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Simon Birenbaum

@simonbirenbaum.bsky.social
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One way out....climb.

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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lol this is like $1 trillion, by the way.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Old enough to remember when Republicans used to criticize voters for voting for Democrats because they were promised free stuff.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Handing out Jolly Rancher Fruit Chews at the Taste of Chicago in the summer of 2006.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Kids used to ask adults to go into the store and buy them beer, now they'll be asking them to go into the library to check out their books.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Saying this out loud now: we're not going to hear anything about this in most media until the day after the midterms, when every news story will change to, "Economy tanks under democratic stewardship. How will the Dem pres candidate convince votes when their leadership made everyone poor?"
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...
baltimorebeat.com
Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city
CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night.…
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Really making me think hard about the events leading up to my colonoscopy this week...
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We HAD a program from national service. Republicans gutted it! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
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Trump's gutting of AmeriCorps hits hard, for both volunteers and communities
The Trump administration slashed funding for the national service agency and fired most of its staff. 32,000 people, mostly young adults, were forced to stop work immediately.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He died as he lived: screwing over America on a procedural technicality.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
King Kong diary entry...
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The point of interpretations like this is not the effect they have on G-d and what G-d wants, but the effect they have on us. An eruv is a reminder that we create a community. Maintaining the eruv is a reminder of the care we should take to make sure everyone in our community can participate.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Going from 77% to 0.5% isn't that rare! It should happen about one in four times someone has a 77% chance!
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
All of this is true, as are the many similar things being said on this issue. But it only becomes salient to voters if there's an opposition saying all the time, every day, "This is weak loser shit and these people should be embarrassed." But Dems don't do that!
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Demonstrating he's a huge baby who's learned nothing and is not sorry. Looks like someone is angling for a commutation from Governor Polis!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Strong evidence that the shooters at the mosque in San Diego yesterday held both Islamophobic and antisemitic beliefs. Our safety is bound up together, no matter how much politicians may try to divide us.
"NBC News: Investigators are trying to authenticate a 75 page document possibly left behind by the suspects involved in yesterday’s shooting at a mosque in San Diego.

If true, the documents are hateful, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, and espouse the views of accelerationists."
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The lesson should be, "Trump and the Republican Party will come after you for doing the right thing."
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Proud to have a nontraditional wife.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Disqualifying
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Jews take note: the Evangelical alliance with Catholics was only so they could align on hating gays and abortion. They are trying the same thing with Jews and Israel. But they have deep hatred of both groups and will turn against either as soon as they can.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I wonder also if this means a political party can position itself as explicitly racist, then justify racist gerrymandering as a political, rather than racist, intent.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
@repkweisimfume.bsky.social As a constituent, I'm curious if you agree with Hakeem Jeffries that impeaching Donald Trump is not a priority, and whether you think that someone who believes that it isn't should be the Speaker of the House?
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It also frames the story as about people's reactions (who cares what his fans think?) as opposed to what the richest and one of the most powerful man on Earth is saying and advocating.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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a cartoon character says " no fair you changed the outcome by measuring it " in front of a crowd
Alt: Professor farnsworth: " no fair you changed the outcome by measuring it " in front of a crowd
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We had an extremely Baltimore moment this year during second seder: opened the door for Elijah right as an Arabber was passing by.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This might be true...but my worry is that it will only get ramped up at trump's direction and he'll only do it to save himself directly, not for some state senate seat.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
No matter what boomers *assumed*, they actually *were* given everything! Cheap education and housing, booming economy, union jobs, pensions, etc. They took that and pulled the ladder up behind them, while blaming millennials for their failure to thrive in a world they controlled.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
To be fair to the flunkies, they're just following what the press has been doing to trump's statements for 10 years.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I wonder if this is why Kilmer was left out of the Oscars' in memorium tribute; reminding people he passed away makes his AI visage less bankable.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Reactionary conservatism dressed up as principled centrism can never fail, it can only be failed.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a very very very bad idea....but it's actually not without precedent! The USSR considered rerouting some rivers using nukes in the early 1970s. babelniche.com/2018/05/19/m...
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Mad Science #4: Geo-Engineering With Nukes
Nuclear devices, what are they good for?  Almost nothing, it turns out.   They’re close to useless as weapons, since the goal of war is domination, not destruction.  The nuclear powers have b…
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Except...the members of the cabinet WANT war with Iran? I'm fact, Trump is enacting every policy conservatives have ever wanted. Why in the world would they want him removed? Not only are they turning America into a hellscape (as intended), they have a scapegoat in Trump as well!
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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a man and a woman standing in front of a large window
Alt: a man and a woman standing in front of a large window. Gif from the end of fight club. Buildings are collapsing
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Need a @mikeduncan.bsky.social take on this.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Continuing Trump's spree of never actually firing anyone to their face. Saying "you're fired" on the apprentice was just him living out some kind of weird fantasy role.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...
baltimorebeat.com
Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city
CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night.…
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Corporations didn't pay tariffs. They raised prices so that consumers paid them. Refunding money to companies means they keep our money twice: once at the cash register and again from the Treasury.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone get Schumer to take a man woman person camera cognitive test because he clearly thinks the year is 1991.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Don't worry, guys, the ADL will be all over this.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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a group of police officers are standing around a man asking him what is the charge eating a meal
Alt: a group of police officers are standing around a man asking him what is the charge eating a meal
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It would be strange if it were at all surprising.
Apu jumping in front of bullet meme. "Normal people" shooting "powerful pedophiles" and apu as "the worst pundits in the world" jumping in front to stop the bullet.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Democracy? Dies, in darkness! #wapo
Lionel Hutz business card meme:
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS
"They screwed this up"
"DEMOCRACY? DIES, IN DARKNESS!"
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
kids' worlds are small. their backpack is an essential character in their life. having that ripped away and his questions about where it went is the perfect illustration of the way in which he understands the injustice being done upon him. his backpack is gone. where is it? why did they take it?
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
President Trump pardoned multiple people who had loaded guns with them when they stormed the Capitol on Jan 6.
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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Pretti-Good IDEA Act, where IDEA stands for "ICE Doesn't Exist Anymore"
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.
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jerome i guess. @jeromecylin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
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