Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I have to say it does seem like, "the president and his wife are separated because of his very public adultery and now he's sleeping with an aid who is fifty years his junior" would be a bigger story in most admins. 561478238
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesMake the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“We're here today because our neighbors are being kidnapped, our loved ones are being abducted off of the streets because of the color of their skin…” Today, Queens New Yorkers are standing together to defend our neighbors, and say loud and clear: ❌🧊ICE is not welcome in our communities! 6537651277
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin. 352611582
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...open.substack.comICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation ListA program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests. 642106885717
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else. 969225497553
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159783945
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships. 1841911800
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Plz just say "Elect me, and there will be trials" 138151
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/07/2026Solidarity and sorrow with those in Berlin, from the home of Christopher Street. 💔nbcnews.comOne dead and several injured during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ parade after car drives into crowdBerlin’s Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day, is one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations. 3509187
Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · 26/07/2026My favorite version of this song is still and always by the Muppets. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIYS...m.youtube.comMuppet Songs: For What It's WorthYouTube video by Muppet Songs 011
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026an unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgUnhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s CrueltyThe Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public. 18249991840
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note. 65110933395
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com 10163041462
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress: 38568804395
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead. 531229755366
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada” 270166664438
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/07/2026AQI in Lower Manhattan, New York is at 297. Over 300 means air quality is at hazardous levels. Stay inside if you can, and please wear a high quality mask if you have to go outside. 612236
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yeah. Y'ever watch movies from the 80s that depicted city skylines obscured by a brown, opaque haze? That wasn't artistic license. 4563178
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe 12899262192
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesByron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social 2845465314068
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OSSOFF: If there's one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it's Donald Trump—when he dialed up our state's senior most election official, and tried to bully him in a recorded phone call to “find” the exact number of votes Donald Trump needed to win in a state 9243461454
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAutumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026You know what doesn't cause apocalyptic skylines and wildfires? Solar panels. Can we stop burning fossil fuels and just start massively investing more in renewables and battery tech, please? 487121809
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026PabloReports: What do you think of DHS suspending vehicular stops? AOC: A lot of the stuff they’re doing, they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. They should be facing consequences for killing innocent people in the streets, and they’re just trying to escape those consequences. 245105042915
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hochul: But why were they there in the first place? Is it just unsafe for people in this country to even be in their vehicles anymore—that you could get gunned down by rogue ICE agents? People have had enough. 20684212574
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Living Colour releases “Cult of Personality” today in 1988. “.. It was musings on the amoral nature of leadership,” said songwriter and guitarist Vernon Reid. “Whether these people are good or bad, why are we drawn to larger-than-life personalities?” 🎸 1041733401
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026There are no jobs for teens, they’re not allowed to hang out anywhere in public, time to criminalize being bored 272229567
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/07/2026Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community 5730171003
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026NYC, high heat is back. Today the city will feel like nearly 100 degrees. This heat wave will not be as long or intense as the last one, but it can be dangerous without the right precautions. Stay cool, stay hydrated, and check on your neighbors — especially older adults and people without AC.finder.nyc.govNYC Cool OptionsFind childcare providers in NYC 221065173
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesRuben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Houston Protest Against ICE Killings. #houston #Maine #USDemocracy 362221821
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesSteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“but what if the federal death squads wore cameras” 🤡 81006204
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?” 973706740
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i... 535226636862
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comThe Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels‘Now We Have All the Evidence’ The first hints that the Trump... 4393145
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10716503120329
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice. 8682271481
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries. 74195134561
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa Jamesscott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 10/07/2026Remember when everyone mocked Al Gore for yammering on about “global warming?” What a pompous fool. George W Bush was way more fun, right? 42671207
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa Jamesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850. 52197632199
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵 5224971047
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...404media.coWe Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me." 2772914872
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesPaula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A thing I remember every time I interact with them is that librarians and archivists should be making one million dollars per year. 271607196
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/07/2026There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact. 1065906714
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Lot of people blaming the Jews for all & sundry unrelated things, I need to put this out there, I am NOT that good a multitasker 71969
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.politico.comExclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted herThe Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.” 23985901579
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesNew York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Join us in honoring the fighting spirit of John Louis at the Good Trouble Lives On march and rally. Defend the Black Vote! Protect Immigrant New Yorkers! Free Them All! 🗓️ Friday, July 17 ⏰ 5:30PM 📍Foley Square, NYC RSVP: nyic.me/goodtrouble26 #GoodTrouble #GoodTroubleLivesOn 032
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is a really moving and thoughtful interviewadvocate.comMan in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded himRoswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history. 4142541377
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/07/2026hey here's an idea maybe hold men responsible for acts of sexual violence as a matter of course 542565
Reposted by Rabbi Marisa JamesKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month 323501617