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i was mistakenly shouting my bigotry at brian lehrer

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Disappointing that this letter does not mention the use of AI translators! Which is probably the point where AI is most penetrating the industry Realistically, they are not taking your job, they are taking my job. Mention it!

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Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns

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I think the comments on this (very good, if I do say so myself) article are fascinating. If the AI industry has lost the Verge commenter, who do they have on their side? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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all of this is downstream of the president's (and stephen miller's) obvious racial animus toward haitians!

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Oh what fresh fuck is this now?

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A thread of recent klezmer albums worth checking out – Zoë Aqua's "In a Sea of Stars" recorded in two Romanian synagogues during a recent tour. Like a fusion of klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music, the logical result of her several years of field work in the region.

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The Supreme Court just imposed a “Don’t Say Gay” regime on every public school in America www.vox.com/scotus/41797...

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Researchers: Don't be hoardy and selfish.

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NEW - North Vancouver RCMP is investigating after an explosive device went off beside MLA Bowinn Ma’s office in North Vancouver-Lonsdale. NDP MLAs have been told to close their constituency offices today. #bcpoli

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The Democratic primary for NYC Mayor was not about Israel-Palestine, but that wasn't for a lack of trying by Cuomo and the media establishment. The thing is, they failed to tar Mamdani as an extremist for his pro-Palestine views, and there are lessons to take from that. Here's my analysis:

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Since we don't really take conflict of interest seriously in this province, this doesn't surprise me and I really wish we had more details. #vanpoli #bcpoli vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

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A thread of recent klezmer albums worth checking out – Zoë Aqua's "In a Sea of Stars" recorded in two Romanian synagogues during a recent tour. Like a fusion of klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music, the logical result of her several years of field work in the region.

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Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Remember Ken Sim’s gym? It was quietly disassembled a little while ago. At the same time, he’s wearing a lot more suits and a lot less athleisure wear these days. This might mean nothing, but here’s my video on how it sure seems like a deliberate attempt at a vibe shift.

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I am so, so tired of the absolute gutter Islamophobia I’ve been seeing around lately. The shit people feel comfortable saying out loud is absolutely insane

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Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji is a political cartoonist and illustrator "I believe everyone has a responsibility to speak out against injustice," said Rama Duwaji.

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The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zohran Mamdani, on "beneficiaries" of violence and their omission from discussions of human rights and crises like South Africa, Sudan, Palestine, etc.

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Can you be sued for saying someone isn't Indigenous? That's the title of recent report by Michelle Cyca for The Walrus, where she outlines two cases before the courts where someone accused of being a pretendian has sued their accuser. That's one of our topics on this week's Truth & Politics panel.

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Attention translators of Jewish literatures: a new translation prize (3,000 GBP) was just announced, for which books published in the English translation (from any language!) between June 2023 and June 2025 are eligible. Details here: jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/awards-prize...

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A coalition of environmental groups quickly condemned the passage of the controversial major projects bill, saying it erodes democratic principles, runs roughshod over Indigenous rights, shuts Canadians out of decisions that could affect them and puts the environment at risk.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

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Fantastic @nytimes.com report from a journey through Syria, south to north, by @benhubbard.bsky.social, with Hwaida Saad and Muhammad Haj Kadour, and photography by @dguttenfelder.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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For anyone who still insists that USA would not have descended into fascism if Dems won, I present the freshly elected Canadian Libs and their "border security" bill Globally, there is little material difference left between right, moderate, and liberals when it comes to harming the most vulnerable

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A New Canadian Group Launches to Defend Palestinian Journalists, by @kristendejager.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

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NEW: The Trump admin finalized an emergency regulation, which goes into effect tomorrow, authorizing DHS to impose civil monetary penalties for immigration law violations with far less due process. The rule could lead to DHS imposing exorbitant fines on millions of people — fines they can't afford.

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The word "Kafkaesque" fails to do justice to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, migrant Everyman who got in his car and ended up in a Salvadoran gulag, with a regime that will never let him free Why they defy judges and invent crimes to deny one man due process. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

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Banner year for @uclhjs.bsky.social in In geveb! This year’s list of the top ten most widely-read pieces published this year includes a book review by alum @elirubin.bsky.social and PhD student Tamara Gleason-Friedberg’s interview with me.

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Carney's 5% defence pledge will cost around $150 billion/year.  That’s more than 2x what the federal govt gives to the provinces & territories for healthcare & social services. How is Carney going to pay for this? More taxes or less services? Canadians deserve to know! www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-rea...

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I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

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Listened to it this morning, was nice to hear Ariel's comments on it which I mainly agree with. A good episode going over many of the important cases related to this in Canada. btw I'm mostly against these kind of bylaws as restricting peaceful protest for no good reason 👎

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“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud

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“They made it a referendum on anti-Zionism being antisemitism and they lost,” said @attackerman.bsky.social forward.com/news/732217/...

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A huge thank you to the American Jewish Press Association for our first Rockower prize, awarded to contributor @justineodashs.bsky.social for her 2024 essay "Yiddish and the Jewish Voice in the Zone of Interest."

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Find out why OneBC are calling The Tyee "Marxists hacks" 😂 🙄 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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we need to GOODBYE, LENIN! the president. many people are saying it

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I am convinced, although I have no hard evidence, that ICE has gotten orders to go out and re-detain Iranians with final orders of removal, many out in the community on orders of supervision for decades as Iran wouldn't take them. They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.

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