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Alisa Solomon
@alisasolomon.bsky.social
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Journalist/author/theater critic, prof, dramaturg . . . rootless cosmopolitan.
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This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 15
Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
😡😡😡😡
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.
politico.com Politico @politico.com · Oct 14
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
I'm not usually quick to shout "Boycott!" but...yeah, walk away and never look back.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 2
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned. Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.
October 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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In the wake of their crossover hit Can I Be Frank?, anti-Zionist activist and performance artist Morgan Bassichis is poised to carry their lineage of radical politics to the main stage.

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Can Morgan Bassichis Be Famous?
In the wake of their crossover hit Can I Be Frank? , the outspoken anti-Zionist performer is poised to carry their lineage of radical politics to the…
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September 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Can Morgan Bassichis Be Famous?
In the wake of their crossover hit Can I Be Frank? , the outspoken anti-Zionist performer is poised to carry their lineage of radical politics to the main…
jewishcurrents.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“Without jfrej I don’t think I would have had the clarity or the courage to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “ - @bradlander.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Landed standing on stage at the Mazals
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
August 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Support The City’s crucial and excellent reporting!
richardkimnyc.bsky.social Richard Kim @richardkimnyc.bsky.social · Aug 22
Dear friends, especially those in journalism & fellow New Yorkers, while I appreciate the comic gesture, going forward please desist from sending me bags of Sour Cream & Onion potato chips.

I done already done had Herr's.

In lieu of chips, you can donate here: donorbox.org/nycdonate
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August 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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@jamellebouie.net nails the problem with the Very Serious Pundits who just make up a (usually black) DC resident as a shield for their own thoughts on crime: (reposting with alt text and gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Still, President Trump’s obvious indifference to the actual work of preventing criminal victimization has not stopped some professional political observers from defending the occupation of Washington on the grounds that there is crime in the city. “I have no doubt that Trump enjoys targeting Democratic-controlled cities for embarrassment,” Michael Powell wrote in The Atlantic, conceding that this deployment is pretextual. But, he added, “I also have little doubt that a mother in Ward 8 might draw comfort from a National Guard soldier standing watch near her child’s school.” Ward 8 is a disproportionately low-income area of Washington that covers the southernmost quadrant of the city, where the violent crime rate is significantly higher than it is in other parts of the city. One assumes that there are actual residents of the area you could speak with to understand their view of the situation. There’s no reason to ventriloquize an imagined person when there are real ones with thoughts to share.
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
FFS, can we please not make the 3/5 clause great again?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 15
Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."
August 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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aljazeera.com
Johnson becomes the highest-ranking US official to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson visits Israeli West Bank settlement
Johnson becomes the highest-ranking US official to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Trump’s Texas gerrymander would give Republicans nearly 80% of seats in state where he got 56% of vote

This is direct result of John Roberts & conservative SCOTUS majority gutting Voting Rights Act & refusing to stop blatant partisan gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Texas gerrymander Is supercharging a new war on democracy
Texas Republicans just unveiled a shocking plan to give their party five new House seats.
www.motherjones.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
I’m going to go poison some pigeons in the park in tribute to him. (Look it up.) He made us laugh and think. Thank you, Tom.
July 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Pro-Israel politics have so warped the priorities of the Jewish institutional world that the World Jewish Congress is praising Trump's decision to withdraw from UNESCO... even though the Director-General of UNESCO, a French Moroccan Mizrahi Jew, says this will hobble funding for Holocaust education.
"NEW YORK - Responding to the announcement that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Jewish Congress released the following statement: “The World Jewish Congress welcomes the ongoing efforts of the U.S. administration to address and rectify the unfortunate, long-standing bias against Israel within the United Nations system. “We view today’s decision by the United States to withdraw from UNESCO as consistent with its stated goals." "The US returned to Unesco in 2023 under Joe Biden. The Biden administration said it was crucial to rejoin in order to counter “Chinese influence”. Beijing had become the organisation’s biggest financial backer in Washington’s absence. As a condition of readmission, the US agreed to pay about $619m in unpaid dues and make contributions to programmes supporting education access initiatives in Africa, Holocaust remembrance and journalists’ safety. In 2011, Unesco voted to admit Palestine, which is not formally recognised by the US or Israel as a UN member state. The Barack Obama White House had cut Unesco contributions, resulting in the US owing millions in arrears to the organisation. Audrey Azoulay, the director general of Unesco, said: “However regrettable, this announcement was anticipated and Unesco has prepared for it.” Azoulay said she “deeply” regretted Trump’s decision to leave, saying the move “contradicts the fundamental principles of multilateralism”. She said the reasons given by the US for leaving were the same as during Trump’s first term, and she disputed them. “These claims contradict the reality of Unesco’s efforts, particularly in the field of Holocaust education and the fight against antisemitism.”"
July 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Oh my God.
July 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Trump just opened an American concentration camp, has heavily armed, masked forces grab moms in parking lots and sent migrants to certain death in Sudan (SUDAN!!) but it's the democrats fault we are where we are!? COME ON NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
Can Democrats Find Their Way on Immigration? The party’s leftward shift in the Biden administration arguably laid the groundwork for President Trump’s aggressive approach. Deciding the next move won’t be easy.
July 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
alisasolomon.bsky.social
Not just bothsidesism, but bothsidesism about their own unethical practice. tl;dr: We reported a politically motivated smear story. Those who want to capitalize on the smear liked it; others didn’t.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/n...
Mamdani Once Claimed to Be Asian and African American. Should It Matter?
www.nytimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Consulting on ethnic cleansing.
henrymance.ft.com Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Jul 4
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM