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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 2d

"Not my problem" tells me you don't know the first thing about what being Jewish means

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 2d

Just block and move on

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but like, this isn’t a government, we don’t have some human right to rules-lawyer the management here into allowing us to Nazi-March through Skokie, Illinois because of the first amendment. We’re guests on the platform and admins have the right and responsibility to manage it.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d

“The inevitable result of posting this has been a steady drip drip of more of the same sh*t but hopefully you’ll all be able to see it as it accumulates (for if you’re in any doubt, and this is the “progressive” social platform!)”
👇🏼

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

I feel slightly numb and mostly exhausted at the amount of antisemitism posting about antisemitism has triggered on my BlueSky posts

Being Jewish on social media means having to expect it, and I’d almost got desensitised it

Almost

To all the antisemites, I say: f*ck you

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

OK, this was a bit of an exaggeration, assuming you count "police and right wing commentariat" as "involved in the George Floyd protests" - they DEFINITELY thought it was relevant

AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Literally nobody involved in the George Floyd protests thought "was George Floyd a good person?" had any relevance to "should police be allowed to suffocate him to death in the course of an arrest". Nobody "transformed him into a saint"

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

my guy thinks the floyd protests were about floyd

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Literally nobody involved in the George Floyd protests thought "was George Floyd a good person?" had any relevance to "should police be allowed to suffocate him to death in the course of an arrest". Nobody "transformed him into a saint"

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

my guy thinks the floyd protests were about floyd

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

I'll give you a few minutes to read this and then I'm blocking you. Don't need avid rapist-defenders in my followers

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

LOL. Yes, Neil's desperate desire to avoid having the claims against him litigated are indicative of how much he believes in his defenses.

Ah well. Respect to the judge but that's what appeals are for.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Don't pay enough attention to have any.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 5d

This is premeditated homicide and quite possibly piracy.

There is no even arguable legal authority for the president to commit an extrajudicial killing of these men. There is no declaration of war or other legal basis for any military action. There is no applicable legal justification or defense.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

Hegseth: ‘Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Not an exaggeration

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services
Officer)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Field Operations Directorate

Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.
This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Nancy Mace is very upset by this rhetoric, no doubt

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

This party has ZERO desire to reach any kind of compromise with the Dems or even to convince them to vote for their CR. This is a party preparing to eliminate the Democratic party

Another Truth Social post:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
9h

A graphic that features stylized photgraphs of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Biden, and someone screaming I'm genuinely not sure who.
Text:
THE PARTY OF HATE, EVIL, AND SATAN
The Democratic Party is Dead!
They have no leadership!
no message!
no hope!
their only message for America is to hate Trump!

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Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 5d

Jews should not have been attacked in our places of worship on our holidays. Muslims should not collectively be blamed for it and face crackdowns on their civil liberties for it.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 5d

Proudly unconcerned with antisemitism:

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 6d

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 6d

The weirdest thing, logging in to find out stuff like this

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6d

Reconnecting after Yom Kippur to see the awful news in Manchester.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 6d

Yigal Amir could time travel?

hoseyg62.bsky.social @hoseyg62.bsky.social · 6d

There are extremists in EVERY religion!

Who assassinated Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 when he was proposing peace and a 2 state solution in Israel?

..an Israeli Jew right wing extremist who opposed the Abraham Accords..

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 8d

Yes

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 8d

Not likely to ever happen, because the end result is usually either getting shot to death or gang-beaten and hit with felony assault on an officer charges

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Matt Bell @mattbellviolinist.bsky.social · 8d

How long til one of these chuds grabs onto an actual man, who flips him on his ass and chokes him out?

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mweir.bsky.social @mweir.bsky.social · 8d

Now, E-4Bs are modified 747s, and apparently cost about $160k per hour to operate. COS to Dulles is about three hours each way. So that's just under $1,000,000 for a photo op.

And that's just for one of the many officers that had to travel...

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 8d

excruciatingly, even

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 8d

Gray, with a tinge of Red

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 8d

This is a DESPERATELY needed bluntness from the lower courts

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 8d

He's not lying. *I* was going to murder him. I have no idea how to put into words the creative varieties of torture @kathryntewson.bsky.social was cooking up for him if he didn't learn how to do this.

D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

I @kathryntewson.bsky.social used to fix my Styles in every document.

Until one day she had about 10 better things to be doing for @akivamcohen.bsky.social and I was fucking *stuck*.

I took a law office technology class online. Whatever the work equivalent of "it saved my marriage" is, that.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

I have thoughts.

1. The excuse "I didn't know" was never acceptable, but if ever, it isn't now. It's our duty to stay informed, and to check our work. If an associate you didn't know wrote a brief for you, you'd check it. Handwaiving an LLM doing your job? No.

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18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

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