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Rafi

@rafil.bsky.social
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Not a journalist anymore. Nothing to say. Recent Canadian in Chicago. Yeshiva drop-out. Believer in mutual aid. I like bikes and am ambivalent about my guns. Every time you say “new [thing] just dropped” you are quoting my little sister Eliana, z”l.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11h
🚨 Joaquin Castro will introduce tomorrow the "STOP THE SETTLEMENTS ACT", the first ever bill which would ban trade with all illegal Israeli settlements, as well as impose sanctions on any foreign entity or individual which supports settlements in any way after Sept 30th 2026. It has 40 cosponsors.
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Castro, Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar to Introduce Sanctions on Drivers of Settlement Expansion | U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Joaquin Castro
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 11h
a bunch of Israelis seem to have pulled off a successful flight 93-style passenger revolt to recover an intentionally crashing airplane www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Passengers overcame pilot who tried to crash flydubai flight, Israel says
The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but ​passengers subdued him while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli offic...
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 13h
Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13h
This is so brilliant. Uncommon.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is a collective action problem. you cannot solve a collection action problem on your own, you have to organize, and part of that is keeping your organizing spaces free of bigotry.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think "this government intends to commit atrocities, so we have no choice but to supply them with weapons" is a chain of logic that you would not accept in any other situation, for very obvious reasons.
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it truly is just perfect that a republican — you know, the party that so badly wants to protect women athletes — used a senate hearing to confidently, and falsely, accuse a lawyer of perjury because he and his entire staff forgot that women’s sports exists
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m new to this whole being a Canadian thing but personally I think it should be against the law to print open calls for political assassination in the National Post
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My theory is that he was saying "there's no Santa Claus in Israel" to everyone and bibi just caught a stray
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i mean...presumably at some point between biden making the threat and the next shipment of weapons arriving Bibi realized it was not in fact a serious threat? Am I missing something here?
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Joe Davis @doeyjavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crazy, that almost sounds like criminal negligence or some such. Like a human crime. You know, like the olden days when sometimes even rich people had to follow laws.
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have I done something to fuck up my algorithm or does everyone else also find that the search function on this app is unusable because it inevitably returns pages of cartoon porn?
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tip for recognizing misinfo: Beware the phrase "comes as," as in "event X comes as trend Y." This is a tragic story, but: - AVM is a rare, usually congenital condition. - The Oxford study about a rising number of young people suffering strokes specifically looked at young adults, ages 18-55.
Post by "Denis - The COVID Info Guy", @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social.

The post includes a headline from ITVX and reads as follows:

UK: "Dorset boy aged 6 among rising number of young people suffering strokes"

At age 6, Connor Halloran suffered a devastating stroke caused by an AVM, leaving him unable to move or speak. His case comes as Oxford scientists report a 67% rise in strokes among people under 55.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Seeing this circulating online based on a (likely purposeful) misreading of the EU's post-code list for the EU-Israel Technical Arrangement, neither the Dutch ban nor the EU list designate Syrian, Palestinian or Alawi communities as settlements.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You will notice that at no point in this thread is there any engagement with actual Israeli policy, or the response of various Palestinian national movements, or how international law should be applied, etc, because it's mostly about his discursive enemies, rather than anything real or concrete.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israelis are real people, a true fact a bunch of people on here should probably embrace in the near future!
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This something you can write if you’ve met the handful of Israelis who lead tours or travel abroad to represent Israel. It is absolutely not something you would write if you had spent any significant amount of time around normal Israelis in, like, Tel Aviv, Raanana, or even Bnei Brak
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
Look at the peak in anti-LGBTQ legislation. It coincides with a decline. The correlation there is pretty direct.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
Hey I don’t think it’s a good thing that Bernie Sanders keeps talking to this guy
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Machine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dog
A happy little brown poodle runs alongside a bike, seen from the perspective of the bike’s front wheel. The person pedaling the bike is visibly wearing very stupid shoes.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
It is indeed outrageous that Jews and Palestinians are treated differently under the law in the West Bank. Someone should do something about that.
The outrage is that the Nativity set from Bethlehem will not have you thrown you in jail. Only products sold by Jews will. The law is very specific.
01 Ambassador Mike Hucka...
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There were some people from Netherlands in our church this morning who are flying back tomorrow & have to check their souvenirs to make sure they aren't...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
cyberpunk 2077 ass situation
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s important to understand that ballot splitting is a fetish in upper New England. The closer you live to the st Lawrence River within the United States, the more your body yearns for perverse electoral outcomes
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/09/2026
Chinese media is having a blast.
China pulse • • @Eng_china5 • 11h
Trump was eagerly waiting for Xi Jinping's reaction to the military parade held especially for him. He couldn't hold back and asked: "What do you think?"
Xi Jinping replied that it was "great" and gave a thumbs-up
Then China's First Lady, Peng Liyuan, added: "It's amazing."
Trump looked visibly relieved, even touching the buttons on his suit in excitement over the praise.
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know a pro-trump canadian guy, and one of his key issues is he thinks Trump is gonna break the Canadian dairy industry's import controls, thereby saving him hundreds of dollars a year on the kosher string cheese he feeds his kids
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We jettisoned political correctness." -- Sebastian Gorka, 2017
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If this happens it will be the first time an incumbent governor lost reelection in the entire history of the state of Vermont (and Scott, for inexplicable reasons, is often the most popular governor in the country)
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is great for me, an employee at a company that mandates contributions to a “retirement benefit account” that beginning next year pegs growth to 10Y bonds
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's genuinely crazy how a pretty blatant act of indiscriminate large-scale terror just kind of got accepted as some combination of a "brilliant intelligence operation" and basically a joke. And how much its defenders see all Lebanese Shia as inherent terrorists.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you ever have the chance, go to their home base in central Vermont. They put on local performances, have a little shop for cheap art, and leave the doors to their warehouse open to the public so you can explore decades of weird and wonderful puppets and protest art.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026
OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trans people aren't going quietly, and Assigned Media's journalists are doing what we can to make sure their stories, and their passion, reaches you.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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sam @samthielman.com · 24/09/2026
the wallet inspection attack surface in the national media is huge
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this essay nails my own feelings on this blowup
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
Phenomenal essay on the way the current moment is affecting prominent trans folks. It's a pressure cooker that is systematically breaking us down to take us out of the fight.
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My worldview is definitely shifting because my honest reaction to this story is that I wish someone would grab these dem staffers by the lapels and tell them to shut the fuck up
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
did we all forget somehow that all the transphobic journalists are on a listserv together. maybe they’ve moved venues by this point but they’re definitely all chatting and sharing story ideas/links
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