Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
We wrote to the MoCo Council in response to a letter from EndJewHatred about increased antisemitism in the County. We urge the county council to read the letter with a critical eye and to not conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Read the letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"It isn’t AI that is deciding to place data centers in overburdened Black & brown communities; it is people who hope to profit ... who probably live in other neighborhoods & wouldn’t want this infrastructure located where they and their children live." — Joshua Long in @baltimoresun.bsky.social
Woodlawn residents deserve a say on proposed data center | GUEST COMMENTARY
Opinion: Woodlawn resident Joshua Long writes that he and his neighbors should have a say on whether a data center is built in his community.
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This week, the Senate will vote on a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to block the sale of weapons to Israel. While @vanhollen.senate.gov is a lead sponsor of this resolution, @alsobrooks.senate.gov has not yet committed to voting for the resolution.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
“Stop comparing our marauding masked death squads to the Gestapo!”
Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house. Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children. This is so heartbreaking 💔
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
it's wild to me that we have a letter from 850+ rabbis denouncing zohran mamdani for things he never said and positions he never took while no such letter has been written condemning stephen miller for claiming to "defend jewish values" while being an utter fucking nazi and dismantling our democracy
damniel spookradski@self.agency · 12mo agoit’s funny how the attacks levied last night against zohran mamdani by andrew cuomo more accurately describe stephen miller — totally inexperienced, deeply ideological, surrounded by antisemites, speaks like he’s talking exclusively to the internet, will bring about a policy nightmare, etc.
We have literal neo-Nazis working in the administration and still, little concern relative to Mamdani. It's a reminder that for many, it's not just that they associate anti-Israel rhetoric with antisemitism. It's that it is their ONLY definition, and antisemitism unrelated to Israel is ignored.
damniel spookradski@self.agency · 12mo agoit's wild to me that we have a letter from 850+ rabbis denouncing zohran mamdani for things he never said and positions he never took while no such letter has been written condemning stephen miller for claiming to "defend jewish values" while being an utter fucking nazi and dismantling our democracy
Kitchen stoves shouldn't poison us. But they do. Joelle Novey explains why—and how joy, chocolate fondue, and Flintstones cosplay fuel the fight. Full ep: open.spotify.com/episode/2mF8... @ipldmv.bsky.social
If an authoritarian gains control of the capital city, it becomes much harder to stop him overall. Everyone who wants to stop Trump needs to help stop this.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr."So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC." www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
In NYC, 40+ Jews arrested calling to LET GAZA LIVE This is what Torah looks like. Second photo, top left, that’s the incredible Rabbi Ari Lev Fonari getting arrested.
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
Posted in the State Department. The resistance always grows. Tomorrow there will be more of us.
Please spread the word that Medicaid goes under a variety of names, depending on your state. 👇 Your state & loss 👇
Today at the Arlington, VA #TeslaTakedown, organizers had a special sign installation called, “What is fascism?”
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."
When people die because their Medicaid is gone and kids starve because there’s no SNAP, all so that greedy corporations and the super rich can get richer, I hope everyone remembers who to blame. www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...
Senate votes to move forward on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ though measure’s fate remains in question | CNN Politics
Senate Republicans took a major step toward delivering President Donald Trump his “big, beautiful bill” late Saturday, though the fate of the giant tax cuts and spending measure is still in question a...
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