Yossi Mandel
@ymandel.bsky.social
Writer. Former rabbi. One typo, and I could've been a former rabbit. Here for the conversations.
There are 3 rules:
Never start a land war in Asia
Never invade Afghanistan
Never put your credibility up against Colbert's
Never start a land war in Asia
Never invade Afghanistan
Never put your credibility up against Colbert's
One of the funniest things about all of this is that CBS lawyers thought the public would believe their version of what happened over Stephen Colbert’s. Boy they picked the wrong guy to compare credibility with. Especially since, as Colbert points out, CBS lawyers actually approve every show script!
WAIT, THE CBS DUMPSTER FIRE GETS BIGGER! After CBS lawyers demanded Stephen Colbert drop the @jamestalarico.bsky.social interview from the show (Colbert put it on-line where it’s been watched 5 million times), THE LAWYERS THEN LIED (allegedly) ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED!
WATCH this story get EVEN BIGGER!
WATCH this story get EVEN BIGGER!
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
There are 3 rules:
Never start a land war in Asia
Never invade Afghanistan
Never put your credibility up against Colbert's
Never start a land war in Asia
Never invade Afghanistan
Never put your credibility up against Colbert's
ayyyyyy los chilenos...
February 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM
ayyyyyy los chilenos...
THE CLEAR PEOPLE 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
February 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM
THE CLEAR PEOPLE 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
polish goyim suck
polish yidden rock
(the descendants of the few they left alive)
(btw Polish goyim rocked 400 years ago. They could easily reclaim their ancestry through truth and reconciliation.)
polish yidden rock
(the descendants of the few they left alive)
(btw Polish goyim rocked 400 years ago. They could easily reclaim their ancestry through truth and reconciliation.)
my primary issue with the modern state of poland is that their official policy regarding the holocaust is that the entirety of the polish people were essentially npcs before 1989, and had no agency; and that challenging this position is punishable by up to three years in prison.
One time on twitter I was talking about the Holocaust and mentioned some shit that went down in Poland like what is mentioned below.
And like, out of nowhere, a shitload of Polish people showed up just going *batshit* on me, with some of the most wild revisionist history, it was staggering.
And like, out of nowhere, a shitload of Polish people showed up just going *batshit* on me, with some of the most wild revisionist history, it was staggering.
February 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
polish goyim suck
polish yidden rock
(the descendants of the few they left alive)
(btw Polish goyim rocked 400 years ago. They could easily reclaim their ancestry through truth and reconciliation.)
polish yidden rock
(the descendants of the few they left alive)
(btw Polish goyim rocked 400 years ago. They could easily reclaim their ancestry through truth and reconciliation.)
The people on the streets of Minnesota blowing whistles are not pointless
it feels like every day there is something that would normally be a massive scandal except there are so many that almost everyone is just ground to dust mentally trying to either understand what to do next, calling representatives, or go back to sending and answering emails that feel pointless
February 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The people on the streets of Minnesota blowing whistles are not pointless
Everyone nodding
i have seen them build empires from our broken pieces
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Everyone nodding
Sending John Scalzi an email right now because a car burned by Scalzi (first edition) will be priceless
Cleared out a month's worth of email I left waiting while I finished my book(s). If you send me an email right now, I will find you and set fire to your car
February 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Sending John Scalzi an email right now because a car burned by Scalzi (first edition) will be priceless
I just followed this person so I can get this daily reminder directly
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I just followed this person so I can get this daily reminder directly
AOL had socializing places called Communities, forums, discoverable, and they employed full time moderators to govern them.
Literally no one has gotten social internet right since then. 25 years ago.
Literally no one has gotten social internet right since then. 25 years ago.
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
AOL had socializing places called Communities, forums, discoverable, and they employed full time moderators to govern them.
Literally no one has gotten social internet right since then. 25 years ago.
Literally no one has gotten social internet right since then. 25 years ago.
After you're done reading this, read about the movie of it he crowdfunded to make and which the FBI made sure never made the theaters.
February 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
After you're done reading this, read about the movie of it he crowdfunded to make and which the FBI made sure never made the theaters.
¡Ay caramba que perfección!
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
¡Ay caramba que perfección!
Wake up, Yidden, gritty Fiddler just dropped
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Wake up, Yidden, gritty Fiddler just dropped
*Mamdani cooks and eats a billionaire medium rare on live stream*
"This could never work in any city other than New York"
"This could never work in any city other than New York"
On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!
