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avi g

2 months

this is happening! first meetings this sunday and next thursday (two options to accommodate different schedules). msg me if you want to jump in :)

avi g

@mumblerant

4 months

ok this is out of left field but does anyone want to do a BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA reading group this summer?

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avi g

@mumblerant

4 months

the "antisemitic" palestine solidarity encampment in berkeley california has too much matzah

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

pleased to announce my old landlord owes me 8000 dollars

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 months

the tolerance and hope

Mark D. Levine

@MarkLevineNYC

3 months

The Nova Music Festival Exhibition is a moving, heart-wrenching remembrance of the Oct 7 massacre. It offers a message of tolerance and hope. Tonight’s viscous targeting of the exhibition is not pro-peace. It is repulsive and vile. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

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2 years

funny story, emma is actually the head of the in-person committee at my synagogue. she recently decided to repeal the policy that tied masking requirements to the CDC community levels, so now thanks to her we can all sing maskless together even though the CDC recommends masking.

Emma Green

@emmaogreen

2 years

A while ago, someone I know started sending around links to the People's CDC—a coalition that styles itself as a model of what the CDC would look like if it actually **followed the science** on pandemic restrictions. I was fascinated. (1/x)

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

read this article. it's a blockbuster piece of investigative work about the landlord collusion and artificial supply restriction that is *likely* behind the post-covid rent surge.

New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up?

Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.

www.curbed.com

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avi g

@mumblerant

5 months

turns out boeing planes are built like crap now because of union busting 🙃

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

anyway i am part of the vocal minority that has urged continued masking. feels nice to get all but personally named and attacked in the pages of the new yorker for believing we should mask in public settings in the middle of an ongoing respiratory pandemic

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

i'm devastated to share that my brilliant and loving ima kayla garelick was killed on thursday oct 5 by covid. she knew that covid was a threat to her life, and she was tragically proven right. if masks were required in hospitals in california, she could still be living today.

avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

now my high risk mother is in the hospital with covid, which she caught at the hospital. great work folks.

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@mumblerant

2 months

is anyone out there making the argument that bowman just lost cuz of redistricting. seems simple

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

for all the landlord accounts following me on here.... don't cheat and steal from your tenants and this won't happen to you!! tell all your friends!

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@mumblerant

11 months

@tweetjoshtweet they withheld a portion of the security deposit so we sued their dumb ass

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@mumblerant

11 months

to be clear, my mother went to kaiser hospital in oakland to receive lifesaving care, and ended up needlessly infected with covid and dying. everyone who played a role in the callous and brutal rollback of mask reqs in healthcare settings shares responsibility for her death.

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@mumblerant

2 months

solidarity with these heroes.

StopAntisemitism

@StopAntisemites

2 months

NYC - two teachers from the Jewish @HeschelSchool post themselves in a keffiyeh terror scarf, causing outrage amongst students and families. The teachers have been identified as Samuel Bischof and Jessica Lee.

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@mumblerant

2 years

@kvnrogan u actually can but it brings down ur credit score

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@mumblerant

4 months

just absolutely wild that a publicly funded college, on public land and funded by the public, which has the name *city* college, is now simply barricaded by the police and closed to the public

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

wow this blew up...check out my soundcloud

Home

Visit the post for more.

peoplescdc.org

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@mumblerant

11 months

alameda county actually announced, while she was still alive, that hospital mask mandates are back -- starting nov 1. no help to her. i know people like to think we can go through cycles, reinstating basic protections once "numbers" go up, etc. this policy approach killed my mom.

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

I will never get tired of the fact that the tenement museum evicted literal tenement dwellers to expand their exhibition space

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

she was a warm, intelligent, and creative soul with a severely weakened set of lungs. our leaders have soothed themselves by the thought that she was gonna die anyway. but even -- especially! -- as someone sick and (not so) old, she had so much to give the world. now lost forever

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avi g

@mumblerant

5 months

walked into an empty polling place this morning and voted for no one. love my country #LeaveItBlankNY

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

@hslatkin did u read the article

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

what the *fuck* is a nontransferable housing voucher

thomas 🛠 gazafunds.com

@t_NYC

3 years

So the fire in the Bronx was a building recently bought by an investment group and the Section 8 tenants who lost their homes have no rights to return to those homes and their rental vouchers don’t transfer. Those people are going to need help

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avi g

@mumblerant

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tisha b'av this year was hitting really hard ngl

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

the terrible fire in the bronx hit a building that was a part of twin parks urban renewal area, funded by the Urban Development Corp and designed by ambitious architects, since neglected by landlords and the state. a tragic example of housing liberalism.

