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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 7d

The View’s super mainstream audience erupts in applause when @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social uses the G word.

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 9d

The honor is all ours, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

We're proud to endorse a candidate who knows that our multifaith, multiracial majority is our strongest tool to fight authoritarianism and build the world we want to see.

@democracynow.org

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 10d

Our greatest strength against authoritarianism is the American multifaith multiracial majority.

Trump knows this, which is why he acts to wedge us against another.

Zohran Mamdani proved he and New Yorkers know this too, which is why we are going to win and show every city how to.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election.

“We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12d

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

🧵

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anxiouspepper.bsky.social @anxiouspepper.bsky.social · 10d

I had a history teacher who is Jewish back in HS who told me, the core of Judaism is to leave the world around you a better place. Thank you to @bendthearc.bsky.social for endorsing Mamdani, and believe that he will help NYC to be a better place for all and not just for the ultra rich.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election.

“We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12d

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

🧵

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election.

“We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12d

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

🧵

Text reads: "New year. New mayor. Bend the Arc: Jewish Action endorses Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City." The graphic is colorful and features a picture of Mamdani against a rendering of buildings in New York City.

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12d

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

🧵

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 19d

We just witnessed Trump signing two executive orders.

One to clear the path to the US for the ultra wealthy who can pay $1M.

Another to obliterate the path to the US for working class immigrants, demanding a $100,000 application fee. Annually.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 22d

This is what happens when you couldn’t hire @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 23d

In order to chill free speech and continue giving Israel blank checks, its propagandists have continued to shift narrative into one where Jews worldwide are unsafe and under attack.

But most of us are thriving.

And we must use that privilege to liberate Palestinians harmed falsely in our name.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 26d

So many other special guests too, from Brad Lander, Audrey Sasson, Tabitha St Bernard-Jacobs and Rabbi Andy Kahn. If we don't get to it on the radio, we'll put it all in the podcast version of Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home for the Jewish Left.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 26d

New York, tune in 99.5 FM 9AM right after Democracy Now for our interview with Zohran Mamdani live from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Mazals.

Everyone else, you can livestream the radio show from wbai.org

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 27d

Solely because he supports the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Never mind that he built his platform promoting every single disgusting antisemitic trope, while celebrating white supremacism.

trt.global/world/articl...

TRT Global - 5 times Charlie Kirk made anti-Semitic remarks

Kirk was a vocal supporter of Israel, but he often faced criticism for making anti-Semitic proclamations.

trt.global

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 27d

As predicted, the right wing zionist hasbara machine is hurrying to make Charlie Kirk a hero to Jews.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 28d

Out here with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social at the @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Mazal Awards ✨

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 29d

New Yorker on the tight pleads with New Yorkers on the left to blow their shofar on the subway. Then goes on to give them inside tips on his workout routine.

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Northwestern's president was a model for engaging with student protesters.

Trump pushed him out of the school.

When the right punishes a Jewish college president for "antisemitism" in its quest to destroy educational institutions...

...Sounds like Smokescreen Antisemitism.

Northwestern University’s Jewish president resigns amid pressures over handling of campus antisemitism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Michael Schill had made a deal with protesters, and the Trump administration froze $790M in grants to the school.

www.jta.org

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Sep 6

I don’t know why my hero Amy Goodman does gang signs, but of course it’s some sort of peace gang.

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Victory! Trump just lost his case against Harvard. And the judge rules that “Smokescreen Antisemitism” was at play. Sharon Rose Goldtzvik, the author of the term, explains the concept behind it. Why Trump uses it. And why we’re not falling for it.l”

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dan Goldman thinks that over 150 years of inherited generational wealth is being a “beneficiary of the American Dream” … and that’s a reason to vote FOR him.
😵😵😵

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · Sep 2

What's that word for when someone writes papers from the POV of Hitler and calls "Mein Kampf" one of his favorite recent reads? It's on the tip of our tongues...

Anyway, meet the guy Trump is using to target Harvard for "antisemitism."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe

Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Sep 2

My child is older than ICE.

My grandma is older than Israeli apartheid.

Both these stains are still removable.

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mazel tov!

In your new capacity, do you intend to continue the ADL’s practice of running interference for neo-Nazis like Elon Musk when they publicly perform Hitler salutes?

Or will your tenure bring about a break from the fascist dictatorship with which the ADL has lately been so cozy?

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Sep 2

Imagine publicly joining an organization whose number one mission today is to protect a genocide.

Laura E. Adkins @adkins.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some professional news:

I'm thrilled to share that today is my first day as director of content and editorial strategy for ADL's Center on Extremism. I'm honored to join the team and organization.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Sep 1

Watch for @joshuahorowitz.bsky.social’s cowardly response to actor Andrew Garfield simply mentioning the humanity of Palestinians.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hear me out.

One day in our lifetimes, fascists across the world will wake up and peer through their windows at a society that's moved completely beyond them and shrivel back up in bed and die to the sound of dancing singing fucking playing and building.
In fact this is already happening.

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