Judith Baumel
@judithbaumel.bsky.social
Poet. Bronx-born life-long fan of the Mets and all things Italian
This is a perfect (brilliant as well as funny) analysis of the “both sides” policy of the #NewYorkTimes
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a perfect (brilliant as well as funny) analysis of the “both sides” policy of the #NewYorkTimes
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We did choose solidarity, that's why he won!!
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We did choose solidarity, that's why he won!!
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Mazel Tov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , Mazel Tov NYC 🎉🗽❤️
Join the movement, join JFREJ: jfrej.org/membership
📸 Zachary Schulman
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📸 Zachary Schulman
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Mazel Tov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , Mazel Tov NYC 🎉🗽❤️
Join the movement, join JFREJ: jfrej.org/membership
📸 Zachary Schulman
Join the movement, join JFREJ: jfrej.org/membership
📸 Zachary Schulman
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Okay, but can Mamdani shore up the Mets’ rotation?
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Okay, but can Mamdani shore up the Mets’ rotation?
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We're all in for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - Join us: Jfrej.org/field
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We're all in for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - Join us: Jfrej.org/field
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The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.
The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka.
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Next Sunday! yetzirahpoets.org/yprograms/11...
November 9: Daniela Naomi Molnar, Joanna Fuhrman, Sabrina Orah Mark | Yetzirah
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November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Next Sunday! yetzirahpoets.org/yprograms/11...
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📢 231 DAYS: How long CD7 has been without a voice.
🗳️ 37 DAYS: How long Rep. Grijalva has been elected.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Seat Grijalva NOW.
#SwearHerIn #SeatGrijalva #ReleaseTheFiles #AZIndivisibles
@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social
🗳️ 37 DAYS: How long Rep. Grijalva has been elected.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Seat Grijalva NOW.
#SwearHerIn #SeatGrijalva #ReleaseTheFiles #AZIndivisibles
@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📢 231 DAYS: How long CD7 has been without a voice.
🗳️ 37 DAYS: How long Rep. Grijalva has been elected.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Seat Grijalva NOW.
#SwearHerIn #SeatGrijalva #ReleaseTheFiles #AZIndivisibles
@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social
🗳️ 37 DAYS: How long Rep. Grijalva has been elected.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Seat Grijalva NOW.
#SwearHerIn #SeatGrijalva #ReleaseTheFiles #AZIndivisibles
@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social
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JFREJ has had a busy week! Our safety team took to the streets to marshal the @streetvendorproj.bsky.social & @workersjusticep.bsky.social, urging city council to pass protections for vendors & deliveristas. Call your council rep to pass Intro 1332!
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
JFREJ has had a busy week! Our safety team took to the streets to marshal the @streetvendorproj.bsky.social & @workersjusticep.bsky.social, urging city council to pass protections for vendors & deliveristas. Call your council rep to pass Intro 1332!
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Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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BREAKING: ICE unlawfully arrested E.J.C.C., a 16-year-old Bronx high schooler with protective SIJ status. ICE agents illegally detained him when he appeared for a mandatory, routine check in. Now, ICE is attempting to deport him to dangerous conditions in Ecuador.
We are filing for his release.
We are filing for his release.
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
BREAKING: ICE unlawfully arrested E.J.C.C., a 16-year-old Bronx high schooler with protective SIJ status. ICE agents illegally detained him when he appeared for a mandatory, routine check in. Now, ICE is attempting to deport him to dangerous conditions in Ecuador.
We are filing for his release.
We are filing for his release.
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I just emailed Cuomo’s press person to clarify that he believes Mamdani would cheer for a 9/11-style terrorist attack. Stay tuned!
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I just emailed Cuomo’s press person to clarify that he believes Mamdani would cheer for a 9/11-style terrorist attack. Stay tuned!
82 years ago today German SS rounded up 1,200+ Roman Jews. Here’s a new poem about part of that story. Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for publishing on this painful anniversary and thanks to @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social for the inspiration and support. newworldwriting.net/judith-baume...
Judith Baumel ~ This Moment - New World Writing Quarterly
This Moment for the Piperno family 1. Blessed Is. There is no future without memory. There is no future without feeling fully the moment in which we live. At
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October 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
82 years ago today German SS rounded up 1,200+ Roman Jews. Here’s a new poem about part of that story. Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for publishing on this painful anniversary and thanks to @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social for the inspiration and support. newworldwriting.net/judith-baume...
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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
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September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
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Then they said "If you talk to anyone we will arrest you."
So, me and all the other court watchers sat in almost complete silence from ~9:30am until 11:00am when all the ICE agents suddenly got up and left.
So, me and all the other court watchers sat in almost complete silence from ~9:30am until 11:00am when all the ICE agents suddenly got up and left.
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Then they said "If you talk to anyone we will arrest you."
So, me and all the other court watchers sat in almost complete silence from ~9:30am until 11:00am when all the ICE agents suddenly got up and left.
So, me and all the other court watchers sat in almost complete silence from ~9:30am until 11:00am when all the ICE agents suddenly got up and left.
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"Though advocates say courthouse arrests have once again picked up again in the weeks since Labor Day." I can second this.
They have also recently deemed it illegal for anyone to talk to people coming for their court hearings, even in the hallways and waiting rooms.
They have also recently deemed it illegal for anyone to talk to people coming for their court hearings, even in the hallways and waiting rooms.
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Though advocates say courthouse arrests have once again picked up again in the weeks since Labor Day." I can second this.
They have also recently deemed it illegal for anyone to talk to people coming for their court hearings, even in the hallways and waiting rooms.
They have also recently deemed it illegal for anyone to talk to people coming for their court hearings, even in the hallways and waiting rooms.
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NEW: A federal judge Wednesday extended limits on the number of immigrants ICE can hold at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and requirements that it provide detainees with basic humanitarian needs and access to legal representation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/i...
Judge Slams ICE for Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza Lockup
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday, which extends capacity restrictions inside an ICE holding area at 26 Federal Plaza.
www.thecity.nyc
September 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
NEW: A federal judge Wednesday extended limits on the number of immigrants ICE can hold at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and requirements that it provide detainees with basic humanitarian needs and access to legal representation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/i...
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We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend.
There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend.
There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
Thanks to the editors of #GashmiusMagazine for their powerful drash. “May this year be a year of transformation, both within ourselves and in the world.
May all peoples be written in the Book of Life.
May we ‘choose Life’ together.”
May all peoples be written in the Book of Life.
May we ‘choose Life’ together.”
September 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thanks to the editors of #GashmiusMagazine for their powerful drash. “May this year be a year of transformation, both within ourselves and in the world.
May all peoples be written in the Book of Life.
May we ‘choose Life’ together.”
May all peoples be written in the Book of Life.
May we ‘choose Life’ together.”
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#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
Thanks to Gashmius Magazine for putting my work in conversation with such great writers and artists www.gashmius.org/volume-5-1/y.... @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
Yew or Yetzirah | Gashmius
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September 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thanks to Gashmius Magazine for putting my work in conversation with such great writers and artists www.gashmius.org/volume-5-1/y.... @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
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Now at Hostages Square, calling for the release of all 48 hostages and ending the war.
📸 Lior Rotstein
📸 Lior Rotstein
September 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Now at Hostages Square, calling for the release of all 48 hostages and ending the war.
📸 Lior Rotstein
📸 Lior Rotstein
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Governor Pritzker isn’t playing— salt trucks form a blockade to block ICE — time to melt
September 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Governor Pritzker isn’t playing— salt trucks form a blockade to block ICE — time to melt
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC