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Helen Rosner

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“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication It’s always Free Palestine 🍉

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello! I write a weekly column for the New Yorker (mostly restaurant reviews, sometimes other vibey stuff) called The Food Scene. It’s also conveniently available as an email—the whole article, in full, no paywall!—which you can sign up for here:

Helen Rosner on what, where, and how to eat.

www.newyorker.com

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 8h

This is canon now

Ferengi Liaison to Project Cybersyn @sovietcola.bsky.social · 12h

"Tracy you can't fly anymore, remember?"
*cut to Tracy stood in a plane brandishing a box cutter. his expression is tense and angry but he is saying "If you do not all calm down I cannot teach you about knife safety" in Arabic*

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12h

No lol that’s a good bit

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded

Models for your groups to take action, spread the love, and pop the bubble

open.substack.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Newsletter, I think? Probably the best of anything is writing effusive letters of praise to the magazine but it’s uncouth of me to ask for that

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

I’m always saying this

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 2d

I find the quest to make the dryest or filthiest martini to be exhausting in the same way I wish they'd stop piling shit on caesars/bloody marys or milkshakes, so I appreciate @jayasaxena.com's piece on wet, sweet & floral martinis having their day slate.com/life/2025/10...

One of the Greatest Cocktails Has Been Ruined by a Nasty Trend. But There’s Hope on the Horizon.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

slate.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

Karen the lindor truffles are for *me*

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

I detached my post from this quote, such a disgusting thing to even think, let alone blithely post publicly

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think the emotion isn’t real, certainly.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

Sensical AND sensible!

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

It might just be a tautological difference of terminology — I don’t think any of my AZ or pro-🍉 friends would consider themselves 2SS-endorsing, more like exhaustedly willing to accept it

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

Jessica

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

If you get the newsletter on Saturdays (which print subscribers do) the web version hasn’t published yet! It goes live on Sunday.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

No I completely agree with your position — but almost every person I encounter who actively supports 2SS seems to mostly want it so Israel can continue uninterrupted and uncriticized

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Funny Karate Bear (But Spooky ooooooo!) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 3d

What’s “funny” about this is that the notion that Jewish people can’t integrate and remain in a multi-demographic society is an anti-semitic canard and also the justification under which the Nazis distributed pro-colonial newspapers. It’d be a darkly comic irony if not for the mass death.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that Israel cannot be (cannot become, cannot sustain as) pluralistic is a racist sleight-of-hand. There’s absolutely no reason there can’t be one integrated state EXCEPT that it would require dismantling the current system of judeosupremacist apartheid.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

I honor the beautiful bubble you seem to be in

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

That’s just a little from #1 and a little from #2

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think that rewarding/maintaining judeosupremacy is meaningfully distinct from supporting judeosupremacy! Unless their 2SS endorsement is being explicitly framed as a last-ditch option due to Israel’s moral irredeemablity, I guess.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 3d

Agree with your points, but I think many people push for the two-state solution because they don't believe Israel would ever accept Palestinians as equal citizens in their society (and we're much closer to genocide and forced relocation).

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

I’m saying I find it hard to believe the people who support it now have ever actually cared about what Palestinians want

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3d

It was not actually a really good metajoke it was pretty bad

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