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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22h

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 22h

Nicely done

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 1d

The set up for this punchline is that Trump, being a New York real estate magnate, knows a lot of Jews.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 1d

Because of course RFK Jr.‘s autism Tylenol schtick has an antisemitic dimension www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

He also said there are "two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely it's because they're given Tylenol," to which Trump replied "there's a tremendous amount of proof or evidence," without giving examples.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could have forced a ceasefire and it is a world historic travesty that they opted not to. May the world never forget.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 2d

I wish to see more journalists doing what @hellgatenyc.com and @404media.co are doing and fewer doing the solo patreon route. I want to pay a collective for my news not one person. Seems like a successful model.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 2d

Every schmegegge suddenly thinks he’s Zohran

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 2d

Tis I, the foreign national, here illegally, who is risking being abducted and disappeared to a concentration camp in order to 1) rouse American rabble, 2) do America harm, and 3) give birth in an American emergency room.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 3d

Next 10/7 I gotta remember not to read the comments.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 3d

October Jackson Chourio is no joke

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 3d

This is a stain on all of us. It is a grave desecration of the very lives lost on October 7. This is no way to honor the dead. It is a betrayal of their memory and of our shared humanity.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 3d

The conditions are catastrophic: tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of Palestinian lives taken, families erased, survivors concentrated in camps, mass starvation inflicted, homes reduced to rubble, the systems that sustain life, education, healthcare, water, & shelter, systematically annihilated.

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 3d

We grieve, with bitter pain, that the memory of those lives continues to be used not to heal, but to harm – weaponized to justify the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza and beyond.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 4d

Organizing this with some friends! Come through!

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 4d

Remember when the entire mainstream political-media sphere treated the right wing, apparently without a hint of irony, as though it prioritized freedom?

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 5d

Despicable. Heinous.

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 6d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 6d

The socio-political reconfiguration of world Jewry underway is more immense than we can grasp, and far from finished.

On the scale of the destructions of the temples, the passage from Muslim Spain into the Inquisition, Napoleonic emancipation, and the Shoah-Nakba arc.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

New WaPo poll —
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 6d

So the synagogue attacker killed one Yom Kippur worshipper and sent two to the hospital, and the Manchester police killed a second one and hospitalized one more?

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 6d

The socio-political reconfiguration of world Jewry underway is more immense than we can grasp, and far from finished.

On the scale of the destructions of the temples, the passage from Muslim Spain into the Inquisition, Napoleonic emancipation, and the Shoah-Nakba arc.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

New WaPo poll —
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 7d

This is the luxury five-star resort Republicans are spending their weekend at after they’ve decided they would rather shut down the government than give people healthcare.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you rabbi

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 7d

a perpetual state of crimes against humanity

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

Trump has blown up another fishing boat off Venezuela. Four dead.

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