Evan Derkacz
@evanderkacz.bsky.social
Editor of @RDispatches.bsky.social (pitch me: evan@religiondispatches.org). Once mistaken for Harpo Marx at a bookshop. True story. He/Him
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Wait, delusional bigots want to leave NYC? Damn... the city's already a better place to live and he hasn't even taken office yet. Excellent work sir.
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Wait, delusional bigots want to leave NYC? Damn... the city's already a better place to live and he hasn't even taken office yet. Excellent work sir.
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Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Watch with the sound off and not only do you appreciate the looks on Mika Brzezinski's face (!!) but it's so clear what a disingenuous liar Jonathan Greenblatt is.
the ADL and JONATHAN GREENBLATT have lost MORNING JOE. i repeat !! 🚨THE ADL HAS LOST MORNING JOE🚨
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Watch with the sound off and not only do you appreciate the looks on Mika Brzezinski's face (!!) but it's so clear what a disingenuous liar Jonathan Greenblatt is.
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Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway
Yes, I'm thrilled with Mamdani's victory... but also at the prospect of all those empty apartments after 765,000 of New York's Whiniest flee the city. nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting largest exodus in history: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest popula…
nypost.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yes, I'm thrilled with Mamdani's victory... but also at the prospect of all those empty apartments after 765,000 of New York's Whiniest flee the city. nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...
Another NYJewish vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … as far as I can recall it’s the most positive and hopeful I’ve felt since my very first vote in 1989.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Another NYJewish vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … as far as I can recall it’s the most positive and hopeful I’ve felt since my very first vote in 1989.
Yes, the Right is shamelessly promoting a fake outrage, but how are FL gov Ron DeSantis and Utah Sen Mike Lee still taken seriously by corporate media? The fact that they can do things like this and be treated as serious people by CNN and the NYTimes is a very real and very big problem.
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway
Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yes, the Right is shamelessly promoting a fake outrage, but how are FL gov Ron DeSantis and Utah Sen Mike Lee still taken seriously by corporate media? The fact that they can do things like this and be treated as serious people by CNN and the NYTimes is a very real and very big problem.
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We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani at jfrej.org/field 🗳️
📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah!
Benjamin Abrams sound & edit
📷: Dan Fridman
📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah!
Benjamin Abrams sound & edit
📷: Dan Fridman
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani at jfrej.org/field 🗳️
📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah!
Benjamin Abrams sound & edit
📷: Dan Fridman
📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah!
Benjamin Abrams sound & edit
📷: Dan Fridman
The US right slowly realizing there’s always someone further to the right than they are (who is probably armed, angry, and losing touch with reality with each passing hour guzzling right wing media and message boards).
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
September 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The US right slowly realizing there’s always someone further to the right than they are (who is probably armed, angry, and losing touch with reality with each passing hour guzzling right wing media and message boards).
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I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.
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Trump the president has been doing exactly what Trump the candidate promised to do.
This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.
This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.
Trump Approval - 18-29 Year Olds:
February 7, 2025:
🟢 Approve: 55%
🔴 Disapprove: 45%
July 18, 2025:
🔴 Disapprove: 72%
🟢 Approve: 28%
- YouGov -
February 7, 2025:
🟢 Approve: 55%
🔴 Disapprove: 45%
July 18, 2025:
🔴 Disapprove: 72%
🟢 Approve: 28%
- YouGov -
July 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trump the president has been doing exactly what Trump the candidate promised to do.
This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.
This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.
Not quite. What the nation's most Jewish city choosing Mamdani *actually* means is that we can retire faded and false accusations of antisemitism in NYC.
Well, at least we can retire that faded and false line, "antisemitism has no place in New York City."
June 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Not quite. What the nation's most Jewish city choosing Mamdani *actually* means is that we can retire faded and false accusations of antisemitism in NYC.
