We’re clearly in a cultural moment when any attempt to make public figures who committed sexual violence pay a price for their crimes has disappeared. When Woody Allen dies, the obituaries will all talk about “Annie Hall,” and the abuse will appear in an aside at the end of the article, if at all.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Susan Abulhawa has also called Zelenskyy a "Nazi promoting zionist" and "far more dangerous than Putin." I always cringe when I see people share anything from her. I find it especially frustrating when I see people characterize any criticism of her as anti-Palestinian censorship.

This quote is very obviously fake, has been going around for months, and now is being touted as real with MEMO's approval.

It's hard not to wonder how much money went into the Sumud Flotilla, which had no chance whatsoever of success, money which could have gone to organizations like @wck.org, who are actually on the ground successfully making 200,000 meals a day for Gazans. donate.wck.org/give/525879/...

Dani Miran, father of hostage Omri Miran, bottom left… who said recently “The thought that as a result of the entry into Gaza and the bombings in Gaza you might return in a coffin or a black bag is what keeps me awake at night. Forgive me, son."💔

My Days of Awe and Kol Nidrei poems, published by the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/day...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

'Repent now, and avoid the Yom Kippur rush!' Jewish Museum of London.

Finally posting some updates on my website. I have updates! I just haven't been posting them... www.maiaevrona.com/new-blog/202...

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

My Rosh Hashanah poem, first published in the Jewish Women’s Archive: jwa.org/blog/high-ho...

I'm not crazy about Kamala Harris dishing on other prominent democrats (who we may need to win in 2028) but do think the bit about Gavin Newsom responding to her call telling him she was running, with a text saying "Out hiking will call later" and then not calling, was pretty funny...

every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"

I've seen a lot of people on here in the past day or so repeat the line of "Arabs are Semites, too, so anti-Arab racism is also a form of antisemitism." This is and understandable mistake, given how weird the word is, but it's a misunderstanding of the word.

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

What a bizarre spectacle it is to watch Democratic politicians and prominent opinionists on the center/center-left attempt to valorize Charlie Kirk.   It is not just utterly detached from the reality of who Kirk was/what he did – it also misunderstands why political violence is bad.

I read this with Weleda Skin Food literally sinking into my skin... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

It’s demoralizing how every five to ten years society finds a new “it girl” to tear down, even as we bemoan the way Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan/etc once were treated.

In November, I will be poet-in-residence at the Frölunda Library and Culture-house in Gothenburg, under the auspices of the AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland residency program. Sweden is the only country in the world where Yiddish is an official minority language.

Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age

It's so depressing that New York has become so unaffordable for the people who made it New York. The Chelsea Hotel is finally up and running again... but it costs almost $900 a night. Imagine how much art we would have missed out on if it had cost the equivalent of that in the 1960s...

Last March, I gave a reading of my poetry and translations for my childhood synagogue. I also read my translation of Hofshteyn's Ukraine, which was recently published, along with an article on the connection Yiddish poets to Ukraine, in the @forward.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eR...

CDC staff and alums gathered outside HQ this afternoon to salute those top four officials who resigned in protest yesterday. the crowd looks fairly massive, per a pic sent to Sam Stein.

We had a horrific emergency involving our kids today and right now I'm just sitting at my computer in a daze and in shock. Thankfully they are okay but others are less fortunate.

Oh Argentina… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Doing Polish duolingo and it asks if I am a spy. Story of my life, duolingo!

Truly egregious Holocaust revisionism from the Imperial War Museum in London www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

On the Night of the Murdered Poets, Yiddish as a Ukrainian Language & Ukraine, a poem by Dovid Hofshteyn, translated by Maia Evrona ⬇️

Three writers & a visual artist share their experiences on the BIA pilot scheme. Read the full interview stingingfly.org/2025/08/07/b... ”...the Basic Income meant I could choose to have a child without the same financial insecurity and without the fear that I would have to give up creative work“

My small contribution to writing on Ukraine, published thanks to the @forward.com At the end you can also read my translation of Dovid Hofshteyn’s poem “Ukraine” forward.com/yiddish-worl...

🚨 Today, J Street and the Muslim Public Affairs Council released a joint statement: “Enough war. Enough civilian suffering. Enough starvation. Enough terror and hostage-taking. Enough rhetoric that justifies forced displacement and collective punishment.”

📌 Hope this soul follows him everywhere . A true hero 🐥

Mental health conditions, like suicides & overdoses, are the leading underlying causes of maternal deaths in the US. Antidepressants save women's lives—& they're safe. So why is RFKJr's FDA hell-bent on undermining their use among pregnant & postpartum moms? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ireland trialled a scheme where they provided 2000 artists with a guaranteed income of €1300 a month. It's been such a success that it's already been extended and there's a campaign to push it further. Here's the government report: assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

I always loved this 2019 interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends where he complains people are being very unfair to his friend Jeffrey because he had a disease called being a huge pervert not unlike tuberculosis. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

Reminder that the term “Judeo-Christian” dates from the 1820’s, when it was coined to denote Christian churches that would retain some outwardly Jewish ritual practices to convert Jews to Christianity.

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office.

Making sure people are able to have access to affordable AC is a disability justice issue.

Blowing away in the Basque Country. French soil under me, Spain behind me.

1 year ago on this day at 11 in the morning russian bombers launched ballistic missiles at a children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv. Youngest victim was 1 month old

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Biden mixes up two names when describing the major problems facing the US in the Middle East: dementia, worse than Watergate Trump announces a totally fake ceasefire in an ongoing war, congratulates Iran, and encourages everyone to finish their bombing runs: big oopsie, Trump being Trump

Love how this administration talks about LA like it's fucking Dresden in 1945. Let me go instead, you babies. I've been craving a jalapeno egg burrito from the Tacos Por Favor on Olympic for like six months now.