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ltanenbaum.bsky.social
poetry, teaching, good trouble. proud member PSC-CUNY and JVP. all my humor is situational. https://lauratanenbaum.substack.com/ https://lauratanenbaum.org/?page_id=2
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Everybody loves someone at CUNY. Like when I wear CUNY/union swag inevitably someone says "my wife/kid/sister/went/is going to xyz and loved it." the hatred for unis is top down

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a crowd of a couple hundred protesters is gathered outside of schumers home this am to tell him to vote no on the cloture vote

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.

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I'd hoped to hold back for the book my story of the time Chuck Schumer enthused to me about torture as good policy ("torture warrants" for "sterilized needles underneath the fingernails"), but maybe now's the time. Wonder if he would deny it. #FuckChuck

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I'm all in for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and also strategically I plan to rank 5 candidates and not one of them will be C*omo or Ad*ms. let's educate ny'ers to keep them out. let's DREAM: Don't rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor

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My people. Endless gratitude at a time when so many of our 'leaders' and 'institutions' are a shanda

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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

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Both represent NY.

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Which elected will speak up? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has, who else? Not doing so is disqualifying.

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Every article about "Jewish voters" turning right over Israel needs an auto-replace instead of "Jewish voters" it's "donors and right-wing Christians"

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“The political press may not understand what's happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who've spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can't look away.”

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I remember my mom crying about Reagan-era cuts that made it harder for her to feed us. I know I’m not alone.

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Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

submitted 13 days ago • 101 comments

Great price in @thenation.com today of faculty’s continuing commitment to see these Palestine Studies through. Thank you to @luca-saeed.bsky.social for terrific reporting. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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I was in the Crucible and despite being the strident feminist of my HS it only occurred to me later that Miller took one of the tower historical moments of misogynist violence and made it about a teenage hussy who seduces and innocent family man. curious about this play!

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"I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud." - some thoughts on Joan without Bob lauratanenbaum.substack.com/p/joan-witho...

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My trusted friend in Gaza, whose family I help, brought me this news two days ago: "Netanyahu ordered the closure of all Gaza Strip crossings on Trump's orders. The 42-day truce has ended. We are now living in a state of terror. We do not know what fate has in store for us...."

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YES PLEASE. All New Yorkers deserve seven day service! gothamist.com/news/more-ny...

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wrote about the scourge of non-English-language propaganda and misinformation across the U.S., and why any serious effort to reestablish a durable liberal-media apparatus *has* to be multilingual in nature: slate.com/technology/2...

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Another proud part of Jews for @shahanafrombk.bsky.social In district 39, Shahana fights for those who need care, for caregivers ,for CUNY and for all of us.

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There are two people who ever possibly were able to do irony on Nazis: Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks and Chaplin regretted it in the end

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Thinking of Aaron Bushnell on the eve of his first yahrzeit. Rereading some of my hot fever thoughts from then. May his memory be for a turning: lauratanenbaum.substack.com/p/post-i-wro...

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🚨 Location Change: 2/16 Sunday Rally will be at 1 Centre Street (South End) under the vaulted ceiling! Rain or Shine, we must demand Governor Hochul remove Eric Adams now. #WeProtectUs #EricAdamsOut

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This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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Haven't this idiots ever read about the history of women's lib and how "get my coffee" is literally what sexists think women are good for?

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