I appreciate that they added this bit this afternoon. The timing of their initial apology (2am east coast time) was one of my critiques.

I took my husband's *extremely* Jewish last name when we got married and did not think twice about it until I started getting extremely weird behavior from people who saw my last name & he finally had to explain why to me. I had NO IDEA how much of it was going on, how many dog whistles there were.

Ultimately today's 50501 mini-fiasco is just another piece of evidence that short-form video is brainpoison

typical bluesky user

Ok, trying to do the thing and not be on phone for as much time as possible. May everyone have a restful one, Shabbat Shalom!

One time, at Thanksgiving, James Bond came up and I said “Hannah Arendt pointed to the secret agent as THE literary representative of totalitarianism in fiction,” to which my dad replied “Jesus, Johnny, can’t it just be a movie!?” And I think, perhaps, we were both right 😇

i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook

I get what this article is going for, but it's waaaaay too surface-level and doesn't acknowledge the great anti-Zionist and Zionism-skeptical literature that American Jews have produced Like, to not mention OPERATION SHYLOCK even once here is a crime (tho Roth was a terrible man) archive.is/SxCDn

I was going to attempt something pithy but I will simply say that I find NY Mag’s tendency to publish this genre of “are diaspora Jews allowed to enjoy diaspora Jewish culture after Oct. 7?” to be tedious, under baked, and unhelpful in thinking through the topic. www.vulture.com/article/jewi....

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Required reading to understand the groypers

“What would a Jewish robot do on Shabbat? Would it power itself off?” This was one of the first things my spouse said to me upon waking this morning and it has been ringing through my mind for hours.

i heard the sandwich guy was acquitted. i bet he went up to the judge and said "i'll have an acquittal sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes!" or something like that. i'm just kidding, i doubt he did that. this post is just for fun really

“The idea that antisemitism is a new problem for the right in this country — one that must be condemned now, but was fine before Carlson invited Fuentes on his platform — is contradicted by the reality of the last decade of American political life”

Gonna try this again forward.com/opinion/7320...

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Honestly? Good. Yimakh shemo.

-Zohran's wife is aloof? -Rama's aloof, Jerry! -An aloof wife... -An aloof wife!!

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade, translated by Rose Waldman. Part 3, ch. 6:

We do not join Jonathan Greenblatt in thanking the Heritage Foundation's President Kevin Roberts for trying to have it both ways. You can’t condemn antisemitism and not condemn those ushering it into the mainstream.

Wow, this story goes from bad to worse to the worst

If you nightmare it, it is no drill

A chapter (ch 11, pt. 2) in Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters where somehow, in like ten pages, he engages what seems like all that moment’s (Poland 1933) facets of Judaism (Rabbis, Bundists, Zionists…) in a tale of threatened soccer hooliganism and it just stuns with its ability to capture so much.

Again, this is the degrees of separation: Fuentes is a Nazi. Carlson hosts Fuentes and takes him seriously. Roberts defends Carlson. J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, wrote the foreword to Roberts’s book. Nazism is officially a welcome option in the Republican Party.

Read this thread.

Not now, truckload of escaped rhesus monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. We’re busy.

"Why Kafka's Drawings Were Locked Away for Decades - and How They Were Rediscovered" www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

Republican elites have recently begun panicking about rising antisemitism among the conservative base. And they're right: this is a crisis. But it's one that is, in large part, of their own making www.vox.com/politics/466...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

also, how does Platner claim that he had no idea what a Totenkopf was or that his tattoo was one until a week ago when this Reddit conversation he was part of 6 years ago was all about a soldier with a Totenkopf where people discuss the difference between an SS Totenkopf vs. a Punisher skull etc.

What’s it like inside your head?

What’s it like inside your head?

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

If I were a rabbi interested in “defending the Jewish future” I might ask myself what message I was sending when the president has a nominee with a self described Nazi streak but the open letter I circulated/signed was about Mamdani

Genuinely impressive that AC⚡️DC delivered the lyric “the video games, they play me!” in 1986’s “Who Made Who”. Very much ahead of their time.

A great program is in trouble due to direct, political interference by administration. Jewish Studies is only to be allowed to serve the purposes of the U.S. and Israeli states. Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Proud to have played a part in The Shofar Report, @nexusproject.bsky.social's response to Project Esther, the Trump administration, and the idea that Jews should abandon liberal democracy. You can read about it in this thoughtful @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social write up 1/? forward.com/news/antisem...

I'm loving this Pope.

“A tape deck, couple of credence tapes, and there was, um, my briefcase..” youtu.be/q3gqsvVwdg0?...

The trope of the shadowy Jewish puppet master is not just about Jews, but about telling a story that discredits all movements for progressive change as inauthentic and inorganic.

So, Library of America just released a new “Ursula K Le Guin’s Book of Cats” which appears to be an immensely lovely collection of Le Guin’s sketches, writings, and even comics about cats! It also has this photo showing, by age 4, Ursula had decided “this is my haircut, bury me in these bangs!”

help me reach my goal of raising $1,000 for the gaza soup kitchen

Anybody smarter than me know if Gramsci said anything about whether or not the new world would ALSO include monsters? Feels like a possibility that should be looked into 🤔