this is a fake screenshot by a right wing troll account on twitter btw

everyone tell zuck to eat bugs

White Falls, Hocking Hills

Watching this documentary on Yehoshua Leibowitz made in 1989, when a 2 state solution was beginning to be publicly championed for the first time but was still barely a thought in mainstream Israeli political circles. youtu.be/QICchSHhVjI?...

Another clear centering of Trump’s emotions from a few days ago: the number of headlines and articles that referred to E. Jean Carroll that referred to her as an “enemy” or “adversary” rather than “victim.”

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

ducked the draft, left his Catholic wife to marry a prostitute. it’s a joke

The only thing more hilarious is the bunker-mentality conservative crew at The Dispatch trying to paint this whole affair as a cultural tragedy.

Trump: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, DONALD J. TRUMP”

Trotsky smiles as his lost children return home

me 🤝 bill kristol AOC will lead the Reconstruction

“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

oh my god AOC-Kristolism is real

On the flip side, it can be uncomfortable to talk about, because no one wants to feel like you're stealing someone else's experience. But you can both say that trans people are far more affected while recognizing that the goal was always to use anti-trans panic to police everyone's gender.

One reason I saw this coming is that the right wingers have been flinging anti-trans slurs at me for years now. I'm cis, but it doesn't bother me, because there's nothing wrong with being trans. But in it, I also saw the playbook. It was an attack on me for not being submissive.

I've seen this coming for years: having instilled the idea that trans people are a moral threat to the republic, the next step is expanding who is "trans." If you don't conform to their narrow gender roles, you are "trans" and need to have your rights stripped. www.salon.com/2025/02/10/w...

One-state reality aka annexation has already happened

On this 29th day of Jewish American Heritage Month, this incredible early American Mikveh (ritual bath) at the Nidhe Israel Synagogue complex in Barbados, dating to the 1650s. Archeological work has changed our understanding of Jewish ritual life and the maintaining of traditions in the Americas.

The Weather Girls — “It’s Raining Men” 🎶🎶🎶

English speaker using "Al-Aqsa Flood": 🚩🚩🚩 English speaker using "Toofan Al-Aqsa": 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

In 2014 for the Old JC, I watched the parade from the sidelines. My anthropological takeaway was "A Disunified Celebration", dominated by messianists. But the divisive role played by Israel in the Jewish-American community was peanuts then compared to now. jewishcurrents.org/disunified-c...

I am unfortunately experienced in "malicious talking points that can be interpreted and spread by the innocent because of superficial readings" when it comes to denial of things Jewish and I want the same standard of tolerance (low) for gaming Palestinian matters

... an anti-Palestinian-identity talking point, which I am certain you didn't intend.

For the benefit of a friend who doesn't have the bad politics that usually goes with this narrative: "Arabic isn't indigenous to the Holy Land" might be true if you squeeze each of the terms the right way (it isn't if you use 'indigenous' in the academic sense, for instance) but it is generally...

New on Velveteen Rabbi: this week's d'var Torah, on teshuvah, community, what we owe to each other, and what we owe to people we may not personally know - like those suffering now in Delaney Hall. velveteenrabbi.com/2026/05/29/w...

It’s so funny that conservatives pretend to be the manliest men who hate Hollywood, but then vote for the dumbest bitches in the history of reality TV.

Corporate profits are soaring while workers’ share of the economy just hit a record low. Wall Street is winning this economy while working families struggle with higher costs for housing, groceries and healthcare. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

To believe in right-wing gender ideology, you have to believe that gender is so completely synonymous with innate biology that trans identities cannot exist, and also that gender is so performative and tenuous that a man can lose manhood for just not being enough of a boorish jerk.

Apparently, Netanyahu frequently mocks the term "strategy" and anyone using it

In Israel this is widely referred to as "the cease-fire war"

May we rage when we must & rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom ❤️

Dehumanizing, othering language that treats part of the population as immutably other is like poison in the water. Everyone ends up drinking it and it makes all of society sick.

The moment the wind shifts decisively in one direction, the less need we have for people telling us it's a tossup as to which way it's going to be blowing in 30 minutes, 30 hours, 30 days, or 30 months.

The NYT, WaPo, etc. don't want candidates who take the gloves off and put people first. They want nail-biting horse races that perpetuate the "need" for them to tell us, everyday, which way the wind is blowing.

Of course not. Midway down, the article admits that only the guys who still back Trump care about this crap. Most young men are too worried about affording food or getting drafted into a bullshit war. But the NYT doesn't want to report news, it wants to be the Dumbass Whisperer.

Oh, do you like to fantasize that there was a magical time in the past when white men could live their whole long lives like Louis XIV on a diet of Pixy Stix? Guess what, you're in this time where we have real problems so cowboy the fuck up and vote for an adult

"I don't wanna vote Democrat because being smart is for nerds and they don't talk enough about how amazing I am for having a penis" go stand in the corner and feel bad, treating this as a non-embarrassing opinion is how we got to this hell dimension

Imagine reading this and thinking Gender Studies is an outdated discipline.

Bring the float anyway. Force them to physically remove it. Get pictures of them violently dragging the Jews away.

Tonight I finished the first draft of The World That Made the Bible, my history of ancient Israel, Judah, and Palestine. With thoughts of Judaism and empire ringing in my head here's the last thing I wrote, the conclusion to Rome and the Rise of the Rabbis...

This is straightforwardly genocidal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This was not necessarily an emotional book, nor a topic I expected to get me misty eyed, but the line about dismantling shame made me think of all the books I've given out to the kids in my life hoping they say the things I want to say, be brave, be strong, be kind, I love you, it'll be okay.

"words are the means to meaning, and for those who are willing to listen, the enunciation of truth" if I listen I can almost hear "alif! bet! gimel!" being chanted across over 2,000 years and over every corner of the globe, tying us one to the other across time and space

interesting to think about, Yiddish less as a sudden fall and more like a spiked tree, dying but not immediately apparent, seeming alive but falling from the inside out

ah just not a moment when young (or old) American Jews were looking for Jewish Homecoming, and Israeli Jews had one both physical and linguistic

now this is making me wish for a whole book about Yiddish 1945 to like 1960? in America how it faded out as a secular language, endless ink has been spilled about Israel killing Yiddish (untrue) but not enough talk about the American pressures that lead thousands to stop speaking it

Lustiger is known to have regularly gone to synagogue to say kaddish for his mother, who was murdered at Auschwitz, the kaddish was said for him by a cousin at his funeral in Notre Dame Cathedral, his epitaph he wrote and can be seen at the cathedral is below (translated)

I'll take this funny chapter title as a chance to go off on a tangent. Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger was the Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris from 1981 till 2005 and at one point thought to be in the running to be Pope. He was also a born Jew and Holocaust survivor

I don't have anything insightful to say about this, just was striking