@queenmab.bsky.social offers a feminist history of Barbie to contextualize the recent hit film. clioandthecontemporary.com/2023/08/10/b...

Brisket for Jewish Christmas this year. Happy holidays everyone ❤️

I don’t think we need to “hand it to the Supreme Court” or think they’re actually going to get an ally in fighting fascism but I do think it’s important to recognize small wins in a long difficult fight. Too many accept defeat before even fighting bec they don’t think SCOTUS will ever rule correctly

Shocked and allowing myself to be momentarily thrilled & relieved that SCOTUS blocked Trump deploying the national guard to Chicago. I don’t trust this court to help us fight fascism but I’ll take any small win where we can get it

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

CBS is looking like if ChatGPT was running a network based on a prompt to make anodyne anti progress videos

Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld

Can someone let me know when there’s a good article out about all the new Epstein files. No way I’m raw dogging that mess

The Block The Bombs Act, which would legally suspend a large portion of American offensive military assistance to Israel, now has 60 cosponsors in the House of Representatives. It is also endorsed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the first ever Israel-Palestine related bill to acquire it.

Love seeing Elise Stefanik drop out of all political races. Great replacement peddlers shouldn’t lecture on antisemitism

Answering “Has feminism hurt women?” Is my personal sisyphus. I’m doomed to constantly responding but never stopping the discourse

The ADL sacrificing American Jews for Zionism has put us in profound danger. There is a dangerous rise in antisemitism & we have no reliable tracking of that rise because the ADL counts anyone saying “free Palestine” as antisemitic. Clear example of Zionism endangering Jews

Charging doctors is also how abortion criminalization started. If they succeed in criminalizing doctors who provide transition care to minors they’ll eventually criminalize the parents & children seeking it too

Antisemitism absolutely is on the rise from both the left and the right. The answer is to take it seriously in both places & combat the weaponization which undermines our efforts. We can’t limit immigration or shut down Palestinian resistance to genocide

Anti immigration policies are fundamentally harmful to Jews. I don’t know how some of y’all don’t see that. How many Jews died during the Holocaust because we couldn’t immigrate anywhere?

Hanukkah is supposed to bring light to the darkness. My heart is aching.

I couldn’t care less if Jesus was Jewish. The only reasons to mention it are for supersessionism or ahistorical Zionism cause he wasn’t Palestinian or Israeli either

An attack on the intent of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would be a really good time to hire some historians to write things for you (those historians include me)

Really happy it’s the season where I have to spend tons of money and also no one is focusing on hiring or accepting pitches.

A lot of legal voices I respect are making deeply ahistorical arguments about the intent of the 14th Amendment. Wanting to end slave power & clarify citizenship does not extend to some perfect anti racist intent or eye towards ending other inequalities

Is it time for my yearly fight in which Christian acculturated atheists try to tell me Christmas is a secular holiday

In a surprising twist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for the 2026 midterm elections may end up strengthening California’s defense of its voter-approved map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Does anyone know what the 6-2 vote breakdown was for SCOTUS taking up birthright citizenship in Barbara v Trump?

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

Had to do a historical rant on the racism behind trying to end Birthright Citizenship and the terrifying decision to take up Barbara v. Trump by SCOTUS open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

We should all be terrified that SCOTUS is reviewing Trump’s EO trying to end Birthright Citizenship

It’s all been over since Shelby V Holder. Y’all didn’t want to listen when we screamed about voter suppression in 2016

I've said it before, I'll say it again--these sons of bitches on the Court piss me off w this 'presume the legislature acted in good faith and wasn't being racist' thing why on Earth would I presume that?! what on Earth does it take to overcome that presumption?! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

I can’t believe how difficult it is right now for so many of my friends to find long term work. Especially qualified women. We have advanced degrees, work experience, work ethic, & it’s just impossible. I seriously feel like we’re being pushed out of the workforce

Elad is exactly right. Don’t be fooled. Another very important reason not to ignore antisemitism in pro Palestinian spaces

I agree with this but I also think we’re seeing a lot of transphobia as the gateway for enforcing more Christian nationalism generally

It’s so counter productive & ridiculous I would honestly believe it if someone told me that Stop Antisemites account was a psyop. Unfortunately I think it’s just so Zionist brained it doesn’t care if it aids antisemitism as long as it’s attacking anti Zionism

The Supreme Court is hearing oral argument tomorrow to decide whether a crisis pregnancy center's lawsuit belongs in state court or federal court so naturally Republican Attorneys General spent their whole brief talking shit about Planned Parenthood ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/first...

Turning Point is attempting to suggest that giving a student a bad grade for a poorly written and transphobic essay in a psychology class is a violation of the 1st Amendment. 'Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee' by @queenmab.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

A student getting a bad grade isn’t actually a violation of 1A! Claiming it is could be another step in enforcing Christian nationalism. My latest substack on the controversy at Oklahoma University open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

If you’re making homemade pie crust for the first time use frozen butter!

The Zionist denial of atrocities in Gaza are getting more and more absurd. Medinat Israel will never be the answer to Jewish safety and liberation. My latest plea open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

I missed that Florida is proposing a new bill that would allow people to bring wrongful death suits for pregnancy loss. Not only is this another step towards personhood but I'll be anything it will mostly be used by men suing women who have had miscarriages/abortions www.yahoo.com/news/article...

In my comm college dept an Ed prof was bragging abt teaching kids abt Jewish holidays. I said they’re often taught incorrectly & wed prefer secularism. She badgered me until I cried in the bathroom. The dept had me apologize. Zionism matters not Jewish feelings

There is a conversation to be had about “Jewish supremacy” in Israel but saying that about the US or Europe or anywhere else is just protocols of Zion bullshit. Jews do not control the US & support for Israel does not equal support for Jews

Justice Sam Alito was v disturbed yesterday by the mere possibility that judges might be using the federal compassionate release statute to *checks notes* grant incarcerated people's requests for compassionate release ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ferna...

Fuck looking for something in my field. Anyone need some data entry? Or literally anything they’re willing to pay for?

The more and more I saw that video of the exercise class in front of an ICE building the more irritated I got that people actually think its a helpful protest. It's not. It's basically just dancing in front of a concentration camp open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

Lord have mercy the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument rn in an appeal from a case I wrote about last year it's undisputed that Damon Landor suffered a *brazen* violation of his legal rights, yet the GOP justices sound skeptical that he can actually sue the prison guards who violated his rights

I know everyone is saying the court will just take up a different case to overturn obergefell & thats likely but the court allowed SB8 out of Texas & some other truly bizarre things so I think we are allowed to be happy gay marriage is safe for another term

I desperately need to pitch article ideas to bring in some money and my mind is just blank. I can’t think of anything fresh. I can barely form a general idea

I’m an extremely public non Zionist Jew and this is a response to my saying many Jews are fighting the bad faith weaponization of antisemitism but still experience real antisemitism. Y’all can’t help outing yourselves. I’m not the one confusing antisemitism w/ antiZionism here

Christians do not face oppression in the US. Jews dealing with antisemitism is not actually the same as people on bluesky discussing the way Christian nationalism supports Trump! But I know Christians have to center themselves in everything

The daily onslaught of actual antisemitism side by side w/ bad faith weaponization of antisemitism really is impacting Jews standing against the genocide. We are fighting the weaponization but we’re fighting antisemitism directed at us too. Please stop saying antisemitism isn’t an issue in the US

I know everyone is struggling right now but I’m in a really tough spot financially so if anyone has any freelance work please keep me in mind!