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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

We felt it in Teaneck - the whole house shook! I’ve already filled out the form. It was wild - all the neighbors felt it.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

"“God’s name is being desecrated through our sins,” Rabbi Amital wrote nearly five decades ago. “Is it possible to remain silent?!” Today, his challenge tragically rings just as true."

My words in the Forward today (appropriately on Rav Amital’s yahrtzeit)

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Gaza is starving Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.

I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:

It was excellent - thanks to both of you!

Digital collage of slices of tree bark in a stack

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Brad with Zohran Mamdani at the Pride parade.

Yesterday I was so PROUD to stand with LGBTQ+ New Yorkers alongside my friend and our Democratic nominee for Mayor, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

Photo of a path on Bainbridge Island

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Walking on Bainbridge Island

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Editorial: Don't rank Andrew Cuomo Four years after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo resigned in disgrace, New York City's Democratic voters should look elsewhere for leadership.

The New York Times gets it wrong. It takes an out-of-town newspaper to get it right www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

A digital collage of trees and flowers in vibrant oranges and greens.

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Shadow of my house falling on the house next door - golden light and blue sky.

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View from my window on a golden afternoon

During the past several days, Israel has intensified its attacks on Gaza, following more than ten weeks during which it blocked all entry of aid and other goods to the Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement last night that Israel will allow entry of “a basic amount of food for the population” in order to continue the war demonstrates that Israel has no intention to stop its unlawful use of aid as a lever of political pressure. Every day, the Israeli army is killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza. All residents of the Strip are at risk of famine, while the healthcare system is collapsing due to severe shortages of medicine, medical equipment, and fuel. Israel is deliberately inflicting conditions that make life impossible in Gaza, with the declared goal of carrying out ethnic cleansing. Israel must stop the attacks and allow immediate entry of aid! The plan being formulated by the US and Israel for distribution of goods does not meet gaping humanitarian needs created by the blockade and widespread attacks. The UN and other international humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza have categorically rejected the plan on the grounds that it does not adhere to basic humanitarian principles. Israel has openly declared that the plan aims to advance its goals of expanding its physical presence in Gaza and forcibly transferring the civilian population. Israel’s commission of war crimes, which could also amount to crimes against humanity, must not be met with continued silence and inaction by the international community. We call again for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages. Simultaneously, Israel must immediately stop its attacks, cease its policy of starvation, open the crossings for entry of aid to Gaza, and allow aid organizations in the Strip to carry out their work.

Virtually all human rights organizations in Israel call the government to halt its attacks and open the crossings for aid. This is from 19th May. Signed by B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Gisha, Mizrahi Civic Collective, Mothers Against Violence, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Yesh Din, etc.

Why has he voted to confirm any of Trump's nominees?

Genocide. Yes. We are doing this. We, the Israeli people, are committing the appalling and indefensible act of destroying the people of Gaza.

We, Jews have a hard time hearing that our people are the perpetrators of genocide. We tend to prefer seeing ourselves as the victims. Nevertheless, we must face this hard truth. What we, the Jewish State, are doing in Gaza is unconscionable. And it must stop. open.substack.com/pub/elanaszt...

I was a history teacher and I know we have to be documenting this moment. When we look back, I don’t want us to say we didn’t know what was happening.

Stephen Miller, probably the most joyless man in America, wants to take away one of our most foundational rights, habeas corpus.

A photo of the trunk of the maple tree in my yard - texture giving it the impression of a face in the tree

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Power lines across a blue, blue sky - with the remains of a tree limb suspended in air.

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I really think you should be required to post the recipe when you post photos like this!

Thank you!

Nine photos of the same blue egg on various green Color-aid papers, arranged in a square.

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Photos of the same blue egg on various shades of green Color-aid paper.

Yes, layering the same image, but rotated slightly for each layer - thank you!

Thank you!

Maple tree with fall foliage vibrant against a blue sky

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The maple tree from my window - earth in motion

A digital collage of white flowers floating in the blue sky

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Dreamy flowers floating in a blue sky

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Collage of photos from a trip to Oakland, CA with a Caribbean tint to it.

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Photos from a trip to Oakland ...

A photo of orchids in the sun, digitally enhanced to give a watercolor effect

Orchids in sunlight.
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