Sara G. Marcus
@saragmarcus.bsky.social
Media Strategist at Stu Loeser & Co, opinions my own.
"Very cynical." -Ben Smith
"Very cynical." -Ben Smith
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The repeated instances of gunfire targeting a Jewish school in Toronto should not be confused with the repeated instances of firebombing targeting a synagogue in Montreal.
#Developing: Toronto Jewish girls school struck by gunfire again in third overnight shooting this year
Toronto Jewish girls school struck by gunfire again in third overnight shooting this year
The overnight shooting is similar two other incidents at the school over the last seven months.
www.thestar.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:23 PM
The repeated instances of gunfire targeting a Jewish school in Toronto should not be confused with the repeated instances of firebombing targeting a synagogue in Montreal.
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this is about 24 hours out of date now but it’s good work and if you are under the impression that House Dems are staying silent about the Mace/Johnson bathroom situation, perhaps because people keep lying to you about it, you should take a look.
This is a list of statements by House Democrats defending Sarah McBride.
It does not include statements of support that make no mention of the transphobic attacks against her, or statements about transphobia that are not directly relevant. It also does not include retweets/reposts.
It does not include statements of support that make no mention of the transphobic attacks against her, or statements about transphobia that are not directly relevant. It also does not include retweets/reposts.
November 21, 2024 at 12:07 PM
this is about 24 hours out of date now but it’s good work and if you are under the impression that House Dems are staying silent about the Mace/Johnson bathroom situation, perhaps because people keep lying to you about it, you should take a look.
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It has been a mistake for the broad left to cede religion to the right wing and carving out a space for vocal faith animated by helping rather than hurting people is a good thing.
November 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM
It has been a mistake for the broad left to cede religion to the right wing and carving out a space for vocal faith animated by helping rather than hurting people is a good thing.
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and liberal groups need to feel much more comfortable becoming "single issue" groups that focus primarily on their policy area, without feeling the need to entangle themselves in every fight all the time
this has been core to YIMBY strategy and i think the evidence is pretty strong in its favor
this has been core to YIMBY strategy and i think the evidence is pretty strong in its favor
November 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
and liberal groups need to feel much more comfortable becoming "single issue" groups that focus primarily on their policy area, without feeling the need to entangle themselves in every fight all the time
this has been core to YIMBY strategy and i think the evidence is pretty strong in its favor
this has been core to YIMBY strategy and i think the evidence is pretty strong in its favor
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I truly believe that NIMBYism, the ensuing crisis of housing supply in America’s cities, and its manifold, rippling, ramifying effects, amounts to slow seppuku by the Democratic Party.
vital political priority to get blue states to stop refusing to build housing. not only giving up electoral college votes to the GOP but clearly pushing many people to the right
November 8, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I truly believe that NIMBYism, the ensuing crisis of housing supply in America’s cities, and its manifold, rippling, ramifying effects, amounts to slow seppuku by the Democratic Party.
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Maybe prosperity is a soporific. Maybe the freedom from want (compared to previous generations) conjures up phantoms for us to fight against, like an auto immune disease of the soul.
November 6, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Maybe prosperity is a soporific. Maybe the freedom from want (compared to previous generations) conjures up phantoms for us to fight against, like an auto immune disease of the soul.
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This. Ultimately Trump won in the strangest way possible - promising a good economy to a multi-racial working class - and the only way to deliver on that is actually to not enact any of his campaign promises. Good luck!
trump rode a wave of dumb, caveman anger about inflation and social progress and he can reap the whirlwind of failure and incompetence when he not only can’t fix it, but makes it worse.
so, the thing is that trump has made a lot of wildly unpopular promises to wildly unpopular people who will expect him to deliver on day one. all of us know that. his supporters sort of do, sort of don’t. but those people going to try to collect on day one.
November 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
This. Ultimately Trump won in the strangest way possible - promising a good economy to a multi-racial working class - and the only way to deliver on that is actually to not enact any of his campaign promises. Good luck!
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I think that, more than anything else, is one of the greatest pieces of evidence that social media and the online world in general is fundamentally societally harmful. could it have happened without it? maybe. but it was absolutely the vector for enormous delusion
October 31, 2024 at 2:14 AM
I think that, more than anything else, is one of the greatest pieces of evidence that social media and the online world in general is fundamentally societally harmful. could it have happened without it? maybe. but it was absolutely the vector for enormous delusion
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"After former chief of staff John Kelly went on the record and said that Trump is a fascist, that he has expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler...the story was not featured on the front pages of the top 5 print outlets, including The New York Times, the paper that published the online exclusive"
As mainstream media said voters didn’t know Harris, top print newspapers’ front pages featured considerably more coverage of Trump www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
As mainstream media said voters didn’t know Harris, top print newspapers’ front pages featured considerably more coverage of Trump
www.mediamatters.org
November 4, 2024 at 9:37 PM
"After former chief of staff John Kelly went on the record and said that Trump is a fascist, that he has expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler...the story was not featured on the front pages of the top 5 print outlets, including The New York Times, the paper that published the online exclusive"
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OK, that's your take, you're not the only ones to think in these terms. But if that's the case, perhaps find a new name for yourselves, because Jewish Voice for Peace doesn't quite communicate the message
October 9, 2024 at 4:28 PM
OK, that's your take, you're not the only ones to think in these terms. But if that's the case, perhaps find a new name for yourselves, because Jewish Voice for Peace doesn't quite communicate the message
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mike dewine stands for a lot of things i oppose very deeply, but this exactly the kind of thing we need to be hearing from
conservative politicians. a full throated defense of pluralism, immigration and inclusion
conservative politicians. a full throated defense of pluralism, immigration and inclusion
Opinion | I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.
