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Not a journalist anymore. Not big on bluesky. Nothing of note to say.

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Yair Zivan
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Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and I’m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children.

Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. 

It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives.
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Bernie Sanders
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It’s not just Iran.  

It’s Lebanon. 
 
In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are be

Yair Zivan @YairZivan Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and I’m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children. Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives. Quote Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders · 56m It’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are be

This guy works for Yair Lapid and is complaining that Bernie Sanders isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel during a time of war that most Israeli Jewish politicians, including Yair Lapid, wanted and started.

If you think post-Netanyahu relations between US Dems and Israel will improve...

11.03.2026 19:57 👍 298 🔁 46 💬 9 📌 3
11.03.2026 13:58 👍 206 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0
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Immigrant says ICE invoked MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley during arrest Mamdou Ndoye, who was ordered released by a judge in February, says he was rearrested by ICE later that month by agents who asked him why he was “aggressive to Nick Shirley.”

Ndoye reports from detention that Nick Shirley, himself, pointed at him during the Canal Street raid to tell them to arrest him

"ICE didn’t even try to talk to me, but then he pointed me out to ICE and they ran to me and arrested me."

A regime of influencers

www.courthousenews.com/immigrant-sa...

11.03.2026 15:18 👍 37 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

10.03.2026 20:45 👍 1040 🔁 139 💬 15 📌 5

strong 2nd this; it feels kind of decadent to be like "PAIN AT DA PUMP????" when there's still bombs flying

10.03.2026 16:40 👍 339 🔁 37 💬 12 📌 1
the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

gotta be another way to do this

10.03.2026 00:56 👍 4581 🔁 581 💬 115 📌 170

I would love it if people expressed interest in the nature of consciousness and the self but noticing a lot of people that only seem to care when it involves a slave that's your only friend and I think that might color the debate a bit.

10.03.2026 15:53 👍 251 🔁 25 💬 7 📌 1
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 6003 🔁 2595 💬 732 📌 1105

A couple years ago my wife and I had a big unexpected expense, and took out a personal loan to get it off our credit card from a co. that markets getting out of debt. We're close to paying it off now, a couple years ahead of schedule, and now they are *bombarding* us with advertising for more debt.

10.03.2026 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

09.03.2026 22:24 👍 487 🔁 145 💬 10 📌 21

Talarico: I know a minority we should harass

10.03.2026 04:37 👍 89 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

07.03.2026 20:54 👍 1068 🔁 428 💬 12 📌 9

man this makes me tear up

10.03.2026 03:50 👍 551 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 0

It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.

07.03.2026 17:13 👍 983 🔁 248 💬 19 📌 3
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68% of American Jews support the US-Israel war against Iran, survey finds - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The results suggest U.S. Jews are more supportive than Americans overall but less than Israeli Jews.

The @jta.org headline is simply wrong; please amend. JPPI itself acknowledges that it polls "connected" Jews, not Jews overall, meaning disproportionally more denominationally affiliated Jews and those who've lived in Israel, and less intermarried Jews. www.jta.org/2026/03/09/i...

09.03.2026 14:39 👍 195 🔁 48 💬 7 📌 16

i’ve watched this three times. VERY satisfying.

09.03.2026 05:04 👍 718 🔁 128 💬 12 📌 4

so much to say here but the main thing is really that even highly educated Americans don't really *get* that we are actually at war and that war is real

09.03.2026 15:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh my god lol

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09.03.2026 15:02 👍 5848 🔁 1280 💬 55 📌 114

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.

I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

09.03.2026 14:33 👍 1264 🔁 242 💬 47 📌 29

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

08.03.2026 17:39 👍 10072 🔁 3506 💬 432 📌 118

help i'm running out of oxygen

18.02.2025 15:24 👍 1644 🔁 218 💬 91 📌 61

...at a funeral?

06.03.2026 21:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

they think it makes them sound like operators

06.03.2026 16:16 👍 70 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 2270 🔁 536 💬 50 📌 15
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The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

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Here’s an actual news article on the topic. It supports the idea that the issue was outdated data, but not that the target was selected by gen AI. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

05.03.2026 15:23 👍 67 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 3
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He Was a Critic of the N.B.A. Players’ Union. Now He’s Leading It.

As NBPA pres Fred VanVleet worries about what sports gambling is doing to players, particularly since money from gaming companies is only about 1% of BRI. "It’s not substantial enough to make it worth any of this. For us or for the league." My story on his new role: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

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