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The violent irrationality of patriarchal rage. "Perhaps, she [decorated war veteran] reasoned, it’s because some male soldiers had “their feelings hurt.” Hegseth certainly seems wounded by Hester’s recognition, and it’s easy to see why: she showed him up at what was supposed to be a man’s game."

Review of materials for these two jobs begins on 10/1:

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This is the question. #Profession

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Browser extensions such as Unpaywall can automatically look for Open Access versions of any scholarly publication, so mostly you don't need to go hunting through institutional depositories

Check out this amazing upcoming conference on Maritime Connections: Jews Across the Indian Ocean at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi NCR, India 16-18.2.2026 Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Did taschlich from the clothing optional, traditionally queer beach with a bunch of other queer Jews. The SFW sunset pic:

Project 2025 calls for the criminalization of all forms of contraception, including condoms and the pill. Just a reminder.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

THIS IS THE FUTURE WE WANT!

Portland declares ICE facility out of compliance, demands its clearance. www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

Shavua tov! The Orange Fuhrer has apparently declared war on Portland. This is the type of oh so scary, liberals with their purported 'gender ideology' and 'grooming' that Trump wants to exterminate. Imagine thinking people like this are the enemy. FTR, I kinda like the tie.

Ted Cruz wants you to stop talking mean about ICE because it leads to 'political violence' but Musk, Vance, Trump, and Nancy Mace wont stop inciting violence against trans people. Assailants in this story *cite Trump*. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Entirely unsurprising.

This afternoon, Moment Magazine editor and chief Nadine Epstein and I will co-host our latest Wide River Project conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Clarence Page on When the Black Press Stood Up for the Jews—and Other Newspapers Didn’t. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us Mon. Sept. 29th - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "On Sex Beyond 'Yes'" Quill R Kukla in conversation with Manon Garcia on consent as an inadequate tool to help us negotiate the complexities of intimacy, and on reframing the communication we need. #Philosophy Register for free or by donation:

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today' Paris, 10-12 June 2026 Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

I feel like some of you probably have really insightful things to say about The Frond and the emergence of the modern military state.

Savoury foods are still cooking, but we have: - egg & water challot (plain; dried cherry; everything bagel) - vegan date silan cake - parve apple sharlotke May 5786 be a year of t'shuva in every sense and, please Gd, peace. youtu.be/mK66tkAMzRU?...

Hate springs eternal: www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/u... #RoshHashanah

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is ‘absolutely impossible’: In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d... via @statnews.com

PSA for all the well-meaning folks making graphics for the Jewish new year (merci d'avance for leaving the Judeophobica out of it): Candles, [round] challot, pomegranates, apples, honey = ✅ Matzo, Chanukia, groggers, Passover seder plate = ❌

Damnit, I cannot remember my password and the email is my old utoronto account, which has since been deactivated (i.e., I cannot access a password reset link sent to that email). Should'a deleted back when I abandoned it years ago after creep profiles started appearing/following. E.g.:

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I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

We keep hearing about the "male loneliness epidemic" and FFS, this isn't a hard problem to solve. Treat women like the equal human beings they are and stop trying to build your identity around dominating others.

Bibi was able to take the tactical defeat of 10/7, which, for a brief moment, engendered an almost unprecedented international support for Israel, and turn it into the most consequential strategic defeat (by his own standards) in Israel's history.

‘“I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.’ 🫠😶🫥

It’s good and beautiful to be trans.

Dear gestapo trash:

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

It is the official position of the US government that trans people cannot be eradicated because we don't really exist.

Who knows bugs?? This guy just landed on the tree next to me and I love him. I think he looks like a Fred, but I imagine his scientific name is much longer.

Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr

He made a fool of himself just to be fired anyway. How many times are institutions going to do this?

UPDATE: According to the @healthvermont.bsky.social, Vermont is officially part of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. They weren't part of the official announcement today, as they were busy issuing their state's own standing order to protect COVID vaccine access.

“We deserve to live here. She deserves to live here. No trans person is asking for more rights. Just stop picking on us.” @oriion.bsky.social spoke to five local families about their experience raising trans kids right now in the D.C. area. In partnership with @19thnews.org:

Three jobs! In a functioning liberal democracy! In academia! Climate policy (any discipline): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... China (any discipline): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Economics of technology (economics): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...