Annie Gottfried Cohen
@annsplaining.bsky.social
Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 30s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) professional Jewish women who spoke to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator.
If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3w agoHISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY
Thames water have been discharging raw sewage into the river for more than 4 hrs today.
The year is 2036. A group of neurodivergent people with ME/CFS now live in Paris Chatelet metro because we lacked both the executive function and the energy to get more than halfway through the station
Mimed the word "avekleygn" (put away) for my Francophone Yiddish students and I said "tak" as I placed the object down for clarity. Feeling proud of my cultural literacy 🥸 Also now coming up with a "hop mayne homentashn" exercise that involves moving some homentashn from one place to another
Hey all just some admin for our Peysakh seder next year. Looking for ideas: What vegetable should @zackpolanski.bsky.social hold up and what ideology should he shout fuck at?
coucou la semaine prochaine c'est mon anniversaire #justsaying
Éditions Libertalia@libertalialivre.bsky.social · 3mo agoEn librairies aujourd'hui: Les Fronts populaires, une perspective mondiale, 1934-1938. Ouvrage collectif (40 autrices et auteurs) sous la direction de Jean Vigreux et Serge Wolikow. Collection Ceux d'en bas, format poche à rabats, 800 pages, 14€. editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ce...
Had a great shmues with @danblacksberg.bsky.social about Yiddish, speaking to the dead, history, folklore, Zionism, genocide and more for @radiantothers.bsky.social radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/annie-gottfr... We're asking for donations to a family in Gaza. Please donate amd share!
Annie Gottfried Cohen - Radiant Others
Today's episode should have been a halloween episode! This time, Dan sits down with Historian, Yiddishist, singer, and messenger of deep Jewish ritual practices, Annie Gottfried Cohen! Annie is based ...
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Saving this snapshot from Parisian Police Archives for when my dad says something "political" in the family group chat "It seems that English public opinion, always slow to react, is beginning to make itself known..."
Well done @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth
I think a major reason for why Zionism has become so dominant among Jews is somewhere along the line—and thanks to clever manipulation by Zionist leaders—lots of Jews have started to see Israel's right to exist as synonymous with Jews' right to exist. Extremely dangerous and we need to challenge it
Annie Gottfried Cohen@annsplaining.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is the only acceptable answer to "do you support Israel's right to exist" and it's frigging great to see a prominent politician say it
This is the only acceptable answer to "do you support Israel's right to exist" and it's frigging great to see a prominent politician say it
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3mo agoHe’s right, and to think otherwise is to commit a basic category error that never gets corrected, because the media and politicians refuse to acknowledge it. Under a human rights based framework, states cannot have human rights, since states are not people; and Israel has committed genocide in Gaza
🎤 Un de nos membres, Julien, était sur les ondes sur RTL ce matin pour parler #CovidLong Il y parle de la fausse séparation en vulnérable / invulnérable au Covid, des inégalités face au diagnostic & à la prise en charge, et son expérience de la maladie👏
"I went from a life of being able-bodied to a life of being disabled. And a disabled life is just as worthy as an able-bodied life, you can just can't do certain things, but what becomes difficult is society's gaze, which tells you that you are no longer worth much" So well put.
ARRA - Association pour la Réduction des Risques Aéroportés@associationarra.bsky.social · 3mo ago"J'ai basculé d'une vie de valide à une vie d'invalide" "Et une vie d'invalide c'est tout aussi digne qu'une vie de valide simplement on ne peut plus faire des choses, ce qui devient dur c'est le regard de la société qui vous renvoie que vous ne valez plus grand chose" Merci à Julien pour ces mots
🚨🗞️ Must read : "Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long" sur le Colloque Long COVID EU Project (nous confirmons!), "rapidement interrompu par des personnes vivant avec le Covid long, s’insurgeant des thèses défendues par certains des protagonistes
Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long
Christian Lehmann est médecin et écrivain. Pour «Libération», il tient la chronique d’une société touchée par les crises sanitaires et du service public. Il s’insurge contre ces praticiens qui pensent que le Covid long «c’est dans la tête».
