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Rabbi Andy Kahn @rabbiandykahn.com · 03/10/2026
Jews are many ethnicities; all races; a variety of religious traditions; multiple peoples and/or nations. This is a bad step, and misrepresents what it means to be Jewish. Different Jews identify differently with all of these things, and to codify this in law flattens that reality.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This story was a big collaboration between graphics, data, photo, and immigration. A story with bylines across 4 desks, which I think shows the seriousness with which The Guardian takes covering this
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Instagram decided to block my post from getting in front of the right people. Tut tut tut. Oh dear. That doesn’t look great does it?" Pugh wrote www.jezebel.com/florence-pug...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
jennifer, in her ignorance, demonstrating how the pivot to attacking trans rights extends from the loss on gay marriage. like she sucks and it’s right to make fun of her but she actually did pick this turn of phrase up from “same-sex marriage” i am positive
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Brock Wilbur @brockwilbur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh noooo
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
As Yom Kippur came to a close this evening, I was privileged to join my friend, Ruth Messinger, at a break fast in her home. It was an honor to celebrate this moment of renewal with many of our Jewish neighbors. May it be a year of justice, joy and peace.
Mayor Mamdani, Ruth Messinger, and two children hold challah bread.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Protests have erupted in Austin, Texas after ICE shot 29 year old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
This is the shit we need. Can you imagine being able to cut the CO2 emissions from air travel virtually overnight? There'd obviously still be production pollutants from batteries & the planes themselves, but come on: call it $200 of electricity for DC to ATL, fully loaded? Vs ~$4k in jet fuel? Shit…
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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David Helmer (He/Him) @kidtsunami.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck being beholden to that asshole
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hell of a piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social here. Grateful my solo car crash yrs ago got me sober & equally grateful I didn’t enter the public eye until I was years sober, married & a dad. Don’t envy Sterling or any young footballer right now. Wish him well. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 15/09/2026
Another case of Israel bombing humanitarian and medical personnel. I hope the Democrats immediately condemn Hasan Piker and Macklemore.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#ThankYouRNLI
[letter in THE TIMES]

Sir, When the Dunbar lifeboat launched on December 21, 1971 in a force 10 gale to help a young man who had been face down in the water for several minutes, its crew did not know and did not ask whether the person was black, white, Christian, Muslim or a refugee. He was simply a human being in trouble. In setting out to save me the RNLI honoured one of the most admirable philosophies in human history. The fact that their action granted me a wonderful life I would otherwise not have had is a minor point. The important point is that in dedicating itself to the saving of human life the crew members of the RNLI restored my faith in humanity. Greater love hath no person than to risk their life for someone they do not know. Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors.

Dr Martin Stephen

Great Shelford, Cambs
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
other thing about all this shit is if shitting on trans people to prove your bonafides to conservatives the winning play, isn't trans people being mad at you a good thing, making you look more authentic to the voters you're courting. why you looking for "shit on trans people but they smile for it"
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13/09/2026
That’s part of why this is so frustrating - liberals want the *credit* for being trans inclusive while saying and doing transphobic things because they have it in their head that they’re the “good guys” so any action they take is good.
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
100%. There is a huge failure by the DC press corps, and if it was any other president, of either party, they would definitely be reporting it.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 06/09/2026
Two posts back to back: 1. Even before Israel was globally understood to be a genocidal ultra-fascist ethno-supremacist country, it was enforcing that rain water is Israel's property, prohibit8ny Palestinians from building ways of collecting potable water. www.snopes.com/news/2023/11...
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Palestinians Forbidden from Collecting Rainwater Because It's Deemed 'Israeli Property'?
Israeli authorities have heavily controlled water access in Palestinian territories for decades.
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David Helmer (He/Him) @kidtsunami.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hire this guy he’s a star
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Seth @seth.bet · 06/09/2026
I forget to post here I lost my job a week ago, if anyone is looking for a Senior++ Infra/SRE for some work - full time, temp, contract, I’m available! Y’all need #kubernetes help? I’m in!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026
sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.
from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators. 

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I spoke to Double Fine boss Tim Schafer about getting kicked out of Xbox and rediscovering the thrills of being independent. This week's column is a real good one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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How Double Fine Escaped the Xbox Bloodbath
Facing an existential threat, CEO Tim Schafer took his studio independent again after seven years of Xbox ownership
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 02/09/2026
Mmhmm
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The fight over BK Dems was at one point a fight over machine politics vs. reform and openness. Now, thanks to Bichotte, it has become a fight over something much bigger: whether the second-largest county-based Dem party in the country is governed by democratic law, or is a law unto itself."
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Machiavelli in Mill Basin: The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s Old Guard Fights to Remain in Power
Kings County Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies rewrote the rules at the last minute to keep themselves in power. Will it stick?
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the fact that democrats can decide to something pointless, like risking midterm success to censure an annoying streamer, and a whole cadre of voters will dutifully fall in line is super instructive on one point: if democrats decided to do smart things those same people would fall right in line
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This image should instinctively break your heart even if you know nothing about them, even if you support the laws making it happen. Instead we're ruled by people who think it's funny.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:
I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x
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Opinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.
Where does the side of the angels really lie?
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Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
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A Tale as Old as Time
Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
this is what @katmabu.bsky.social's been trying to do...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A core belief these people share is that children are property and don’t deserve basic rights or protections
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Wishing a peaceful Tisha B’Av to Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs. From sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resiliency of the Jewish people. May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast.
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