Bill Russo

• 1, Krem, am Jewish. Members of my immediate family live in Israel. I love Shabbat and baking challah. My friends call me "Rabbi Krem", and I have personal relationships with both Rabbis on-island. • We are proud co-owners of a Martha's Vineyard business that deeply values its relationships with its partners, vendors, collaborators, and most importantly, its clientele. • We are a minority-owned (LGBTQ+) operation. Krem is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. • Prior to this incident, Good Pierogi had never refused service to anybody. • We stand against those who harm or seek to harm others as well as those that would defend them. • Finally, we don't back down to bullies - no matter their size. @good_pierogi

The level of effort Mr. Dershowitz is investing in this charade has led us to a singular conclusion: Our handcrafted pierogi, made with love from locally sourced ingredients, are so undeniably delicious, he'll do anything to get his hands on them. @good pierog!

Last part from Good Pierogi.

The farmers market vendor Dershowitz keeps crying about even though 3 others refused him service too. My name is Krem Miskevich. I am a chef, and together with my spouse Lily Rose, we co-own Good Pierogi, an Eastern European pop up currently operating on Martha's Vineyard. The business was born from a desire to connect my Polish heritage with local food growers and producers on-island, and to feed its residents and visitors. I want to directly address the incident that occurred last Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at the West Tisbury Farmers Market, which has garnered national attention, and more than a few fabricated and fallacious claims about the events and myself. @good_pierogi

The fuss affects not only me, my partner, and our business, but the other extremely hard-working vendors who come together Wednesdays and Saturdays to sell their wares from land and sea. The negative impact on them is unfair and I never intended for my decision to cause so much consternation to a community I deeply care about. The catalyst was our legally justified decision to not sell our pierogi to Alan Dershowitz, a figure recognized locally and nationally. When he came to our booth, I experienced a surge of emotion. As a chef, I love to share what I cook with the public, regardless of who they are. In this case, what was in the forefront of my mind was the fact that this was the high-profile attorney who represented several sexual predators and abusers including Jeffrey Epstein. @good_pierog!

I have no desire to argue about the legal system in the U.S., or one's right to a fair trial. But, I personally know too many sexual abuse survivors. Mr. Dershowitz consciously decided to befriend and defend men who have been accused of abusing and harming women. The food we make is a labor of love, it's our craft. In our minds and hearts, selling to Alan Dershowitz was the equivalent to supporting his decisions and statements. It caused me to pause and question my willingness to sell to him and when I did, he began to harass us, misgender me, and film us without our consent. @good_pierogi

In the days that followed, Mr. Dershowitz chose to execute a public smear campaign. If not for the traction gained from his one-sided, mythical storyline, we would have remained silent. However, the continued aggression and threats of groundless litigation have been followed by the distribution of defamatory flyers where we conduct business in an effort to cement further falsehoods. He has also taken to the internet and used the news media to circulate his fiction. I do not wish to argue with Mr. Dershowitz about Israel. But, to contextualize his hurtful rant, I think it would be helpful to share a bit about myself and our business: @good_pierog!

The owners of Good Pierogi, the chefs and vendor Dershowitz has been harassing, just posted a statement about the situation. I’ll post all 6. Last two in my reply.

He was passing out paper copies of this in person over the weekend - glad to see him doubling down on slander without a factual basis. So jazzed to buy a ton of pierogi on Wednesday.

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Tigers vs Phillies pitch tracker showing an umpire who doesn’t seem to know where the strike zone is

Seriously what gives with this ump

Pitch map for Phillies vs Tigers showing that tonight’s umpire apparently needs his strike zone to come with alt text as well because there were 3 called balls that should have been a strike.

The rare 4 strike walk.

So Dersh changes his whole pierogi story from one about politics to one about antisemitism… clearly without doing any research on who he was smearing!