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Great conversation with @josephfinlay.bsky.social and @vashtimedia.bsky.social editors Asha Sumroy and Evan Robins, trying to make sense of the recent antisemitic attacks and, as Joseph puts it, the 'utter, utter nonsense' of the state response to them www.vashtimedia.com/the-present-...
The present crisis
A conversation on attacks and repression in London.
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Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.
Next Tuesday @ 7pm EST (midnight for Brits) @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social , Elissa Sampson and I discuss the interwar history of the IWO, an immigrant fraternal order associated with the CPUSA. Free, online, register at www.circle.org/events/iwo-p... Come for the communism, stay for the Yiddish.
One size fits all, if your bum is too big or too small then you should investigate yourself for left- or right-wing deviationism
Annie Gottfried Cohen@annsplaining.bsky.social · 3mo agoGoing through 1930s Communist Press archives and a lot of it is very depressing and also Stalinist but then there is also this great guide by SUSAN to making your own knickers using cut outs from the paper as a template #history #praxis
Have you seen this from Herschel Gluck? He’s gone in pretty hard and taken up the hoohah over Zack Polanski too… bsky.app/profile/tash...
tash@tashldn.bsky.social · 3mo agoSuperb interview from the wonderful Rabbi Herschel Gluck - well known as a principled and consistent speaker against all forms of racism - opposing government attempts to weaponise antisemitism and the Golders Green attacks against Palestine protests אונדזער רבי ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jg...
In his memoirs, translated into English by Samuel Portnoy, the famous Bundist leader Vladimir Medem described having his words misconstrued by a Zionist journalist 🧵
Very excited for this book talk with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social and Elissa Sampson. I'll be talking about my chapter on the IWO and the International Brigades
Dan Carkner@alte.klezmor.im · 3mo agoThis upcoming @workerscircle.bsky.social event with @annsplaining.bsky.social @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social and Elissa Sampson looks great. 🕵️
"We are people living with long covid, and we are ill. We're fed up of seeing public money spent on projects that put sick people in danger. We want real treatments, not behavioural and cognitive therapies or meditation..."
Winslow Santé Publique@winslowsp.bsky.social · 3mo agoLa psychologisation des #CovidLong, ça suffit. Action non-violente de patient·es CL de Winslow et @actioncovidlong.bsky.social lors d’une conférence européenne sur le COVID long organisée par les Pr Lemogne/ Ranque, de l'unité Casper 👇
This is a sobering read but what it reiterates to me is the unwiseness of combining a large range of diverse phenomena under the term ‘antisemitism’. It makes it all but impossible to deal with any of them. Much better to consider them separately and specifically. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism
British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.
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#OtD 12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 arrested and jailed. They falsely claimed "criminal elements [had] infiltrated the anarchist organisations" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1253...
Le cadmium énième scandale sanitaire. Tous les médias qui se mettent à vous expliquer ce qu'il faut manger ou pas et comment, alors qu'il y en a dans tous les aliments les plus consommés et que la seule vraie solution c'est d'exiger des pouvoirs publics qu'ils agissent.
Le fait qu’on ne puisse plus rien manger, que ça soit pas une priorité absolue de nos gouvernements, qu’on soit tous et toutes condamné•es sans réelle possibilité d’agir wahou what a time to be alive dites donc. www.liberation.fr/checknews/ca...
Cadmium : faut-il vraiment privilégier les aliments bio pour protéger sa santé ?
La filière de l’agriculture bio fait de la moindre contamination au métal lourd un argument de vente, tandis que l’Anses ne tranche pas la question. «CheckNews» fait le point sur la littérature scient...
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Reading decyphered Communist Party radio messages in 2026 and I keep reading "CC" as "Covid Cautious" (rather than Central Committee). But enjoying the image of the Community Care revolution in which we occupy the land of wealthy landowners in an organised way ...
