Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
But can they just resign? Arenât they enlisted just like the other members of the military?
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But can they just resign? Arenât they enlisted just like the other members of the military?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Regardless of whether these lawyers/judges will try to be impartial- are they qualified?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
yes. I fear the same.
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
HELP US HELP OUR NATION HEAL.
Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
I've seen people say the Trump administration campaign against campus antisemitism is working to expand the range of what qualifies as antisemitism. This is exactly the wrong way to look at it. They are trying to shift and shrink that range, so that *only* anti-Israel protests count as antisemitism.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
Exactly the way the illegal actions of ICE agents should be handled.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Terrifying
You Can't Make This Up GOP Quotes Goebbels on the Floor!
So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.
NEW: Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Monday it has divested from U.S. construction equipment group Caterpillar (CAT.N), as well as five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds due to repeat violations of intl law in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank & Gaza.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
The Trump administration believes that knowing history is an act of being 'woke'. Consequently the 'real story' must be what MAGA invents for us to believe.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
on the other hand you could see it as one more effort by MAGA to speed global warming.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
I'm astounded that NC is only the 7th worst gerrymander of all time. This country is in really bad shape.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
The horror of the Biden administration's participation and funding of Israel's genocidal war should make us all weep. Hoping the Dem party will move to a more even-handed approach to the Middle East with new, younger leadership in office.
6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. Heâs been imprisoned ever since. Heâs suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? Theyâre cousins.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
The good old days when we only had a "crook" as president rather than a full blown master democracy destroyer.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel support has not been a dem vs rep issue. In fact, if I remember right, James Baker took a harder line agst Israeli policy than has been taken by dems. We have a lot of work to do to make the dem party less pro Israel than Rs.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Our âefficientâ government looking to waste as much $ on pizza as they can.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
âWydenâ
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Ayden calls situation in Gaza horrifying but wonât do anything about it except send more support to IDF. Hypocrite b
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
yes. and yes. and yes.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
In fact. The numbers are worse. No one buried under rumble is counted. Many ppl who have died of disease untreated or worsened is counted.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Does she have a clue how many years this country used slavery as a major method for wealth production- the wealthy getting wealthier on the backs of ppl who were basically imprisoned by their "masters" to give them free labor? Does she have a clue that Jim Crow ever existed?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
Unacceptable by any standards. Israel must be stopped. USA must stop all foreign and military aid immediately.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Since when do you need to carry an id to walk on the street or ride a metro?
Enabled by the U.S. government.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Why are ppl saying Mandami doesn't have enough experience when the "experience" of Adams is overt corruption and the "experience" of Cuomo is lies and sexually abusing women?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't belive Paul Weiss and K and E's deals w Trump aren't unethical. Will the NY Bar come after them?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Why are ppl saying Mandami doesn't have enough experience when the "experience" of Adams is overt corruption and the "experience" of Cuomo is lies and sexually abusing women?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
They make a mockery of themselves.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
In Trumpâs America there will be the billionaires and the police. The rest of us apparently donât count.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do you say "but" they have underlying medical conditions? The most vulnerable die first of starvation in any famine- they aren't dying of their underlying conditions. They, too, like you and me, have a right to eat and live.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you not understand that in a famine, the first ppl to die of malnutrition are the ppl with an underlying medical condition? Of course many of these children have pre-existing medical conditions. And, despite your implication, these children too have a right to live.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe European Leaders can protect Zelensky from being attacked by ICE when he's in DC
#AlaskaSummit
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually headline should be that papers show what was âsupposed â to happen at summit. No response can erase the stupidity of the Trump team.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe this was what her husband forgot to say? Signature is truly bizarre. But maybe her fashion statement.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump cites Putin as an expert on democracy. Got to wonder about this fool of a president we have.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
POTUS planned planning for press conference. POTUS jt press conference. Planned. But never actually happened. But we know it was supposed to happen- thx to the incompetence of Trump's ppl who don't know you aren't supposed to leave presidential records in a public business center.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Will @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social face a primary challenge over his refusal to endorse the democratic nominee for mayor?
Focusing fascism in dc shows how essential white supremacy is to their effort.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
So does Trump
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
You can now swim in the #Seine! And it is not just about the joy of the swim- it is also about public space belonging to the public and making #climate friendly changes to the environment that enhance our lives. #Paris. www.thelocal.fr/20250813/opi...
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Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Most of the crime in DC is being committed by Trump, Bondi and Trumpâs government.
