saw a cool trove of digital documents today that were found in a box in an attic by klez-descendants this past winter & photographed by a friend -- including plenty of photos, short autobiography in Romanian and tons of music scores and newspaper clippings. 🤓

Fuck arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

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

"This situation is unsustainable. Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and repeated bailouts are not a long-term solution." Lightbound added. This is the most neoliberal BS. It's a crown corp & a public service. It's not a bailout, it's funding a basic function of a sovereign country.

More than three weeks after the BC General Employees’ Union went on strike, the number of workers on picket lines continues to increase without a response from the government. #bclab

For the past few months, Pete Fry has been very lukewarm about running for Mayor of Vancouver. But at the UBCM conference, he’s seemed much more open to the idea, and supporters in other municipalities are talking him up to me. Here’s my story on the speculation, and what comes next.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I'm singing (as part of the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir) at this secular high holidays event this Sunday if ur local & interested

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all. Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

was looking for recordings of some old Bundist songs and found this great 1972 LP I'd been unaware of on the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. 🕵️ good stuff djsa.dartmouth.edu/albums/13132

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

not cheering me up as someone who gets around by bicycle in a city where high end SUVs are so ubiquitous. who will protect us from these?

for some reason One Platform To Rule Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them doesn't seem to bring out the best in anyone

was looking for recordings of some old Bundist songs and found this great 1972 LP I'd been unaware of on the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. 🕵️ good stuff djsa.dartmouth.edu/albums/13132

I'm sorry, but Bluesky needs a LOT more weirdos talking about classic TV, older game shows, and network continuity/graphics from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. I know there's like seven of us, and I already follow those folks.

tough choice! I live near Main & Kingsway and it's pretty bad, but I don't generally feel like I'm about to die there the way I do in that part of Richmond.

your regular reminder that if chotiner is calling, do NOT pick up the phone www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Chaia performed a small, fairly last minute show on Sunday at Lobe Studio in the DTES at the end of her west coast tour. I met her briefly before and knew about her work, but never saw her perform before. I feel like it's something you have to see live. 🤯wow

Is it possible for the child of a prime minister to have thoughts of their own and be a good journalist? Maybe! One potential problem is when they also work for several lobbyists / businesses at the same time as they are hosting news programs and repeatedly have their business partners on as guests

Shana tovah to my Jewish friends and good luck in tomorrow’s Rapture to my Christian ones

she earned whatever political troubles she's facing. the nerve of a queer person helping bring a fringe homophobic party into the mainstream and within a hair of winning the provincial election.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

I wrote a thing.

The important thing to understand about TikTok is that it is not a social media platform that has shopping features, it is a shopping platform with hyper-optimized data tracking that has social media features. (This is, incidentally, why I’ve never had an account & don’t have the app on my phone,)

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Spinoza died at the age of 44 because he inhaled the dust from the lens grinding that he had to do for his job because he got excommunicated and refused to profit from it by joining the enemy party of those who excommunicated him

what are some good (left leaning) weekly/monthly print news/politics outlets to subscribe to? I am craving for some old fashioned print news media in my life

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/tJCP3LX

Well, I'm *officially* in my Rogue Radical era now! Sept 26th,is the last day to sign up for my Race, Media and International Affairs online classes. They don't want us to talk about race and history, but I'm going to teach it anyway. Enroll here! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

📍 Vancouver #DrawTheLine

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

oof, my research took me here... this is Milton Kestenbaum (1914–2004), a well known orchestral bassist & one of the sons of the Kestenbaum musician families from Przemyśl I'm looking into. here he was being interrogated by the Committee on Un-American Activities in '56😮‍💨 archive.org/details/sim_...

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

came up when I was trying to figure out who Hugo Zornig was.😔 San Diego Sun, Jan 22, 1918.

So glad the US government will spend millions to fund an ahistorical construction of "Judeo-Christian civilization," but we can't spend a fraction of that to support klezmer music archives, Yiddish women's writing, Ukrainian Jewish poetry, or Soviet Holocaust literature. www.jta.org/2025/09/17/u...

dang it lol, from the video I thought she was still seated for some petty reason, which I respected despite disliking her politics.

I have a digization request for some very old (1890s) klezmer scores from the Library of Congress which hasn't gone anywhere for a month now and I'm curious what's up. So far they haven't responded to any follow-ups. I didn't think they had been hit by DOGE, maybe these scores are just hard to find.

as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.

Any Yiddish folklorists on here?

This. At one job we had, the whole art department was slashed down to 1 person overnight cause or AI. I was also removed funny thing is, they ended up using none of their ai-generated designs and still kept using my concept art until the very end 🥹. It’s crazy

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

these people are genuinely idiots

My organization, the Peretz Centre in Vancouver, is doing a membership drive for the new year. If you're interested in Yiddish culture & literature, Jewish secular humanism & social justice, consider checking out the programming or becoming a member. It's the organization's 80th year!🥺⏳

This is a disgusting, horrifying weaponization of the courts to continue the administration’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for free speech

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.