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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

These are people who are protesting against a synagogue, and yet have somehow convinced themselves the other side are the antisemites.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

Not sure I've ever seen a headline that more screams "Leopards eating faces" than this one.

"'A conspiratorial Right is rising' in America, Ben Shapiro tells 'Post'
US political commentator Ben Shapiro in candid conversation with The Jerusalem Post: 'You get a lot more likes and clicks if you are promoting an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish agenda.'"

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11h

This is the Project Esther playbook: targeting a liberal Jewish philanthropist and left wing Jewish groups. It’s ostensibly to fight antisemitism. In reality, it’s authoritarian overreach and harmful to our democracy and the Jews in it.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11h

Further, given that their Jewish identity is the very thing that leads many Jews to speak up around Israel, the administration’s approach will necessarily catch many Jews in its draconian net.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration is suggesting that Jewish groups critical of its foreign policy vis a vis Israel are engaging in terrorism.

This is appalling politicization of the term and gross executive overreach.

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

www.reuters.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 13h

This is how everyone should have talked about this farce for every city from the beginning

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen some accuse those who protested for a ceasefire as being disingenuous by not celebrating this one so for @forward.com I wrote about the difference between relief and joy and what the ceasefire can’t do

forward.com/opinion/7754...

I know exactly why leftists aren't celebrating this ceasefire

Why not celebrate the ceasefire? Because, while it's a relief, it won't undo all the suffering and death of the past two years.

forward.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 3d

The health secretary, who has mused that COVID was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews, is now alleging that a tradition practiced by Jews is linked to autism.

x.com/factpostnews...

FactPost on X: "RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time https://t.co/9g8U6oWIiL" / X

RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time https://t.co/9g8U6oWIiL

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 4d

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 5d

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Two years post-massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise

The Hamas Massacre Fomented a Trauma Whose Reverberations Will Be Felt for Decades to Come. But the Ensuing Israeli Campaign of Atrocities in Gaza Destroyed the Foundations on Which the State of Israe...

www.haaretz.com

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 5d

Firing up my team with my patented motivational speech: “let’s play the fucking sports”

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 5d

Good @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social report on Elon and Jewish students and how one of the many pieces of the puzzle is relying on education and not cracking down on speech (imagine that)

forward.com/news/antisem...

This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?

Elon University has earned praise for creating a safe campus for Jewish students even as it enables free speech blocked by other universities.

forward.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 6d

Again if you are a Democrat and still supporting ie efforts to chill speech or expand government power to crack down on NGOs in the name of “national security” you should …stop doing that.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 6d

Stephen Miller leads GOP charge equating Democrats to 'domestic terrorists'

Trump advisors amp up extreme rhetoric against Democrats during government shutdown, immigration raids

Miller's rhetoric comes amid a federal crackdown on Portland, Ore., where he says the president has unchecked authority to protect federal lives and property.

www.latimes.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t have an articulate way of putting this but this and the H1B news just feel like such a loss to this country. I mean in terms of academic and professional achievement and discovery but also just people who won’t fall in and out of love, babies who won’t be born, friendships that won’t be made

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 6d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 6d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 6d

Mallory McMorrow: “I’m not accepting AIPAC support. I’m not seeking their endorsement. I’ve never accepted their support. And what we are seeing in the Middle East is a moral abomination.”

Asked if it was a genocide, she responded: “based on the definition, yes.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

Jones, who lives on the fourth floor, said most of his neighbors were Venezuelan and often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.

“They were cool people,” Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor’s unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other.”

Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor’s young children.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

Contrary to the new owner of CBS, it isn’t the case that 70% of Americans identify themselves as center-left or -right. www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-g...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

Sukkot in the Lodz Ghetto, October 1941.

Happy Sukkot, everyone.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately I was not making this up
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/u...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Opening Statement: Full Transcript (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com

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