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Moti Rieber

@rebmoti.bsky.social
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Rabbi, advocate, malcontent, seeker. Ex-Zionist. Anti-fascist. Mostly politics with a smattering of Knicks, Beatles and my various fandoms. Tzedek tirdof (he/him)

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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
aw man
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New: Govt Fusion Centers are warning police about growing anger over Flock, are monitoring Instagram for anti-Flock posts, and are trying to tie the peaceful political backlash to Flock to the vandalism against them. Docs inside: www.404media.co/the-governme...
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Don't I know it #ksleg
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Let's throw a couple hundred gas- and diesel-powered AI data centers into the mix, shall we?
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fuk you Pat Proctor, and fuk you Dan Hawkins, and especially fuk you Ty Masterson, you fascist pieces of shit.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨BREAKING In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kansas Supreme Court deals final blow to GOP bid to throw out late-arriving mail ballots
The ruling is a conclusive defeat for Schwab’s last-minute campaign to enforce a Republican-backed law that attempted to eliminate the grace period and required mail ballots to arrive on Election Day ...
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's to Kansas' shame that this pathetic toady is our senator
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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My votes in the Kansas Democratic Primary: Amendment: Hell NO Gov: @cindyforkansas.bsky.social Sen: Christy Davis Rep: @sarahpreu.bsky.social BOCC chair: Mike Kelly
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
reuters: president trump has announced an agreement to pay the reflecting pool algae $300 billion
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We Build Progress @webuildprogress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
WATCH the full discussion: The Right's War on Progressive Philanthropy—and What It Means for Movements. A timely conversation about the attacks on progressive philanthropy, what's driving them, and what they mean for movement-building going forward. www.youtube.com/live/B6Uc723...
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The Right's War on Progressive Philanthropy—and What It Means for Movements
YouTube video by Netroots Nation
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wikileaks released footage of a very similar incident perpetrated by US soldiers in 2010. The footage triggered global outrage at the highest levels. Now Israel perpetrates this crime over and over again, with total impunity. Zionism is hollowing out humanity and must be ended.
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Hoop Informatics @hoopinformatics.com · 20/05/2026
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tomorrow night
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026
They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm giving a presentation about my path through and past Zionism in #kansascity next Tuesday, May 19. Click for details and tickets.
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Zionism and its Discontents
Rabbi Moti Rieber will offer a brief history of Zionism and the American Jewish community’s relationship with it, to the present crisis
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
More news stories like these, featuring actual people, please! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts
Under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a wa...
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If Keir Starmer had been trained, Manchurian Candidate style, to rise to power and destroy the Labour Party from within, he could not have done a better job than he has done.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It almost doesn’t need saying at this point, but US universities will cancel almost everything—student graduation speakers, alumni speakers, faculty speakers, graduations ceremonies, film screenings, classes, clubs, public space, graduation ceremonies—to stop criticism of Israel.
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New post: "'Losing My Religion -- 10 years later" -- an update to a post I wrote in the aftermath of getting shitcanned (yet again) from a pulpit in 2015.
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"Losing My Religion" ... 10+ years later
An update on my decision in 2015, in the aftermath of losing another pulpit, to let go of engagement with the "Jewish community"
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/04/2026
🧵It's time to talk about how we Jews should think about power. Many want us to believe "our-community-first-at-all-costs" is *the* legitimate Jewish path, rooted in text & tradition. That's a lie. Let's reactivate the deep lineage of Jewish thought that sees all as worthy of equal dignity 🧵🧵🧵
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.
Change in SNAP participation between January 2024 and January 2026, showing a sharp decline after H.R. 1 enactment in July 2025.
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Yesterday, Israel used a triple tap attack to kill paramedics in Lebanon. This means that they first bombed, waited for paramedics to come, bombed again, waited, and then bombed again. It was all caught on camera. There is no peace possible with this. www.instagram.com/reel/DXMzlFy...
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BBC News on Instagram: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of deliberately targeting health worke...
12K likes, 1,233 comments - bbcnews on April 16, 2026: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of del...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2026
‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
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‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New post: My aunt's Zionism has driven her to the dark side on a number of important justice issues. This is what happens when Israel breaks your brain. open.substack.com/pub/rebmoti/...
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Israel Breaks People's Brains
I have an aunt who is super Zionist.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 10/04/2026
NEW: Between October 2023 and December 2024, the Israeli army ran a covert psy-op aimed at shaping public opinion in Israel and abroad, originating from the “campaigns” division of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Ha_Makom recently revealed. 🧵
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/04/2026
Over one million people displaced across Lebanon as Israel escalates military campaign with air raids, ground invasion.
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Families fleeing Israeli attacks take refuge in Lebanon's mountains
Over one million people displaced across Lebanon as Israel escalates military campaign with air raids, ground invasion.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Hey look - that's me!
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What about the Queer of Hormuz, I ask you
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too (Guardian)
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
wrote about how Zionist efforts to link all Jews to the brutal policies of a violent ethnonationalist regime in Israel effectively functions as antisemitic propaganda, endangering Jewish people everywhere. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/zionist-in...
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Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda
Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish people
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
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Ensign D @ensignd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Cartoon by Yuliy Ganf
Depicting four waiters serving only "war" table. Ignoring "education", "sciences", "arts" and "healthcare" tables.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
gestapo is distraction from price go up epstein is distraction from gestapo attack Iran is distraction from epstein price go up is distraction from attack Iran gestapo is distraction from price go up epstein is distraction from gestapo attack Iran is distraction from epstein price go up is distract
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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I have a great fear that Israel is about to Gaza Beirut
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/03/2026
Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/pale... #Palestine #Israel
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Palestinians in Gaza fear famine returning as Israel cuts off food amid Iran war
Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/03/2026
There just isn't a lot of substance to conservative views at the end of the day? It's an unshakeable belief in hierarchy and authority. You can only dress it up so many ways.
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