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Moshik Temkin
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Historian. Professor. Concerned neighbor. Author of Warriors, Rebels & Saints and other stuff. Read more of my writing here: moshiktemkin.substack.com
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Jun 25, 2022
    I will repeat this as long as I have to, when the Supreme Court said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was “unconstitutional”, FDR didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did.
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Sep 17, 2025
    Please keep in mind that in America, “socialism” means things like investing in infrastructure and public schools, or that health care should also include your teeth and eyes because they are parts of your body
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    Spencer Hakimian
    @SpencerHakimian
    Sep 16, 2025
    Socialism is now very popular amongst Democrats. Up 30 points since 2010. If you are a Democrat, do you support socialism yourself?
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Feb 15, 2021
    Went to a doctor here in France. I didn't have health insurance yet. The Doc gave a me a thorough checkup and two prescriptions. Charged me 25 Euros. I went to the pharmacy for the prescriptions. Paid 10 Euros. Total expense: 35 Euros. The US health care system is an abomination.
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Oct 22, 2025
    Why Mamdani would be bad for struggling young New Yorkers, as explained by a 67 year-old billionaire who lives in $22 million dollar estate in Dallas, Texas.
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    Andrew Cuomo
    @andrewcuomo
    Oct 20, 2025
    The full clip why Mamdani’s promises sound good with young voters… but they’ll never work in reality.
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Nov 4, 2024
    I will translate this for all the Western liberals who don't understand anything: Ramallah is not Gaza, it is in the West Bank, it's a beautiful cosmopolitan city that is Christian, Muslim, and secular, and it is not governed or controlled by Hamas.
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    Ihab Hassan
    @IhabHassane
    Nov 4, 2024
    🚨BREAKING: A horrific night in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Hundreds of Israeli terrorist settlers launched a brutal attack on the city of Ramallah, setting fire to numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles. After setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire, they moved to the
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Aug 24, 2018
    Current Turkish gallows humour: A prisoner goes to the prison library, asks for a specific book. The guard tells him, "we don't have that book... but we do have the author."
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    May 13, 2025
    Sacha Baron Cohen has made an entire career and fortune making fun of ordinary poor people who were nice to him even though he was obnoxious with them
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    Historic Vids
    @historyinmemes
    May 13, 2025
    In Borat (2006), the villagers weren't actors-they were misled into thinking it was a real documentary. After the release, they considered suing Sacha Baron Cohen
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Jun 26, 2025
    The interesting contrast here is that Obama used the story of his African father to bolster a narrative about individual meaning and success, while Mamdani uses the story of his African father to bolster a narrative about collective struggle, solidarity, and progress.
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    Siddharth
    @DearthOfSid
    Jun 25, 2025
    Zohran is a better speaker than Obama.
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    May 2, 2024
    People really need to start thinking seriously about what is happening here
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    Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City
    @defendATLforest
    May 1, 2024
    🚨 Georgia State University, an institution with deep ties to Israel by way of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, as well as to Cop City, is having graduating students wearing keffiyehs dragged off campus and is threatening to rescind degrees.
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Sep 23, 2025
    Her father is a serious Marxist scholar and so she should know that Donald Trump is not at all a communist.
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    HOT SPOT
    @HotSpotHotSpot
    Sep 23, 2025
    Kamala Harris says Donald Trump is a “communist dictator”
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Oct 29, 2025
    Good luck calling Mandy Patinkin an antisemite
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    Jacob N. Kornbluh
    @jacobkornbluh
    Oct 28, 2025
    Famed Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, actress Kathryn Grody, appears with Mamdani in a GOTV video. “We are going to win this because we have this extraordinary human being who’s going to lead our city…”
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Sep 18, 2025
    He hasn’t seen the heights of 45% approval in ages. He’s the least popular president in living memory. He’s getting everything he wants because we have feckless selfish elites, a useless corporate media, and no opposition party to speak of.
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    Michael Koncewicz
    @MikeKoncewicz
    Sep 18, 2025
    The guy has a 45 percent approval rating and he’s getting everything he wants
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Mar 5, 2025
    The Democrats had a President called Franklin D Roosevelt who won four straight elections in crushing landslides. They will never, ever bring up his name. Instead they praise Republicans Ronald Reagan and George W Bush.
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    John Hudson
    @John_Hudson
    Mar 5, 2025
    Democratic response by Slotkin pivoting decidedly right on security issues, praising George W Bush and Reagan as leaders with moral clarity and underscoring the importance of border protection
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    President Joe Biden mentioned President Franklin D. Roosevelt multiple times: washingtonpost.com/history/2024/0… asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Middl… usatoday.com/story/news/pol… President Joe Biden also had a massive portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office: washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Nov 3, 2025
    The reason FDR’s “fireside chats” were so successful was because people loved the policies he was explaining to them.
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    hasanabi
    @hasanthehun
    Nov 3, 2025
    the upcoming midterm cycle is going to be very funny. lots of politicians trying to do stuff like this, not realizing why it isn’t hitting the same way.
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