I have lived my entire life near this city. Our people and our history deserve better than to be falsely portrayed.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
mike dewine stands for a lot of things i oppose very deeply, but this exactly the kind of thing we need to be hearing from
conservative politicians. a full throated defense of pluralism, immigration and inclusion
conservative politicians. a full throated defense of pluralism, immigration and inclusion
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you know, a very good airport book would be something that took six long-term problems with dire consequences and showed how each one *was solved.*
I told a bunch of teens that included my own kid the other day that we fixed the ozone layer problem years ago with government policy
they were all like WHAAAAAT
tell the kids!!!! this shit works
they were all like WHAAAAAT
tell the kids!!!! this shit works
September 11, 2024 at 8:14 PM
you know, a very good airport book would be something that took six long-term problems with dire consequences and showed how each one *was solved.*
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homowack breakfast table, mamakating, new york, mamakating, new york, 1977
September 8, 2024 at 7:36 PM
homowack breakfast table, mamakating, new york, mamakating, new york, 1977
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always very fun to see people brainstorm every possible solution to “how do we lower housing prices” other than “build more housing”
August 9, 2024 at 7:13 PM
always very fun to see people brainstorm every possible solution to “how do we lower housing prices” other than “build more housing”
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They're all broadly similar on this issue, and the degree to which Shapiro's distinctiveness -- which, to the extent it is present, is relatively thin -- is being magnified far beyond what the evidence can bear smacks of hyperpolicing public and visible Jews bc they, specifically, are extra-suspect.
August 5, 2024 at 8:12 AM
They're all broadly similar on this issue, and the degree to which Shapiro's distinctiveness -- which, to the extent it is present, is relatively thin -- is being magnified far beyond what the evidence can bear smacks of hyperpolicing public and visible Jews bc they, specifically, are extra-suspect.
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The fact is that every plausible entry onto the Dem presidential ticket, Harris included, is materially indistinguishable along the axis of "aligned with Joe Biden's views on Israel", and yet it is no accident that Shapiro is having his record specifically pored over in the most merciless fashion.
August 5, 2024 at 7:51 AM
The fact is that every plausible entry onto the Dem presidential ticket, Harris included, is materially indistinguishable along the axis of "aligned with Joe Biden's views on Israel", and yet it is no accident that Shapiro is having his record specifically pored over in the most merciless fashion.
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My favorite is the DSA people who are like “oh that’s just the IC, they’re like the stepchild but they’re no big deal, just ignore them.” Like wait one second, why in the world should I be cool with an organization that tacitly tolerates this bullshit instead of excising it?
This is exactly why I'm not a DSA member.
"DSA IC Congratulates President Maduro on His Victory" - really?
"DSA IC Congratulates President Maduro on His Victory" - really?
July 30, 2024 at 9:50 PM
My favorite is the DSA people who are like “oh that’s just the IC, they’re like the stepchild but they’re no big deal, just ignore them.” Like wait one second, why in the world should I be cool with an organization that tacitly tolerates this bullshit instead of excising it?
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in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
July 14, 2024 at 10:42 PM
in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
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The show, ironically enough, was about censorship under Putin.
London gallery cancels Russian-Israeli artist’s anti-Putin show, objecting to her posts mourning Oct. 7 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Metamorphika studio said the artist’s posts failed to mention Palestinian victims.
www.jta.org
July 8, 2024 at 7:59 PM
The show, ironically enough, was about censorship under Putin.
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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a single Chinese solar panel factory worker has done more for the planet than the entirety of Just Stop Oil
June 19, 2024 at 5:59 PM
a single Chinese solar panel factory worker has done more for the planet than the entirety of Just Stop Oil
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He's not really over here anymore, but UMich Regent @jordanackermi.bsky.social 's offices were defaced with messages like "FUCK YOU ACKER” and "DIVEST NOW." Protesters had previously shown up at his house with "demands".
Acker is a publicly and prominently Jewish figure on the UM board.
Acker is a publicly and prominently Jewish figure on the UM board.
UMich Regent Jordan Acker's law office vandalized
The law office of U-M Regent Jordan Acker in Southfield was vandalized with calls for divestment from companies profiting from the ongoing Israeli military campaign in Gaza Monday morning.
www.michigandaily.com
June 4, 2024 at 6:13 PM
He's not really over here anymore, but UMich Regent @jordanackermi.bsky.social 's offices were defaced with messages like "FUCK YOU ACKER” and "DIVEST NOW." Protesters had previously shown up at his house with "demands".
Acker is a publicly and prominently Jewish figure on the UM board.
Acker is a publicly and prominently Jewish figure on the UM board.
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An exquisitely hurtful decision, made with no chance for appeal or public conversation/reflection, which benefits and honors exactly nobody, and it’s one I am seeing replicated across a number of apparently well-meaning leftist and progressive arts advocacy organizations.
May 30, 2024 at 4:05 PM
An exquisitely hurtful decision, made with no chance for appeal or public conversation/reflection, which benefits and honors exactly nobody, and it’s one I am seeing replicated across a number of apparently well-meaning leftist and progressive arts advocacy organizations.