February 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
*Mamdani cooks and eats a billionaire medium rare on live stream*
"This could never work in any city other than New York"
"This could never work in any city other than New York"
When I went to work at B&H Photo in midlevel management, I knew nothing about photography. When I left years later, I was a bit beyond amateur enthusiast and did my family's portraits nicely. Yes, I had advice from the pro photogs working there. It took TIME.
February 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
When I went to work at B&H Photo in midlevel management, I knew nothing about photography. When I left years later, I was a bit beyond amateur enthusiast and did my family's portraits nicely. Yes, I had advice from the pro photogs working there. It took TIME.
Reposted by Yossi Mandel
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
I'm actually really sad about Peter Attia, as sad as about Neil Gaiman.
He was the one who taught me how to read science, to go to the journals, to sift through information, and ultimately to manage my health.
Had not paid attention to him in a long time, and of course will never do so again.
He was the one who taught me how to read science, to go to the journals, to sift through information, and ultimately to manage my health.
Had not paid attention to him in a long time, and of course will never do so again.
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I'm actually really sad about Peter Attia, as sad as about Neil Gaiman.
He was the one who taught me how to read science, to go to the journals, to sift through information, and ultimately to manage my health.
Had not paid attention to him in a long time, and of course will never do so again.
He was the one who taught me how to read science, to go to the journals, to sift through information, and ultimately to manage my health.
Had not paid attention to him in a long time, and of course will never do so again.
Since the Assyrians removed 80% of the population hundreds of years before that.
Since we fled our enslavers in Egypt 3300 years ago.
Since we fled our enslavers in Egypt 3300 years ago.
this is the story of basically every Jewish person you know or have ever heard of. it's been fleeing genocide since the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70CE.
Escaping the Holocaust in Austria on one side.
Escaping anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine pale of settlement on the other.
It’s fleeing genocide all the way down.
Escaping anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine pale of settlement on the other.
It’s fleeing genocide all the way down.
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Since the Assyrians removed 80% of the population hundreds of years before that.
Since we fled our enslavers in Egypt 3300 years ago.
Since we fled our enslavers in Egypt 3300 years ago.
Mission: Impossible
I promise it is possible to talk about Epstein without slipping into antisemitism I promise all you have to do is make an effort
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Mission: Impossible
Darth Vader ordered to go
Luke foolishly aimed right at the drive-up window.
Nobody realized there was a Quiznos in the Death Star trench until they had nearly passed the exit.
January 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Darth Vader ordered to go
When the Pharaoh hardens his heart, it's time to harden those lines
A woman, who I honestly believe meant well, just told me that filler would help, “soften the lines around my mouth.”
Anyway, every single day that I don’t go to jail is truly a miracle of ancestral prayers.
Anyway, every single day that I don’t go to jail is truly a miracle of ancestral prayers.
January 29, 2026 at 12:57 PM
When the Pharaoh hardens his heart, it's time to harden those lines
top tier Jewish joke @racheleklein.bsky.social
Ugh my kids are impossible! I keep having to straighten these seforim multiple times a day 😅
January 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
top tier Jewish joke @racheleklein.bsky.social
Reposted by Yossi Mandel
One of my soapboxes is that this place has never been a "white homeland." This is Indigenous land! Native nation and people have been here since before the glaciers receded.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
One of my soapboxes is that this place has never been a "white homeland." This is Indigenous land! Native nation and people have been here since before the glaciers receded.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
This makes me so sad for the New Yorker, that once great copy editing machine. The correct plural is, of course, Filet-ofs-Fish.
A fun and heartbreaking fact: I once mentioned the concept of more than one Filet-o-Fish in a New Yorker column and, per our unimpeachable copy department, the correct plural turns out actually to be Filet-o-Fishes
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This makes me so sad for the New Yorker, that once great copy editing machine. The correct plural is, of course, Filet-ofs-Fish.
Reposted by Yossi Mandel
There's a reason why Fred Rogers used the word "neighbor." The older I get, the more powerful I realize "being a good neighbor" is... and I'm not talking about some damn State Farm.
January 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
There's a reason why Fred Rogers used the word "neighbor." The older I get, the more powerful I realize "being a good neighbor" is... and I'm not talking about some damn State Farm.
Walter Mosley!
All the Easy Rawlins stories
All the Easy Rawlins stories
📚💙 request!!!
Please tell me your favorite *fiction* that narrates *Black* life during the Civil Rights Movement era
🙏🏽
Please tell me your favorite *fiction* that narrates *Black* life during the Civil Rights Movement era
🙏🏽
January 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Walter Mosley!
All the Easy Rawlins stories
All the Easy Rawlins stories
