Batya Kluger
@batyalee.bsky.social
I read & listen to a lot of nat’l & internat’l political news and share my thoughts. Politically progressive.
Trump’s regime is disturbing, but I enjoy family & friends, nature & sci discoveries, seeing beauty & goodness in humanity.
Home is Oakland, CA
Trump’s regime is disturbing, but I enjoy family & friends, nature & sci discoveries, seeing beauty & goodness in humanity.
Home is Oakland, CA
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Batya Kluger
@batyalee.bsky.social
· Apr 11
How will we get through this troubled time? In a country filled with liars, be someone who tells the truth. Tho our leaders are filled with fear & loathing, offer your trust & friendship. When people are being ostracized for their differences, you reach out & hold on to them w/ strength & caring.
How is the FDA under RFK Jr. making health policy? Moderna would like to know...
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
arstechnica.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM
How is the FDA under RFK Jr. making health policy? Moderna would like to know...
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Freakin' brilliant 👏
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Freakin' brilliant 👏
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Fulton County Georgia, US
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Fulton County Georgia, US
That’s so sad & disturbing. AIPAC is casting a dark shadow on the entire US Jewish population by supporting values so counter to those shared by most of us: welcoming the stranger, caring for the needy, pursuing justice & peace, recognizing a spark of the divine in all humanity, & liberal democracy.
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
That’s so sad & disturbing. AIPAC is casting a dark shadow on the entire US Jewish population by supporting values so counter to those shared by most of us: welcoming the stranger, caring for the needy, pursuing justice & peace, recognizing a spark of the divine in all humanity, & liberal democracy.
In my limited understanding, AIPAC wasn’t always like this. But over years/decades, as they shifted to the right, supporting more extreme policies, the more liberal members left. It’s now extreme & unbalanced. A way to change them might be to undo that imbalance, but it’d be very difficult.
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
In my limited understanding, AIPAC wasn’t always like this. But over years/decades, as they shifted to the right, supporting more extreme policies, the more liberal members left. It’s now extreme & unbalanced. A way to change them might be to undo that imbalance, but it’d be very difficult.
The original post in my example came from a different thread re a Dem Rep. The commenter I responded to brought up AIPAC, out of the blue, trying to show corruption. It was typical of many posts I see that reference AIPAC, zionist, Israel, & genocide, using those labels in place of “Jew.” #JewHate
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The original post in my example came from a different thread re a Dem Rep. The commenter I responded to brought up AIPAC, out of the blue, trying to show corruption. It was typical of many posts I see that reference AIPAC, zionist, Israel, & genocide, using those labels in place of “Jew.” #JewHate
🫣 I won’t look at it.
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 AM
🫣 I won’t look at it.
I’m online a lot and don’t know about the track AIPAC site. Pls don’t tell me more or give me the link. I don’t want to see it. I’m already stressed from being online too much already.
a penguin wearing a beanie with a red pom pom
Alt: a penguin head wearing a beanie with a red pom pom and crazy twirling eyes
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I’m online a lot and don’t know about the track AIPAC site. Pls don’t tell me more or give me the link. I don’t want to see it. I’m already stressed from being online too much already.
Plenty of people do already, partly Jew haters and partly policy disagreements.
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Plenty of people do already, partly Jew haters and partly policy disagreements.
Just in case I need to say this, I don’t support AIPAC at all and disagree with their politics. I’m more of a J Street Jew 😁
February 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Just in case I need to say this, I don’t support AIPAC at all and disagree with their politics. I’m more of a J Street Jew 😁
I accused a commenter of antisemitism bc of his anti AIPAC stance. He countered w/ AIPAC ≠ Israel. I said my point is that if you single out AIPAC & don’t include mega-donors in Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Pharma, etc…, it’s an antisemitic dog whistle.
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I accused a commenter of antisemitism bc of his anti AIPAC stance. He countered w/ AIPAC ≠ Israel. I said my point is that if you single out AIPAC & don’t include mega-donors in Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Pharma, etc…, it’s an antisemitic dog whistle.
An email to Larry Summers. Oof!
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM
An email to Larry Summers. Oof!
It’s smart to protect your health before extremely meaningful and consequential athletic competitions or any other day for any other reason. Duh. 🙄
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
It’s smart to protect your health before extremely meaningful and consequential athletic competitions or any other day for any other reason. Duh. 🙄
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Using Ring to hunt down brown & black people & girls & women.
This is how men run the world.
I prefer evolved & humane efforts to make the world a safer, more loving place to those this regime prefers: hunt PoC & women, traffic girls to predators, make money off them.
You know, the mobster way.
This is how men run the world.
I prefer evolved & humane efforts to make the world a safer, more loving place to those this regime prefers: hunt PoC & women, traffic girls to predators, make money off them.
You know, the mobster way.
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Using Ring to hunt down brown & black people & girls & women.
This is how men run the world.
I prefer evolved & humane efforts to make the world a safer, more loving place to those this regime prefers: hunt PoC & women, traffic girls to predators, make money off them.
You know, the mobster way.
This is how men run the world.
I prefer evolved & humane efforts to make the world a safer, more loving place to those this regime prefers: hunt PoC & women, traffic girls to predators, make money off them.
You know, the mobster way.
When you single out a Jewish organization for undue influence in national politics and don’t bring up other orgs that have outsize influence, AND it’s not a conversation about Israel, it’s a dog whistle, whether you’re aware of it or not.
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
When you single out a Jewish organization for undue influence in national politics and don’t bring up other orgs that have outsize influence, AND it’s not a conversation about Israel, it’s a dog whistle, whether you’re aware of it or not.
More bad news. Especially w/ anti-science fanatics in charge of US energy policies & grants.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’ - Inside Climate News
Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.
insideclimatenews.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
More bad news. Especially w/ anti-science fanatics in charge of US energy policies & grants.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
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Rep. Raskin: "Releasing the names of a lot of victims is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on [DOJ's] part or, as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward."
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Rep. Raskin: "Releasing the names of a lot of victims is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on [DOJ's] part or, as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward."
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Rep. Raskin: “I think that the DOJ has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug…There's no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.”
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Rep. Raskin: “I think that the DOJ has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug…There's no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.”
Weird & offensive that you single out AIPAC instead of all PACs and mega donors like big oil, big pharma, big ag… (obvious antisemitic dog whistle)
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Weird & offensive that you single out AIPAC instead of all PACs and mega donors like big oil, big pharma, big ag… (obvious antisemitic dog whistle)
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
She looks so soft 😻
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
She looks so soft 😻
Definitely agree he needs to go. But this online video is definitely not the bottom. He & his minions still have further to fall. I wish it weren’t so.
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Definitely agree he needs to go. But this online video is definitely not the bottom. He & his minions still have further to fall. I wish it weren’t so.
Perhaps. I generally think they just don’t care at all about anyone other than their own family or close friends. No empathy or sense of human compassion. Even their religious communities see empathy as weakness.
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Perhaps. I generally think they just don’t care at all about anyone other than their own family or close friends. No empathy or sense of human compassion. Even their religious communities see empathy as weakness.
Those damn face-eating leopards weren’t supposed to eat OUR faces!! How could that happen here?
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Those damn face-eating leopards weren’t supposed to eat OUR faces!! How could that happen here?
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...