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Shelly Friedland

@shellyfriedland.bsky.social
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Lawyer. New Yorker. Democrat. Build more housing and public transit. Like yesterday Mom of 2 gen z kids, owner of crazy labradoodle

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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social They have outdone you.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amazing! Just saw her this morning at synagogue, where she read "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are a horrible country.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This puppy is too cute to be real.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is almost too horrible for words. This is a government minister, he will not be fired, not even censured. That this is tolerated shows how far the country has slid towards genocidal, fascist behavior. This is not an ally. These are not Jewish values, not the Judaism I practice anyway.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Senate GOP are idiots, shameless liars, or both. Exhibit #2,156
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is only the latest such horror, yet the mainstream US Jewish establishment prefers to focus on whether AIPAC is a monster, tweets from one DSA candidate for Congress, and Brad Lander being a kapo. Thankfully more of us laypeople are pushing back, but it's not enough.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Funny how the mainstream GOP doesn't engage in a public freak out at every House nominee, many of whom are far more extreme (and stupid) than any Dem candidate. Oh, how about Ken Paxton? Don't do the GOP's work by harping on the most extreme views of the most extreme 1 or 2 candidates.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is both hilarious and pathetic. Talk about beta cuck vibes...
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Listen to this, it may give you hope there's a better future possible.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/03/2026
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Love the end of Radiohead's statement!
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is why we need to build, build, build as much as possible, and as quickly as possible (while being safe, of course) in the next few years. No BS litigation, no NIMBY nonsense, no holding up projects to haggle over the exact proper number of affordable units, etc.
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We don’t do thrones. We don’t take loyalty oaths. We don’t clap for authoritarians. We show up. And are loud enough that no one mistakes our silence for consent. Buttons for Democracy: buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com Visible resistance. Zero apologies. Who Knows? You Might Just Start A Revolution!
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We are the Nazis now...
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Impeach the sonofabitch. He committed perjury, before he took a wrecking ball to the public health system.
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Johnny Ehm @johnnyehm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Is this book finally starting to come true?
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🥲🥲🥲
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Brits are so brilliant when it comes to insults!
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
All of this: forward.com/opinion/8003...
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As with Cain and Abel, the blood of our brother Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground
The lies our government has been telling us about Alex Pretti have a biblical precedent in the story of Cain and Abel.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If we were wondering who would write a protest song...(his accent is priceless!)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🎯 🎯
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
please feel free to repost: I AM PRETTI GOOD buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4392...
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Feel free to repost: WE'RE ALL PRETTI GOOD buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4447...
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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'm not sure I have any tears left to cry. May this be the turning point.
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New Button/Magnet design alert: buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/1865...
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New Button/Magnet design alert: buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4391...
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The fact that he had worked in research on infectious diseases is a crazy coincidence (or ironic?). His field was being destroyed by a different part of the government, then this.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Good analysis of the details, such as we have them at this point.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
we talk a lot about social media destroying the attention spans of students but i think we have to really confront the extent to which social media is destroying the attention span of our most senior government officials
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Remember her name and what she stood for! buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4391... buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4391... buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4438...
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Interesting points in this thread
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
From the midst of the NYC march. (I am short, so can't get a great view.)
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Fun story, featuring my son. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
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To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
There are some days my Etsy site for protest and resistance buttons and magnets gets under 10 views. Other days over 80 I don’t know why but I know if people repost it I get more views and hopefully more sales. Can you repost the link? Thanks! buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is just brilliant.
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Great summary of key structural reforms needed, which any Dem candidate should endorse.
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
With 109 designs, Buttons for Democracy has something for everyone. Well, almost everyone! Take a look and please, take a moment and pass it along. buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com
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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
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Buttons for Democracy @michaelzorek.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yes, It's Mayor Mamdani buttonsfordemocracy.etsy.com/listing/4399...
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A lot of Americans would love to talk about kitchen table issues, unfortunately the kitchen table is being used to barricade the front door because ICE is trying to illegally enter private property to arrest and detain them.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23
Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Shelly Friedland @shellyfriedland.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings
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