It is probably also useful to note, because gentiles refuse to consider this, but there isn't actually a religious justification of "all Jews must go here" in Judaism, that's a Christian Millenarian thing. Early Zionism was a secular project, the moshiach hadn't come = no religious requirement

To this point, one common anti-Zionist view in the early twentieth century that is virtually unheard of today is that Zionism is bad because the idea of a separate Jewish peoplehood is threatening to the idea that Jews are ordinary citizens of the countries they live in

You can't be a neo-Bundist because the Bund's goals are no longer feasible to achieve and don't have any real meaning in the modern era

Parallel to this I feel like everyone I know who positions themself as a "neo-Bundist" is really more of an assimilated American Jew with socialist politics which is not the same thing

Like, I'm pretty sure American Reform Judaism was largely anti-Zionist pre-Holocaust not because of some anti-colonial stance but because American Jews did not want to move to a place that they saw as an undeveloped shithole. Even post-WW2 US Zionism was more about *other* Jews having a state.

I think a lot of people underestimate the degree to which early Zionists were a bunch of weird nerds who wanted Jews to move thousands of miles away from home to be farmers in the desert and how wildly unappealing that prospect was to many, many Jews.

It's a lost battle but I kinda wish people would stop taking the objectively true statement of "there is a long history of Jewish anti-Zionism" and morphing it into "Jewish anti-Zionism has always been about Palestinian rights and freedom." It's simply false!

I've talked to Minneapolis DA Mary Moriarty several times, including a few months ago. Former public defender with no qualms about charging abusive cops. She has also been threatened by the Trump administration, is not seeking reelection, and doesn't back down. Shit's about to get real.

I too have watched the video. There's nothing graphic in the visuals, thankfully. But this is straight-up, no defenses, not really questionable murder

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

The way that people talk about the Holocaust like it’s some kind of thought experiment and not a very real event that still traumatizes its survivors and descendants of its survivors to this day is…not something I can muster words for.

Legacy media is temperamentally unsuited for this moment because it has trained itself across decades to do whatever it must to avoid ever being accused of alarmism. But the simple fact is that the President of the United States is out of control and endangering the whole world.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

It's just my experience but it kind of seems like with CBT therapy a huge problem is that it uses compliance as a measure of trust and that there are a good number of people who have never trusted anyone in their lives and therefore can do compliance and fake trust to the point

I mean, I get it: no lgbtq art has fixed everything and Ftr the hockey play who inspired this is a lot more nuanced than said poster (Whom I blocked ) www.outsports.com/2025/12/18/2...

I'm gonna be honest I'm really tired of people making fun of the appearances of truly vile people, we don't have to pretend that looking like an mature lesbian from the early 90s is a bad thing to acknowledge that these guys are not worthy to lick the dirt off your shoes.

my gender reveal party

Okay so LaMalfa is dead suddenly and still *no* news on what killed him. It's probably nothing but is weird to me. Idk.

This is about the horrible term "female-bodied". I think something that is very hard for cis people to wrap their heads around, and even many trans people, is that "passing" is not pass-fail, literally every person has a different evaluation on everyone's gender.

I say this a lot but this is literally a common mindset that drives abusers: if I want something in this moment, it is correct and it is what I have always wanted. Part of why gaslighting gets employed is to manage victims who don’t want to rapidly shift realities along with their abusers.

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

You know the one about the Chabad rabbi standing on a street desperately trying to find a tenth. He finally find a Jewish guy and begs him to come in and make the minyan but the guy declines saying he's not into organized religion. "Perfect! this minyan is as far from organized as you can get!"

ok but so canon 🙂‍↕️ #arcane

"Damn I wish there was more case law to consult for the 3rd amendment." *monkey's paw curls*

Probably my most shitpost literature opinion is that the spiritual successor of Moby Dick is Homestuck. Do with this information what you will.

I don't usually go in for judging things like this about the author based on their writing but I think Melville preferred to be the little spoon.

there's a whole chapter about using a whale's penis skin as a raincoat. one chapter is just the second mate telling the third mate he had a dream about captain ahab hitting him with his pegleg. the longest chapter is a discourse on inaccurately insisting a whale is a fish,

people think moby dick is a stern adventure novel heavy on the plot. i can't emphasize how much it's not. it's supergay chaos with 3 plot points. there's an entire chapter that's just a chowder recipe. sometimes it turns into a play. the main character is covered in whale dinension tattoos.

Remember that if you use iOS or MacOS, their productivity suite apps are free, can open and save MS Office file types and so far AI free and you can just skip any future AI updates. Also, there's LibreOffice.

riot france just said jayvik is canon IRL according to NASA that was for fortiche ig

I asked my MAGA cab driver what he thought of the Venezuelan invasion. He said he couldn't answer without first knowing: 1) Do the libs love it or hate it? 2) Was anyone involved trans?

best reasons to make art: #1. horny #2. you found something weird and fucked up inside yourself and you want to work through it #3. angry. #4. all of the above at once.

I've been vocal in saying groups like the ADL are much too quick to label all anti-Zionism as necessarily antisemitism, and I will continue to say so. But if you want to see why many Jews instinctively feel like criticisms of Zionism are antisemitism, look at this. www.i24news.tv/en/news/inte...

I needed to share this here because holy shit hahaha #jayvik

Speaking of “why many women and others who aren’t cis white guys are feeling REAL reluctant to pivot to creating video at this EXACT point in history where AI makes it crazy easy for bad actors to steal and exploit our faces”

This has always been the goal—I taught chapters from Carol Brooks Gardner’s 1995 book on street harassment, Passing By, last semester, which clearly speak to that—but new technologies dramatically, frighteningly extend the reach & duration of “public harassment”

You hired the roaches because you consider your roommate who called the exterminator to be worse and lower than roaches, in the hope that the roaches would convince him to move out.

this particular inclination — that one must always be Condemning, otherwise one is Endorsing — is dubious but plausible when talking about institutions but patently ridiculous when applied to someone's social media posts. We've learned the hard way that social media is real life but also: Chill out!

learned an incredible yiddish song from the 1800s called THE BEARD (די באָרד) about a woman absolutely losing her shit over how her religious husband just up and shaved his beard one day "Did the beard somehow hurt you? Did it cost you any great expense? Did it demand your food?? OY GEVALD"

I have genuinely been laughing at this for the past 35 minutes. Every time I open WhatsApp to reply I see it and start laughing again. Sharing it in case your day needs improving.

I am not sure if it's a good thing that my first instinct upon bad things happening is to hoard.

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.

This is why they deserve lentils when they ask for peas

Not that it wasn’t clear before, but launching a major war out of the blue with zero real effort to build public support and absolutely no approval from Congress demonstrates how much Trump perceives himself as a pure dictator

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.