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The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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allinwithchris.bsky.social
Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjt9...
‘They’re spending more than I’d tax them’: Mamdani SLAMS mega-donors funding Cuomo
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Oct 22
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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riseandresist.bsky.social
🪧NO KINGS NYC
📍 47th & Bwy
📍 The red steps
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 Sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.com

This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
There is no rally.
The march will start at W 47th St & Broadway.
The march route is south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
Spread the word!
NO KINGS SINCE 1776
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.
October 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"To my colleagues in mainstream media: your silence is complicity. Your 'boths-sides-ism' is complicty. Your euphemisms for genocide is complicity."

From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.

Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Really good essay by Mary Turfah out today in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: “From this self-centering stems the logical outgrowth that a photo could so galvanize the American public as to stop a colonial war. That’s not how colonial wars work.”
The Rest Is History | Los Angeles Review of Books
Mary Turfah writes on Gaza and the limits of the war photograph, in an essay from the upcoming issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
lareviewofbooks.org
August 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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bbkogan.bsky.social
This is going to cause so many otherwise-preventable deaths. We are literally voluntarily giving up a future with less death, less suffering, less loss, less hardship.
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA WASHINGTON, DC-AUGUST 5, 2025-The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency. "We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We're shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate." The wind-down affects a range of programs including: • Cancellation of BARDA's award to Moderna/UTMB for an mRNA-based H5N1 vaccine. • Termination of contracts with Emory University and Tiba Biotech. • De-scoping of mRNA-related work in existing contracts with Luminary Labs, ModeX, and Seqirus. • Rejection or cancellation of multiple pre-award solicitations, including proposals from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, CSL Seqirus, Gritstone, and others, as part of BARDA's Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) and VITAL Hub. • Restructuring of collaborations with DoD-JPEO, affecting nucleic acid-based vaccine projects with AAHI, AstraZeneca, and HDT Bio.
August 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I don't care about your politics or your ideology or who you voted for in the last election -- if you can't agree with the simple statement "blocking food assistance from starving children in Gaza is a bad thing," you are unequivocally a shitty person.
July 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This is beyond unconscionable. How can we stop this?
agawande.bsky.social Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jun 25
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19

Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one.

#PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thousands across the US protest Trump, again
Demonstrations, taking place on the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War, addressed a range of grievances.
www.bbc.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
lorienovak.bsky.social
Thank you @booker.senate.gov. What are you doing @schumer.senate.gov ?
booker.senate.gov Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · Mar 31
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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thenation.com
When MSNBC canceled Joy Reid's show, it did even more than silence a great host—it silenced the next generation of Black media voices. So writes @elienyc.bsky.social, who knows a few things about Reid's talent for nurturing talent: She helped birth his TV career.
The Value of Joy
By canceling Joy Reid’s cable news show, MSNBC has not only silenced a brilliant host: It’s silenced the next Black voice you haven’t yet heard.
www.thenation.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Holy shit. Jeff Bezos is turning the Washington Post editorial page into.... the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff
February 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Last night, 217 of the 218 House Republicans voted to take your money and give it to billionaires. If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you TODAY — tell your GOP representative that you don’t want to pay the price for their billionaire tax breaks. 👇
CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
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February 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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nilc.org
Over the next 4 years, the Trump administration will continue its attacks on our communities. It’s our shared responsibility to care for one another and protect our neighbors.

To prepare for Trump 2.0, here are 5 steps immigrants can take now👉
5 ways immigrants can prepare for 4 more years of Trump Know your rights Everyone living in the U.S. has certain basic rights under the U.S. Constitution, and it’s important that we all assert and protect those rights. Explore NILC’s Know Your Rights resources at www.nilc.org. Put together a family preparedness plan This might include emergency phone numbers and family contact information, childcare plans, and a file of important documents should you need it. Consider consulting an immigration attorney An attorney can help address specific concerns, including whether it’s possible to adjust your immigration status and what to do if you encounter immigration enforcement. If your state has inclusive driver's license policies, consider applying for one A driver’s license provides valid identification and helps reduce the risk of entering the criminal justice system if stopped by authorities. Connect with a grassroots advocacy group in your city or state This administration wants to divide and distract us, isolating us from each other and instilling fear. To defend one another and our neighbors, we need community and solidarity.
January 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM