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Robin Broshi

@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social

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If you can afford it, carry around extra bills to help people in need in your community. Immigrants are neighbors we haven’t met yet Gen X w/ Millennial undertones I ❤️ NY Proud Jewish Mama https://imdb.com/name/nm11733035/

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · Oct 16

If anyone ever wants to do a long form essay about the link between parents who support academic tracking and deplorable racism and transphobia - have I got a story for you…

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 16

Back on Twitter there was a guy, probably one of the various YIMBY Jo(h)ns who I got into it with because I went on a tear about how tracking (splitting K-12 student populations into remedial, normal, and advanced classes) is Bad, Actually and he was very concerned about his children being Held Back

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 6h

Lol ok

Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 13h

Are the quotes around “incorrectly” because Zohran is, in fact, a communist?

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 19h

What’s worse? Universally known, unacknowledged lack of firewall or leveraging plausible deniability to insist there’s a firewall but really it’s kind of a bridal veil?

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 20h

This is whining about a process that families choose to go through, and preemptive whining that they won’t get the consumer choice they want. End of story

It might make for more interesting reporting to check in on kids who are warehoused in HS for the crime of a B average in 7th grade 2/2

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 20h

MAGA stormtroopers are as MAGA stormtroopers do

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Matt Gonzales @matttheg.bsky.social · 1d

No politician is perfect. And every lever in the political machinery is trying to stop him, and will work overtime to slow his agenda. We must elect him; we must make sure he is successful; and we must push him and hold him accountable.

Less than 3 weeks left! Let’s go!

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

Better ratio than Stuyvesant

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t claim I support American Christians

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an American Jew and you do not make me feel supported

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

Oh you’re an antisemite so that’s why you want to keep using a derogatory descriptor! Sorry I didn’t mean to assume you weren’t trying to offend Jews.

lupitamofongo.bsky.social @lupitamofongo.bsky.social · 1d

And what inspired Jews to commit genocide in Gaza? Jews have been violent throughout history just like every other major religion! They don’t get a pass…I never even heard of what you’re going on about! Jews are descended from the ancient Israelites not necessarily the Pharisees. Stop with your BS.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just a fact that historically “Pharisees” has been used as a derogatory eponym for “Jew” and it’s ok if you didn’t know that but now you do so it would be nice i you didn’t continue insist it was ok.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was a story from the bible about splitting something precious that could serve as an allegory…

Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

It’s exactly like being a parent ❤️

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

And they fundraise off of the political climate
<insert Tim Robinson hotdog suit meme>

Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve lost their fed funding, they fundraise off of fears about fascism, yet they refuse to tell the truth about Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like menopause!

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

for two years, the jewish establishment has been gaslighting global jewry, telling us to put aside what we know about israel's outspokenly racist, genocidal, and criminal government to defend israel against accurate depictions of the reality it has created on the ground, to our own detriment.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad she’s back but banning her for explaining antisemitism from the perspective of a Jewish person because it makes non-Jews uncomfortable is of course peak antisemitism

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Update: @erinbiba.bsky.social is back!
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 2d

But they are too biased with their in depth knowledge of the facts

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 2d

The next time you hear Mike Bloomberg pontificating about education/learning loss/etc, remember that his Orwellian-titled, anti-union “Fair Student Funding” initiative basically eliminated librarians from NYC public schools www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/06/r...

Restore school libraries to aid reading freedom

It’s Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom …

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 2d

I had a sliver of glass stuck in the ball of my foot for about a week, and my wish for Emily Oster is that she is afflicted with that specific discomfort everyday for the rest of her life and she can never figure out what’s causing it.

Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 2d

Lol do you see what you did there?

Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 2d

Yes Democratic leadership has been flawless for 20 years and no one has to reflect on whether there is an opportunity to gain useful knowledge from the errors they definitely didn’t make

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