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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her)

@rerbelding.bsky.social
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Historian of American responses to the Holocaust, author of "Rescue Board" (Doubleday, 2018). Love cats, books, TV, travel, teachers, fighting for a better world. Opinions mine.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so brilliant. Uncommon.
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The children are always ours, every single one of them..."
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/09/2026
Wishing an easy fast to all my friends of the Jewish persuasion who are about to observe Yom Kippur. 🙏🏻
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What sad news. RIP Konrad Jarausch. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...
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Noted UNC history professor drowns in Chapel Hill lake
Chapel Hill police said the call about a missing swimmer came in around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am thrilled (and dazed, and bewildered, and 😭❤😍🫥) to share the news that "Here There are Blueberries" is opening on Broadway in November. I'm so proud of my Tectonic friends, who have changed my life. Please come see "me" on the Broadway stage! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
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‘Here There Are Blueberries,’ About a Trove of Nazi Photos, Heads to Broadway
“Here There Are Blueberries,” about archivists debating how to handle a troubling gift, will open at the Barrymore Theater in November.
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Thom Weaver @thomweaver24.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh fuck that. Absolutely not. Bring her back right this instant.
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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
All that talent and goodness, concentrated in one extraordinary human. She is an example to every single human who is lucky to enjoy wealth and fame in this life.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/07/2026
"At first, I didn’t comprender what the announcers were saying. Except “¡Gooooooooooooool!” which is like the americano word for “goal,” but más grande. After a few días, I started to understand más y más. Los announcers on Telemundo were muy excited about fútbol! ¡It was contagioso!"
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I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore
“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2026
The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 14/06/2026
New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/06/2026
I think it's an incredible thing that the US is a place where a pregnant woman can be turned away from an international flight because she is too pregnant to fly and then her son that us born here always has a home here, even if he and mom fly home a month later.
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knickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote this between the third and fourth quarters and, god willing, it will be the most essential paragraph I’ve ever written about the wonderful, awful New York Knickerbockers
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Racism is real, but race is fake. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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A Family Secret No More
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Also, I don't think I've felt someone else's joy more strongly, more contagiously, than when I've seen friends grow more confident and comfortable with them selves by being who they are. I don't think I've ever been able to say "I'm so happy for you" with such honesty.
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Amy (not spooky yet, but hopefully getting there) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Every time someone I follow posts heartfelt concerns about the rising antisemitism, they get replies asking why they're Netanyahu apologists (they're not) who hate Palestinians (they don't), and if I wasn't so busy being furious about the antisemitism I'd be furious at the inability to see the irony
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/03/2026
I’m REALLY disturbed by how much horrific anti-Semitic bigotry I’m seeing casually thrown around these days, yes. Becoming a virulent anti-Semite is not doing a damn thing to alleviate the very real suffering of Palestinians. But somehow, I don’t think that’s what it’s about for these people.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I wrote about Kat.
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Kat.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A fabulous decision!!!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/02/2026
There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
feel like the casual antisemitism prompted by epstein is bleeding beyond X. i don't care for it.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/02/2026
Absolutely fucking vile how quickly antisemitism is now spreading on the left. Fix your fucking heads
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/02/2026
Great conversation with @andreapitzer.bsky.social today on @jamellebouie.net’s newsletter messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
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What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’?
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The only immigration crisis this country has ever had is nativism.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Yeah, baby! @rerbelding.bsky.social ♥️
Program for the play “Here there are blueberries”
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
He is the one who heard the Watergate burglary on the scanner. www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/307...
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Video: A Chat with an ex-Washington Post Colleague Who Heard a Police Scanner the Night of the Watergate Break-in
Washington Post reporter and editor Martin Weil was listening to the police scanner on a Saturday around 1 a.m. on June 17, 1972, 50 years ago, when he repeatedly heard: "Doors open at the Watergate."
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Marty worked at the Post for 60 years. Not a typo. SIXTY YEARS. Until, apparently, today.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A genius.
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Schitt's Creek - Moira's Commercial
YouTube video by Schitt's Creek
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 27/01/2026
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the millions who were brutally murdered by Nazi terror and in concentration camps. Let today be a reminder for all people to confront antisemitism, fascism and race hatred wherever they threaten human freedom.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
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Hawks 101 @iahawks101.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yes.
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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians. Sincerely, A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Feels like a good day to introduce everyone to my new favorite song, "Nazi," by [checks notes]..... Chumbawamba "They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlMA...
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Nazi (Live)
YouTube video by Chumbawamba - Topic
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
to give ICE the benefit of the doubt is to be an agent of ICE — that’s what benefit means
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/01/2026
Fuck off, 2025. But huge high five to everyone who pushed back against fascists and bigots and will continue to do so in 2026 and beyond! We are going to win. All these fascists bound to lose.
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