Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

This is a truly disgusting, antisemitic comment. I’m appalled at the level of bigotry and xenophobia that has become normalized in our politics. We cannot accept it, and we must call it out regardless of what party or individual it comes from. (1/2)

מֵעֵ קִעֶןֹ שְרֵיַיַבִּןֹ ייִדֵישֻ אַזֱוִיִ, עִסֹ קֻאָסֵטֶ ניָשְטֳ גַאָרֻנְישֶטָ

not terribly thrilled to learn that yiddish has a specific verb meaning “to slap someone in secret” (unterpatshn, literally “to underslap”)

The manifesto is neo-Nazi accelerationist slop weaving in every white nationalist trope imaginable & the immediate target was obviously the American Muslim community. But the fact that these & other mass shootings don’t register in the antisemitism conversation shows how limited that conversation is

Climate change compounding with Philly problems (old buildings, under-resourced city…ugh).

כ׳װױן אין פּענסילװאַניע, האָב איך דאָך געשטימט

every couple of days i go on facebook because there is a yiddish research community that only exists on there and so all of my interaction on that site is with yiddish things and in response the algorithm constantly serves up pro-Israel content the second i open the site

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Bluesky team all day every day

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

i do not really hang out with children and so i was kind of surprised to hear this little person announce "PRONOUNS ARE WEIRD FOR ME BECAUSE I'M NONBINARY" while i just nodded along like "yeah for real"

דאָס איז אַן אָפּמעקן פֿון קרעפּלעך

Hey Philly! We’ve got a chance to send a dem socialist to congress w/ @chrisrabb.com AND hundreds of people across the city are running to democratize their wards, which mean we can take away power from the corrupt dem leadership! www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2026/5/...

twenty thousand euros for the entire yiddish language is an incredible bargain, a real metsie fun a ganef (a deal so good it’s like you’re stealing; מציאה פֿון אַ גנבֿ)

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

i have had this book on my shelf for the past twenty years and my body could not be more ready

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

this would make a great exclamation

Child language development expert here. No. The answer is absolutely not. So-called baby talk is culturally specific. Developing language is not. #linguistics

taught my first yiddish language workshop tonight and it was beautiful and fun and i taught them about verbs and how to say I WANT TO EAT A BAGEL which is honestly one of the more crucial phrases for this language

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

have started reading dungeon crawler carl and am excited to learn about how this entity from a world beyond our stars ended up jewish american

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

the most common yiddish word for elephant (helfant, העלפֿאַנט) is great if you enjoy saying animal names and also like to cuss

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

my spouse who crochets just dropped the word "colorway" in a conversation with me as if this is a thing that civilians say to each other

feeling messed up about all the ways yiddish says “morning” “good morning” is “good tomorrow” (gut morgn) “this morning” is “today in the early” (haynt in der fri) “a nice morning” is “a nice intheearly” (a sheyner inderfri) “a morning class” is “an intheearlyish class” (an inderfriiker klas)

pushing out diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority, be fucking serious

שבת עסט מען שאַבו־שאַבו

װער האָט אַרױסגעלאָזט די הינט האַװ האַװ האַװ האַװ װער האָט אַרױסגעלאָזט די הינט

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

in yiddish, to promise something impossible is "to promise the little plate in the sky" (צוזאָגן דאָס טערערל פֿון הימל) and i just think the jews should aim a little higher when it comes to dreaming the impossible

זי, איר, ער, אים, עס, זײ

"As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans"

Well well well look who wants a tenured professor of Yiddish after all

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Well well well look who wants a tenured professor of Yiddish after all

goddamn, dude.

Every time I open Bluesky,

yiddish is neat because “farbisn” (bitter, mean, stubborn) and “farbaysn” (a tasty snack) are both from the same verb meaning “to bite”

I would like a personal apology from every man who called the station or emailed me personally to gripe about my voice during my time on public radio but never did the same to Ira Glass.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”