Rabbi Iris Richman

Apparently @nytimes.com doesn’t even recognize actual shit when they see it - let alone when the president pretends he’s like a gorilla, flinging it - and hope we won’t

Apparently @nytimes.com doesn’t even recognize actual shit when they see it - let alone when the president pretends he’s like a gorilla, flinging it - and hope we won’t

A tweet from Roy Drones Jr reads: “Remember when the right wing got upset about a vaccine card.” Below it, a retweeted post from Majority Report says: “ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair… I’m a resident.’” The image shows a man outdoors holding up a yellow citation ticket toward the camera, his face partially obscured. He appears to be wearing a dark jacket and sunglasses, with buildings and a bright blue sky in the background.

We are becoming a “papers, please” country, and no one should want that.

Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents In what appears to be a first under the current Trump administration, federal agents targeted migrants just outside a shelter.

NEW: A dozen federal agents in tactical gear arrested several people outside the Row Hotel, a shelter for migrant families, in Midtown Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves among residents living above.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...

Plus ça change …

Didn’t we get Trump as president because some leader said “we finally beat Medicare”? Asking for a friend

Your efforts are exceptional and laudable! I think you’ll see though, that this is an afterthought opportunity for second class status. Perhaps it will be clearer as we see the days on which the next events are held…

remember when cuomo took NYC's subway money and gave it to his friends to make a ski lodge or whatever bc i remember and i'll never forget or forgive lol

I would love for you to be right about that. In any event, many thanks!

I’m very impressed! Thank you! But I’m unconvinced that it’s an accident on their part

I’m very sorry to hear it and sadly, not surprised. Observant Jews will not be on line on the Sabbath. It really pains me to be on the sidelines for all this. Thanks so much for reaching out!!

Price increases for "things" under Donald Trump:

Coffee is up 26%
Baby strollers are up 25%
Beef is up 14%
School supplies are up 7%
Electricity is up 5%

Car prices are at a RECORD high.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, health insurance premiums are about to DOUBLE.

The North Carolina Supreme court elections of 2020 & 2022, where the GOP flipped *4* seats, have proved extraordinarily consequential in the following years. It's allowed Republicans to gerrymander their way from a 7-7 map to now a 11-3 map.

The North Carolina GOP's maneuver to flip NC-1 through gerrymandering would put Democrat Don Davis in a very tough spot, in a district Trump carried by double-digits:

Nice that you did that, but the fact remains that there has been no outreach from the organizers to observant Jews during all of these events.

Sadly you are mistaken on this

Not exactly. These events are all taking place during the Sabbath, not after it’s over.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Eric Adams Could Blow Up Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Landlords want him to Zohran-proof more than 1 million apartments.

Odds that Adams *won’t* do this? Probably around zero

nymag.com/intelligence...

The GOP treats adults like children and children like adults.

Like every other one of these organized protests. Coincidence?

It's Shabbos

“Kids”

And yet again a massive protest in NYC is scheduled on a Saturday morning when many Jews are in shul.

I’m not saying don’t do Saturday. But would Saturday at 2 be so bad? Give the Jews a chance to daven. Don’t ask us to choose between Shabbat services and praying with our feet. Especially in NYC ☹️

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

When Aaron Fucking Rupar is doing more reporting than CBS News and The NYT

I think this was a plotline on the second season of The Newsroom

Israel prepares to welcome the last living hostages from Gaza as a ceasefire holds Hamas has released a list of the 20 living hostages it will release as part of the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire.

BREAKING: Hamas releases a list of the 20 living hostages it will release as part of the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire. The list comes as hostages and Palestinians prisoners were expected to be released Monday.

Nothing to see here

It would really behoove Americans, who live in a vast country of over 300 million people, to remind themselves that Israel is a tiny country the size of New Jersey with a population of less than 10 million.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...