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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

Last night, Temple Israel in Minneapolis was defaced with anti-Semitic hate.

My heart is with the congregants of Temple Israel and our entire Jewish community. Hate has no home in Minnesota, and every house of worship should be a safe place to pray.

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 1d

This piece also (intentionally?) misunderstands the purpose & impact of DEI programs in workplaces. They are about readiness, profitability (in business), morale, retention. The author frames them as "affirmative action" and "social justice" initiatives, divorced from performance imperatives.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not accurate.
“Another protester, Reverand David Black of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, said that he was pelted with about seven or eight ‘pepper exploding pellets’ that hit his head, face, torso, arms and legs, while in a position of prayer.”

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 1d

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

Respecting a religious burial for an enemy of the U.S. also helps keep our troops, diplomats -- hell, even tourists traveling abroad -- safer.

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

does everyone understand that respecting religious rites for the even most heinous person is a mark of a healthy, honorable democracy that deserves its leadership position in the world -- and it gives that democracy credibility on religious liberty, freedom, and human rights

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

I assume there were complex geopolitical reasons for burying bin Laden at sea according to Muslim customs, and that both the burial and the communications about it were carefully crafted to reflect that complexity.
Now the Cmdr in Chief writes a wholly different story.

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

He says here that the Navy "dumped his wretched corpse" into the sea.
The Navy statement at the time was that ObL "received a Muslim ceremony as he was buried at sea," following "traditional Muslim...customs."
The U.S. wanted to deny followers a shrine, and it was simply the honorable thing to do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

Bipartisanship does happen, and on important things, too.
Congress just passed a long-languished reauthorization of major funding substance use and overdose prevention funding
www.rstreet.org/commentary/b...

Safer Solutions: Bipartisan SUPPORT in Congress? - R Street Institute

On Sept. 18, 2025, something good happened: The Senate unanimously passed legislation to direct significant funds toward combating the opioid crisis. More accurately, no one objected when Sens. Maggie...

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 2d

No one: …

Me:

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 2d

Go look at the moon tonight

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police

The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

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💥🐟🌮🇺🇦🇨🇦 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 6d

@shoe.bsky.social makes some stupid Costco reference and gets 9472616294 likes and gold like this gets crumbs

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 6d

Ok that’s hilarious

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 6d

Is there about to be a schism or what

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 6d

Roses are red/
I drink Prosecco/

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 6d

sound on

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

I'm gonna produce this thread the next time someone asks me if I think I might have ADHD

Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

I've been on a bender about Renaissance art and how Hans Holbein the Younger was kind of metal, if you want to know how I'm doing.
See this weird shape in his 1533 painting The Ambassadors? If you stand w/your head pressed to the wall next to the painting it snaps into focus (see next threaded post)

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

Look at Holbein's poor wife, who basically raised these children on her own while he was off in Basel or whatever and probably having mistresses. I bet she was like memento mori, Hans, remember you'll die because I'm gonna kill you.

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

babe are u ok you've barely touched your chatGPT-generated portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger as a death metal rocker

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

Lucky for you all, my current obsession with Hans Holbein the Younger's metal tendencies resulted in this little AI glow-up

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

Metal. AF.
This is called a memento mori. It's a message to the viewer: "remember that you will die."
Holbein painted it into The Ambassadors like an insert in photoshop that he stretched out to make you work to see it. Wild stuff.
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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

I've been on a bender about Renaissance art and how Hans Holbein the Younger was kind of metal, if you want to know how I'm doing.
See this weird shape in his 1533 painting The Ambassadors? If you stand w/your head pressed to the wall next to the painting it snaps into focus (see next threaded post)

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 7d

TIL today: the mime in Bring It On goes by the name Silencio Por Favor in real life

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, whew

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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 8d

Drucker, Arendt, and others have written about "masses": vintage.isi.org/intercollegi...

A Sociologist Explains How Modern Tyranny Works - Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Totalitarianism doesn't oppress individuals—it oppresses the social relationships which develop and serve them.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

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