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One of the agents who arrested Brad Lander for asking to see a judicial warrant. ICE was involved, but who’s this ninja? An agent of Trump’s secret police. Fascism is an aesthetic. This black-masked man is a statement of intention & belief; the intention is sadism; the belief is in power.
June 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One of the agents who arrested Brad Lander for asking to see a judicial warrant. ICE was involved, but who’s this ninja? An agent of Trump’s secret police. Fascism is an aesthetic. This black-masked man is a statement of intention & belief; the intention is sadism; the belief is in power.
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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
Excellent thread on the shallow moralizing of Thomas Chatterton Williams.
Question. Did democracy cease to function during the Whiskey Rebellion?The Great Railroad Strike of 1877? The May Day Riots?
Let me put this another way, can you identify a single point in U.S. history where Americans exclusively expressed themselves in an orderly fashion along acceptable lines?
Let me put this another way, can you identify a single point in U.S. history where Americans exclusively expressed themselves in an orderly fashion along acceptable lines?
I don’t care if you’re razing Kenosha, storming the Capitol, or doing whatever this is in LA, no democracy can function when every group and identity block decides it has the right and moral authority to take its specific political disagreements into the streets.
June 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Excellent thread on the shallow moralizing of Thomas Chatterton Williams.
When an edgy "counterintuitive" idea demonstrates how valuable intuition can be...
Counterpoint: A parade is never just a parade.
A parade is always a signifier. That is the point of a parade.
A parade is always a signifier. That is the point of a parade.
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
When an edgy "counterintuitive" idea demonstrates how valuable intuition can be...
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really? not to push israel to act in consonance with reform jewish values? not to push for a ceasefire? not to push for an end to the occupation and the settlement enterprise? not to oppose the pogroms in the west bank or the starvation of gaza? but “maintaining the security of israel?” 🤡💩
Vote Reform received the most votes in the 2025 US #WorldZionistCongress elections--the most EVER received by a slate in WZC history. Especially in this vulnerable time, we'll use this to keep pushing for releasing the hostages and maintaining the security of Israel as a Jewish & democratic State.
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
really? not to push israel to act in consonance with reform jewish values? not to push for a ceasefire? not to push for an end to the occupation and the settlement enterprise? not to oppose the pogroms in the west bank or the starvation of gaza? but “maintaining the security of israel?” 🤡💩
Dear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, just wanted to make sure you saw my plaintive squeak.
Michael and Peter, pretty pretty please... how nicely do I have to ask for you to cover this on @ifbookspod.bsky.social? You can pronounce anything any way you want for like 3 episodes. How's that? bookshop.org/p/books/in-c...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
How Our Politics Failed Us
bookshop.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, just wanted to make sure you saw my plaintive squeak.
Michael and Peter, pretty pretty please... how nicely do I have to ask for you to cover this on @ifbookspod.bsky.social? You can pronounce anything any way you want for like 3 episodes. How's that? bookshop.org/p/books/in-c...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
How Our Politics Failed Us
bookshop.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Michael and Peter, pretty pretty please... how nicely do I have to ask for you to cover this on @ifbookspod.bsky.social? You can pronounce anything any way you want for like 3 episodes. How's that? bookshop.org/p/books/in-c...
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Like, it's great they have a new pope -- and he even looks like a good choice, especially for the moment -- but I can't be the only Jew creeped out by the joy they get over smoke billowing from a building.
May 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Like, it's great they have a new pope -- and he even looks like a good choice, especially for the moment -- but I can't be the only Jew creeped out by the joy they get over smoke billowing from a building.
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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I gotta give credit where credit is due—my editor at @religiondispatches.bsky.social, @evanderkacz.bsky.social, came up with “Haidt crime,” but he gave me permission to steal it!
I am going to wind up subscribing simply because of "Haidt crimes."
A+ coinage
A+ coinage
February 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I gotta give credit where credit is due—my editor at @religiondispatches.bsky.social, @evanderkacz.bsky.social, came up with “Haidt crime,” but he gave me permission to steal it!