Now catch the GoTriangle 400/405 every 15 minutes on weekdays between Chapel Hill and Durham, the latest #transit service improvements to be supported by funds from the voter-approved half-cent sales tax transit and the Orange County and Durham County Transit Plans. đđ»
And not only Microsoft: Follow the bouncing capitalist ball.As Sen Sanders points out it always comes back to the oligarchs & to money; here US industrials supporting this genocide like German ones supported the Nazi genocide or US congresspeople bought off by AIPAC. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
We leave it to Maxwell to define the word "concerning"?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
@microsoft.com is enabling Israel to record every phone call and message sent in the West Back in Gaza. MICROSOFT IS COMPLICIT IN THE GENOCIDE. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
This is one of the many questions that we should all be asking.
Whoa, Alabama. đ„ Birmingham-area activists put up a TrumpâEpstein billboard on a busy highway: âWhatâs the big secret, fellas?â
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
On addition- call the Dems who are showing signs of running for President in 2028. Let them know you are a voter against genocide.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Heâs also had huge AIPAC contributions
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Look at that smile from Schumer. What does he think he's actually DOING?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Thx so much for this really helpful info.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Booker represents AIPAC
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
If Israel wants peace. If Israel wants to be part of the nations of the world. If Israel wants democracy- they need to join.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
Ignored by MSM -in NY a conf "For the Peaceful Settlement of the Q of Palestine" has issued a proposal for peace. Lead by permanent UN commissions fr France and Saudi Arabia and sponsored by 17 other countries, it has put together a proposal for peace. static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/...
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you Rev Warnock.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Cuomo is âsome peopleâ?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
NYT is obsessed with Mandami looking for every opportunity to destroy his candidacy whether based on fact or just spilling out of the print of the Times.
I agree with Ben but have a small editing suggestion
Taking a break from my child sex trafficking scandal to condemn the lack of manners among starving kids these days
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
1947.
Itâs way too late, but the truth has a way of coming out. Forget the airdrops and scrap GHF â let the UN organizations resume their humanitarian delivery operations NOW to stop the ongoing starvation:
Anti- #ICE rally in #Durham tomorrow (7/24) at 7:30 AM at the courthouse. Pass it on. #ncpol
Abolish ICE Durham NC
NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza. Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour. A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis. (đ„ Al Jazeera)
Colbert should just run for President. I mean, it worked for Trump when his show was cancelled.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
So sadly true.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Iâll add to that- donât refer to him as âSirâ.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
Israel is not at war today. It is carrying out a genocide. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
And theyâll forget to mention that you stole your homeland from native ppls who had been living there.
Stop being shocked that the people who said they would destroy the government if elected are destroying the government.
I fucking canât.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope youâre right.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Do Jewish Israelis understand that it isnât normal to go to war against every country you donât like?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
In addition to Noemâs incompetence this administration doesnât believe in FEMA. A disaster for all of us.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
what a joke that it is coming from Netanyahu.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
It often bothers me when ppl pull back from, rather than embrace, an identity that doesnât fit in their preconceived boxes. It appears that it is the NYT, not Mamdani who is struggling w Maldaniâs identity.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
When has truth telling ever gotten in the way of Trump saying what Trump says?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
This is such a very good point.
It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country. Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably Aboriginal. If there is such a catagory.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not convinced it was a "gaffe". It was anti-semitism. And as Jews, we are most safe when all ppl are safe- So, this is not unexpected IMO.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social)
So ironic that @nytimes.com criticizes Mamdani's use of the word African to describe himself on a college application when their own review of his mother's film "Mississippi Marsala" describes a person of Indian heritage who is from Africa and ids as African.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
And if it's to id descendants of slaves, why wasn't that the question Columbia asked?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
:). You're an Irish immigrant. Mamdani is an African immigrant.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Wondering if Charlie Kirk ate his 4th of July hotdog and potato chips with a fork and knife.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
And Americans from Africa? Surely, they are truly African Americans if they live in the US. And if they aren't Black they are still AA- like Mamdani. Like Joe Biden is an "Irish American"
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm glad you support Mamdani, but, as you say, this is a serious discussion. What should a Black American who doesn't come from an enslaved background call themselves?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
There are many Black African American kids of rich ppl or kids of professors. Should they not label themselves as African American?
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. I support where you stand.
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
In filling out a college application it isn't your job to figure out where you fit w/I US social constructions. Not all African Americans are descendants of slaves. What wld you suggest those ppl say? Some black Americans are actually fr Africa and have never known even Jim Crow. Are they not AA?
Mamdani youtube.com/shorts/mq4xR...
Anne Slifkin (@asnc20.bsky.social) reply parent
He is Ugandan. this argument against Mamdani is nonsense.