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@secularrabbi.bsky.social
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Radical Left Lunatic. Snarky dog lover, Pro-choice grandmother, Author of God-Optional Judaism - available from me (I have a half a box of author’s copies) or digital copy from iishj.org. Find me at secularjewishweddings.com.

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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s family separation all over again.
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our sukkah reminds us that everyone should have shelter. Support affordable housing in your community!
A sukkah, a temporary shelter made of wood lattice with branches across the top for a roof and paper chain decorations. Small table and chairs inside.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Paying expensive healthcare premiums but never using the insurance is a odd way to commit fraud.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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AngryHoss @angryhoss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
שנה טובה!
Round braided raisin challah for Jewish New Year
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-G... I almost never watch anything longer than three minutes, but I watched this whole thing.
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America in Jeopardy - Merkley, Warren, Van Hollen, and Smith Expose Trump’s Corruption
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is why you should donate to support ProPublica, an independent nonprofit news organization.
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tvcj2.bsky.social @tvcj2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Never been to a TVCJ celebration before? You're absolutely welcome. Families and people of a ll ages are invited -- just come as you are! Reservations are required. Suggested donation: $25 per non-member adult. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to pay
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tvcj2.bsky.social @tvcj2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We'll begin with an uplifting one-hour celebration featuring music, English-language readings, and reflections on renewal, hope, and the year ahead. Then we'll father around the table for a community potluck with apples, honey, and plenty of good food.
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tvcj2.bsky.social @tvcj2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Join Tri-Valley Cultural Jews on Saturday, September 12 at 4:30PM in Livermore for our annual Secular Humanistic Rosh Hashanah Celebration.
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tvcj2.bsky.social @tvcj2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rosh Hashanah is almost here --come celebrate with us! Looking for a meaningful way to welcome the Jewish New Year that's warm and inclusive?
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Shawn Bangety Bang Crash @shawnrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The White House announced it will slash benefits for 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down Syndrome , dementia, and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. They are cutting off food for families who take care of their disabled loved ones.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blue state AGs should be warning postal officials that they will face felony prosecution for election interference for any legal ballots diverted and not delivered. Separate felony counts for every single ballot mishandled and not delivered. We would expect no less if private citizens stole ballots
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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here's a challenge for Bsky Christians: How about choosing quotes to criticize others that don't have anything to do with Jews. Thanks.
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
2) The US-Israel relationship is about more than interests. It’s about shared values, and applying consequences when Israel’s behavior doesn’t align with our values. 2/2
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Sabrina McDaniel 🌊💙 @sabrina-mcdaniel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
` 60+ Cherry Trees were cut down in DC to make way for a golf course for Trump. This act violated a court order. They did it anyway because the law doesn’t apply to this administration. These trees were gifted to the American people by Japan in 1912. More destruction by a criminal government.
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is why we need to support ProPublica.
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Gestapo..... ICE deported a 5-year-old without letting him say goodbye to his mom: attorney. www.youtube.com/shorts/LOnWg...
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ICE deported a 5-year-old without letting him say goodbye to his mom: attorney
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hey Texas... Please check your voter registration soon and often. By suspending 1.2 million voter registrations the state of Texas is now trying to suppress your vote.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026
ordinary people have no idea the system is such a kafkaesque nightmare
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
THIS THIS THIS
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Almost 30,000 pounds of raw, frozen beef imported from Argentina has been recalled after being sold in Florida and Texas. Good luck, everyone.
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is unfuckin-acceptable. He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.. apnews.com/article/uss-...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
The Trump administration has granted Clean Air Act exemptions to ~200 polluting facilities across the country that fall disproportionately in majority-nonwhite communities. On Aug. 25 at 4 pm ET, join us to discuss what this means for public health 👇 w/ @chicagotribune.com @deepsouthtoday.org
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Clean Air Act: Dismantling One of the Country’s Bedrock Environmental Laws
Join us for a discussion about the rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in communities across America.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS (from magic city books : magiccitybooks.com )
Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores, Museums, Public Media, Concerts, Elders, Farmers Markets, Record Stores, Theaters.
