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Shoshana Hershkowitz

@shershkowitz.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, musician, writer, advocate. (she/her)

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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A hot day in June four years ago, where I marched alongside @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, not realizing I was next to NYC's future mayor.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Incredible #NoKings rally in Port Jefferson Station! Great work by the organizers, and a huge crowd, rain and all! Honored to speak to the crowd and sing together. With the horrific news coming out of Minnesota, it's clear that we must continue to work for the America deserve.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Waking up to the headlines this morning of the GOP bill that guts the social safety net to give tax breaks to billionaires, and then reading about the murder of two Jews at the American Jewish Committee in DC, is basically just a capstone of the trauma that it is to be an American right now. 🧵
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Here's me calling Congressman Nick LaLota to say #handsoff Medicaid! Use these district-specific fact sheets to provide details on Medicaid where you live, and make your call! www.medicaidmattersny.org/federal-issues
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Federal Issues | Medicaid Matters
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We've been fighting for funding for child care assistance programs and funding for the child care workforce. New York is a wealthy state. Everyone deserves affordable child care and the educators caring for kids deserve a living wage.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It was an honor to join so many amazing people at one of several #handsoff rallies in Suffolk County! Let's keep showing up, speaking out, and standing up for justice together!
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is how it's done! Columbia University, take note. You could learn a thing or two from public schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order (Gift Article)
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Proud to stand with parents and early childhood educators to call on leaders to #FundChildCareNY. www.instagram.com/reel/DH65qZ6...
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Proud to speak about protecting children and families at the People's Town Hall in Suffolk County yesterday!
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not much to see. Just me holding up a giant inflatable baby.
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Empire State Campaign for Child Care @empirestateccc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Lawmakers, child care providers, parents, advocates, kids, and a giant inflatable baby assembled in the Capitol yesterday to plead with @govkathyhochulny.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social to #FundChildCareNY spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
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Child care advocates plead New York to address funding shortage
There appears to be significant movement on at least one of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top demands: a bell-to-bell cell phone ban in schools.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I don't know about you, but I'm thinking that this is a lot to go through for cheaper eggs. It's almost like it was never about eggs at all.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/02/2025
I answer the critically important question, "HOW DO WE SLOW DOWN TRUMP?" Here are 7 meaningful things we can do to fight back. There's no quick fix, but with collective efforts, we can make progress. And yes, it requires Dem Leadership to Wake the ---- UP. www.qasimrashid.com/p/magas-7-de...
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MAGAs 7 Deadly Sins—So Far—And How to Fight Back
How MAGAs are undermining every aspect of our Republic as they march the United States towards fascism—and the actions we must take to stop them
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Louder, Martin. So the Democratic Party can hear you.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If Senate Dems were serious about getting under @leezeldin.bsky.social 's skin, they should have called me for tips. No one worked harder to hold him accountable in NY-01 than me.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
There is no path to universal child care that doesn't justly compensate the child care workforce.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I've had some restless nights this past week as the inauguration looms. I've felt frustrated seeing the capitulation from local elected Democrats. And it's made me think a lot about what I want to devote my energy toward. 🧵
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Today the presidential election will be certified for Donald Trump. There will not be an insurrection, because the seditionists are happy with the results. Today will look like business as usual, but we shouldn't forget the violence four years ago. 🧵
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Incredibly disturbing to see this attempt to curb free speech in my county. Even more disturbing that legislators in both parties supported this with a unanimous vote. This is not what democracy looks like.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It feels difficult to muster that New Year's energy leaving a difficult 2024 and entering what is going to be an even more difficult 2025. I'm sad about the shape we're in as a nation and of the state of the world. I'm very worried about what lies ahead. 🧵
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
#MerryChristmas and #HappyChanukah to all who are celebrating! I hope the holiday is filled with joy and abundance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Virtually every question today at the WH Press briefing was about the Hunter pardon, as if that is the thing the American people care about most right now. The DC press is so disconnected from the American public and serves them poorly more often than not.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Softening the Democratic platform to appeal to suburban moderates is a dead-end strategy." Louder, so the LI Dems can hear you! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Must Stop Treating Black Women as an Afterthought (Gift Article)
If the party fails to see this, it will be the one left behind
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I don't really care that #HunterBiden is being pardoned. That's nothing compared to the cronyism, nepotism, and corruption coming our way. The sad truth is that government, no matter who's in charge, has a special set of rules for the privileged, wealthy, & well connected. 🧵
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving, friends! This is my favorite holiday, because we spend it very low key in our house. We cook, we hang, we eat. It's all about family being together, and it's everything to me. I hope your day is filled with love, peace, and abundance. #Thanksgiving2024
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A really important read. newrepublic.com/post/188197/...
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Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?
It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
US right wing hypocrisy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Great read from @anatosaurus.bsky.social. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Electoral Problem for Democrats: It's the Neoliberalism, Stupid
In the 2024 contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, voters rejected the status quo — as our polls and focus groups warned would happen.
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Dutchess Prim @dutchessprim.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Period
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/11/2024
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "There has been no oppression for the white man in this country ... it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed."
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Some of the most insufferable people on X weren't even right wing trolls, but the moderate Dem men who felt the need to explain to me how politics work where I live. Not gonna miss those bros at all.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Emerging policy experts and political organizers who want to make a difference — don’t go to Washington. Join the people in Albany, Springfield and Lansing...to aggressively make blue and purple states great places to work, live and raise families.” Let's do this. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/u...
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Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan
The party’s early preparations to oppose the next Trump administration are heavily focused on legal fights and consolidating state power, rather than marching in the streets.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm liking #bluesky thus far. Aside from it being less of a trolling site, I am super appreciative of the fact that it has additional characters to create longer posts, and has the tally letting me know how many I have left as I type. It's the little things, y'all.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Apologies to the Seth Moultons and Tom Suozzis of the world, but no, Democrats didn’t lose because they didn’t give in to Republican bigotry against trans kids.
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Shoshana Hershkowitz @shershkowitz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Excited to be here in this new space!
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