The oddest thing? Were it not for the connotation, it’s actually a fantastic look for the weirdo racist.

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The projection is among the more annoying, if boring parts of fascism. There's the Striker meme of a hand crushing little people with the quote, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." You know, the one falsely attributed to Voltaire and shared by Cusack.

Off to participate in a panel discussion about Holocaust education and contemporary antisemitism.

Disabling copilot gave me a bigger dopamine rush than I expected. I can slay AI dragons!

We had such an incredible time in Prague and its environs, we couldn't help getting together to tell y'all all about it! This is also an opportunity to thank our friends who contributed to defray participation costs. Please email [email protected] if you'd like to contribute for our 2026 trip!

We have meme-stocks & meme-killings while we remain enthralled to an overtly anti-democratic, nihilistic, and racist techno-futurism. We’ve discovered new depths of atomization where victims join groups to (and) feel (are)-made-to-feel deeper loneliness. Nothing lasts but meaningless repetition.

How can it be luck when you’ve convinced yourself that it’s election, grace, or chosenness? In some part, the obsession with bizarre and poorly developed philosophies can be attributed to a mind plagued by insecurities and resentments grappling with the outsized rewards earned mostly by chance.

The point of nationalizing industry isn't to set up the Treasury to participate in the extraction of wealth from citizens and trading partners, it's to create a more efficient system which prioritizes providing for the population cheaply and supporting labor. This isn't socialism... It's...

“Ramapo broke into the top 100 with a 34-point jump to #85 for the Top Performers on Social Mobility category, the highest increase by a[n NJ] institution… testimony to Ramapo’s… commitment to enroll and graduate students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.” www.ramapo.edu/news/slide/u...

This is what happens when the UN tries de-escalation tactics.

God grants us permission to pray with sinners, as he gives others permission to pray with us… But what obligation does that place upon us, we who pray with sinners and sin ourselves? When Rosh Hashanah feels like the darkest Purim, I have few answers.

I’ve spent some time in the archives of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, studying that same ministry during the 41 years of communist rule. This is exactly the type of crap they pulled to annoy and humiliate Israeli diplomats… that and give the tons of water and limit bathroom access.

I ate apples and honey for my pre-gym snack today. Tell me I’m not just like the boy from the Hasidic tale chanting out the aleph bet on Yom Kippur from the back of the shul. Tell me, coward!

Yes but this also structures client relationships between industries and the party/leader.

My tip to writing modern and contemporary Jewish history, including works on Israel, is to focus on Jews without placing them at the center of history. Failing to do so perpetuates the "enthusiastically ambivalent" (tm) objectification of Jews that has been central to European/Christian thought.

Shana Tova 5786! Here is the first Rosh Hashanah video from our team at OyKay Torah! We're a Prague-based collective which produces fun and educational animated shorts for Jewish kids and their families. If you want to support us in the New Year, see first comment. www.youtube.com/shorts/CHETt...

Anyone planning an “orphan” document workshop? I’ve got this single source that I’d love to write about but it’s alone in the woods. If you’re in a similar situation, let’s talk!

PHOENIX: “A week after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, a man allegedly threatened to shoot up a gay bar to "send a message" to the far-left… told police he wanted to be a "martyr" for Kirk… alluded to harming the transgender community…” people.com/charlie-kirk...

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

I sold three things on eBay today.

Desegregation is now opposing DEI.

"The permission structure that President Trump's election has provided." -- Yikes.

I thought I accidentally bleached a spot in my new gray shirt… upon further investigation and with the strategic deployment of saliva, I have come to understand that I’m just a messy eater.

All I want for Christmas are videos of people finding increasingly funny or impressive ways to destroy these things (within the limits of the law).

This is OyKay Torah’s first Rosh Hashanah video of 5786… I’m proud of it and our work. To learn more and support us (if you have the will and means), check out the link in the first comment… And whether you support us or not, have a happy and sweet new year! youtube.com/shorts/CHETt...

It’s ridiculous that one would say what Hazony says here and still be treated by anyone as a serious thinker.

Often times before bed, we watch the late-night monologues on YouTube. We call it watching the boys tell jokes. I’m gonna miss it.

What he said!

They worry about comedians because they irony-pilled and memed their way into power.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Turns out it takes a whole lotta fascism to get most folks to worry about fascism.

Tonight!

If you find yourself in or around Northford, CT, do yourself a favor and check out my brother’s new taproom, serving Kent Falls Brewing Company beers. patch.com/connecticut/...

American Jews are the single most pro-trans rights religious group in the US. forward.com/fast-forward... Meanwhile, the Tikvah Fund, which is getting millions of dollars to represent Jews on campus on behalf of the state, has an explicitly anti-trans agenda and denies trans identities.

1) the workload is too high. 2) this fix—if done as explained—will take more time. So many steps! That’s the point! We start using AI to grade due to workload & guardrails… we get desensitized, as admin heaps on more tasks (AI should allow this), and so we adopt shortcuts that undermine standards.

Many TikTokers explaining “transmaxxing” to argue that CK’s killer fits the Groyper set easily is fascinating & almost overwhelming. Researching sub-communities not one’s own can be intoxicating: sharing secrets learned via violating boundaries… but this can lead to totalizing/flattened analysis.

SURPRISE! It’s more eugenics expressed through reactionary fantasies of a purer time of richer happiness before modernity-induced “decline.” To wit, this man is pushing an experience he may rightfully feel to have been actively denied.

He was also desired by men. Let’s not be silly.

It's odd to think that I owe my birth in the USA to a series of decisions, the earliest of which, one could argue, was a violation of Nazi Germany's race-mixing laws by a relative from whom I do not descend.

It strikes me that this version of "Judeo-Christianity," in ways," treats Jews like the "wild women" of medieval European lore. The complexly (and wrongly) gendered women/Jews establish a civilization through a divine instinct, and then submit to be the silent handmaidens of the resulting society.

Starting all reviews of secondary literature by asking students: מה שאלת רש״י? We learned this method in 6th grade and it remains the best historiographic approach I have ever learned.

This is also going to be incredible! Visit www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/center-events for more information and to register.

I'm really looking forward to this talk. Dr. Samudzi will be visiting my genocide class this Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm to discuss Germany's differentiated responses to its past genocides with attention to how they relate to the effected communities and their (complexly) associated nation-states.

This is absolutely relevant again

“Trans-ideology” allegation shown to have been based on (malicious) misreading of manufacturer stamp. that’s not the point. The Alt-Right of yore used “Semitic” as an insult/meme for things they don’t like. “Trans” has come to the fore in this role now. The facts are immaterial to this discourse.

Probably gonna be spending the day telling people that 'If You Read This You Are Gay LMAO' is not an antifascist message

the terminally online violence will just get more inscrutable and arbitrary, and the regime will use any available scraps of symbolic content to justify its continued expansion

A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting an attempted coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. www.reuters.com/world/americ...