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Moti Rieber

@rebmoti.bsky.social

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Rabbi, advocate, malcontent, seeker. Post-Zionist. Anti-fascist. Mostly politics with a smattering of Knicks, Beatles and my various fandoms. Tzedek tirdof (he/him)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 21h

No doubt she appreciates being Mrs. Hippo

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

Very "Pete Hegseth in front of the generals" vibe

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

This is really true

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol everything is either a vibe or a lie

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe it's a Sorkinesque walk-and-talk

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

That the world is objectively better off and that violence is at an all-time low.

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 2d

Can we take the current period as evidence that Steven Pinker has been proven wrong?

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 3d

You all look alike

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 3d

And you can own any and every gun.

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 4d

name: Moti
current read: Benjamin Balthasar, Citizens of the Whole World
last show: The Crown
last film: Superman I think, its been a while
fav book this year: @peterbeinart.bsky.social , Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
fave watch this year: Sinners

+something spooky:

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 4d

Can you call them up and send them to Champaign Urbana?

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe they should get a $200 million gift to pay for everybody's therapy

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 5d

Utter depravity

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 5d

my family has supported MSF for years and every year I raise funds for them as a way of repaying the care they give to the world and assisting Guatemalan migrants

and the zionists insist upon violating our dignity again and again

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 5d

Impactful read. "This is how we live now: our ordinary places become something else, in an instant, subject to the whims of some bastard out to inflict cruelty or having a bad day or just following orders or a combination of it all."

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 5d

Affirmative action for RWers is alive and well.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5d

Given she has no experience in news management and was never a reporter, I’m guessing someone was skipped over so she could have their job and they are pissed.

Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss, Who Thinks Everything Is Woke, Will Be CBS Editor in Chief newrepublic.com/post/201302/...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 7d

100%. Today’s IDF soldier posting his depredations on TikTok is tomorrow’s 40 year-old arrested while vacationing with his family in Ibiza.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 3

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

www.theguardian.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think the ADL cares at all about jewish safety in the diaspora. their only interest is protecting Israel's right to murder Palestinians. 1

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8d

The ADL is effectively gambling that Jewish safety in diaspora can best be won by standing in solidarity with other minority communities and fighting for liberal pluralism, but by flattering the Christian right enough to be a favored pet minority group. It's court Jews all over again.

Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 8d

The “public good” is a completely alien concept

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!