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Robert @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ICE imprisoned another extremely dangerous 5 year old. The streets of Austin are now immeasurably safer. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Another 5-year-old boy named Liam detained by ICE, family says
Liam Tadeo and his father are being held inside a notorious family detention center in rural Texas where Liam Conejo Ramos was held earlier this year
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Will Bunch: They want you to become comfortably numb to their death cult. The lethal drone attacks by Trump's CIA on innocent Ecuadoran fisherman is one of the worst war crimes from a criminal regime. There needs to be justice. www.inquirer.com/opinion/cia-...
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We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas | Will Bunch
Reports that CIA drones attacked fishing boats off the Galapagos Islands may be Trump’s worst war crime yet.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Any tips for tracing descendants of fairly well known figures? In this case of Sir Andrew Cohen, 1909-1968. I’m looking for his personal papers, they certainly existed in the past, as they were quoted from in a 1980 article. Any leads or ideas appreciated!
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Saneman @saneman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Every accusation a confession. There were many flaws in the Biden administration, but empathy was not one of them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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secularrabbi.bsky.social @secularrabbi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is why you should contribute to ProPublica
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano keeps sending field offices packages of chocolate-covered pretzels made by his daughter's company, Pretzables. Staff say the gesture isn't increasing morale, but it is raising ethics questions.
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The Social Security Chief Keeps Sending Staff His Daughter's Pretzels
Staff say the gesture isn't increasing morale, but it is raising ethics questions.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With alt text, for those of us with disabilities, and also those trying to read this on their phones: Please like this reply to make it come near the top, but don't follow me for it, that's not what I'm trying to achieve.
To all the readers out there:
My deep love for Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, the subjects of my 2014 biography Charity and Sylvia, has kept me silent, up to this point, about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel by the same title. Charity and Sylvia's story has been so deeply meaningful to so many people-their story has, without exaggeration, saved lives-that I've tried to be happy that Walden's book is making their story more widely known, even it she chose to take my title and my cover design as well as my narrative and my research with only a single sentence of acknowledgement at the end of her book in her notes section. Walden's illustrations and storytelling are wonderful, as I told her when she reached out to me during the writing process. It would take nothing away from her hard work to be honest about how it is built on my hard work. But in Walden's publicity tour, she has repeatedly made the claim to have based her book on her extensive research in the archive without acknowledging that her book is, in fact, based on my book. This false representation demands response not only for my sake, but for the sake of all the hard-working historians out there whose work has similarly been taken without credit. No, Walden has not "uncovered a chapter of queer history" in the archives, as her media interviews have claimed. She has adapted my book without credit or compensation, and claimed my research for her own. I don't doubt that Walden spent time looking at letters at the Henry Sheldon Museum, but the story that Walden tells is not to be found there. It is a story that I pieced together from years of visits to at least twenty different archives and locations across the United States, not only in Vermont but in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington State, as well. This is not just a question of facts but of story: the story of how Charity and Sylvia built a life together based in tailoring, struggled with their faith, and maintained relationships with t…
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The U.S. military shot and killed a man this morning. In America. www.npr.org/2026/07/05/n...
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National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis
Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I spent a day on Capitol Hill listening to women describe what abortion bans actually do—not in theory, in hospital rooms. As a career public defender, the legal reality behind these stories is staggering. These are the ones that don't make headlines, and I'll share more. youtube.com/shorts/8tsiB...
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Four years after Dobbs, spending the day on Capitol Hill
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Remember Dominion Voting Systems? I see 787 million reasons Tammy Duckworth should sue Fox News for this.
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Posting Treyf 2: Eccentric Boogaloo @treyfposts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Jewish Federation of Portland is putting together a relief fund for Venezuela. jewishportland.org/venezuela-ea...
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Venezuela Earthquake | Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
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