Judith Baumel

This is a perfect (brilliant as well as funny) analysis of the “both sides” policy of the #NewYorkTimes

Ideas As Mamdani’s victory reverberates beyond NYC, _Jews must choose solidarity_ over shock

We did choose solidarity, that's why he won!!
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Zohran Mamdani on stage with Brad Landed at the 2025 Mazals

Mazel Tov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , Mazel Tov NYC 🎉🗽❤️

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📸 Zachary Schulman

Okay, but can Mamdani shore up the Mets’ rotation?

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The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka. The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…

The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.

Next Sunday! yetzirahpoets.org/yprograms/11...

📢 231 DAYS: How long CD7 has been without a voice.
🗳️ 37 DAYS: How long Rep. Grijalva has been elected.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Seat Grijalva NOW.
#SwearHerIn #SeatGrijalva #ReleaseTheFiles #AZIndivisibles

@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

6 JFREJ members and the Street Vendor Project standing together after marshalling!

JFREJ has had a busy week! Our safety team took to the streets to marshal the @streetvendorproj.bsky.social & @workersjusticep.bsky.social, urging city council to pass protections for vendors & deliveristas. Call your council rep to pass Intro 1332!

(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESN’T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

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...

#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

BREAKING: ICE unlawfully arrested E.J.C.C., a 16-year-old Bronx high schooler with protective SIJ status. ICE agents illegally detained him when he appeared for a mandatory, routine check in. Now, ICE is attempting to deport him to dangerous conditions in Ecuador.

We are filing for his release.

I just emailed Cuomo’s press person to clarify that he believes Mamdani would cheer for a 9/11-style terrorist attack. Stay tuned!

Here is the first service at the Tempio Maggiore after the liberation of Rome

Judith Baumel ~ This Moment - New World Writing Quarterly This Moment for the Piperno family 1. Blessed Is. There is no future without memory. There is no future without feeling fully the moment in which we live. At

82 years ago today German SS rounded up 1,200+ Roman Jews. Here’s a new poem about part of that story. Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for publishing on this painful anniversary and thanks to @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social for the inspiration and support. newworldwriting.net/judith-baume...

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Then they said "If you talk to anyone we will arrest you."

So, me and all the other court watchers sat in almost complete silence from ~9:30am until 11:00am when all the ICE agents suddenly got up and left.

"Though advocates say courthouse arrests have once again picked up again in the weeks since Labor Day." I can second this.

They have also recently deemed it illegal for anyone to talk to people coming for their court hearings, even in the hallways and waiting rooms.

Judge Slams ICE for Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza Lockup A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday, which extends capacity restrictions inside an ICE holding area at 26 Federal Plaza.

NEW: A federal judge Wednesday extended limits on the number of immigrants ICE can hold at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and requirements that it provide detainees with basic humanitarian needs and access to legal representation.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/i...

Huge group photo of canvassers at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Many are carrying signs that say "Jews for Zohran" and "Jews for Racial & Economic Justice."

About a dozen volunteers taking a group photo.

About 20 volunteers taking a group photo.

About a dozen volunteers taking group photo.

We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend.

There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.

Thanks to the editors of #GashmiusMagazine for their powerful drash. “May this year be a year of transformation, both within ourselves and in the world.
May all peoples be written in the Book of Life.
May we ‘choose Life’ together.”

#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.

Yew or Yetzirah | Gashmius

Thanks to Gashmius Magazine for putting my work in conversation with such great writers and artists www.gashmius.org/volume-5-1/y.... @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

Now at Hostages Square, calling for the release of all 48 hostages and ending the war.

📸 Lior Rotstein

Governor Pritzker isn’t playing— salt trucks form a blockade to block ICE — time to melt

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

This is a great book in a great translation

Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a restaurant.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

I’ve benn saying this since January www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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