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there’s a reason that ben Gvir and his fellow ghouls absolutely love showing that footage to people. Because watching people commit atrocities on repeat is a good way to make you forget that repaying atrocities with atrocities just doubles the corpses
Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.
goodbye, 2026 Yankees. you played like nincompoops for far too long in the second half and were lucky to make it to the Division Series. I will not miss you.
It is time for my Jewish brethren to internalize that we and our Palestinian kindred are cursed¹ to intertwinedness. Every victory in the last century is the other's tragedy and every tragedy more so. It is *impossible* to extricate the two, and for the near future the reaction to October 7th...
פינחס יוסף מונד@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · yesterday"three quarters of it is not about us" much more than three quarters of the consequences of October 7th is not about us, this is incredibly generous
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 7th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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- Called wherever I was going and asked for directions - Maps in the car - Invitations to events (Bar Mitzvahs, weddings) always had a driving directions insert that you did NOT want to forget on the way out of the house - Mapping websites came before car GPS units, so printouts
🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃@shoshana.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat was driving like before GPS? Did you just wing it? Did you only go places you knew how to get to? Were you just better at remembering steps to get somewhere?
Good morning! The Aaron Boone Yankees have been a long term experiment administered by Harvard University. Thank you for your time.
It's been a while. I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 6th 2026 (Medium), in 03:32 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
A few minutes ago every #Yankees fan was yelling at their TV "It's only a double! It's only a double!"
I just feel like so much of how people talk about consequences for rapists just reveals the poverty of imagination and lack of understanding of how ill-equipped the criminal justice system is to handle something like rape
These people have buffer-overflowed into gutter bigotry without noticing.
I don't wish sexual assault or IPV or any form of abuse on anyone, the same way I don't wish a broken leg or cancer or mental illness on anyone, but I also don't think that people who live with any of these realities are somehow permanently ruined the way people talk about SA/DV survivors.
I disagree with this assertion - if someone understands the definition of Zionism to be the one adopted by the ADL and UJA, which means broadly supporting any actions Israel takes in the name of "security", then it is reasonable to still want a Jewish/democratic state while rejecting the label.
Ryan Hoffman@somati-ca.bsky.social · 3d agoi like that the brand is failing enough that only 37% of USA Jews polled self label as zionist but that 90% that wants a Jewish state on liberal parameters -- they are zionists too the important point i think is that there is signifucant daylight between Jewish and zionist identities
"The version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist" is a completely defensible and true statement. But that's not what the resolution says, is it?
LBC@lbc.co.uk · 3d ago"I think the version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist." The Greens have voted to adopt the position that 'Zionism is racism'. Zack Polanski spoke to Iain Dale about it in February this year.
"Sure, we indulged in some pretty poisonous antisemitism, but don't get too fixated on that; look at everything else we accomplished (I'm pretty proud of the antisemitism itself, btw)" 🤢🤢🤮
Harry Eccles@harryeccles.bsky.social · 3d ago10 Important policy changes from the Green Party Conference that the media don’t want you to hear about 👇 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/10-importa...
Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.
Israel measures okay only if you ignore the fact that Israel claims to be a liberal democracy. Using state power to make sure that a specific minority *remains* a minority through oppression of the non-citizens in that minority is undemocratic and wrong.
even--steven.bsky.social@even--steven.bsky.social · 4d agoI disagree. Ethnostate is a loaded term. There are 83 nations globally that either explicitly or implicitly base their nationhood around religion or ethnicity. What distinguishes each is the equality (or disparity) in treatment of minority ethnicities. Israel measures ok on this spectrum.
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, which we watched at someone's 6th or 7th birthday party. Specifically the fate of Augustus Gloop ; I was a fat kid and it freaked me out so much that my mom had to comfort me. Came to love the movie not too many years later.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 4d agoIn honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
One of the main Jewish critiques of Christian notions of forgiveness is that they offer cheap grace to people who have not done the hard work of making material amends. Claims like this are actually reinforcing that very critique, even if Chris Rock thinks he is doing the opposite.
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 5d agoChris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’
So many good threads today. Unfortunately that's because of some BS happening across the pond...
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4d agoWe would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.
I could write a long thread on why and how Zionism was by many seen as an emancipatory movement in the early 20th century (and the contradictions involved) or on (marginalised) versions of Zionism that pursued Jewish national expression from an egalitarian position. But this seems esoteric to me.
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
the other thing is that a lot of gentiles, from what i can tell, simply do not understand that asking a jewish person, even an anti-zionist, to never interact with members of the community who are in fact zionists, is really fundamentally antithetical to the nature of jewish communal life
Accelerationists and wannabe revolutionaries can go fuck themselves. (The conversation continued and they doubled down)
Going to piss off everyone I do not believe any ethnostate of any kind should exist. AND Much of the driving motivation behind this specific motion is in fact rooted in antisemitism. Lots of the people involved here are not acting in good faith. The horrible situation will be damaging to Greens.
withholding public attention, fame, and acclaim, things many people live happily without every day, should not be discussed in the same terms as violent state sponsored retribution. doing so puts survivors of sexual violence in an impossible position.