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 months

here's how @MichaelLangeNYC put it in december

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avi g

@mumblerant

4 years

it's finally online! this year i co-wrote a piece on the collective life of jewish communists in a bronx apartment complex, what brought them together and pulled them apart. it's about the shadow that history and economy cast on our dreams of common life.

The Rise and Fall of the Coops

The Bronx cooperative was a communist utopia, until it wasn’t.

jewishcurrents.org

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@mumblerant

3 years

@ericadamsfornyc 👎👎👎

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avi g

@mumblerant

1 year

some personal news

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

@DJDarkCloud @Hyper_lexic @SWGlassPit @tweetjoshtweet no attorney fees. case was simple so we presented the evidence ourselves

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

WOW gotta tip my hat to @CityAndStateNY for keeping it real this morning, respect

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avi g

@mumblerant

1 year

now announcing: masked rosh hashanah services in upper manhattan. it is so important, as cases surge again and the world ignores it, to create community spaces where people can connect with the divine relatively safe from viral infection. please share and consider joining!

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avi g

@mumblerant

11 months

now my high risk mother is in the hospital with covid, which she caught at the hospital. great work folks.

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

the landlord is on Adams' transition team!! are people reading this?? I'm shaking

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

lmao. lol

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 months

here we go

David Klion

@DavidKlion

2 months

Have been quiet about Bowman but here's my take: the redistricting was a much bigger problem than the AIPAC money. AIPAC spent that money less to tip a close race than to make it appear that they can; by blaming them for the loss, we're giving them exactly what they paid for.

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

the core purpose of the observant jewish left should be to make it possible for poor people to keep shabbos. my thoughts for the @ReligSocialism conference:

Avi Garelick: Shabbos: The Political Significance of Jewish Law

This talk was recorded in conjunction with the Building The Religious Left Conference on April 24-25, 2021. To learn more about religious socialism, visit us...

www.youtube.com

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@mumblerant

2 years

RIP peter marcuse. i strongly recommend reading his "housing policy and the myth of the benevolent state." foundational criticism of liberal housing policy narratives.

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avi g

@mumblerant

1 year

landlords, especially small landlords, see themselves as extending hospitality to their tenants. you are welcome to stay as long as i like, how dare you show ingratitude.

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@mumblerant

2 months

here's the man himself with a strong thread

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

2 years

The whole point of redistricting is to create congressional districts that keep communities of interest together. Unfortunately, the map created by the special master splits NY-16’s historically low-income Bronx communities into three congressional districts and decreases… (1/9)

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4 years

theo chino did the hack

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@mumblerant

2 months

@the_ason there was another one in 2022

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@mumblerant

2 years

i think there is a religious conviction underlying the politics of the anti electoral left. if only we were pure and good, free from contradictions and "lies" then the pure and good working class will reveal itself to us.

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@mumblerant

2 months

@blkprofcct *zionist lobby

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avi g

@mumblerant

4 years

the BLM secret code in blocks would be pretty freakin cool and brave if we lived in a literal totalitarian regime but last I checked you can still say 'black lives matter' out loud with your voice

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avi g

@mumblerant

7 months

Instead of just relying on private developers and wasteful tax exemptions like 421-a to build housing, we can look to the most fiscally responsible and effective solution: a Social Housing Development Authority.

Opinion: New York needs more housing. There's a real solution on the horizon

Rather than just relying on private developers, New York state can set up a Social Housing Development Authority to build affordable housing itself.

www.cityandstateny.com

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@mumblerant

2 years

my testimony from yesterday: Tonight, I want to pose a simple question: Will granting a significant rent increase lead to reinvestment in rent-stabilized properties? The answer, I propose, is no, and it never has. Landlords neglect properties no matter how much we pay them.

#EvictionFreeBX CASA-New Settlement

@CASAbronx

2 years

The rent increases proposed by the RGB are unconscionable. Landlords are worried about losing profit; tenants are worried about losing their homes. @NYCMayor , does that seem fair to you? #RentRollback

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@mumblerant

5 years

Is this like...reverse gentrification?

