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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps the entire spy industry was just one big doom box as well...

Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 2d

The actual spirit and law of Yom Kippur in action in one post.

You must acknowledge and regret the mistake and make a concrete plan for the future.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Noted, and acknowledgement that the casual "Old Testament/New Testament" division can carry the freight of antisemitism, which I suspect was not intended either by the original comment (and definitely not by me), but it's okay to say, whoops, let's not do that again

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah @jstickgoldsarah.bsky.social · 4d

Not to disagree with your point about humans, but the Jewish god, a.k.a. the god of the Old Testament, it’s not actually crueler than the Christian god. We literally just finished a holiday that is entirely about mercy and forgiveness.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 2d

Those are 2 perfect examples of pop culture to 100% miss 😀

But LOTR... whew

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 7d

Hi.

Stop letting your kids get Covid, I absolutely beg you as a fully grown adult who can’t believe how little of a life I have after 3 years of LC.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 5d

I'm grinding my teeth so hard because this man has a whole tradition going back to the Talmud of the obligation to marry theory with practice and lived experience and story telling and morality and so much more and in the name of the melting pot his people just - junked it.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 5d

The best use of ungepatchked I have seen in a long while

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Dec 16

Someone asked to see it elsewhere, so waste not, want not: the Korean edition of DE, featuring a two-color interior, flaps (it’s a paperback), foil, and a belly band.

How do you say ungapatchka in Korean?

(I adore it.)

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 5d

For me, what's worse is, Klein belongs to a tradition of thousands of years but lacks all knowledge of the history and scholarship and literature of that tradition, which would also have provided him with those tools. Alienation from all things Jewish has not served well.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent writer!

Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 7d

That part is pretty simple - they just ignored the bureaucrats and courts. We literally watched them do it in building after building with DOGE, and then ICE etc. The ignoring is public. Not sure why they even bother showing up in court. Maybe to send it up to the supremes to rule their way.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 7d

Some journalists have called it a crime to work for the NYT

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly this, I was thinking, what could be worse, we're the Tesla of cybersecurity? But no, they both explode

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 7d

owl chet shechatanu lefanecha...
of being a momma's boy?

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