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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Is it weird that this did not occur to me, despite keeping za'atar in my pantry for dipping bread in?

StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

My husband really loves the whole smoked white fish for his bagel. We sometimes get that as a treat for him. But I find it a bit too salty.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

I had za'atar cream cheese at a place in Philly once, and it was definitely something I would get again if I saw it.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Kippered salmon on the cream cheese if available, which it almost never is.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Hmm. It was hard to get where I grew up, but kippered salmon - hot smoked - was a special treat whenever I visited my grandparents in Philly. Maybe it just means baked elsewhere?

StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Fresh bagel: plain or onion, cut in half. One side: a thin layer of plain cream cheese. Other side: whitefish salad and lettuce.

Day-old: toasted with salted butter.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Kippered salmon is hot smoked, not just baked.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 10h

Hearing there was illegal layoffs at HUD just now.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

(I hate the term "self-deport". The word we should use is flee. They are fleeing the country to escape persecution, not willingly going along with Trump & Miller's agenda)

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

Back in 2006, our college lost our rabbi. Why? Because her wife, an Arabic translator, could not get a job with the state department and her student visa was up. Why couldn't she get a job? They didn't hire gay people. Why couldn't she get a spouse visa? Her marriage wasn't federally recognized.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought says that “reduction in force,” or mass firings of federal workers, have begun — a move that is likely illegal.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 14h

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

(I hate the term "self-deport". The word we should use is flee. They are fleeing the country to escape persecution, not willingly going along with Trump & Miller's agenda)

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

We have made so much progress on those fronts. Today, they and their 5-year-olds could probably stay in the US. And we are losing so much other ground so quickly it is heart-breaking.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

Back in 2006, our college lost our rabbi. Why? Because her wife, an Arabic translator, could not get a job with the state department and her student visa was up. Why couldn't she get a job? They didn't hire gay people. Why couldn't she get a spouse visa? Her marriage wasn't federally recognized.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15h

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 17h

To be clear, this is neither an attack on, nor a defense of, Zionism.

It's exasperation at people talking about "Zionism" as though it's an actual ideology that lies behind the actions taken by Israel or its supporters. It is not.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 1d

They studied each other's works routinely as colleagues from afar (with occasional hilarity, like when R. Yosef Haim of Baghdad understood what a yahrtzeit is from context, but not the convention that marks Yiddish words in Hebrew text with the same marks as acronyms...)

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19h

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
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President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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