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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Sukkot in the Lodz Ghetto, October 1941.

Happy Sukkot, everyone.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 2d

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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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone else remember how Kavanaugh responded to allegations of sexual assault by saying the Democrats had called him evil and then said “think about the meaning of that word!”

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump pushes a new label for Democrats: ‘The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan’

Republicans apparently want Democrats to stop using the kind of incendiary political rhetoric that the president uses all the time.

www.msnbc.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 3d

The Blue Jays have scored 23 runs in their first two postseason games this season.

That's the most by any team in MLB history 🤯

H/T @chriskirschner.bsky.social

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 3d

“This idea of the rootless cosmopolitan…I don’t need to say the word ‘Jew’ for antisemitic synapses to light up, which helps these conspiracies travel effectively. That’s exactly what we’re seeing now in the US and we should be clear about that” Me to the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump sets sights on liberal mega-donor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’

Billionaire ticks all the boxes on the antisemitic score card as Trump attacks Democratic contributors before midterms

www.theguardian.com

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 4d

So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

Also when Miller says the left he pretty clearly means everyone to his left which is most of the country

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

To the point of it being obvious slate.com/news-and-pol...

The House Just Passed a Bill That Would Help Trump Crack Down on His Critics. So Why Did Some Democrats Support It?

The proposed law could all too easily be weaponized.

slate.com

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4d

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says ongoing negotiations are "not yet" the end of the war in Gaza and that it will take "some time" to establish a new government in the strip.

Rubio says ongoing Gaza peace negotiations are 'not yet' the end of the war

Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that creating a governing group in Gaza will take "some time."

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Ivan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 4d

In the Czech parliamentary elections, parties from the left to the centre-right received 89.59% of the vote, and A. Babiš's "populist" ANO only 3.24% - among Czech voters in Canada. (Not quite so back home.)
www.seznamzpravy.cz/p/vysledky-v...

Volby 2025 a Kanada - Výsledky voleb online

Volby 2025: Kanada – aktuální výsledky online – průběžné i konečné. Všechny informace o volbách a jejich průběhu přehledně.

www.seznamzpravy.cz

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4d

In a way this person should obviously not be minister of the diaspora but in another way it’s the perfect fit

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 4d

Here is Chikli’s response to the Board of Deputies…

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