From car bomb threats to white powder envelopes and a DOJ investigation based on fake hasbara Yelp reviews, how Congressman Dan Goldman vilified Poetica, an immigrant owned small biz he’s supposed to protect in a last ditch effort to save a losing race. indypendent.org/2026/08/targ...

Targeted: An NYC Congressman accused Poetica Coffee of Antisemitism — Bigotry Came to Avenge Him.

Poetica Coffee owner refused to take Representative Dan Goldman's money. Zionists death threats have flooded his coffee shops.

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“A Shiite meat bomb” Just casual Islamophobia from Jay Leno. Conan and Letterman would never.

Reclaiming Arab Jewish identity through music with Laura Elkeslassy.

A minority of Jews pretending to speak for all of us when they call on the most hated American in the world (Trump) to defend the most hated man in the world (Netanyahu) and go after one of the most liked (Mamdani). 🧵

Here in Queens, we're mourning the loss of this young neighbor, Angel Sarah Rampersad, sent to Iran to die for Trump and Netanyahu's political games, power, land and cash grabs. I am disgusted. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

U.S. soldier from Queens killed during Iran airstrike in Jordan, Pentagon says

Sgt. Angel Rampersad was a 28-year-old from Ozone Park who died in an Iranian attack on an air base.

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Israel's torture and starvation machine is so bad, that even the Wall Street Journal has to investigate it. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Poetica Coffee responds. When Congressman Goldman knew he was losing, he decided to spend the final days of his race against @bradlander.bsky.social pretending a constituent was antisemitic for opposing his material support of Israeli genocide of Palestinians. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

How a Brooklyn coffee shop got caught in a political firestorm

Poetica Coffee made a post criticizing Congressman Dan Goldman right before his NY primary race. What followed were protests and death threats.

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4 of 10 "religiously Jewish" Americans under 45 emphasize support for Israel. They are more likely to keep kosher & observe shabbat than older Jews who support Israel more. Another false narrative of Israel being a halachic religious expression bites the dust. www.timesofisrael.com/poll-israel-...

Poll: Israel support not priority for most younger religiously affiliated US Jews

In contrast, half of US Jews over 45 say supporting Israel 'extremely' or 'very' important to their Jewish identity; 3 in 10 Jews under 45 say Israel committed genocide in Gaza

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I wrote about the misguided outrage of the NYC immigrant enclave map. My immigrant enclave. Mayor Zohran Mamdani. And some things the map did get wrong! rafternoon.substack.com/p/jewish-and...

Jewish and Italian “Exclusion” in New York City’s Immigrant Enclave Map

Willful ignorance fuels a misreading of NYC’s map of immigrant enclaves, but the deeper issue is our mayor doesn’t have scandals – so his opponents have to invent them.

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One fun part of having a scandals and corruption free nyc mayor is watching all the strange complaints haters have to invent in order to stay mad. His wife going on vacation. A map of newer immigrants not honoring Ellis Island immigrants. A suit in a pool.

We are not at war with Iran. Trump is bombing Iranians.

Many Dems hold a moral line that Republicans abandon. As a movement, we need to be done treating patterns in isolation and see how harms intersect from targeting women, people of color, Jews, Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQIA+, people w disabilities. Moral leadership means acting before harm not after

Many Democrats hold a moral line that Republicans abandon. As a movement, we need to be done treating patterns in isolation and see how harms intersect from targeting women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities & more. Moral leadership means acting before harm not after.

The Pinkerton agency still exists. Are banned from hire by US government. Hired by Amazon against its workers.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · last mo.

This Day in Labor History: July 6, 1892. In one of the Gilded Age’s most notorious anti-labor acts of violence, 300 Pinkerton detectives, working for Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead Steel, cracked down on thousands of strikers, leading to a gunfight that killed three Pinkertons and seven strikers!!!

a minority of jews (30%) see the left as the greatest violent danger to jews in u.s. society as opposed to the vast majority (70%) who see that threat coming from the right, but the minority exerts total control over our mainstream institutions and sets their agenda, acting on behalf of all jews

Rafael Shimunov@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · last mo.

New poll. The vast majority of American Jews (adding up Reform and Unaffiliated which make up nearly 70% of us) identify the source of rise in antisemitism from the RIGHT. Which is also statistically true. ncar.us/papers/antis...

New poll. The vast majority of American Jews (adding up Reform and Unaffiliated which make up nearly 70% of us) identify the source of rise in antisemitism from the RIGHT. Which is also statistically true. ncar.us/papers/antis...

Antisemitism, Israel, and the Fractured Jewish Consensus - Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research

Recently, the Jewish Voters Resource Center conducted a survey to assess the landscape of American Jews six months before the midterm

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Poetica Coffee, an immigrant owned brooklyn small biz, was smeared by Rep. Dan Golden as a last ditch campaign tactic to stoke fear. He played w human lives who are now getting death threats, a DOJ investigation and white powder in the mail. Read their statement www.instagram.com/p/DaQlBOplP_...

Breaking: Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes good on another campaign pledge: freeze the NYPD headcount.

White people listen to Imagine by John Lennon over various mayonnaise appetizers and get moved until a black woman named Darializa wonders what it looks like in policy.

Dan Goldman confessed to coordinating with AIPAC on the debate stage tonight. Unlike my opponent, I’ve never accepted their support, and I never will.

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Important video about Salah Sarsour, the Wisconsin grandfather abducted by ICE and being forced to die in internment without his diabetes medicine.

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action@bendthearc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As Jews, we will not be used as Trump’s excuse to deport people without due process and erode the democracy that keeps all of us safe. Free Salah Sarsour.

As Jews, we will not be used as Trump’s excuse to deport people without due process and erode the democracy that keeps all of us safe. Free Salah Sarsour.

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Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected. Workers deserve better.

Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

New: If Wikipedia breaks, the rest of the internet breaks. But now a series of layoffs at the nonprofit that supports the site has alarmed volunteer editors. Hundreds of them — responsible for millions of edits — are threatening to strike. Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/93944...

Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike

A series of layoffs has alarmed volunteer Wikipedia editors

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Will Ben Shapiro cratering among fellow Republicans months after the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt were booted from the Trump regime teach them there is no amount of bootlicking Jews can do to right wing Christian white nationalists? Not even turning your fellow Jews in.

A march of gloating terrorists demanding more terrorism:

Rafael Shimunov@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. I'm proud that @mayor.nyc.gov didn't. 🧵

The bulk of reporting on this event was the “outrage” over Mayor Mamdani not attending and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with all these people, some of who are known war criminals, and somehow not about how the most powerful elected Democrat in the country did.

Rafael Shimunov@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. I'm proud that @mayor.nyc.gov didn't. 🧵

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. I'm proud that @mayor.nyc.gov didn't. 🧵