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@mumblerant

3 years

if ur one of these neo-indigenous zionists u gotta at least worship asherah. I don't make the rules

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

new york is slowly facing the consequences of building an urban economy that is not only segregated and exploitative but also just fucking fragile and full of built environments (offices) that are simply not useful for useful activities

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@mumblerant

6 years

@GiniaNYT Now here's a tweet that deserves a ratio

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@mumblerant

2 years

thanks for reading everyone! if you're in new york, please join the fight by organizing tenants:

Tenant Basebuilding Training

This Tenant Base-building Training - housed within the NYC DSA's Independent Working Class Organizing initiative - is intended to orient trainees to the foundational principles of tenant organizing,...

actionnetwork.org

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avi g

@mumblerant

9 months

this is an awful and preventable tragedy. reminder that the mayor's DOB pick was indicted on bribery charges. and he has been using building inspections as rewards for his political allies. so all I'm saying is @NYCMayor is putting our lives at risk.

FDNY

@FDNY

9 months

All people have been evacuated from the partially collapsed building at 1915 Billingsley Terrace, Bronx. The building has 47 residential units and 6 businesses. Search for potential victims ongoing.

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@mumblerant

2 years

i actually did not know this. hell yeah

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@mumblerant

4 years

today's haul at washington heights' newest underground bookstore

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

CHIP: hey guys. we are deliberately withholding older, low rent units from the market as political leverage. furman center: no, that's wrong. that isn't happening at all. don't say that CHIP: 😃

CHIP NYC

@nyc_chip

2 years

Must read thread from the @FurmanCenterNYU on vacant units in New York City.

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

heading up to harlem while I'm in the city to work on my anti-gentrification podcast

Jake Gotta

@jake_gotta

2 years

I had to go up to the One45 site while I’m in the city, and it’s kinda insane they blocked a mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented development because of ‘gentrification’

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

pretty wild that kathy hochul shook down the seneca nation for $600M to buy a football stadium for her husband

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

landlords in new york are now jacking up rents by 40-50% and telling tenants they need to "recuperate pandemic losses" 2022 is gonna be so fucking bad

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@mumblerant

3 years

lol

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4 months

ok this is out of left field but does anyone want to do a BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA reading group this summer?

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@mumblerant

2 years

another salvo of anti-mask articles this week from the mainstream media to inoculate people from the sensible idea of masking up again during a surge

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@mumblerant

4 months

just spent the afternoon at the palestine solidarity encampment in berkeley. the antisemites must have had the day off because everyone I met today loves justice and hates evil! good chol hamoed outing, would recommend.

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@mumblerant

3 years

made these babies

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@mumblerant

3 years

of all the questions a prominent left wing journalist could have asked the mayor of new york.

Ross Barkan

@RossBarkan

3 years

I asked Eric Adams if he'll follow the lead of Boston, DC, and Philadelphia in ending vaccine passports for indoor activity. He said he was eager to but offered no timeline or metrics. He said he meets with public health officials daily.

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@mumblerant

1 year

good morning. #whokilledjordanneely

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@mumblerant

2 years

@JabariBrisport @FurmanCenterNYU bro my dude if ur in danger please tweet "rent control is a subsidy to incumbent renters" and we will send help

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@mumblerant

4 months

ignorant zionists are always asking this question. what do *they* mean when they say it at their seder? are they davening for an el al sale? we are davening for a jerusalem free from violence and greed, same as jews have hoped for since forever.

Naftuli Moster

@nmoster

4 months

@mumblerant And while you're at it, what did these people say when they got to "L'shana Habah B'Yerushalayim?"

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@mumblerant

2 years

we had a fab time talking to tenants in the park at our tabling debut! watch out world

NYC-DSA Housing🌹🏡🏢

@nycdsa_housing

2 years

Inez Dickens's district is 87% renters. Nearly 1/2 are rent burdened. Folks came to talk about the #Right2Remain as soon as we hung the sign. Lots of them wanted to know why @DickensforNY doesn't support #GoodCause protections from rent hikes + evictions. Maybe 💰 @REBNY 🤑 knows?

