist Douglas Murray, who is friends with Weiss.
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This isn’t about drivers licenses.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It's very bad! And the well-resourced Jewish communal organizations that should be on top of this burned all their credibility defending Israeli war crimes and are still primarily focused on playing Israel's lawyer rather than addressing the rapidly spreading gangrene.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/02/2026
all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 28/02/2026
BREAKING: US and Israel Ilegally Attack Iran In launching the strikes, Trump told Iranians: 'When we are finished, take over your government.' By @minnahfarshad.bsky.social and Team Zeteo, read here: zeteo.com/p/breaking-u...
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BREAKING: US and Israel Ilegally Attack Iran
President Donald Trump unilaterally declared war on Iran after launching a joint attack with Israel, thrusting the United States into a needless, illegal conflict that could endanger Americans and fur...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
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