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Sarah Marian Seltzer

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My debut novel about music and love THE SINGER SISTERS (Flatiron) is available at a bookstore near you. 🎢 πŸ“– I edit at feminist quarterly Lilith Magazine. ✊ I am a tired NYC mom and probably need some coffee right now… β˜•οΈ

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Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston

07.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 767 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

This is what they've done.

03.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
ENTCOM Update 

TAMPA, Fla. – As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region.  

Major combat operations continue. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.

ENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. – As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region. Major combat operations continue. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.

Trump’s war on Iran has now claimed six American lives in addition to many more Iranians

02.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 1538 πŸ” 574 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 56
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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

In the last 18 hours:

(1) I had a 70+ year old almost hit my kids in a stroller, and
(2) had an elderly oncoming driver drift into my lane, passing me as I dodged her seemingly unaware of my presence.

lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...

02.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 8

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

01.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 4210 πŸ” 1158 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 28

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club β€” in between fundraisers and parties.

01.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 3264 πŸ” 1166 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 43

They can be funny at times but wow tonight is ... unworthy…

01.03.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They are so adorable and perfect how did they find them both

01.03.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, watching the players try to deliver their lines with any semblance of timing has me realizing that heated rivalry is a fantasy in more ways than one: its taciturn yet expressive heartthrobs are far more literate than their irl counterparts.

01.03.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If the dumbass menβ€˜s hockey players are on this show and Hudson Williams is not I shall riot

01.03.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The idea that the US is Israel's puppet state is really dumb antisemitism, like it's unironically the ZOG conspiracy theory

It's the other way around. The US needs Israel as a strategically placed ally in the MENA region. It creates leverage that Israel uses to make demands, but the US is boss here

28.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 3

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

28.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 4970 πŸ” 2068 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 23

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

28.02.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 2431 πŸ” 411 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump’s case for the Iran war makes no sense The scary incoherence at the heart of Trump’s latest, biggest war.

We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...

28.02.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 590 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7

It’s the yearning!!

28.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. People are so eager to be antisemitic about it even tho it plays right into the fascists’ hands

28.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to be a good ally to your Jewish friends, just gently correct the second statement when you hear it (and you will!) Easy peasy.

28.02.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: β€œIsrael is doing great evilβ€œ is not antisemitic. β€œIsrael is pulling the levers on all the world’s evil” is both antisemitic and also passing the buck on how bad the US is, and our role now and historically.

28.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 242 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Once again: it is entirely possible, quite easy even, to be opposed to Israel and it's actions WITHOUT being a raging antisemite.

28.02.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Look where so many people falling for the excuse that β€œit was only locker room talk” has gotten us.

28.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 5499 πŸ” 1215 πŸ’¬ 153 πŸ“Œ 52

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

28.02.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 6648 πŸ” 1820 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 179

Would love to wake up some time and not read the news that we are bombing another country bc our mad king is restless

28.02.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.

28.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 763 πŸ” 200 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5

Honestly they’re generally pretty good. Even Katz’s. PJ Bernstein on the upper east side, pastrami queen, and ofc Barney greengrass and Russ and daughters

27.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

26.02.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 3629 πŸ” 587 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 51

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

27.02.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 7213 πŸ” 1747 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 102
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

I humbly invite Jesse Singal to go to Kansas and lie down in a road next to a DMV www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently Kansas isn’t just changing the policy on driving license gender markers but also invalidating existing licenses granted under the policy they’re changing? WTF?

26.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's only a matter of time before this goes national. Your institutions will not save you.

26.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1