N.S. Dolkart, local author
Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorJust because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
- No shit. The hoops women and girl have to go through to prove themselves are ridiculous.
- Important study in Sweden found that females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThis is overriding a ballot initiative approved by voters.
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- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorIsn't it weird how the people proposing abundance never wanna do it for clean energy?
- One group is now proposing “Abundance” on the Colorado River by building a “coordinated suite of desalination plants.” “At some point, doesn’t it seem just a little bit easier, and a hell of a lot less expensive, to live within our means?” @landdesk.bsky.social www.landdesk.org/p/abundance-...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe fact that this claim is risible nonsense should not stop drumbeat coverage of who the staffer is, who gave them access, what’s being done about it—it’s literally a matter of national security now
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorIt's a very good time to support good journalism like MFP.
- As The Washington Post goes dark, today is a good day to give your money to nonprofit newsrooms like @mississippifreepress.org. Far from laying people off, we're hiring *more* journalists and growing vital, democracy-building work. And we have no paywalls! Give here: givebutter.com/mfpdonate
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorin the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorA white supremacist threw a *bomb* at a crowd of First Nations — old people, babies, toddlers, ppl of all ages — and it took the gov nearly two weeks to declare this a terrorist attack. And this still barely made headlines.
- 🚨 BREAKING: Authorities have finally declared the Boorloo / Perth Invasion Day bombing to be a terrorist attack, over a week after the event. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorWe put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe FAA's official safety alert comes as SpaceX looks to ramp up Starship tests. A recent ProPublica investigation found that explosions during previous Starship launches disrupted air traffic and forced pilots to scramble for safety.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorthis lady is the reason I can go anywhere w/out getting lost 🙌
- No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorhe seems like a perfectly fine bunny to me
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorMy latest: A look inside the secretive immigration prisons at Guantanamo—and the ethical questions that doctors and nurses face to treat those inside.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local author1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...
- An interesting and important thread.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorNew fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThey are. Plainly, they open numerous vulnerabilities. www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorLove how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorArea Serial Racist Posts Racist Meme But We’re Still Gonna Pretend Like Maybe He Didn’t Know It Was Racist - the New York Times
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe New York Times has finally covered the Trump video of Obama as an ape — and they are still providing cover for him. Fuck the Times.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorNo one has yet talked in depth about Mamdani's play- as in, a childlike wonder and ceaseless fun and joy. That is rooted in what he learned from his mom about acting, which is pure play. Everything he does is rooted in encouraging US to be more playful, too. It's wonderful.
- This appears to be the big takeaway of the NJ-11 special. Yes, special elections are their own thing. No, that doesn’t mean anyone (least of all Democrats) should ignore what is happening.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local author“great replacement” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been cited in NUMEROUS mass shootings including buffalo topps and el paso walmart furthermore, what we are seeing in MN is a direct result of that hateful racist rhetoric manufacturing consent and democrats should be saying that
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorMy insomnia reading was the transcript (down in the thread) which might be the most disastrous attorneying I have ever seen *or heard of*. He convinces the judge he is probably lying, he is rude, his defense is incompetence, and he opens with “let me give you my four-level model of collaborating.”
- Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Guess I need to up my eyeliner game.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorOver the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThere's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.
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- If the bosses have their way, fewer people will lose their careers over being pedophiles than lost their careers for failing to mourn noted bigot Charlie Kirk.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorIt's kind of amazing how the worst consequence many of our most powerful people can conceive of is someone being mad at them online, to the degree that they are driven to distraction about it even in the abstract.
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- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorPour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- They failed with Kilmar, and they will likely fail with Liam and his family too. The thing about this administration's evil is that it is utterly transparent, without the barest hint of deniability.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorI can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention. This is infuriating and devastating.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorChildhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorImagine what American music would look like if blues musicians had instead of learning how to play blues, improving at their craft with each song, pulled a lever on a machine owned and controlled by Buford Q Sexpervert Esquire the Third
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing, but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorcannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
- Oh for fuck’s sake. Guess I’m calling my state reps tomorrow
- If you don’t want to get murdered by a Waymo car that ignores Boston’s long and proud tradition of pedestrian first street culture, call your reps and senators and say no thanks to this bullshit www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local author"The Post’s editorial decisions have nothing to do with my relationship with Donald Trump, and everything to do with what’s best for America. Namely, the dismantling of our constitutional rights and democratic institutions."
- And we wonder why our legacy mainstream Jewish orgs keep failing us.
- @alykatzz.bsky.social perhaps a story of interest — another significant jewish philanthropist had a multi-years long relationship with epstein, and even visited his island, well after his conviction 🧵
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local author@alykatzz.bsky.social perhaps a story of interest — another significant jewish philanthropist had a multi-years long relationship with epstein, and even visited his island, well after his conviction 🧵
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- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe most maddening thing when talking about sex pests in media is that the genre actually doesn't matter. They're literally everywhere. And they love to form their own creepy networks. But if you respond in kind, somehow you're the problem.
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- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorNEW: Virginia Dems have unveiled their proposed 10-1 congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states. It targets 4 Republicans & has 10 Harris seats. It will be used in 2026 contingent upon an April 21 voter referendum. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/20e0049...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorMan Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everyt…
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorThe pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorP.T. Barnum, the so-called Greatest Showman, made his name by exploiting a blind, elderly Black woman— even pulling out her remaining teeth to convince people she was old enough to be George Washington's nanny— until he worked her to death and sold tickets to her autopsy. Her name was Joice Heth.
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorJUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by N.S. Dolkart, local authorTo everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
