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Nonprofit x Political x Digital Strategy + Activation | Design | Journalism | Work: AP, NWU, Stand Up For Science, National Writers Union, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Melina Abdullah, Cat Brooks, Noelle Cook • philmandelbaum.com • aka @awkword.bsky.social

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More than than 25% of those unemployed have 4-year college degrees. Before Trump, this had *never* happened.

25.11.2025 13:58 — 👍 166    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 1
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.

24.11.2025 23:17 — 👍 4588    🔁 935    💬 84    📌 120
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Pardoned J6er punched in the face after Quran burning fails at anti-Muslim protest Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, was punched in the face while leading a march against Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan.Before the Dearborn protest began, Lang arrived on a bus obtained from a former...

Pardoned J6er punched in the face after Quran burning fails at anti-Muslim protest

www.rawstory.com/trump-promis...

19.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3
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They are pushing hard for war. All legacy media outlets have been doing this for two days. Trump will likely tank any potential talks with Maduro and blame him for it.

This is what manufacturing consent looks like.

We've seen all of this before.

18.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 82    🔁 59    💬 5    📌 2
Rabbi Ellen Lippman speaking at a protest in support of freeing Mahmoud Khalil earlier this year

Rabbi Ellen Lippman speaking at a protest in support of freeing Mahmoud Khalil earlier this year

Katie Unger wearing a JFREJ shirt!

Katie Unger wearing a JFREJ shirt!

Rabbi Ellen Lippman's name highlighted on Mayor - Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Social Services Transition Team

Rabbi Ellen Lippman's name highlighted on Mayor - Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Social Services Transition Team

Katie Ungers name highlighted on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Community Organizing Transition Team

Katie Ungers name highlighted on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Community Organizing Transition Team

❣️Mabrook + Mazal Tov to JFREJ Board Members, @kungernyc.bsky.social & Rabbi Ellen Lippman, for their respective appointments to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s transition team & the more than a dozen other JFREJ members also named in this powerful list of NYers ready to roll up their sleeves & work!

25.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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Propaganda & Disinformation (Beginners) Understand how manipulative propaganda and new technologies can be used to influence our world

Propaganda is increasingly a global issue. Education in the forms it takes, levers and strategies deployed, has never been more important. I created this Udemy course to empower people to see through coordinated operations, understand influence and evaluate credibility. www.udemy.com/course/propa...

22.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of the three men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun.

#News #AhmaudArbery #Georgia

15.11.2025 03:22 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

23.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 554    🔁 457    💬 1    📌 10
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Is “ethical AI” possible? In which I discuss Luddites, skilled labor, and the difference between an LLM and a hammer.

Opinion on the potential and future of so-called "generative AI" is polarized to the point of hyperbole. But if you peel back the extremes, we're having an important debate.

My take on the ethics of AI.

conservechange.medium.com/is-ethical-a...

13.11.2025 21:58 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 3
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Commission registers European Citizens\' Initiative on the EU-Israel Association Agreement Today, the European Commission has registered the European Citizens\' Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel\'s violations of hu...

EU Commission registers European citizens initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU/Israel association agreement
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

25.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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Journalists Have Been Turning Into AI Slop For Years ChatGPT is the ideal employee

wrote about AI slop fraud in journalism, which is successful not because AI is magic superintelligence, but because journalism has already been hollowed out and turned into slop. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/journalist...

25.11.2025 15:16 — 👍 52    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 4

More than than 25% of those unemployed have 4-year college degrees. Before Trump, this had *never* happened.

25.11.2025 13:58 — 👍 166    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 1

Masked mercenaries are only able to kidnap people off our streets at random today because Democrats refused to defund ICE when they had the chance.

The same goes for the epidemic of police violence.

The movement against ICE should revitalize anti-police organizing.

crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

24.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 260    🔁 105    💬 4    📌 1

The sad but very real odds are that most of the folks who've lost their life due to police violence are likely sex-working trans BIPOC women and femme persons. Police are the #1 killers of sex workers. Always have been

#AbolishthePolice

24.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 51    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 1

“Down with woke,” they crowed.

24.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 47    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?

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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.

24.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 816    🔁 370    💬 35    📌 20
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“… About the raping, murdering, civilized aristocrats

Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash

Assailants for cash, plus control and domination

Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”

(2012! What’s changed?)

22.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 158    🔁 115    💬 10    📌 2
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FBI Caught Spying on Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists Keep a close eye on who’s joining your group chats.

Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.

This is a crisis.

22.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 777    🔁 456    💬 36    📌 20
Roblox players protest within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear

Roblox players protest within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear

The Kids are OK…

“As thousands took to the streets to protest ICE in the offline world — Roblox players protested within the game, battling cops, breaking down barricades, waving Mexican flags, and facing off across a line of players dressed in police SWAT gear”

www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...

16.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 675    🔁 228    💬 30    📌 9
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Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body - New Jersey Globe A 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the

“Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and [‘Trump Whore’] scrawled across her torso. She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head…

Nearly every detail was fabricated.”

Republicans:

20.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 193    🔁 121    💬 40    📌 9

Great watch 👇

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🚨 ⬇️ Must Watch ⬇️ 🚨

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GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)

I had a wonderful time speaking with @awkword.bsky.social about our current political moment, what we can do as individuals, and what we should watch out for as Trump loses his iron grip on the Republican party. Check it out if you would like to!

19.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 58    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 0
GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)
YouTube video by AWKWORD GLOBAL WARNING: Laura Jedeed (Ep 5)

“Trump is losing control of the Republican Party. And that's great. It seems like there's a lot of schisms. What worries me is I think people are sleeping on the fact that MAGA really isn't Trump… The energy that he has unleashed is here to stay."

- @laurajedeed.bsky.social

19.11.2025 19:29 — 👍 376    🔁 168    💬 24    📌 7
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)

“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”

- @emily.gorcen.ski

12.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 328    🔁 183    💬 11    📌 7
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How White Supremacist Fearmongering Broke Apart Black Lives Matter "Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the

The *real* story of Black Lives Matter

Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social

My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...

23.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 623    🔁 322    💬 25    📌 17
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“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”

16.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 144    🔁 97    💬 12    📌 1

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