Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
poetry, teaching, good trouble. proud member PSC-CUNY and JVP. all my humor is situational. Poetry collection, Dear Mother, out soon: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear-mother-laura-tanenbaum/
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Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Dear Mother / Laura Tanenbaum | Main Street Rag
mainstreetragbookstore.com
Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Hey folks—follow and support this absolute super star (and CUNY GC sociology PhD student). She’s a fantastic thinker and organizers and we would be lucky to have her in Congress!
With Trump’s authoritarianism at our doorstep and billionaire greed in our backyard, we need someone who won't let AIPAC, real estate developers, & corporate PACs dictate how hard we fight back.
Today, I'm launching my campaign for Congress in #NY13 with @justicedems support!
Today, I'm launching my campaign for Congress in #NY13 with @justicedems support!
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hey folks—follow and support this absolute super star (and CUNY GC sociology PhD student). She’s a fantastic thinker and organizers and we would be lucky to have her in Congress!
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Made another entry in my occasional public diary regarding the current condition: lauratanenbaum.substack.com/p/another-mo...
Another month or two in the life. . .
how suddenly the woods have turned again* and what it means to say that I believe that we will win
lauratanenbaum.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Made another entry in my occasional public diary regarding the current condition: lauratanenbaum.substack.com/p/another-mo...
For those of us who are not content with the state of affairs, the question is not how do we hold Mamdani accountable but how do we change this terrain
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
For those of us who are not content with the state of affairs, the question is not how do we hold Mamdani accountable but how do we change this terrain
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
Banning Books in America
This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
Excited to pre-order this book edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with essays from scholars, teachers, writers, librarians featuring book-defending hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. and it has a great subtitle! www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
Banning Books in America
This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Excited to pre-order this book edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with essays from scholars, teachers, writers, librarians featuring book-defending hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. and it has a great subtitle! www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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A chorus of Jewish New York communities, including Bend the Arc, are repudiating the ADL's blatant Islamophobia in a joint statement.
Read more below:
Read more below:
Progressive Jewish groups say ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' is 'Islamophobic and racist' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish organizations are split along ideological and strategic lines over how to interact with the mayor-elect.
www.jta.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A chorus of Jewish New York communities, including Bend the Arc, are repudiating the ADL's blatant Islamophobia in a joint statement.
Read more below:
Read more below:
the thinness of this is clear from the start: "We" do not ignore the vengeance in Purim story or Hagar; there is a rich interpretive tradition about both. the thinness of the Zionist-centric Jewish education you got doesn't mean other things don't exist.
I get what this article is going for, but it's waaaaay too surface-level and doesn't acknowledge the great anti-Zionist and Zionism-skeptical literature that American Jews have produced
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
the thinness of this is clear from the start: "We" do not ignore the vengeance in Purim story or Hagar; there is a rich interpretive tradition about both. the thinness of the Zionist-centric Jewish education you got doesn't mean other things don't exist.
Need that tap the sign meme with "it has come to my attention that people have been opining on Jewish literature who have not read Jews Without Money or @blbalthaser.bsky.social's scholarship and this must be rectified"
I get what this article is going for, but it's waaaaay too surface-level and doesn't acknowledge the great anti-Zionist and Zionism-skeptical literature that American Jews have produced
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Need that tap the sign meme with "it has come to my attention that people have been opining on Jewish literature who have not read Jews Without Money or @blbalthaser.bsky.social's scholarship and this must be rectified"
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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The PSC is proud to congratulate Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and every member who helped elect him, and fired up to continue the struggle for a New York we can all afford.
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Mayor Mamdani - PSC CUNY
Mayor Mamdani | What’s next? A Message from PSC President James Davis Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor with a massive voter turnout and a clear
psc-cuny.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The PSC is proud to congratulate Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and every member who helped elect him, and fired up to continue the struggle for a New York we can all afford.
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
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Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Today is the day to elect “a socialist who’s young & lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, & knows how to do social media, & has moral clarity” ❤️🗽
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Today is the day to elect “a socialist who’s young & lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, & knows how to do social media, & has moral clarity” ❤️🗽
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
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meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
A University of Chicago professor who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death.
www.fox32chicago.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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"Do these rabbis ever think about what message that sends to the women in their own congregations who are being sexually harassed, who might look to a rabbi for pastoral care? ... It says it is much less important to you than the principle of ensuring that Israel never faces accountability..."
What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?
They care more about preserving Israeli impunity than opposing sexual harassment, combatting anti-Muslim bigotry, or even defending American democracy.
peterbeinart.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Do these rabbis ever think about what message that sends to the women in their own congregations who are being sexually harassed, who might look to a rabbi for pastoral care? ... It says it is much less important to you than the principle of ensuring that Israel never faces accountability..."
We watched Princess bride the other night so now my kids call him “Dr sturgis and the inconceivable guy”
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We watched Princess bride the other night so now my kids call him “Dr sturgis and the inconceivable guy”
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The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today 🗽💞
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Brooklyn Leader Rabbi Moishe Indig Set to Endorse Zoran Mamdani for NYC Mayor | Williamsburg 365
www.williamsburg365.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today 🗽💞
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
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BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
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𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
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A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
feed thy neighbor.
mutual aid in times of invented crisis.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...