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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lol this is like $1 trillion, by the way.

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 · 05/09/2026

Keep in mind this is not 1/3 of the class of 2028. It includes students who may be 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time 9th graders, being retained again.

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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks to this thread, I'm more educated about this case than previously when all of my knowledge came from Our Dumb Century.

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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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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 · 05/07/2026

He died as he lived: screwing over America on a procedural technicality.

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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What G-d "cares about" or "wants" is unknowable and is furthermore irrelevant. G-d's EXISTENCE is irrelevant to the eruv. But rules like these can still have a profound and beautiful effect on the people who observe them.

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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 · 14/06/2026

Love the idea that had been in nyc, you would have gone.

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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

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 · 03/05/2026

The upside down alien reading a Torah?

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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 · 26/04/2026

Seems like they maybe actually needed one!

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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"Online fans have opinions" isn't news. "A man who is clearly a disgusting bigot was given the keys to the government" is a much bigger story!

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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 · 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 · 13/04/2026

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

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Simon Birenbaum @simonbirenbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The corollary to this is how the show continues to humanize those same monsters, and by the end of season 4, you have real empathy for characters like Bode, even as we hate him at the end of season 1.

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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

Millennials "assumed" that society "owed" then the opportunities that their parents had had. Instead, those very same parents hoarded resources and blamed the *children* for not doing better.

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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 · 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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