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Or It Didn't Happen (fictions) Not What You Think (facts) @fbiradio Freelance podcast producer/writer fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen formerly @publiczacha@twitter

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Criticism of AIPAC isn't necessarily (and often just isn't) antisemitic. But conspiracy (like the idea that AIPAC is responsible for sexual assault allegations against Platner) isn't criticism. By me for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8368...
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AIPAC isn't to blame for the Graham Platner scandal — no matter what social media trolls say
A new conspiracy theory prompts dismal insights into our civic landscape
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Hot take: you have doomscrolled enough for today, and will feel better about doing something else, like getting ready for bed. Also, Max loves you.
Max is wearing a blue raincoat with yellow ducks, a red leash, and a very concerned look while standing next to a red seat on a streetcar.
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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I love that they say things like 'people will be moved to services outside NDIS' as though there are actually services there for those people to access. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia news live: about 160,000 people to be cut from NDIS as Mark Butler says scheme ‘costs too much and growing too fast’
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm sure people will wrongly use this to insult Mamdani's wife. What it should do instead is open a larger conversation about how little we value art in our society, and how many talented artists can only create if they have family support, and how much valuable art we are not getting as a result.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've seen probably dozens of stories like "why are Iran's Lego propaganda videos so successful?" and a really really obvious part of the answer is because they're getting free global publicity from international media who are just tickled by the Lego angle. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Iran war: We spoke to the man making Lego-style AI videos that experts say are powerful propaganda
"Slopaganda" is too weak a term to capture how powerful this "highly sophisticated" content is, one expert says.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to know about the way that they work, their safety, and more
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Why you should keep getting mRNA vaccines
The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to know about the way that they work, their safety, and more
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Any time you’re borrowing slang from DAVID FUCKING DUKE you are on the wrong side buds
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17/03/2026
I see the discourse about this Susan person continues and has morphed to “well you’d let a Holocaust survivor say they wanted to kill all Germans, right?” and as the granddaughter of two Holocaust survivors let me just say: what the actual fuck.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
For anyone who is genuinely interested in the history of the word “antisemitism,” I did a thread a few months ago. bsky.app/profile/joel...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"The Epstein Class" is now a pretty obvious antisemitic dog whistle, even if people who started using this term certainly didn't mean it that way.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Two killer Verge podcast jobs: 1. I need an ambitious SUPERVISING PRODUCER for Decoder, which is a big fun job job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job... 2. We need another PRODUCER on The Vergecast, which is set to expand in fun ways this year job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...
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Supervising Producer, Decoder, The Verge
New York, NY
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The number of people I’ve seen in comments on Instagram insisting that the Michigan synagogue attack was a “false flag” makes me just absolutely despair on about five different levels personally and professionally
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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Just because I think people forget and need to hear it: all social media, including Bsky, is subject to propaganda. it has never, in the history of the world, been easier to produce and spread propaganda. if it hasn’t been verified maybe don’t share it and help propagandists?
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
War crimes are war crimes no matter who carries them out, no matter the reason. Human rights are for all humans, even the ones you hate. Anything else - especially from people sitting in a place of relative privilege and safety - is dehumanization and part of the problem.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In the name of all that's holy, please try to find a space within yourselves to hold more than one truth at once. If it is bad to indiscriminately bomb the people of one country, it is bad to indiscriminately bomb the people of any country. You DON'T HAVE TO SUPPORT ANY SIDE to know that.
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough. The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building. Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here. 1/2
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I feel so deeply sick and disgusted seeing how many people on the left are celebrating Carlson's interview with Huckabee. The "enemy of my enemy is my friend" stuff is such a dark poison in our society, and it can easily destroy the solidarity we will need to have to get where we have to go.
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"human rights but only for people on my side" isn't revolutionary no matter what side you're on, you've just reinvented fascism from first principles
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I'm always amazed when people tell me they don't trust the mainstream media and instead get their news from like, Joe Rogan (literally the example someone gave me). Mate, where do you think Rogan got HIS news from?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Apropos of...everything a reminder that I have a list of accounts that regularly post relaxing and random stuff. It features NO NEWS. If you're trapped scrolling and need to shift your attention to something calmer it's a good way to do it. You can also pin it to your feeds bsky.app/profile/did:...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
There are concerns women wearing hijabs are bearing the brunt of a "horrifying" wave of Islamophobia in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, with the Australian National Imams Council reporting a rise of hate incidents.
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Women wearing hijabs targeted in anti-Muslim abuse post-Bondi attack
There are concerns women wearing hijabs are bearing the brunt of a "horrifying" wave of Islamophobia in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, with the Australian National Imams Council reporting a rise of hate incidents.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I missed this in November: Services Australia put out a warning about scammers impersonating them, specifically in relation to the new Robodebt class action settlement www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/dont-fall-fo...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The bigotry from those who are convinced all Muslims are responsible for this. The disinformation on all sides that this would not have happened without Israel, when ISIS's psychopathy targets Jews regardless. The justifications or support from parts of the left. Truly darkness everywhere.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A lot of people seem incapable of processing any tragedy that happens to Diaspora Jews without making it about Israel-Palestine. And that goes for both the ones saying, "This is where 'Globalize the Intifada' slogans inevitably lead!" AND the ones saying, "But Chabad is a pro-Israel organization!"
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Zacha @zacharosen.com · 16/12/2025
Text: We knew there was an inevitability to this, a historical context for this, but our warnings of such fell on deaf ears. For two years, we’ve often been dismissed, mocked and gaslighted for alleging precisely this would happen. I invite everyone to sit in that discomfort.

