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Rokhl

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Teacher of Yiddish language, literature, and Ashkenazi culture. Specialist in "Everyday Ashkenazi Magic." Ask me about my b'nei mitzvah heritage tutoring! Also, writer of Rokhl's Golden City (2017-2024)

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 3d

New installment of: Yeah, there's a Yiddish incantation for that

To learn more (and much more) join me for my new spooky season class, October 15, 22, & 29 at 7:00pm. ($100) email me to register: cjcrokhl @ gmail com

And please share with your friends! ✨😈

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h

When are we going to start seeing stories like this @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

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'How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him."

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1h

Jack Posobiec made his name popularizing the Pizzagate scandal. Nothing he says should be taken seriously.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

Jack Posobiec speaks at the "Antifa Roundtable" and immediately references the Weimar Republic. He's a nazi.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

Trump once again says the quiet part out loud when it comes to David Ellison and CBS:

"I think ABC is very bad. I think NBC is very bad. And CBS has a new owner, so we have hope for CBS. CBS has a great new owner, in my opinion."

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

another data point of a Dem MORE popular on trans issues than they are in the abstract. As with abortion, the theory of a socially conservative electorate before whom libs must cringe is simply not borne out in general.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

5. The CNU poll shows Spanberger with a commanding +10 lead in the governor’s race. When asked which candidate would better handle transgender issues, voters sided with Spanberger over Earle-Sears by a 50–37 margin, giving Spanberger a whopping +13 advantage.

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oddmediapro.bsky.social @oddmediapro.bsky.social · 2h

Seen in Portland ✊🏽

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

I know I know but good god imagine what the GOP would do with a Biden or Obama "we took the freedom of speech away" sound bite

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 2h

NEW: Republican congresswoman from South Carolina appears to have violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial transparency law by improperly disclosing up to $13.62 million worth of financial trades.

In @notus.com: www.notus.org/congress/rep...

Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M

Dozens of those trades came in the form of stock sales made on March 18, when key details of Trump’s tariff policies were disclosed.

www.notus.org

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

ICE was blasting teargas in Portland because it was the closest thing they could get to smoke to support their fake city burning narrative. With their social media guy in tow, of course.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 4h

Infuriating

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 4h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 4h

This is ancestral plant wisdom ✨

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 5h

He's trying SO HARD to not say "young, *white*..." 🥴

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 8h

Friends, please join me in welcoming the Manta Trust to Bluesky! They’ve left Twitter and are setting up shop here.

🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm

Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 10h

Some of our ocean’s most iconic species are vanishing — whale sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays.

Join us in calling for action. Sign the petition today: only.one/act/cites-2025

#CITESCoP20 #SaveTheMantas

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 8h

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

This story is absolutely bonkers.

“There is a “crazy hole in our food safety system” that prevents the FDA from entering Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to sample for pathogens that have caused an outbreak in people”.
Let the stewards of the land poison us galore.

Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Factory farm dust could be the missing link in a major food poisoning outbreak, thanks to a "crazy hole in our food safety system”

Natasha Gilbert reports: sentientmedia.org/factory-farm...

How Factory Farm Air Pollution Can Spread Dangerous Bacteria

Factory farm dust can spread E. coli and could have sparked a large food poisoning outbreak in 2018, a new study shows.

sentientmedia.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 23h

Booo 🫡 hopefully next time!

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 1d

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Very illuminating thread and a reminder that Bari Weiss is first and foremost a climber and influence peddler, not a journalist.

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 1d

Come follow me in the short form video bad place 😈

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