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Orli Matlow

@hiremeimfunny.bsky.social

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Yet another comedian and writer (Adult Swim, SundanceTV) Subscribe to WAR IS STUPID: AN ANTI-WAR PODCAST ABOUT WAR linktr.ee/orlimatlow

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · Dec 23

In honor of Festivus: my essay from July airing my grievances called The Mainstream Has Abandoned The Jewish Value of Critical Thinking medium.com/@orlimatlow/...

The Mainstream Has Abandoned The Jewish Value of Critical Thinking

Among the many emotions of the last seven months — grief, fear, rage — the one that lingers most prominently is disappointment. In my…

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3h

Kids these days don’t understand the power of the icebreaker that is telling people where you were on 9/11

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 10h

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 7h

MBS I’m on Venmo

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 7h

You can’t accept money from the Saudi royal family anymore because of woke

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 9h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 1d

I went to a Kneecap livestream event tonight to see why they were banned from the US and Canada and it ended up just being Irish brat. Nothing too scary

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 1d

The nicest thing I can say about Joe Biden is that he is an idiot

The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu wouldn't have accepted this deal from Biden, but some commentators don't seem to realize that this makes Biden's deference to him all the more damning. He was obviously in the tank for Trump! So why didn't Biden play hardball?

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

It’s me, hi!!

Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 2d

Yep

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Omg it is!!! Hi Andy and this guy!!!

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

That’s what it’s all about isn’t it?

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Walking around New York City in a Toronto Blue Jays hat

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin that’s why there are no Autistic women

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Fellas is it antisemitic to blame the Bris

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

You won’t convince me that Zohran Mamdani, a guy who grew up on the Upper West Side and did cognitive behavioral therapy, is bad for the Jews

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Do you want me to get cancelled, Phil?

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

George at the end of act two:

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Video shows Palestinian children jumping with joy as a parent chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” — an Arabic word meaning a long-term truce or ceasefire.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

It was always this simple and anyone who made excuses for prolonging this should never work in public policy or post on Instagram again

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3d

President Donald Trump rushed to unveil an Israel-Hamas peace deal with only two days left before the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

Trump Announces Peace Deal in Hail Mary at Nobel Prize

The president unveiled a peace deal with two days to spare before new Nobel laureates are named.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

😡😡😡

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 4d

The organist also played All That Jazz for Jazz Chisholm

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 4d

Guy who goes to Yankees games because he fucking loves Kander and Ebb

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 4d

Took my headphones off to eavesdrop on the Yankees fans on the D train talking about Travis’s redwood tree

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

David Frum This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.
Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

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