The horrors of Gaza are not undermined by acknowledging our humanity and right to life. The unconscionable death toll there is not diminished by expressing empathy for our dead and mourning here. It’s actually absurdly easy to hold space for everyone, everywhere, all at once.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It is such a low bar that we ought to be able to condemn the horrific antisemitic terror attack in Australia without either: A. Implying that Israel somehow justifies or at least relativizes it, OR: B. Implying we need to blame all Muslims and/or immigrants. And yet...
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
What happened at Bondi is a tragedy and a crime. If there's one thing I hope for, it's that we don't fall into "now is not the time to talk about gun control" bullshit. Now is EXACTLY the time to talk about gun control. We need to stop this from happening again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 14/12/2025
Every year for Hanukkah I like to share panels from this special holiday comic I edited when I was on staff at Marvel. There remains a dearth of specifically Hanukkah stories in comics and this one only ever appeared in print once. Every year I am proud to share and celebrate the light of Hanukkah:
Comic panel from MARVEL COMICS DIGITAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL: ROCK OF AGES! by Stan Lee and Nick Dragotta featuring The Thing, Mister Fantastic, and the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four surrounded by holiday gifts; a menorah is on the fireplace:

"We wanted to write a 'Happy Holiday' message on your gift cards, but--"
"We're not sure how to spell your holiday!"Comic panel from MARVEL COMICS DIGITAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL: ROCK OF AGES! with Sue and Reed Richards, and the Human Torch, Johnny Storm, discussing the spelling of Hanukkah:

"I said it’s H-A-N-U-K-A-H!"

"I figured it was C-H-A-N-U-K-A-H!"

"And I thought it has two 'K's!"Panel from MARVEL COMICS DIGITAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL: ROCK OF AGES! featuring The Thing, Ben Grimm:

"Hey, no big deal! Each of you is right! We spell it all those ways!"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that
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casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · 09/12/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Fellowship
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 24/11/2025
I get this vibe of “why won’t the Jews stop whining when there are real problems in the world” from some of you — even some Jews — and I would offer that this is not the way
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 24/11/2025
You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just want to gently throw it out there that if you are feeling overwhelmed right now it’s ok to log off. Everyone is emoting deeply onto the timeline and you’re not obligated to witness it in an endless scroll. Take a break if you need to. Protect your heart. ❤️
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Ok this is an absolutely brilliant idea.
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In retrospect, the key observation of this Nov. 2023 thread ⬆️ was that what we might call “echo chambers of gore” had congealed, worldwide, w/in weeks. The impact of so many people seeing, in vivid detail, *only* the violence of Oct. 7, or only that against Gazans, persists.
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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Every Shabbat and Jewish festival, we pray for a just and equal world without oppression or suffering. Our Jewish communal grief should not mean a choice between supporting us *or* Palestinians because we should not be conflated with the actions of a nation state.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It is wrong to blame an attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur on Jewish support for Israel, and it is equally wrong to blame it on Muslim immigration to the UK. We can't give in to mutual hate. Be better, everyone.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On the right, they will be told to make aliyah immediately and that this is why the diaspora is never safe, and there will be efforts to use this to discredit all Palestine activists. On the left, there will be people saying they deserve this for not distancing themselves further from Israel.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
If your response to a fatal attack on a synagogue outside of Israel-Palestine on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar is to make it entirely about Israel-Palestine, in either direction, consider that you are part of the problem.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Written ten years ago by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social, and is now sadly useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris
I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK
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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In 2015, @keithkahnharris.bsky.social wrote this piece. Now, in 2025, as we ruminate on what happened at the Manchester synagogue, there was never a truer set of words said.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I simply do not see how you can understand the clear and obvious truth that all Palestinians are NOT Hamas while at the same time believing that all Jews are Israel. I need y’all to look at that contradiction and at yourselves.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
ICYMI: I published a thing today. Shanah Tovah everyone! May the coming year be better than the last.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Saw this and at 10pm last night our house updated all devices
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