Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
poetry, teaching, good trouble. proud member PSC-CUNY and JVP. all my humor is situational. Poetry collection, Dear Mother, out soon: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear-mother-laura-tanenbaum/
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Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
the thinness of this is clear from the start: "We" do not ignore the vengeance in Purim story or Hagar; there is a rich interpretive tradition about both. the thinness of the Zionist-centric Jewish education you got doesn't mean other things don't exist.
I get what this article is going for, but it's waaaaay too surface-level and doesn't acknowledge the great anti-Zionist and Zionism-skeptical literature that American Jews have produced
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
the thinness of this is clear from the start: "We" do not ignore the vengeance in Purim story or Hagar; there is a rich interpretive tradition about both. the thinness of the Zionist-centric Jewish education you got doesn't mean other things don't exist.
Need that tap the sign meme with "it has come to my attention that people have been opining on Jewish literature who have not read Jews Without Money or @blbalthaser.bsky.social's scholarship and this must be rectified"
I get what this article is going for, but it's waaaaay too surface-level and doesn't acknowledge the great anti-Zionist and Zionism-skeptical literature that American Jews have produced
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man)
archive.is/SxCDn
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Need that tap the sign meme with "it has come to my attention that people have been opining on Jewish literature who have not read Jews Without Money or @blbalthaser.bsky.social's scholarship and this must be rectified"
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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The PSC is proud to congratulate Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and every member who helped elect him, and fired up to continue the struggle for a New York we can all afford.
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Mayor Mamdani - PSC CUNY
Mayor Mamdani | What’s next? A Message from PSC President James Davis Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor with a massive voter turnout and a clear
psc-cuny.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The PSC is proud to congratulate Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and every member who helped elect him, and fired up to continue the struggle for a New York we can all afford.
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read the full statement from PSC President James Davis here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
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Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Today is the day to elect “a socialist who’s young & lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, & knows how to do social media, & has moral clarity” ❤️🗽
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Today is the day to elect “a socialist who’s young & lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, & knows how to do social media, & has moral clarity” ❤️🗽
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
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meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
A University of Chicago professor who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death.
www.fox32chicago.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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"Do these rabbis ever think about what message that sends to the women in their own congregations who are being sexually harassed, who might look to a rabbi for pastoral care? ... It says it is much less important to you than the principle of ensuring that Israel never faces accountability..."
What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?
They care more about preserving Israeli impunity than opposing sexual harassment, combatting anti-Muslim bigotry, or even defending American democracy.
peterbeinart.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Do these rabbis ever think about what message that sends to the women in their own congregations who are being sexually harassed, who might look to a rabbi for pastoral care? ... It says it is much less important to you than the principle of ensuring that Israel never faces accountability..."
We watched Princess bride the other night so now my kids call him “Dr sturgis and the inconceivable guy”
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We watched Princess bride the other night so now my kids call him “Dr sturgis and the inconceivable guy”
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The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today 🗽💞
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Brooklyn Leader Rabbi Moishe Indig Set to Endorse Zoran Mamdani for NYC Mayor | Williamsburg 365
www.williamsburg365.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today 🗽💞
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg!
www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
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BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.
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𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
This Sunday, the PSC will join NYC unions & community orgs for a citywide GOTV rally & canvass. We will gather at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, near the flagpole by 41st & 6th Ave.
Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/peo...
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A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
feed thy neighbor.
mutual aid in times of invented crisis.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
I'm a nobody so I can say this outloud: Zohran is wonderful, running a positive campaign but part of the joy is that seeing Cuomo fall reminds us that all petty tyrants fall, whether from elections, prisons, revolutions or the big sleep. Bullies out of power remind us there are really are no kings.
“And doesn’t everyone remember? Don’t they remember when he was younger, when we all were, when he was in charge? Don’t they remember that New York — where he was feared and respected and feared and ascendant and feared and inevitable and occasionally beloved?”
This NYT evisceration of Cuomo could double as his political tombstone. Here’s hoping! (Gift link, unless I did it wrong.)
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I'm a nobody so I can say this outloud: Zohran is wonderful, running a positive campaign but part of the joy is that seeing Cuomo fall reminds us that all petty tyrants fall, whether from elections, prisons, revolutions or the big sleep. Bullies out of power remind us there are really are no kings.
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Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social!
Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG
#NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV
Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG
#NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social!
Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG
#NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV
Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG
#NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV
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Listen you all, I have my share of disagreements with both of these communities.
But, keep in mind: those are the most visible Jews, which means they are usually the ones who suffer a lot directly when there is a rise of antisemitism.
