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me when I joined bsky: “oh boy I can’t wait to hang out with all the cool transgender shitposters and say unhinged shit on main me now: “here’s why saying ‘Mamdani is bought by AIPAC zios’ is antisemitic: 1/20”

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor losing all of his titles over just the possibility of the Epstein files coming out tells me all I need to know about just how bad the contents are, and why the Republicans are so desperate to never let it out.

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

Schumer just dog walked both GOP and you, and both you and they are mad about it. Now Democrats get another round of news stories about how Republicans refuse to negotiate and are making everything worse, *and* can now safely retreat to better asks. An unmitigated win. But you're still mad.

Can you imagine if a sitting senator said this about Jews? Let's see how many calls there are for him to resign.

people made at recon haven't read enough books to understand that intentionally and publicly cutting off the food supply—especially primarily for the sake of some kind of political gain—to the working poor has never happened before and is easily the most baffling move in the history of civilization

I think we all understand what it means when "minority has any sort of facial expression" becomes evidence of guilt right?

I won’t do the whole one like = one niche opinion on Judaism bc I hate feeling pressured but I’ll share exactly one here: FEMALE RABBIS ARE COOL AND GOOD

imo a lot of it comes down to leadership and donors basically treating environmental stuff as "freeze stuff as they are" instead of "how do we build a post-carbon world" from what i've heard from friends in enviro orgs

❤️ American Meritocracy archive.ph/9JeYZ

My latest is full of stuff that's not easy, but is really important -- and, you know, the Talmud-- stuff that dates to 300 CE, in what's now Iraq-- is in a number of ways more progressive than USA laws ca. 1993, or even ca. today. So. Uh.

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf

“As a conservative I want to live in a lib area because it’s nicer and there’s things to do but I don’t understand why that is and I will not investigate”

I keep seeing these videos by trans guys about how trans women are dominating trans advocacy because of socialisation and honestly it's a discredit to the numerous trans men who are involved daily in pragmatic community rooted activism every day without getting involved in promoting transmisogyny.

Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

The thing I don’t get is why “Don’t Start Shitism” isn’t more popular. As a trans woman, I’d *like* for people to consider me a real girl, but if you don’t, what’s stopping you from just rolling your eyes and moving on? I’d like to think one thing we all have in common is that we’ve got shit to do.

3. the single best historical point of comparison for right-wing zionism is the endecja and nothing else is even really remotely close.

me when I joined bsky: “oh boy I can’t wait to hang out with all the cool transgender shitposters and say unhinged shit on main me now: “here’s why saying ‘Mamdani is bought by AIPAC zios’ is antisemitic: 1/20”

Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

forgot a 48) there 49) Sukkot is the most pagan of the holidays. It’s also the most Freudian. To paraphrase Dr. Benjamin Sommer, we shake a giant leaf-raining phallus as sympathetic magic so as to encourage the storm god to inseminate the earth mother with his bountiful rain-sperm

47) if you would say that a megillat Esther written by Esther isn’t kosher because Esther was a woman when writing “and she, Esther the queen, wrote this” then I don’t trust your halakhic judgment. Or your regular judgment for that matter

38) In terms of actual Jewish practice, the Cairo Geniza is substantially more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls. The DSS are the record of a dead group. The Geniza is the history of a living one.

35) Sodom's ultimate sin was being ancap NIMBYists, not gayness. If they were gay while feeding the poor and supporting immigrants they would be doing just fine. By extension, the party of sodomites would be the one cutting welfare and sending armed goons to drag parents away from their children

forgot a 23 there 24) the most important thing about Ḥanukkah is that it isn’t Christmas. I would go so far to say that it is a holiday that specifically celebrates the fact that we aren’t celebrating Christmas

7) none of the arguments for why electricity is considered melakha are convincing whatsoever. So much ink has been spilt to obfuscate the most obvious answer which is that the people who decided it didn’t know what it was

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

‘Biological pronouns’, now part of a decision in the US courts, was workshopped in plain sight by British GCs. British GCs have been ascendant in large part due to US funding of their associated fake charities and activist orgs. Transphobia is an organised, international war effort.

as I've pointed out before, many states barely pay their legislators.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

i think we can justifiably slice this thinner. trans issues are of very low salience to the voters democrats need to win on their right flank, and of very high salience to the voters democrats need to win on their left flank

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

This game is gonna suck really hard

love that society has decided this is fine

accusing Jews of false flagging vandalism on their religious/cultural buildings is one of the oldest antisemitic 4chan memes in the book and it’s incredibly disheartening to see ostensible “leftists” spread this garbage

For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)

The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse

after reading this opinion, I’m comfortable saying that the court’s liberal justices are no longer behaving as if the court they sit on is legitimate and their dissents exist mostly to explain to future iterations of the judicial system why the court should never operate like this again

What’s the problem? We’re just displaying a historical fact that this person is a Jew by forcing them to wear a yellow star.

"Israel First" is a phrase that diffuses from Nazis, it's only used by people really close to their ooze

SCOTUS, on the shadow docket, just 6-3 permitted the regime to require sex-at-birth identifiers on passports. Jackson, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, dissents. Fuck this illegitimate court. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Is it jury nullification, or is it the sovereign (the people of the United States of America, constitutionally) determining that a state of exception is necessary? Can someone print this out and glue it to the door of Vermeule's office.

Going to Italy and seeing all these gorgeous cathedrals and then seeing the squalid little Venetian Ghetto (with four synagogues in a couple square blocks, haha) filled me with a cold anger. The deliberate suppression of Jewish public sanctity & sacred art has shaped our culture profoundly.

I should also note that some observant Jews get extremely annoyed about how tikkun olam is the only permitted ethos for Judaism

My "Not a Soldier for American Nazism" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. archive.ph/5DLkn