Rebecca Pierce
@aptly-engineerd.bsky.social
Filmmaker, writer, Black Jew. Documentaries, op eds, & sketch comedy.
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I bought a labubu and it attached me to its purse and I don’t know where I am
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I bought a labubu and it attached me to its purse and I don’t know where I am
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“I remember a woman crying and screaming — her daughter’s body was burned. She was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter.”
Investigation by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...
Investigation by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...
July 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“I remember a woman crying and screaming — her daughter’s body was burned. She was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter.”
Investigation by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...
Investigation by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...
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"Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out. They suggested doing the same at CECOT. Flores, Ramos, and others I spoke with said every inmate they knew joined the hunger strike, which lasted for several days."”
July 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out. They suggested doing the same at CECOT. Flores, Ramos, and others I spoke with said every inmate they knew joined the hunger strike, which lasted for several days."”
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Seven women between the 12th-17th c., from Iraq to Germany,
Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of --
and I bet some of the details you've never gotten --
come and learn ♥️
Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of --
and I bet some of the details you've never gotten --
come and learn ♥️
7 Jewish women
from history that you should know about
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Seven women between the 12th-17th c., from Iraq to Germany,
Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of --
and I bet some of the details you've never gotten --
come and learn ♥️
Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of --
and I bet some of the details you've never gotten --
come and learn ♥️
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"I collapsed. I tried to stay strong for my mother [...] Around me, I saw people fainting everywhere."
"We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
"We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
www.972mag.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"I collapsed. I tried to stay strong for my mother [...] Around me, I saw people fainting everywhere."
"We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
"We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
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Rain garden can go a long way to preventing the worst of the kind of flash flooding—from rain right there, not coming downstream—that just hit NYC.
They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.
They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.
Research shows rain gardens are remarkably effective at capturing runoff.
When San Francisco installed 30 new rain gardens along a 12-block strip in the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, the corridor reduced the amount of stormwater entering the sewer by 95 percent for the area.
When San Francisco installed 30 new rain gardens along a 12-block strip in the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, the corridor reduced the amount of stormwater entering the sewer by 95 percent for the area.
Heavier storms are here. Rain gardens can help.
At the most basic level, they function like sponges.
www.motherjones.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Rain garden can go a long way to preventing the worst of the kind of flash flooding—from rain right there, not coming downstream—that just hit NYC.
They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.
They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.
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I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
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Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
In response to violence in DC and Boulder, American Jewish leaders are doubling down on conflating Zionism with Jewish identity—even as they insist that it's wrong to target Jews for Israel's actions. This response won't protect Jews, writes publisher Daniel May:
jewishcurrents.org/the-tangled-...
jewishcurrents.org/the-tangled-...
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence
Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.
jewishcurrents.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
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Despite having several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, Texas just banned a law that helps keep guns away from unhinged people. My latest reporting on mass shootings in America www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Photo by Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
www.motherjones.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Despite having several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, Texas just banned a law that helps keep guns away from unhinged people. My latest reporting on mass shootings in America www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Photo by Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News
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The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants - www.972mag.com/uk-idf-music...
The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants
A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. Repressing Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.
www.972mag.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants - www.972mag.com/uk-idf-music...
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If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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This guy was indicted for bribery lmao
Commenting on Mamdani, Eric Adams says "there's nothing dignified" about a "handout."
"New Yorkers are not looking for someone just to give them a handout."
"New Yorkers are not looking for someone just to give them a handout."
June 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This guy was indicted for bribery lmao
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When ordinary Republicans understand how Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would affect the after-tax incomes of American families, it turns out they don’t find it beautiful at all.
“I was really shocked."
“I was really shocked."
Ordinary Republicans hate Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"—once they know what it does
Solid support turns to strong opposition, a new Yale study shows.
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June 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
When ordinary Republicans understand how Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would affect the after-tax incomes of American families, it turns out they don’t find it beautiful at all.
“I was really shocked."
“I was really shocked."
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Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder.
truthout.org/articles/my-...
Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder.
truthout.org/articles/my-...
Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.
truthout.org
June 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder.
truthout.org/articles/my-...
Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder.
truthout.org/articles/my-...
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It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews
This is a shockingly racist call by a House Republican for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported. But instead of being viewed as unserious, it's now being promoted and circulated by LibsOfTikTok, Benny Johnson and MAGA regulars.
Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.
Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.
June 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews
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I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it!
I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him.
We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.
I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him.
We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it!
I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him.
We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.
I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him.
We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.
New York’s next mayor, America’s next boyfriend
Andrew Cuomo has conceded the New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
New York’s next mayor, America’s next boyfriend
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Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.