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1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees: 'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '. Please click on the paywalled link first, archived link in next post. Also consider sharing. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

I help to run a mutual aid fund for a family in Gaza, and donations have been quite low over the past few months. Despite the "ceasefire", the genocide is not over, people are still living in tents and struggling to survive. Please share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1227...

Learn Yiddish with me this semester part 2: for beginners who already know a bisl Yiddish. Great reviews from previous students (pictured). secure.qgiv.com/for/yiddishc...

*Gender reveal post* 🥁 It's my first peer-reviewed publication! Got back from a long walk on Arthur's Seat yesterday to discover this had finally arrived. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

For more on Omni Air International's participation in ICE's human rights abuses, please read my recent Mother Jones story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Omni plane that went to Cameroon overnight made a second stop in Ghana, which may have also been a third-country removal. The aircraft took off again a few hours later and is now descending toward Chad. Migrants onboard have been shackled for at least 24 hours.

The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people

I think it’s bad that the major American Jewish organizations that claim to speak for the community have decided that college student protesters are a bigger danger to Jews than the actual US government supporting a German far-right that wants to stop Holocaust remembrance.

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Currently (and much to my own surprise) living right in the centre of the Old Town and really feeling like I live in H*rry P*tter disneyland. This city has changed so much since I lived here twenty years ago

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Remember this lmao

The EU commission failed to defend Albanese: bsky.app/profile/drop...

🚨France, Germany, Italy, & the U.S. have escalated attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, demanding her resignation over remarks she did not make. Here’s everything you need to know: 1. U.S. Amb. Mike Waltz & the leading Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accused...

"However carefully depersonalized Sidqi’s story, it still resonates with shocking familiarity today." An excerpt from the memoir of Najati Sidqi—intellectual, member of the Palestine Communist Party, and critic of Nazism—introduced by @margaretlitvin.bsky.social:

Minnesota still needs your attention

Our little picture of innocence

Disabled Anarchists - An Introduction www.thecommoner.org.uk/disabled-ana... Via The Commoner. By Disability Action Research Collective & @richamm.bsky.social

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

Study Yiddish with me this semester part 1: by reading stories about a clever puppy who joins a family of Jewish Communists secure.qgiv.com/for/yiddishc...

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Rdv sur les ondes lundi midi pour en savoir plus ! Long COVID Rise Up #StopTheDiseaseProcess #BlockTheSpread

Summoning circle, hope this works: 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ Billionaire 🕯️ 🕯️ Specific 🕯️ 🕯️ Cancer 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Today's interesting archival find: Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's left wing nephew and husband of Jessica Mitford, one of the first British men to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was repatriated in Jan 1937 due to ilness, and on his way home via Barcelona...

Our hot new MJ cover story on all the idiotic things Trump is doing to control America's 250 anniversary celebrations and ictate the presentation of US history and culture is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@sacrederviche.bsky.social sent this to me and point taken, I will not complain again about all of the stop and starts we make for you to switch lenses 🙏

There’s nothing offensive about invoking the Holocaust to defend human rights. @governorwalz.mn.gov and Bogie Ya’alon understand this, but the US Holocaust Museum does not.

I reposted this then read it again and am still so struck by its brilliance. @judeinlondon.com just covers off every exit and aims with terrible accuracy. THIS IS A MUST READ

Added Yakety Sax to that video from Minneapolis

In this deep dive, Matthew Stone maps Stop the Hate and its network - their propaganda, comms, and vast video output - exposing the deepening reliance of Israel's aggressors on London's streets, and the mainstream pro-Israel movement on the fascist far right. www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-...

Starmer, McSweeney et al liked Mandelson because he was: - amoral ("the Prince of Darkness") - factional ("every single day...") - in with the elite ("intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich") You can't like someone for those reasons and then act surprised about all this.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

I don't know if anyone needs this but I translated the Manchester Rambler into Yiddish. Performed with Jess Rickenback and Benji Brown from Edinburgh-based klezmer band Och Vey Happy birthday to the trees! youtu.be/tt8HHrXGjJ4

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Some Tu b'shvat inspiration for anyone celebrating the trees' birthday this evening/tomorrow Quotes are from Rabbis Ariana Katz and Jessica Rosenberg "For Times Such as These". Photos are from a recent trip to Loch Lomond.

There’s a terrifying world where holocaust survivors die in American jails for protecting a minority community from a nationalist charismatic leader.

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

I like this quote from Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: 'If transness is working correctly, it is pushing for a world where anyone can express themselves in any way and not be deserving of violence: that no expression of any self becomes a reason why someone may incite harm.' We all need this.

We are killing children all around the world because a handful of rich people who don’t understand the science think it is worse to be neurodivergent than it is to be dead.

Reform UK Ltd and the type of people they recruit. Patrick Seargeant, while still in position as chairman of Reform UK’s Middlesbrough and Thornaby East branch, was present in Bourne, Lincolnshire as the fascist Homeland Party held a conference in April, 2025. Details below.

"La fragilité de la trêve"... sérieusement ?? @en.afp.com ??? Mais c'est quoi cette rhétorique complètement pétée ??

This is the problem with Assisted Dying policies that are implemented without sufficient policies to ensure a right to care or a dignified life. A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied. His MAiD approval happened in two weeks. That’s eugenics.

Let's say it louder for the folks in the back: comparison is not the same as drawing equivalency. Comparison is an essential tool used to make sense of past events, and we urgently need to understand and learn the lessons of the Holocaust.

Apparently it's Charlemagne's yortsayt (death annivesary) today so here's a couple of photos of Noyon Cathedral in Picardie where he was crowned King of the Franks in 768

Fun story: I was contacted last week by Public Health Scotland to warn me that I'd been exposed to measles at my university health centre. When I said that I was wearing an ffp3 respirator mask at the appointment, they said "that's great news, that hopefully protected you from infection" ...

“We can’t eliminate SARS.” We can, and we did. “Well poor countries can’t do it.” Poor countries eliminate bad diseases all the time, with some outside help in the past. Yeah. Even airborne ones. The only reason we have COVID-19 circulating is because rich countries said so.

Preparing a talk about the disabled victims of the Holocaust for an event on Thursday where we'll also be discussing the Zionist manipulation of Holocaust memory, and I coincidentally picked up Natan Meir's amazing "Stepchildren of the Shtetl." Now I def have too much to say and too much to read