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Nice Jewish Boy from the Bay living in Chicago. Tikun Olamnik, Israeli-American, Democrat, Whovian, Doing Daf Yomi. ✡️
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I've got a joke about the 8th Doctor, but I've forgotten it.

This has been the problem with Brandon Johnson. People elected him to be a progressive champion. Johnson serves as a machine politician.

I'm not going to reskeet the skeet that made me feel the need to say this but: NYC is a very Jewish city - public schools are closed for Yom Kippur. It's also a very Muslim city - public schools are closed for Ramadan. It's also one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.

Casino Royale and From Russia With Love are both actually good movies: the rest are Bond movies, for good and bad

Any excuse to repost an all-time Bluesky banger

Well then.

I enjoyed BRING HER BACK (2025) but don’t want to set a precedent that it is OK for Australians to make feature length films. Baz Luhrmann can do it because he is technically from outer space

Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

this is very good news. Nadler is extremely mainstream and it will be very hard to keep the Scary Zohran thing going if he has not only Lander but also Nadler in his corner

“Great Palestinian Senator Chuck Schumer”—unsurprisingly, Trump opposing Mamdani is more antisemitic than anything Mamdani has ever been accused of doing.

Again it's very telling what journalists feel comfortable editorializing about

You ever laugh so hard seeing something that you choke on your own tongue

I talked about this on The Bad Site, but I faced what was, for me, a shocking amount of direct antisemitism in high school and college. Whether it was having a friend stop associating with me, calling me a kike, or frat bros “fishing for Jews” dangling dollars off their porches.

Jews absolutely come by our fear honestly, and way too many non-Jews are dismissive of our vulnerability, but too many of us take that fear and let it fester into something deeply ugly

thread: The City's map is actually really useful because it shows an interesting political split in NYC's Jewish community, between the Orthodox/Ultra-Orthodox and more liberal flavors of Jews... 1/

If I had a nickel for every 21st century presidential candidate with close family members who served as highly educated bureaucrats in early post-colonial 1960s East African governments, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice

for the punditry: Mamdani was born in Uganda so he’s not eligible for the presidency

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

have the people who thought Cuomo would win because "I stand with Israel" was the top issue for NYC Dem primary voters considered that maybe they are trapped in an information bubble by getting their news through a social media platform that isn't representative of reality?

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

People: Ken, you have to resist hating and resenting young people just because you are old. Love and cherish young people and their different views. Young people:

Naomi Shanan killed in Beersheva by Iranian attack can be seen here one one of pro-democracy pro-peace protests wearing the shirt of the forum of the families of hostages saying "return them home now" with the banner "elections now" x.com/kann_news/st...

Bluesky is NOT Twitter. 🚫 On Twitter, you get high engagement for being controversial or inciting arguments. Easy dopamine hits, but empty ones. And that's by design. Everyone is trying to pop off and get "paid". It's soulless. You can't treat Bluesky the same way. INTERACTION is KEY. (cont...)

People in the UK who can’t name three Presidents of the Fifth French Republic stop having opinions on a New York Mayoral intra party primary election challenge.

#LongLiveTheLegion

After a protest, on a tram, Tel Aviv Jaffa Painting in ink and watercolour on paper, postcard-sized (10x15 cm.)

grandpa slipping and cursing on camera after a major foreign policy fiasco definitely gets covered one way under trump that it did not under joe biden

We’re in the Bedouin village of Khirbet al-Watan to help install the first mobile bomb shelter we purchased with your campaign donations! Until now, residents had nowhere to run from missile attacks, and shrapnel that fell in the village wounded one person this morning. (1/3)

My to read pile just keeps getting bigger! 😭

The impact area in Beer Sheba.

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

*posts even harder about Giants baseball* no but seriously, “sports is a cishet pastime” is literally the same reactionary position shared by wingnuts, coming from the most exhausting people who believe queerness has to make every part of your existence a form of activism

BTW I've been hearing about @bradlander.bsky.social for a decade or more from friends in the NY social justice world -- people working with him on a myriad of issues, like immigration, police violence, creating new systems & structures for organizing after the 2016 election.+

yes and/but: this is the biggest possible "for now"

B"h

I mean, I had to, right? #DCFinest

Much love to New Yorkers for having a chance to elect a decent mayor for once, but I can't help feel relief that after tomorrow I will no longer have to see every single campaign communication from a candidate in a city I don't live in on my timeline

BREAKING: don't trust one sentence skeets that say breaking, even if someone with a blue check posts them!