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Rabbi Marisa James

@marisaelana.bsky.social
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Reconstructionist rabbi, woods-loving city-dweller, lover of languages, history, justice, coffee. Director of Social Justice Programming at CBST. She/her/rabbi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I 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.
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Make 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!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The 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.
WNBPA
A MESSAGE FROM
WNBPA PLAYER LEADERSHIP
To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions.
We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.
Support the Players. Support the Fans. At games, notify security if you witness hateful, violent, or abusive behavior. Online, report abusive posts and drown out the bots and bad actors. At home, tell your elected officials to strengthen Title IX.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
A 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...
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ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026
Dead 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.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme 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.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Plz just say "Elect me, and there will be trials"
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/07/2026
Solidarity and sorrow with those in Berlin, from the home of Christopher Street. 💔
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One dead and several injured during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ parade after car drives into crowd
Berlin’s Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day, is one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.
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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My favorite version of this song is still and always by the Muppets. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIYS...
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Muppet Songs: For What It's Worth
YouTube video by Muppet Songs
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
an 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...
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Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty
The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I 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:
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine 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.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/07/2026
AQI 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.
Aqi at 297in NYC
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yeah. Y'ever watch movies from the 80s that depicted city skylines obscured by a brown, opaque haze? That wasn't artistic license.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Gary K. Wolf •  
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
OSSOFF: 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
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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You 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?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PabloReports: 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.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hochul: 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.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Living 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?” 🎸
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
There are no jobs for teens, they’re not allowed to hang out anywhere in public, time to criminalize being bored
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/07/2026
Horrible 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
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
NYC, 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.gov
NYC Cool Options
Find childcare providers in NYC
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Houston Protest Against ICE Killings. #houston #Maine #USDemocracy
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“but what if the federal death squads wore cameras” 🤡
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
News 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?”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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The Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels
‘Now We Have All the Evidence’ The first hints that the Trump...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This 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.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey 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.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You'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.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 10/07/2026
Remember when everyone mocked Al Gore for yammering on about “global warming?” What a pompous fool. George W Bush was way more fun, right?
A global heat map showing temperatures reaching into the 40s in Central Asia and Russia this week
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I 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. 🧵
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ChatGPT 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...
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We 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."
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A thing I remember every time I interact with them is that librarians and archivists should be making one million dollars per year.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/07/2026
There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Lot of people blaming the Jews for all & sundry unrelated things, I need to put this out there, I am NOT that good a multitasker
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i 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.
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Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Join 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
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
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Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell 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.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
hey here's an idea maybe hold men responsible for acts of sexual violence as a matter of course
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month
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