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Dan "The Bear Jew" Lapidus M.Div.

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Author of "The Bear Jew" on Substack. Jew. Bible Scholar. Focus on how the NT cites the HB/OT and the power dynamics implied therein. Foodie. Chess player. Liberal. Depressed Chicago sports and Juventus fan. He/him/הוא/אתה

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I’ve been a bartender for 7 years—all different kinds or restaurants, all over the country. I’ve worked at two places with barista set ups and I get anxiety with anything more complex than black coffee or hot tea

11.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t really blame her. It worked for JD Vance

11.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Conspiracy Against America National Populism and the United States

I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.

othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...

10.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 511    🔁 94    💬 20    📌 8

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.

10.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 28697    🔁 5533    💬 836    📌 237

From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.

The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.

10.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 18041    🔁 4176    💬 870    📌 165

The one time Schumer's political instincts are right...

10.11.2025 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today in Chicago. My folder of videos of ICE agents losing their shit and pointing guns wildly at protesters grows. And that's just what's on camera.

08.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 141    🔁 57    💬 7    📌 1

When politics doesn't pay well, only the independently wealthy can participate

07.11.2025 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone once said they thought I was cute on there, and all I could think was “would be nice to know who you are”

07.11.2025 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was 13 in 2008, so my political consciousness is pretty much entirely formed by the white-lash against Barack Obama. I know that it was different in the past, but this is pretty much the only environment I know

07.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

on the one hand this is extremely tragic, because it means people don't remember how much we've lost. on the other hand, it does mean that someone like Mamdani who can break through and have both a positive message, and a chew with their mouth closed and actually be professional and adult stuns them

06.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 171    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 0

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has requested that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the now-former Prince, appear before Congress for a transcribed interview about Jeffrey Epstein.

07.11.2025 00:05 — 👍 4965    🔁 1154    💬 153    📌 64

The GOP is starving kids to shield perverts

07.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"A republic, if you can keep it." The "if you can keep it" part has been doing a lot of work over the last decade. Small-r republicanism is not a spectator sport, and I think too many of us forgot that until now. Martin O'Malley was right: there is no such thing as a spare American

07.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Let he who is not guilty cast the first hoagie.” - Jimmy John’s 8:7

06.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

APA style was dropped on its head as a child

06.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Turns out when you baste your brain in Nazi juices all the wrinkles smooth out and you get a job working for Bari Weiss

05.11.2025 03:29 — 👍 2150    🔁 92    💬 9    📌 1

The Lincoln Project guys have been pretty pro-Mamdani (perhaps not effusively, but tactically). Check out the Bulwark

05.11.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

05.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 15234    🔁 1997    💬 119    📌 64

i have been telling you all for years that suburban white women from Northern Virginia are the vanguard of American democracy

god bless the winemoms

05.11.2025 01:08 — 👍 773    🔁 88    💬 18    📌 4
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FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.

www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

05.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 1367    🔁 1953    💬 20    📌 117

History will not look kindly on people who can't imagine anything worse than losing an election–the electorate can, most politicians cannot

05.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every single boomer male rabbi somehow. Was it a required course at HUC?

05.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

05.11.2025 02:23 — 👍 6064    🔁 1583    💬 31    📌 58

We cover politics like we cover sports, and our mainstream sports journalism has been ass for a while now

05.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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During the fight against Prop 6 (a CA proposition to ban gays from teaching in public schools) Harvey Milk said “they vote for us 2-to-1 if they know they know one of us”. That still holds

05.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Transphobia doesn’t bring down egg prices

05.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.

"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-stunning...

05.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Now that Zohran has won, I would like to go back to ignoring NYC politics in peace…

Also hopefully this puts to bed any “Rahm 2028” BS

05.11.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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