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Katie Unger

@kungernyc.bsky.social

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Optimism of the will/ Pessimism of the intellect. Strategist, activist, deeply rooted cosmopolitan. Board member @jfrejnyc/ @thejewishvote cofounder. RTs not endorsements. she/her

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Let's be clear:
There is no prematurely antifascist.
There is no prematurely antigenocide.

We're not trying to accurately diagnose the patient after the heart attack (whether in the hospital or the morgue).
We're responsible for seeing the risks as early as possible to take action to prevent it!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on.

like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

This is important.

Immigration Coalition @immigcoalition.bsky.social · 3d

Urgent: Help free Wagner, a beloved community member + asylum seeker, detained by plain-clothed ICE agents outside his Manhattan hearing on 10/6. Despite his lawyer’s objections + his family’s cries, he’s now held at Delaney Hall.

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Image of Wagner and his family on black ground with call to action text. That text will be on following slides.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 5d

C’mon. Stop trying to play games when the system is on fire.
Let alone one time checks for Trump to sign and take credit for.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

...the world, as well as basic fucking common sense on our side. The war criminals have hate, lies, and weapons. Justice will prevail. Free Palestine.”

Greta Thunberg shares a video after arriving in Greece following her illegal detention by Israeli forces from aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 6d

Powerful mourning procession for Gaza led by Jewish elders.
Stop the Genocide.
Let Gaza live.

All Images of a procession of people wearing black walking 2 by 2 holding cloth bundle effigies and signs with photos of killed Gazans. Banners say “mourn with us. Act with us.” And similar. Many participants are visibly elders.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 8d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 13d

Jeffries is impressively useless.
For those keeping score at home he has now voted to honor Charlie Kirk and praised our corrupt and Trump collaborating mayor before …

Endorsing the Democratic nominee.

Hard to imagine 2 people as ill suited to lead in this moment as Hakeem and Chuck.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty.

Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 22d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 27d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · Sep 9

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Sep 6

My god…

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Sep 6

The fact that Ackman is suggesting this tells you just what his ethical principles look like and his investors, whoever they are, should flee his funds.

He’s literally advocating defrauding markets for personal gain. No institutional money should take the risk of putting their cash into his hands.

Molly White @molly.wiki · Sep 6

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggests Eric Adams drop out of the New York mayoral race, but first "place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race" to "fund [his] future".

Screenshot of the end of a long tweet: The mirror does not lie. Eric, please take a close and hard look.

And to fund your future, you could place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race. There is no insider trading on Polymarket. [Screenshot of Polymarket showing Zohran Mamdani with a large lead of 82% in a bet on the outcome of the NYC mayoral election, with Andrew Cuomo behind at around 15%]

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Sep 6

He won in a deeply divided purple district … for assorted reasons that had little to do with progressives’ actions post-primary? Not remotely comparable. Or relevant here.
I don’t understand why you think my original post is a place for you to make this argument.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Sep 6

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either.

This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem

This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now
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Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend

Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

www.kfvs12.com

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is an 80% dem district. Republicans often don’t have a candidate. This is not relevant here. And coming in to threads about making our representatives represent us, instead of actively supporting Dems being better is super unhelpful. It’s part of WHY Dems are losing.

Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Baffling is so accurate.
He just cancelled a presser on “ending the culture of Anything Goes” THIS MORNING.
Irony is dead.

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Sep 5

One of the good ones? Strong disagree. Despite being in one of the most progressive districts in the country he is consistently lagging on leadership, has zero connection to grassroots resistance in our district and has been so far out of step from on our district on the genocide that it’s obscene.

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