Good Pierogi Private dining company on Martha's Vineyard and a traveling Eastern European pop up.

www.goodpierogi.com

A post from Dril in 2020 mocking Alan Dershowitz for posting embarassing content

There’s always a @dril.bsky.social post.

This guy is really gonna post through every single L he takes for the rest of his life. The best part is that he tried to get local cops to intervene and after awhile they told him "at this point you’re interfering with this business and that is a line we’re not crossing.”

I no longer think that headlines/framing/etc in mainstream news make a first-tier difference in prez elections. (At one time they did. See: James Comey letter Oct 2016.)

But headlines/ framing / etc are tells about the mentality of a news organization.

This is a pretty depressing tell.

If you are a federal worker or have insight into DOGE, please reach out. We can speak anonymously.

You can contact me securely on Signal at makenakelly.32

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

Imagine if news outlets opted to cover hurricanes like so many are choosing to cover Trump. www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...

In fact, US foreign aid represents some of the most effective humanitarian intervention the world has ever seen. It's also great diplomacy.

Much of it was put in place by GOP presidents, such as Bush's PEPFAR program, which has saved more than 26M lives.

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Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

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Weird Catholic convert: Google “ordo amoris”

Normal Catholic: I better go get some more baked ziti from the big tray before they do the raffle

Yesterday's would-be federal funding freeze fiasco was the first true test of the mainstream media's ability to cover the second Trump administration. It was an embarrassing failure. Adapt or die. Or, at the very least, die with some dignity.
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more and more people are saying it

The Eagles are now America’s team, because we are all that stand between Patrick Mahomes and victory. And he is simply too annoying for that to be allowed.

A grim prognosis, a gamble and one patient’s fight to defy cancer After a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and a prognosis of 16 months to live, Katie Doble didn’t know whether she should plan her wedding or her funeral.

Each year, thousands of Americans sit in doctor’s offices and receive gut-wrenching news. Their lives are speeding toward a cliff, and they face the most important decision they’ll ever make: follow a bleak path offered by their doctor or seek hope in the unknown by joining a clinical trial.

We are vastly more cooked than even the most well done tuna melt.

I helped write the Biden-Harris AI executive order – the one that President Trump has repealed.

The EO was a first step, but it was the most comprehensive policy governing AI in the US.

Like others, I've been sounding the alarm about the dangers of this exact moment.

A short 🧵 on what this means:

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Imagine that, a government that felt passionately about trying to save lives amidst the worst global health crisis in a century.

Best post so far on this site

Excerpt from an August 2020 BuzzFeed News story that reads: On July 22, a Facebook employee posted a message to the company’s internal misinformation policy group noting that some misinformation strikes against Breitbart had been cleared by someone at Facebook seemingly acting on the publication's behalf. “A Breitbart escalation marked ‘urgent: end of day’ was resolved on the same day, with all misinformation strikes against Breitbart’s page and against their domain cleared without explanation,” the employee wrote. The same employee said a partly false rating applied to an Instagram post from Charlie Kirk was flagged for “priority” escalation by Joel Kaplan, the company’s vice president of global public policy. Kaplan once served in George W. Bush’s administration and drew criticism for publicly supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial nomination to the Supreme Court.

In his video, Zuckerberg said "fact-checkers have just been too politically biased."

In reality, Facebook's own executives, namely Joel Kaplan, had been biased toward removing penalties from right-wing publishers.

Our story from 2020: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/crai...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Cover of 'An Ugly Truth' by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.

The latest move by Zuckerberg to wind back fact-checking at #Meta should be no surprise to anyone who's read 'An Ugly Truth' by @sheeraf.bsky.social and @nytceciliakang.bsky.social.

If you haven't, it's worth a look.

Honestly would have been more appropriate for Zuckerberg to have made his announcement yesterday so it was on the anniversary of an event his social media platforms helped foment.

More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta We're ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.

Meta went to Fox News to announce it’s ending its third-party fact checking program. Zuck isn’t just kissing the ring, he’s slobbering all over it. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...