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Jewish YIMBY. Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is. Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (aka Washington State). ✡️🌐🔰🏗🌃🚋⛈️🌲📈🗣

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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 6h
There should be a version of this pie chart that separates out Traffic Violations from Criminal Convictions.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h
Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 6h
"B-b-but! Why *only Jews*??? There's plenty of OTHER at-risk communities in NYC for him to be catering to!" - Guy who only sees Zohran Mamdani news when Mamdani says something to do with Jewish people.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h
Zohran is going to continue gaining popularity with Jews and that will continue marginalizing the forces of reaction among American Jewry.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h
Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time an American liberal tries to argue that Gaza deserves to be annihilated because Hamas represents the popular will of Palestinians because of one election outcome *20 years ago*, I have to remind them that Hamas took home a smaller vote share than Trump did in '16 and '24.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The basic problem in Israel & Palestine is that the Oslo Accords ended with Rabin dead at the hands of the right wing that's dominated Israeli politics since. We could not acknowledge this shift without reengineering our entire regional policy, so we didn't.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
I say this knowing some folks may view it as a self-callout and that's fine: high-decoupling left/lib people are very frequently taken for rides by *allegedly* high-decoupling right-wingers who will never *actually* entertain our ideas
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Elreka|BB 🏳️‍⚧️🌵🐴🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇮🇷🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @2puru2partisan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of those reasons I’m extremely wary of populist hysterias even when they seem well intentioned is that pedophilia is so heavily stigmatized that you can openly claim to want to lynch offenders in public conversations and yet that same culture allows for the pedocon party to exist
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You really gotta give Marx credit for criticizing the capitalist mode of production for alienating people from labor because people really do think 10% of the sticker price of their groceries is cashier labor
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it is funny that "working class men are struggling economically" is met with "perfectly recreate the economy of 1966" and not "encourage a multifamily housing construction boom"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
MC
@burntbulb.bsky.social

okay you can't keep taking every one of my posts and photoshopping it
onto sephiroth
2:52 PM - Sep 28, 2026

+ Follow back
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
in the early days of Trump's second term, his economic advisers laid out a simple plan: be Mitt Romney instead of Donald Trump
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026
Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YIMBYism (which codes moderate but which is also just good policy) is extremely helpful for left-wing politicians as a shibboleth that they're not like THOSE leftists.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you showed Genghis Khan a modern drag queen he would immediately and sensibly assume this person was a powerful shaman and not to be trifled with
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In the future they have people who are not men and not women, sometimes surgery is involved” “Do you take me for a fool? I know what a eunuch is!”
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I live in an Idaho-adjacent state and am now following this story with interest. It would be very funny if Bsky could help get a non-Republican elected to the Senate from Idaho.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ok, i kind of think Todd Achilles is the real deal candidate-wise. i gave him some money. i'm going to sit down and do some math and try to figure out if this is legitimately a no-hoper or if this is a longshot-big-payoff bet, but if there's a chance we may do some cooking for him on Bsky
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
nothing but solidarity for our Ukrainian allies pursuing a double victory: Victory against Russia at home Victory against Republicans in America
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026
This is the woman who said that Talarico’s in favor of “same sex bathrooms”, and getting that kind of lunatic to stay home is how you win an election in Texas
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This puts mainstream Democrats in a real pickle. Should they support their incredibly popular mayor or a foreign leader who is best friends with Trump and works overtime to get Republicans elected. No easy answer here
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI geniunely democratizes the creation of art. This is mostly bad, because the average person has terrible taste.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that -includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text -features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
politico.com
Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?
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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imo the 2028 GOP primary will be whether Trump was betrayed by domestic forces (Vance will double down on this) or international ones (Tucker-aligned candidate is likely, imo)
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US government has basically committed four Babylonian Captivities worth of human trafficking in two years.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in*
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At this point, Newsom's strategy is apparently just "Maximize my odds of winning the General by minimizing my odds of winning the primary" and I don't know who on his campaign team could possibly think that is a workable plan.
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