Jay Dobkin
@jaydobkin.bsky.social
Jewish anarchist, grandson of 4 refugees.
The photos in my profile are of me (as Socrates in a New York Times photo) & my հայ great-great-great-grandfather.
We need to overthrow every fascist regime everywhere.
The photos in my profile are of me (as Socrates in a New York Times photo) & my հայ great-great-great-grandfather.
We need to overthrow every fascist regime everywhere.
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Jay Dobkin
@jaydobkin.bsky.social
· Sep 24
If aliens in a movie did to Earth & humanity what fossil fuel executives do in real life, we'd cheer at the climax when their spaceships blow up & cheer even louder if their quislings (like bankers, politicians, PR hacks, & corporate lawyers) were aboard.
I'm just saying.
#climate
I'm just saying.
#climate
Most Americans who voted for Trump do not understand logic or decency. They are fascist idiots.
They just barely understand that fire is hot- but if Trump & his trolls told them that fire was lukewarm & all claims to have been burned by it were made by crisis actors, the fools would believe it.
They just barely understand that fire is hot- but if Trump & his trolls told them that fire was lukewarm & all claims to have been burned by it were made by crisis actors, the fools would believe it.
Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Most Americans who voted for Trump do not understand logic or decency. They are fascist idiots.
They just barely understand that fire is hot- but if Trump & his trolls told them that fire was lukewarm & all claims to have been burned by it were made by crisis actors, the fools would believe it.
They just barely understand that fire is hot- but if Trump & his trolls told them that fire was lukewarm & all claims to have been burned by it were made by crisis actors, the fools would believe it.
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in what is today southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in what is today southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.
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Today and every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Today and every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine.
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As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
DHS Privacy Release Form
If you or a loved one has an open order of removal or are worried about getting picked up by ICE, consider filling out this
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November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
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The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
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You can read more about it here. It's difficult to describe how dangerous much of the establishment is in both the Labor Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You can read more about it here. It's difficult to describe how dangerous much of the establishment is in both the Labor Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Those who do not remember history are doomed to be tried by it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Those who do not remember history are doomed to be tried by it.
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All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.
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We have fought for a decade some of the most depraved policies imaginable--family separation and death on a scale mainstream news consumers do not comprehend. All of it makes us less safe. This is what Democrats are joining Republicans to fight for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKGV...
Aggressive Bail Policies Lead to Lawsuit Against Texas County | NowThis
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We have fought for a decade some of the most depraved policies imaginable--family separation and death on a scale mainstream news consumers do not comprehend. All of it makes us less safe. This is what Democrats are joining Republicans to fight for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKGV...
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more than 1,000 Palestinians
In the West Bank, not Gaza!
In the West Bank, not Gaza!
In two years, Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Every day, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Netanyahu & his extremist allies have one goal: annexation by force. The U.S. has enabled them.
NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID FOR ISRAEL.
Every day, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Netanyahu & his extremist allies have one goal: annexation by force. The U.S. has enabled them.
NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID FOR ISRAEL.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
more than 1,000 Palestinians
In the West Bank, not Gaza!
In the West Bank, not Gaza!
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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also stop calling us "mainstream scientists" like there's a cooler bunch of hipster scientists out there
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
also stop calling us "mainstream scientists" like there's a cooler bunch of hipster scientists out there
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THREAD. Over many years, we became the national experts in fighting unconstitutional pretrial detention--all the more urgent because authoritarians need detention without process. But something wild just happened in one of our habeas cases: a DA used made up cases and citations.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THREAD. Over many years, we became the national experts in fighting unconstitutional pretrial detention--all the more urgent because authoritarians need detention without process. But something wild just happened in one of our habeas cases: a DA used made up cases and citations.
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Our discovery that there were numerous basic errors in the response to an important emergency habeas petition we filed let to another discovery: they had done it before, and a local judge had even warned them about using AI to write briefs seeking to jail people.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our discovery that there were numerous basic errors in the response to an important emergency habeas petition we filed let to another discovery: they had done it before, and a local judge had even warned them about using AI to write briefs seeking to jail people.
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Things got more bizarre, and we have now been forced to take the case to the California Supreme Court. At stake isn't just the government using AI hallucinations, but the integrity of the legal system, which depends on citations to evidence and precedent to create shared truths.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Things got more bizarre, and we have now been forced to take the case to the California Supreme Court. At stake isn't just the government using AI hallucinations, but the integrity of the legal system, which depends on citations to evidence and precedent to create shared truths.
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You can read about it in the New York Times today, as leading scholars of law and technology from around the country sound the alarm about what happens if the courts permit prosecutors to ignore basic conventions of truth and support on which we all rely. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
You can read about it in the New York Times today, as leading scholars of law and technology from around the country sound the alarm about what happens if the courts permit prosecutors to ignore basic conventions of truth and support on which we all rely. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
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Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.
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When the UC system failed to legally challenge Trump's $1.2 billion fine against UCLA, UC faculty, staff, and students sued Trump themselves — and won.
Now that they've saved the UC system from Trump's cuts, we demand UCLA drop all charges against student protesters.
Now that they've saved the UC system from Trump's cuts, we demand UCLA drop all charges against student protesters.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When the UC system failed to legally challenge Trump's $1.2 billion fine against UCLA, UC faculty, staff, and students sued Trump themselves — and won.
Now that they've saved the UC system from Trump's cuts, we demand UCLA drop all charges against student protesters.
Now that they've saved the UC system from Trump's cuts, we demand UCLA drop all charges against student protesters.