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On this day November 2 in 1979, Assata Shakur was liberated from Clinton Women’s Prison

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us. (Can this please become a meme? Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

I don't think it is possible to understate the impact Reb Arthur zt"l and his vision of prophetic justice had on me and generations of Jewish activists. May the memory of the righteous be a blessing.

The bassist at the Bossa session said I made it feel like 1960s Brazil and that’s probably one of the nicest complements I could have gotten #BeardedTrumpetPlayer 🎺

A library has burned. May his memory and music be a blessing.

These two headline sentences next to each other are a great encapsulation of the cognitive dissonance of this moment.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

New year, new me, I’m altering my DNA by getting vaccinated for Covid & Flu during Rosh Hashanah אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר!! 🐏🍯🍎💉

“If you want to make the world a better place just f*cking do it man” -All American Rejects🤘 www.npr.org/2025/08/29/g...

“Food insecurity is skyrocketing: we have the highest rate of food insecurity among seniors. Tens of thousands of residents are waiting for housing vouchers, some for over 20 years. Health outcomes vary widely by income and race. These are all man-made problems & they all have solutions.”

“Community-based solutions to public safety and continued investment by those in power will continue to move the needle. Not by a police occupation. Not by marginalization. Not by disappearing our neighbors.” @breadforthecity.bsky.social breadforthecity.org/blog/stateme...

July 2025 wrap up #BookSky

Sensing that any number of US elected officials & bureaucrats think they’re Schindler, making the tough choices to save who can be saved. If that’s you, please complete this brief checklist. 1. Are you providing citizenship documents to people who would otherwise be kidnapped by ICE? 1/x

The atrocities the Israeli gov is committing in Gaza have created an audience for US politicians denouncing it. If orgs like the ADL were not so shortsighted, they would prefer that role to be filled by someone like Mamdani, who speaks out against antisemitism, than someone like MTG, who does not.

I'm not a Christian and have no personal stake here, but this is a model answer for a form of religious identity that avoids the twin poles of literalism and complete certitude on one side and culturally Christian-based irreligion and atheism on the other, in which we seem trapped right now.

It’s not our main reason, but this is another good reason for boycotting the airlines:

Was walking out of the Klezmatics concert first night of YidStock at Yiddish Book Center. Got compliments from elders on my singing voice and another on my posture while dancing 🥹

Seems like this will set a bad precedent, though the most charitable interpretation is that this will just allow houses of worship to be more open about what a lot of them are essentially doing already.

This is so fucking good. Bonus: learn some useful Yiddish.

Framed.

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

Andrew Cuomo won’t see your mean tweets about him, but your friend who sexually harassed thirteen women and covered up nursing home deaths will and you need better friends.

@jeffcmays.bsky.social : That Cuomo said Zohran Mamdani “won” before the ranked-choice voting totals are tabulated is stunning. Trip Yang, a Democratic strategist, called it potentially the “biggest upset in modern history” if the numbers hold.

Is it weird if I reply on my friend’s random Venmo transactions for Starbucks to make sure they also support @sbworkersunited.org ?

saying that someone “no longer has any legal interests” because they’re dead is the sort of claim you might wanna run by a lawyer before publishing in The Atlantic

Thunderclap in DC just rolled like timpani remarkably tuned to C# before the flash flood warning just blared from my phone

Huh?? www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

The DC Bar said it loud and said it clear: MAGA is not welcome here. Pam Bondi's brother loses his attempt to take over the DC Bar by EIGHTY percentage points.

Falling asleep to the original NPR Star Wars Radio Drama

PRIDE IS AN ACRONYM Personal RIghts through Defense & Education (It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...) ❤️‍🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical. ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social

My monthly reading wrap up for May from @thestorygraph.com #booksky

I love skill shares and master classes like this

Make it make sense.

"Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco" is a Sesame Street song originally recorded for the Grammy nominated 1979 Sesame Disco! album. It’s a masterclass in string and horn arranging including Mel Davis & Joe Shepley holding it down in the trumpet section 🎺 🎻 🎷 🎵 muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Me_Lost...

Feeling grateful, honored, and dare I say *verklempt* that my interview w/ Chaia was featured in the new @derspekter.bsky.social anniversary edition issuu.com/misoshnik/do...

These are the kind of photos that need to accompany charges in the Hague.

I wonder if #Spotify going offline today will make some fans rethink their relationship to a multinational corp with a business model that severely under-compensates the artists & creators who contribute records & podcasts (+ audiobooks)?

Remind me again how MAGA/GOP are “Pro-Life”?

This is excellent. Liberals & conservatives have tried to do to Jackie Robinson what they've tried to do to Martin Luther King — to de-radicalize them. To turn them into comforting icons of the American way. But their words & deeds tell a different story.

Nonsense from RFK & Dr. Oz makes the effort to #SaveMedicaid more urgent. But even if funding for basic services for seniors & working families wasn’t being threatened, Medicaid actually needs more funding + reforms to bureaucratic bs

Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.

I have a really hard time imagining a statement that is _less_ congruent with the Judaism and Jewishness I love.

HAPPENING NOW: 1000+ U.S. Jews are outside ICE headquarters in NYC demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and protest the Trump-Musk deportation agenda.  We are Jews for freedom and democracy saying #FreeMahmoud

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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

very likely that they’re about to find a constitutional right to forced conversion therapy

@mayorbowser.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social must #ChooseDC for the #DCBudget. That means tackling health inequities by addressing root causes like racism & poverty. Every DC resident deserves quality healthcare to thrive. @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social FY26 platform: bit.ly/ChooseDCPlatform

This is great news! I've spent time in Masafer Yatta, gotten to know Israeli & Palestinian activists there, and their story deserves international attention.