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@mumblerant

2 years

you know your tweet has hit the big time when the inescapable twitter commentariat starts to weigh in with their Early Morning Thoughts

lauren

@Very__Regular

2 years

a personal hard line rule of mine is that there are no circumstances under which i care about anyone else's church gossip

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@mumblerant

4 months

after saying yizkor for my departed mother, kayla garelick, at shul yesterday, i made the requisite donation of tzedaka to this fundraiser for a desperate palestinian family. help maram escape gaza:

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avi g

@mumblerant

6 years

@neeratanden @joshtpm Lol neera you are in for a long primary

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@mumblerant

2 months

@julia_doubleday same persons whole account is just attacking pro palestine positions that are *too extreme* 🙄

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@mumblerant

2 months

can't believe this WOL v. DSA beef is going down and likes are freaking private. smh I didn't even know how much i crave snooping

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avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

@stevenxlml @fruitility @mike4brooklyn basically lol it's called debt

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@mumblerant

3 years

in 2013, andrew cuomo gave the landlord $38 million in tax-exempt bonds and 1.6 million *a year* in tax credits to fix the place up. must have missed some spots.

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3 years

@avigayiln

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avi g

@mumblerant

2 years

friends and comrades, i will be on the radio tonight talking about the @nycDSA 's fight for tenants' right to remain! tune in at @nycRPM at 9 pm ET.

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avi g

@mumblerant

1 year

a beautiful portrait of the kind of world social housing could create: “I have a car. A Mercedes A-Class from the ’90s. I eat out. I drink one coffee out every day. I don’t have a lot of money. But I live rich.”

Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia (Published 2023)

Worldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right?

www.nytimes.com

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@mumblerant

3 years

the problem with the public advocate's worst landlords list, and other nominally pro-tenant media, is that it directs our attention to superlatives, most violations etc, instead of the basic brutality of the system. that leaves him unprepared to respond to a situation like this.

avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

put this fire quote on some campaign lit buddy

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5 years

i want everyone on here to know that one of the teens behind the mike gravel account is a former student of mine

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@mumblerant

3 years

arguably a plank of leftist municipal strategy should be insanely aggressive enforcement on housing code violations. guaranteed right to safe and sanitary housing conditions. slumlords who can't keep up with the deluge of fines and renovation costs can sell to the city

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@mumblerant

1 year

the police and media colluded to protect the identity of daniel penny

barbarism critic 🇵🇸✨

@SxarletRed

1 year

Don’t forget this community came together and did something the police and media wouldn’t. Remember the power we have when we unite with a single minded goal. There is power in community.

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2 years

@nymetrowx feel like shit just want her back

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3 years

sunset on the 1 train

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@mumblerant

2 years

@AdrianBallou i stand corrected. we are post covid rent dip.

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3 years

I love the department of sanitation. make those guys the mayor

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2 years

what could go wrong

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@mumblerant

5 years

Hey check it out the landlord who deregulated my apartment is in the @nytimes for illegally deregulating apartments

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4 months

@nmoster hey naftuli, it's not appropriation when jewish people do something jewish. hope this helps.

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@mumblerant

3 years

to all the haters who said give up, I just tested negative for the 4th time this week. never give up

avi g

@mumblerant

3 years

if ur partner tests positive and u share a room with them -- do u isolate or just give up and assume u already got it/will soon?

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1 year

should be illegal

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11 months

@EmCohen_ my worst nightmare

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3 years

two truths and a lie but it's the holy trinity

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"hamas is coming" has real "blacks rule" energy. correct me if I'm wrong.

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2 months

just got called a "kapo" by a pro-genocide activist outside the citibank HQ. I informed him he's a chillul hashem so he threatened to dox me on "stop antisemitic hate." moron. hope he does it lol

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5 months

finished this baby 💪🔥🔥🔥 fuck imperialism, freedom for all workers ✊

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@mumblerant

4 years

I will boast literally for the entire rest of my life of being published alongside my Mom ilhan omar, as well as these brave and brilliant activist thinkers, thank u @JewishCurrents for a dream come true

Jenny

@jennyaction

4 years

Very excited that Lynn and I will share pages with the brilliant Sam Stein, @OksanaMironov , and (welp) @IlhanMN . And not too many pages away from @mumblerant ! This issue looks amazing.

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2 years

now online! my new piece about a time when shabbos observance required no less than a challenge to the world built by capital. i hope it will inspire some thinking (even action!) for this century on the day of rest as a social right.