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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 38m

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve dramatically cut down on my sugar consumption over the last 6 months and it’s wild how much drinking 2 ginger ales last night fucked up my sleep/morning.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 18h

DO IT DO IT DO IT

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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YES on Affordable Housing @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows it's too hard to build affordable housing in NYC. We need hundreds of thousands of new units - now.

After voting for Mayor, flip your ballot and vote YES on Affordable Housing Proposals 2-5 to fix our broken system and bring down costs for working New Yorkers!

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 3d

Zach Bryan wrote an anti ICE song. officially declaring Woke 2 in full effect.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 3d

Here for this nypost.com/2025/10/05/u...

Exclusive | Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop being eyed for big NYC biz job — and yes, he’d have to move across the river

Retiring CEO Kathryn Wylde made more than $1.5 million in 2023, according tax filings from the nonprofit.

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YES on Affordable Housing @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social · 3d

New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to vote YES on affordable housing proposals 2-5

So that New Yorkers like Austin can afford to stay in the neighborhoods that raised them.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 5d

I am once again thinking about how my council member @chiosse.bsky.social had to make a video telling his constituents to stop opposing a development of 100% affordable housing just down the street from me. NIMBYs don’t actually care about if it’s affordable, they’re lying to you.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Per @washingtonpost.com: New polling shows most U.S. Jews say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza — and 39% say genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 5d

Does it matter what your therapist thinks about Israel? The war has divided Jewish New Yorkers from each other — and from their analysts, writes Julia Edelstein.

Does It Matter What Your Therapist Thinks About Israel?

Does it matter what your therapist thinks about Israel? The war has divided Jewish New Yorkers from each other — and from their analysts, writes Julia Edelstein.

nymag.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 6d

Hakeem's district, as Ben points out downthread, is basically drawn with the single goal of protecting Hakeem's seat, but this dude is so vulnerable to the right primary challenger

(hi Chi Osse, you busy next year?)

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 6d

At a party for breaking the fast last night a normie democrat came up to me and started telling me how terrible of a job they think Hakeem Jeffries is doing but that the media isn’t covering him that way and I told them boy do I have a social media platform for you.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone can beat him it’s Chi but I remain a bit skeptical given the way the district is drawn.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 6d

At a party for breaking the fast last night a normie democrat came up to me and started telling me how terrible of a job they think Hakeem Jeffries is doing but that the media isn’t covering him that way and I told them boy do I have a social media platform for you.

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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social · 7d

Tell Gavin Newsom to sign SB79!!

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 6d

Overwhelming evidence coming in on multiple fronts that Donald Trump has no idea what the people who work for Donald Trump are doing on a regular basis.

Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 6d

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

www.nytimes.com

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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 6d

we should let people build housing near it

Tweet via Basil @LinkofSunshine:

The Lex Avenue Line has equivalent higher daily ridership to 2/3rds of the entire population of Paris

The best subway line in the world baby

[Map of Lexington Ave subway line in Manhattan]

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 6d

About time NYC’s bayou gets bought out, no one should be living in these conditions! www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...

They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'

The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.

www.thecity.nyc

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future.

Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 7d

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

"This is not how the government is supposed to work. We pay federal taxes but get a President who sees us as the enemy and takes away our own money as retaliation.
This has to stop.
"Donald Trump has shown again and again that he is unfit to lead this country. When he's not too busy golfing, he's doing active harm, whether it's sending masked troops into cities or shutting down vital infrastructure projects like this.
"These funds were already approved. And if people can't cross the Hudson to get to work, it will literally destroy our economy.
"We have to show Trump that this isn't okay.
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that's illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain
Trump's golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable housing there instead. If the federal government won't stand up for New Jersey, Trenton should."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

Exclusive | Howard Lutnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. … That’s how he had money,” Lutnick said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 7d

Oh cool so we’re running back the Iraq War playbook in Venezuela with fictional drugs instead of fictional weapons of mass destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

In an interview with The New York Times last Friday, Venezuela's vice presider, Delcy Rodriguez, said that her country was not a major producer or exporter of drugs and that she had "no doubt that one of the strategic objectives" of the Trump administration "is what they call 'regime change."
Ms. Rodríguez said Venezuela sought to continue dialogue with Mr. Grenell and to normalize economic relations with the United States, saying that Mr. Trump's base had voted for economic growth, "not more wars."

The letter, dated Sept. 6, called for talks to ease the tensions, multiple people briefed on its contents told The New York Times. The letter had remained undisclosed until Sept. 21, when Ms. Rodríguez posted it online and said it had been delivered to Washington through an intermediary.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokeswoman, said last week that the administration received the letter but had dismissed it.
The United Nations says most coca, the base product in cocaine, comes from Colombia, and to a smaller degree, Peru and Bolivia. While some cocaine leaves South America through Venezuela, the country is not a main source of U.S.-bound drugs, according

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s a list of NYC master plumbers from 2021 that appears to have around 1,100 names on it. How many additional plumbers work under their supervision is unclear www.nyc.gov/assets/build...

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 8d

I think "the left is violent" rhetoric fails to resonate politically because the general public correctly perceives the stereotypical left of center person as some combination of too timid or too compromising to follow through on anything

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