Without the Achaemenids returning the Judeans from Babylon, granting them autonomy, and encouraging them to restart their cult in Jerusalem, the modern world doesn’t exist.

if you “can’t blame” one third of young Americans for “viewing Jews as a threat to society” in the US because of the actions of another country halfway across the world, you are being a bigot and should stop that.

holy shit. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey (2026)

Troy be like:

I saw the new documentary from Christopher Nolan!

Why a frankly confusing theater marquee about Jews is causing so much alarm here.

Lake Oswego theater marquee sparks outrage in Jewish community portlandtribune.com/2026/07/17/l...

Gerard Butler vs Matt Damon who are both not from Greece or have any Hellenic or Mediterranean ancestry

At this intersection (Columbia Pike/29 at Fairland Rd), on January 12, 2026, around 6:39 pm, 2 drivers hit & killed a pedestrian (73/F) crossing Columbia Pike in a marked crosswalk, as she was walking home from the bus stop. wtop.com/montgomery-c...

Rollover Collision [at the Deadly Intersection of Columbia Pike/29 and Fairland Rd] Leaves Ten People Injured; Cyber Truck Split in Half mocoshow.com/2026/07/18/r...

Conservatives calling Nolan ‘woke’ and liberal or whatever is really funny

Visualized.

Watching the Burning Man documentary and all these people are describing themselves as anarchists and none of their beliefs seem to boil down to no social responsibility, but that’s not anarchism, that’s libertarianism?

A million years ago, White House interference in IRS audits was considered an impeachable offense

The wildfire smoke makes it look like someone is filming in Mexico.

one of the good things about the rise of the DSA has been that it's more or less completely nullified the US Green Party - a deeply shitty organization - among young people.

it is pretty insane that the movement which produced the idea that Kamala Harris would go to war in Iran has not produced any sort of resistance, even messaging, about the actual war in Iran

I don't know if that movement knows how to mobilize against conservatives, & to the extent it does, it gets not a fraction as much play. The market for yelling at Democrats is broader & deeper & more profitable across the board then the market for yelling at Republicans, in every sense of profit

I fundamentally don’t understand being anti-vax. You mean I can get a shot and then not get sick? You mean I can get a shot and then not get others sick? That’s amazing! What a miracle!

Just a friendly reminder that propaganda works because it gets shared and spread, no matter the intention of the person spreading it.

The anti-trans/antisemitic Venn diagram is basically a circle.

The Iranian regime, mad that it can't get Shoah 2.0 just yet, is terrorizing random Jews around the world as a consolation prize. And it's been doing this for several decades now. There are no good actors in this shitshow war, but the IRGC is the fucking worst.

"A series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain were the work of a proxy group backed by Iran, the U.K. government said Monday." www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Meanwhile, Morris Katz and Fight Agency—who pocketed $2M to shield Platner from scandals—remain active. Neither NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani nor Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed have fired Katz or blackballed his firm. The grift continues because nobody is willing to enforce consequences.

It’s been days since Graham Platner withdrew in disgrace, and there is still zero accountability for the consultants and backers who built him. The far-left ecosystem that ran PR for him is already pivoting to their next target.

Is Bob Prevost a Catholic?

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

You’re telling me someone dies mysteriously and immediately after a diplomatic trip to Ukraine?

Alfred Dreyfus statue finally finds place in heart of Paris

repost for the coining of the "The Platner Class" alone, and the article is also good!

People are dunking on Al Green for this, but I think I actually like it. I don't expect a congressman to actually post "he was an asshole" after another congressman dies, and the way this thing is worded expresses more thinly-velied contempt from Graham than posting nothing.

A thousand protesters, denying locals’ guilt, object to ceremony marking anniversary of 1941 Jedwabne massacre, when Polish farmers locked 300 Jews in a barn and set it on fire www.timesofisrael.com/polish-natio...

I desperately need people to understand why pointing out that some racist male influencer has a non-white wife is neither "hypocrisy" nor even a "contradiction" in their worldview.

This is fine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Everything is contingent. There is no way to guarantee that your gains cannot be undone by opponents taking power after you. “I would simply pass laws you can’t break” is the mindset of a child. I swear to god our most cynical posters can’t tie their shoes without a diagram.

Such fake performative toxic aggressively ignorant bullshit in saying that stuff like cutting child poverty in half, the largest investment in climate ever and infrastructure and forgiving billions in student loan debt vaccinating millions of people during COVID etc is fuck all

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

the Battle for Nazi Gold

Did they join up with Jimmy Carter?

Sunrise is really a horrible organization

Someone changed this World Cup referee’s Wikipedia page to say he was Jewish. Enraged soccer fans believed it. forward.com/news/837179/...

The thing is, I like a lot of the candidates Bernie endorses! I’m grateful he inspired people like AOC and Mamdani! The problem isn’t that he *doesn’t* support women or POC, it’s that he seems to support anyone who kisses his ass without really having any discernment as to their character.

Many such cases

I have such disdain for this man that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with his personality, which is made worse by the way non-Jews treat him like a cartoon character because they’ve never met a crabby alter kocker before

To be fair it can avoid militarization because it outsources that work to the UK and US

these crashouts are going to become much funnier if and when Maine Democrats nominate Troy Jackson, who is basically just "what if Platner was vetted and not a drunken Nazi pervert"