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@mschulman.bsky.social

Copy editor and scourge of scare quotes, former long-term adjunct/academia fringer, sometime fiction writer, native New Yorker, fan of abortion, unions, and transit access. Always already angry at Israel and ADL. Used to tweet for Uni Kent precariat.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Israel has killed or injured 11 children in Lebanon every day, as it expanded strikes across the country despite a ceasefire.

Eleven children killed, injured every 24 hours in Lebanon, UN says

Eleven children have been killed or injured on average every 24 hours in Lebanon ‌over the last week, the U.N.'s children's agency said on Friday, as Israel has expanded strikes across the country de...

reuters.com

Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 4mo ago

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

Flow chart showing the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration each year.

Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 6mo ago

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Park Avenue Christian Church @thepark1010.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The @newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social Pro Se Clinic runs every Wednesday, training volunteers to support immigrants navigating court without lawyers. Jan 14, 21 & 28 trainings include asylum, SIJS, virtual hearings & more. 📍 Church of St. Francis Xavier, NYC Sign up: newsanctuarynsc.org/events

Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 7mo ago

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen. Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo. Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 7mo ago

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Tunku Varadarajan: Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?
Curtis Sliwa: Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn't the mayor. It didn't work. He's a great organizer. I'll give you an example: Melinda Katz, the current District Attorney for Queens County, New York. She's the mother of my two youngest sons. She was running for DA in 2019. She had the institutional support. Moderate Jewish mother. Loyal Democrat.
Queens borough president. Perfect résumé. She's running against Tiffany Caban, who wasn't even in elective office at that time. Very radical. You know,
"do away with jails, don't arrest anyone." Tiffany Caban won on election night. But she lost the race on the absentee ballots, but only by about 20 votes. You know who the street organizer was for Tiffany Caban? Zohran Mamdani. So, when they talk about him as a trust fund baby, I say no, no, no, no, no.

You don't like it when people call him a "nepo baby."
He's earned his stripes. He had 100,000 volunteers going door-to-door, and I experienced that in some of the neighborhoods where you would never have seen anybody liberal or progressive go. Howard Beach! In conservative Howard Beach, they're going block to block. They were everywhere. 100,000. I call them Zohranistas. This was the secret to his election, not TikTok. It was good, old-fashioned retail politics. Frankly, Cuomo and not Mamdani was the nepo baby in this race. Born on third base. Felt entitled. Knew the political process, but mailed it in.
He didn't have the stomach to actually go out and do retail politics. And shame on him.
Do you think Mamdani will make a better mayor than Andrew Cuomo might have done?

How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.

A last question. All through our interview you pronounced Mamdani as "Mandami," transposing the "m" and the "n" in his name. Are you aware of the mispronunciation? Many people, Cuomo included, mangle his name.
In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose.
There's no disrespect. I have a hard time with it. It took people about 10 years to pronounce my last name correctly: "Sleewah.'" They pronounced it Silva, Saliva, Slywah. In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. "Z Man" would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle.
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9mo ago

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

@mschulman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

THIS:

Daniel Abraham@abraham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Barnard President:
Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.
Sept. 17, 2025

Prism
EDUCATION
Barnard College expels three students who protested for Palestine in unprecedented move These are the first official expulsions for protests on Columbia's campus since 1936, according to Columbia University Apartheid Divest
by Nayanika Guha
March 6th, 2025

@mschulman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Sign to support this principled action that got a Union bus driver in LA fired. You don't have to live in LA!

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

Arya Sundaram @aryasundaram.bsky.social · last yr.

"Come witness for yourself" @bradlander.bsky.social urges New Yorkers and elected officials to observe immigration court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza.

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · last yr.

I have low expectations for @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, and even I was shocked by the naked Islamophobia that she was engaging in, including falsely accusing him of "global jihad". I called her office and told them that this behavior is unacceptable from a sitting senator ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you

Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · last yr.

sex pest solidarity is real and it's gross

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · last yr.

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

Daisy Gardner@daisygardner.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey @reptedlieu.bsky.social - the person directing agents to detain @padilla.senate.gov is Bill Essayli. Bill Essayli MUST NOT be confirmed as the US Attorney for the Central District of CA Essayli points to ice to arrest Padilla www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · last yr.

Not too late to sign, Jews. Not too late to amplify, everyone:

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

foodaidforgaza.org

Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4 president @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · last yr.

Over 1100 Israeli academics urge the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to "mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in #Gaza", acknowledging "a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing."

Hill Grimmett @gardener80525.bsky.social · last yr.

I have long been troubled by the way @bsky.app treats Gazans. I have signed this letter, and I hope you will consider doing it too.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · last yr.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

statnews.com

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · last yr.

I genuinely don't understand the logic behind replacing a corrupt conservative mayor with a corrupt conservative former governor who's also a sex pest.

Christian Rincon @christianrincon.com · last yr.

Andrew Cuomo Resigned in Disgrace Poster

Open Secret Alien@opensecretalien.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone needs to make anti-Cuomo signs that just have his picture and the legend, "RESIGNED IN DISGRACE" in big red letters.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · last yr.

We can talk about who should be the next mayor of New York City just as soon as we make sure that there is not one living resident of NYC who has not heard the sentence "DON'T RANK CUOMO."

Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · last yr.

It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same