Make of it what you wish, that they would not release such a >
But, keep in mind: those are the most visible Jews, which means they are usually the ones who suffer a lot directly when there is a rise of antisemitism.
Make of it what you wish, that they would not release such a >
The Satmar community is condemning those who are calling @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social antisemitic:
"In the streets there is a fear and hate campaign against Zohran Mamdani,
Portraying him as if he is against Jews,
IT IS FALSE, AND SUCH A CAMPAIGN IS DANGEROUS AND AGAINST THE TORAH WAY."
"In the streets there is a fear and hate campaign against Zohran Mamdani,
Portraying him as if he is against Jews,
IT IS FALSE, AND SUCH A CAMPAIGN IS DANGEROUS AND AGAINST THE TORAH WAY."
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Listen you all, I have my share of disagreements with both of these communities.
But, keep in mind: those are the most visible Jews, which means they are usually the ones who suffer a lot directly when there is a rise of antisemitism.
Make of it what you wish, that they would not release such a >
But, keep in mind: those are the most visible Jews, which means they are usually the ones who suffer a lot directly when there is a rise of antisemitism.
Make of it what you wish, that they would not release such a >
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Tomorrow (10/30) will be our fourth weekly fast in solidarity with Gaza. Then next Weds (11/5) will mark one month of weekly fasts! We will be joined by special guest Robin D.G. Kelley in front of the GC, and then proceed indoors for an Iftar potluck. Sign up here tinyurl.com/CUNYSolidari...
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tomorrow (10/30) will be our fourth weekly fast in solidarity with Gaza. Then next Weds (11/5) will mark one month of weekly fasts! We will be joined by special guest Robin D.G. Kelley in front of the GC, and then proceed indoors for an Iftar potluck. Sign up here tinyurl.com/CUNYSolidari...
I’m no Torah scholar but last week was Noah and sometimes I understand why god gets so fed up with humans most of the time
TFW when you stan Zionism so hard you start to hate the Jews in yr city
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’m no Torah scholar but last week was Noah and sometimes I understand why god gets so fed up with humans most of the time
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Arturo Enamorado III, a PSC Delegate from @cunykcc.bsky.social & mber of PSC’s Legislation Comm, made our case for electing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social mayor in front of a crowd of 10,000 yesterday in Queens. Arturo was part of a group of union speakers who kicked off the NY is Not for Sale rally.
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Arturo Enamorado III, a PSC Delegate from @cunykcc.bsky.social & mber of PSC’s Legislation Comm, made our case for electing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social mayor in front of a crowd of 10,000 yesterday in Queens. Arturo was part of a group of union speakers who kicked off the NY is Not for Sale rally.
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I particularly liked the @jfrejnyc.bsky.social voter guide because they don't weigh in one way or another, but lay out the terrain and provide some more useful resources for further research
JFREJ’s November 2025 Voter Guide
Resources to understand what’s on your ballot and how to vote.
www.jfrej.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I particularly liked the @jfrejnyc.bsky.social voter guide because they don't weigh in one way or another, but lay out the terrain and provide some more useful resources for further research
Fascism comes to my home town, which I thought of as the epitome of boring white suburbia when I was a kid. In some ways it's probably harder to protect people in these more spread out places. solidarity with everyone fighting in all the places
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Fascism comes to my home town, which I thought of as the epitome of boring white suburbia when I was a kid. In some ways it's probably harder to protect people in these more spread out places. solidarity with everyone fighting in all the places
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Let’s make Rudra’s birthday wish come true. Register to vote by 11:59pm tonight!
zohranfornyc.com/register
zohranfornyc.com/register
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Let’s make Rudra’s birthday wish come true. Register to vote by 11:59pm tonight!
zohranfornyc.com/register
zohranfornyc.com/register
Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
Dear Mother / Laura Tanenbaum | Main Street Rag
mainstreetragbookstore.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
Reposted by Laura Tanenbaum
𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
PSC members are campaigning to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor and to support @cuny.edu champions running for citywide office, borough president and City Council.
Learn more: psc-cuny.org/issues/endor...
PSC members are campaigning to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor and to support @cuny.edu champions running for citywide office, borough president and City Council.
Learn more: psc-cuny.org/issues/endor...
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
PSC members are campaigning to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor and to support @cuny.edu champions running for citywide office, borough president and City Council.
Learn more: psc-cuny.org/issues/endor...
PSC members are campaigning to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor and to support @cuny.edu champions running for citywide office, borough president and City Council.
Learn more: psc-cuny.org/issues/endor...