THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES Solidarity is the only way home has always been collective liberation or bust loves

today's least surprising data: "62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"

JFREJ's 1st public event was 6/15/1990: A Shabbat service & celebration to welcome Nelson Mandela to NYC. JFREJ is an organization committed to our values as the home of the Jewish Left & our allies. For the 1st day of JFREJ's Fall Membership Drive, we reflect on our history.

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Annual reminder that the Salvation Army is a hate group (pro tip: any Christian org with military terminology in their name or description is probably a hate group or at least sympathetic to them) if you have spare physical change, give it to a panhandler do not put it in the Bigot Bucket

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

This is why the right engaging in the entire how-young-is-too-young-really exercise was both depraved and stupid.

does anyone feel like we experienced society-wide gaslighting for almost two decades about Larry Summers and now it's all just coming out?

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

Imagine if they listed cancelled cancer trials like this

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

May Alice Wong’s memory be a blessing (@sfdirewolf.bsky.social on here)

Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her. May her memory continue to always be a blessing.

i’m begging you all to please mask up in the memory of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social who wasn’t able to mask anymore after a certain point, and all others who can’t mask. that could be *you,* if enough things go wrong. it’s also all the babies and toddlers whose lives are just beginning.

Ok then, CVH!

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

No surprise: “AI peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found.” Surprise: the article still tries to spin it positive for “human-AI collaboration.” People, please draw the correct conclusion.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

And the reason they want children under 18 is BECAUSE they look like children. If it’s no big thing, and 15 year olds looked just like 18 year olds, why not go with less legal hassle. But they WANT children specifically, for reasons appearance and power-dynamics. That’s what being a pedophile is.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

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I'm going to actively say at this point that I don't think people should donate to any Dem-run PACs. What guarantee do we have that they won't give the money to cowards to stave off primary challengers? I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.

That’s a good Mercury Retrograde effect, y’all—sudden reversals!

UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

If a man calls a woman “crazy” please know that it’s actually code for “she is reasonably upset by the compounded experiences of injustice that her mere existence has subjected her to and I don’t want to acknowledge it or I fear I will realize I’ve benefited from the culture of it.” Hope that helps!

“This could take down Democrats, too.” You promise?

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

I usually think of myself as lucky bc for me the harassment only started in my teens, and then I remember being a 15yo lifeguard fighting off old men so literal toddlers didn’t die in the play area with the giant mushroom. Adult womanhood is unraveling the way you dissociated as a kid to survive.

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

The fact that it’s period accurate for the 80s in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War for his character to call his CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE STAFF “jail bait” and when that movie came out in the 2000s STILL no one really objected! Like it was just one of those things a certain kind of man said to no uproar?

"Deep into the [C19] winter wave, the HHS announced it would stop[...] COVID data; I reached out in disbelief to every reporter I knew, all of them white males in the Upper Middle Class, & was met with shrugs. 'This data is redundant,' they said, faithfully repeating the White House’s Press Release"

Like so many others, my reading life suffered during/post PhD. I was just getting back into books in 2016 when I got dxed with complex PTSD, which is when I discovered and fell in love with Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits. Magical realism made even my trauma-world a world I wanted to be in.

As the black sheep of my family because I wasn’t a math person who went on to aid the US govt in various war crimes* but instead became a teacher (who has done a lot of therapy), I cosign this. The “good at math but terrible people” are a freaking blight you have to treat early.

TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.

In related horrors, one time had people over, and there was much cooing over Ben, as there should be. But then this woman told me of her struggle: see, she loved cats so much before she had a baby. But then she had her kid and suddenly she despised her cat. Thought it was dirty, disgusting, etc.

Angus King says that there was a 0% chance that Republicans would discuss extending the subsidies if Democrats didn't cave and agree to reopen the government, but there's a 50% chance that they'll do it now. I think it's been demonstrated that there is a 0% chance. They lied. That's what they do.

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism. They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.

Rage watching First Wives Club—may Chuck Schumer et al be ruined forever!

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, and not because SNAP recipients want them to. They are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the establishment.

There is SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY here as Dulles is about 35 unexplained construction sites away from downtown DC, even/especially on a Sunday night.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

I too have issues with phone calls, even voicemails, and I might have flubbed a word or two reading from my pre-written script, yet I have lived to tell the tale. If you are able and feeling feisty enough to overcome any barriers you have, this is a good phone call to make.

Somebody needs to tell @schumer.senate.gov to stop playing with his imaginary friends and listen to real voters. The Baileys aren't real, but people missing their SNAP payments and about to have their insurance doubling or more? They're real. Don't cave, Chuck. For once in your life, don't cave.