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Scary Mr. Olmec Man
@scarymrolmecman.bsky.social
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Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。
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lol good lord
Goldstein: Do I detect a tone of sympathy for Minouche Shafik? Mamdani: Sympathy? I don’t know about sympathy, but it’s an understanding. It’s like my understanding of Idi Amin. I understand that once Idi Amin realized what he was supposed to become, which is a grateful stooge, he rebelled and threw out his masters. She resigned.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Oh ok so it's DEFINITELY bullshit
Mueller She Wrote bullshiting as she always does about some Epstein revelation
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Please free Ottawa from this suburban tyranny
A map of who voted for and against Sutcliffe's Icetown, Lansdowne 2.0. Everyone from actual Ottawa voted no, everyone from the suburbs voted yes.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Look at all these curiously indirect verbs! "Traffics in rhetoric" and "aligns with movements"...the odd specificity of "the Jewish right to national self-determination." This is not how an honest person communicates.
The city that long stood as the beating heart of American Jewish life, creative, intellectual, and spiritual, has elected a man who denies the Jewish right to national self-determination, traffics in rhetoric that isolates our community, and aligns with movements hostile to Jewish safety and dignity.
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I want you to stop and think about a rabbi whose conception of the Jewish community assumes that everyone can just buy a house in the Hamptons.
Tweet from Rabbi Marc Schneier: "With the news of @ZohranKMamdani mayoral victory, I am announcing plans for the building of the first Jewish day school in the Hamptons. This is in anticipation of the thousands of Jewish families that will flock to the Hamptons and greater Suffolk County to escape the antisemitic climate of Mamdani’s New York City."
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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That's RIGHT ELLA, TALK👏THAT👏SHIT👏
Tweet from Ella Devi, the young woman who joked about not recognizing Wallace Shawn: "btw everyone who trolled me for this tweet can suck a fuck because i got to be part of a winning mayoral campaign at 18 yrs old and you all were just lying in your beds tweeting at me. i was getting up at 4AM to canvass at 6AM in freezing cold weather. y'all r old AND lazy"
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The guys who obviously promised Eric Adams stuff to Eric Adams after this result
Disappearing guy meme
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Fleeing socialism by moving to...Hoboken
"Honestly I’ve given that a lot of thought—and he’s definitely going to win—going to like Hoboken or Jersey City or something…" [alleged rapist, exploitative boss, and sports parasite Dave] Portnoy said when asked about where he would move Barstool if, or when, Mamdani wins.
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Good shit from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social: www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
When the neocons realized they couldn’t beat him, they joined him. They decided not to go the NeverTrump route because they could see it was a political dead end and instead joined in. They were mostly the neocon lowbrows, not dynasts like Bill Kristol or mandarins like David Frum, for whom Trump remained too coarse. The Boca Raton wing didn’t mind the demagogy and actually quite liked it when it was directed at Muslims and blacks. It seemed like they got a good deal, for a while: Trump was, as they say, “good for Israel.” Neocons love to quote Churchill and warn against the dangers of appeasement. Well, I have a Churchill quote for them: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This guy probably imagines himself an informed voter
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I don't even disagree with MGP here, but you cannot build a politics around this penny ante shit, and it's all people like her and Jared Golden have.
Tweet from MGP: "My kid just got his first gusher bloody nose. Thank you Daylight Savings Time for this annual rug pull. And it’s not just about tired kids bumping into shit - research shows car and other accidents spike in the days and weeks following the time change. Nothing personal against Ben Franklin, but it’s TIME to stop changing the clocks twice a year."
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Some feed serendipity...
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Me, a Jewish person, trying to explain to my wife how we're related to some "cousins"
Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia pointing madly at a complicated conspiracy corkboard
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Jets finally won!
Moe from The Simpsons saying "Not today, old friend" to a noose
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Every day Jeffries refuses to endorse, he is signaling that he is open to this vileness
Tweet from @nick_garber: "Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning: "God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks. "He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem.""
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It should be more damning that Cuomo very obviously can get nobody competent working for him.
A Cuomo tweet with the single most confusing graphic for how to vote that I have ever seen.
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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This quote struck me because it's also saying, hey, this is someone who feels no obligations to anybody else, you know, a sociopath.
The journalist Vicky Ward, whom Kraus befriended during the Maxwell trial, told me that one of Kraus’s strengths is that she’s “a completely free spirit” and “not beholden to anyone.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This passage is quite striking, because Cosgrove outlines how many young Jews feel quite accurately, and instead of addressing those concerns, he makes up some nonsense about how we want to assimilate. He does not take our Judaism at all seriously. Well, good luck with that!
Who are these Jews about whom I speak? First, in many cases, they have grown up with an Israeli prime minister with whom they not only do not identify, but who represents the very antithesis of every other liberal Jewish value they hold dear. They don’t want anything to do with Netanyahu or the vision of Israel that he and his government represent. For them, Mamdani’s rejection of Israel may be a difference, but it is one of degree, not in kind. Second, these Jews feel strongly that they are not voting for the “Mayor of Jerusalem" and therefore local issues preempt everything else – like finding a job and living well in the city in which they were born without having to spend 50% of their monthly paycheck on rent. Third, the Cuomo you see as a commonsense experienced candidate – who, like any politician, comes with both personal and professional baggage – they see as an exemplar of the same-old, same-old tired politics in desperate need of being rejected. Now you may disagree, with one, two, or all three of these premises, but remember, it is not you who needs to be convinced. People’s perceptions are their realities, and you can’t tell a person how they feel. For a young professional who just wants to live a frictionless Jewish existence, who would like nothing more than to return to a pre-October-7th life when being a Jew was a nonevent, it is infinitely more appealing to keep one’s head down and vote for the candidate who is believed to be the one who will do the greatest good for greatest number of New Yorkers, no matter how preposterous some of his proposals are. It is just plain easier to do so, even if that means putting issues of Jewish concern second, even if that candidate lacks the credentials to run my fantasy football league, never mind the most complicated city in America.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Uh, about that, Professor Frye
Northrop Frye, "The Nature of Satire": "All humour demands common agreement that certain things, such as a picture of a wife beating her husband in a comic strip, are funny. "
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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hahaha, oh Cuomo is *cooked* cooked states.aarp.org/new-york/new...
From the write-up for an AARP poll of the NYC mayoral race: "Undecided voters 50+ are the key to the stretch run of the race. Voters 50+ are undecided at much higher rates than younger voters, with 49% of voters 65+ still undecided. And among older voters, cost of living and cost of health care issues are top of mind."
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Define "perfect ending"
Ending of "Beau Travail"
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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"some misadventures"
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I know this sounds like a wild idea right now, but you're actually supposed to have higher standards for conduct? As the Vice President?
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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This from @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines is appropriately brutal (sorry for no alt-text, copy and paste is disabled for my copy and I ain't typing all that)
October 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM