The first words of the national anthems of Russia and its three northwestern neighbors constitute a short but comprehensive history of the region.

Last week, the executive branch of the US government loudly and clearly declared Trump’s intention to radically remake America into a carbon copy of his favorite nation on Earth - Putin’s Russia. And hadrly anybody has uttered a word of surprise or protest. slavamalamud.substack.com/p/putins-pla...

Two years ago today, 1195 people were murdered in cold blood for being Jews. Much of the world, including a great majority of people in the US academia reacted by drawing the conclusion that Jews must be denied their country and resettled back in Russia, Brooklyn or Auschwitz.

The Manchester attack is exactly what globalizing the Intifada looks like. Words have meanings. You can't redefine them as it suits you. Globalizing the Intifada means killing Jews everywhere. From the river to the sea means killing Jews in Israel. If you chant these things, you are pro-genocide.

So many American Catholics (who, as always, love their politics more than their religion) are condemning the Pope for his opposition to the death penalty by quoting the Old Testament. Which makes me wonder: boychiks, do you actually want to be Jews now?

It's not surprising that GOP tries to torpedo any legislation that benefits poor Americans by blatantly lying that it's "money for illegals". But it's quite telling that, in GOP's (correct) opinion, US voters would rather have their benefits cut than give anything to foreigners.

That sandwich better have had some really sharp cheddar

Hey, look, those Jews have colonized another indigenous thing! LFG! worldlacrosse.sport/article/isra...

It's honestly a little staggering how braindead a great chunk of folks on BlueSky are.

When Obama became president, he stood on his knees and tore his signature reform to shreds trying to get a single GOP vote. When MAGA gets power, it laughs and swings for the fences. I fucking hope President AOC or whoever bans all guns and passes Medicare for All within the first 5 months.

Look (while you still can) on the bright side, MAGA Lady. You really did piss off this lib. Mission accomplished. It was hilarious while it lasted, wasn't it?

The people of this nation are sure willing to eat a lot of shit to make the lives of billionaires just a tad more luxurious and detached from their own, and this is just a part of the Mysterious American Soul that I simply can't understand, so sorry.

Is it too much to ask for a charismatic, young, very progressive, likeable Democratic politician who is not really, really into crushing Zionism and globalizing the intifada? Asking for a friend.

As a member of the Democratic Party, I first want to hear his suggestions for how exactly he is planning to globalize the intifada. Will we, Jews, be globalized centrally or have to report to our local globalization centers?

At some point, humanity will realize that religion is an objective evil and every single regime that derives its legitimacy from religion is always, always, without any exception, an evil one. Of course, by then, humanity may well be destroyed. By religion.

I am happy that the world is (re)discovering how little it actually cares about bombed hospitals, thanks to their being full of Jews.

When you are a giant baby playing soldiers vs when you are actually a commander in chief of a nation fighting for survival.

It's so appropriate and wonderful that Israeli strikes occurred while Iran was celebrating The Russian Culture Week.

It really is amazing how absolutely everyone who has made it their life's work to crush Zionism and throw "white European colonizers" into the Mediterranean has met with uniformly the same fate. One could almost write a Harvard thesis on this.

The crushing of Zionism. Much easier chanted than done.

LA protesters should really tell the folks in Hamas rags to get lost. This is not the way to earn the sympathy of the nation. Not everything must be about hating Jews, people!

If "The Great Russian Culture" has any use at all, it's the amazing utility of its profane lexicon for situations like this. Behold the awesome power of this Russian cussword: Zhabogadyuking Literally: "A toad and a viper fucking each other." Meaning: "Two horrible people fighting, to our delight."

Being a Jew in America is no longer safe because this generation of American kids has grown up with the notion that we are privileged white people who are oppressing indigenous brown folks. Save your guilt for Native and African Americans, white American kids. Jews are not you.

"The war didn't start on 10/7" always means two things: 1) Hamas was justified in mass murdering Jews, 2) The very existence of the Jewish state is a crime that must be avenged. Antisemitism, in its purest form.

This moron is salty because the Israeli girl, who survived 10/7 by hiding under the bodies of her friends as Hamas murderers were tossing grenades into the shelter, got more fan votes than his screechy ass. How dare she sing and not die, like a Jew should!

Great. Now Jews are being hunted down and murdered in the streets of America's capital. This will surely convince us that we don't need our strong, independent, well armed and fucking unbeatable ethnostate in our ancestral homeland. Good going, antisemites!

When Eurovision fans in Basel booed the Israeli performer who survived 10/7 by hiding under the dead bodies of her friends in a shelter as Hamas murderers threw grenades into it, they showed everyone that "pro-Palestinian" protests are actually pro-Jewish death. You are just mad when we don't die.

@anyageish.bsky.social Anya voht iz lavandovyi ruff/rough/raff?

Every year, for Victory Day, Russia dials the insanity up just a few thousand notches more.

When you are in charge of finding nostalgic photos from the "war generation" for the background design of a patriotic show celebrating The Great Russian Victory, and they are only paying you in vodka.

You know, all and all, I am kinda happy that the Messi fan Pope has been replaced by a White Sox fan Pope. The church preaches humility, so it's high time it practiced it, too.

I have always said that everyone in the Trumpoverse is basically a love child of Dunning and Krueger. That said, Vance and Musk are definitely firstborn.

This means everyone in America would literally be dead right now if only a few votes in the Midwest went the other way. Huge if true.

I've asked AI to draw the great Russian culture, and it's eerily accurate.

Wow, the NFL wants nothing to do with a son of privilege whose talents are overhyped and who brings nothing but headache and drama. If only American voters had the gravitas and common sense of NFL GMs oh my fucking god I can't believe I've just typed this unsend unsend unsend

You know Republicans are back in charge when America's educational institutions are no longer distracted with protesting foreign policy and return to their core mission: receiving thoughts and prayers after mass shootings.

Due to birth trauma, I have no sense of smell and don't understand the sensation, except purely theoretically, but I have no problem believing this. In fact, the entire aesthetics of the Trump political life is very disgusting, and I can't understand those who find any appeal in it at all.

Bodies in the streets of Sumy today. Dozens dead, including children. America, though, is so tired of Ukraine. Can we have some pity on the poor, war-fatigued Americans instead? Can we just let them enjoy their suddenly insanely cheap eggs and their precious Ovechkin?

Big if true.

Ovechkin should only be discussed in the context of how sports aids and abets the worst genocidal regime on earth. But America's hockey community prefers to be deaf and blind. open.substack.com/pub/slavamal...

Really disgusting how, while Russia is killing children in Ukraine, America is busy slobbering over a Russian hockey player who enthusiastically supports this.

100,000 Russian orcs have been killed in Ukraine, by the most conservative estimates. They could've lived normal Russian lives instead. Beat their wives, peacefully acquired cirrhosis, died of alcohol poisoning in a snow drift at the old age of 42. But their czar needed glory and conquest, so 🤷

Of course, Trump didn't put any tariffs on Russia. So, I guess, your household crude oil, nickel and caviar will remain the same price, middle class America.

Whatever they tell you about the horrors of electing such raging Brezhnevites as American liberals, it’s actually folks like Victoria Spartz who are the most Soviet of all politicians we have.

Mom, can we have a Zelensky? We have a Zelensky at home. Zelensky at home:

Teslas are the only protected minority in Trump's America.

I guess, this was another example of that famous Trump sarcasm.

As a math teacher, I have questions.