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Orli Matlow

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Yet another comedian and writer (Adult Swim, SundanceTV) Subscribe to WAR IS STUPID: AN ANTI-WAR PODCAST ABOUT WAR linktr.ee/orlimatlow

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · Dec 23

In honor of Festivus: my essay from July airing my grievances called The Mainstream Has Abandoned The Jewish Value of Critical Thinking medium.com/@orlimatlow/...

The Mainstream Has Abandoned The Jewish Value of Critical Thinking

Among the many emotions of the last seven months — grief, fear, rage — the one that lingers most prominently is disappointment. In my…

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2m

Fellas is it antisemitic to blame the Bris

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 6m

You won’t convince me that Zohran Mamdani, a guy who grew up on the Upper West Side and did cognitive behavioral therapy, is bad for the Jews

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 18m

Do you want me to get cancelled, Phil?

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 16h

George at the end of act two:

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17h

Video shows Palestinian children jumping with joy as a parent chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” — an Arabic word meaning a long-term truce or ceasefire.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 18h

It was always this simple and anyone who made excuses for prolonging this should never work in public policy or post on Instagram again

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18h

President Donald Trump rushed to unveil an Israel-Hamas peace deal with only two days left before the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

Trump Announces Peace Deal in Hail Mary at Nobel Prize

The president unveiled a peace deal with two days to spare before new Nobel laureates are named.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 18h

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 1d

The organist also played All That Jazz for Jazz Chisholm

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who goes to Yankees games because he fucking loves Kander and Ebb

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 1d

Took my headphones off to eavesdrop on the Yankees fans on the D train talking about Travis’s redwood tree

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

David Frum This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.
Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 2d

Signed a DNR

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

She did not, in fact, shake it off

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing but respect for MY life of a showgirl

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

Vote November 4th for the candidate with great taste!!!

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 3d

Me bringing a carryon, a purse, AND a bag of snacks on a plane

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 4d

A message from Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

it's funny how Silwa hates Cuomo more than Mamdani

Josh Billinson (@jbillinson)
Curtis Sliwa: “Anybody who knows the history of New York City knows we’ve had socialists in elected office.”

“Somehow life went on … I don’t fear socialists. I don’t fear communists. I say, leave it to the people.”

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 5d

Wow he can be expelled from university for this

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 6d

Listening to Life of a Showgirl……Eldest Daughter sounds like it’s from Dear Evan Hansen (derogatory)

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 8d

What a time to be Jewish

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.” The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. See Section III.A infra. No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike.

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Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 9d

Front page of Haaretz.com

Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 10d

It's the first ever War is Stupid holiday special...and the holiday is Yom Kippur! I sat down with Rabbi Andrue Kahn to talk atonement and activism.
Available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/NISjkyqN2x0?...
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War Is Kosher? with Rabbi Andy Kahn

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