Rebecca Erbelding (she/her)
@rerbelding.bsky.social
Historian of American responses to the Holocaust, author of "Rescue Board" (Doubleday, 2018). Love cats, books, TV, travel, teachers, fighting for a better world. Opinions mine.
What absolutely shocking and shattering news to wake up to. I can't believe it. A monumental loss. www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/i...
Irish singer-songwriter and ‘Once’ star Glen Hansard dies in motorcycle crash
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard passed away early this morning after a motorcycle crash in Dublin. He was 56.
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"At first, I didn’t comprender what the announcers were saying. Except “¡Gooooooooooooool!” which is like the americano word for “goal,” but más grande. After a few días, I started to understand más y más. Los announcers on Telemundo were muy excited about fútbol! ¡It was contagioso!"
I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore
“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...
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The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.
As of June, all but three of the 7,730 refugees admitted into the U.S. in fiscal 2026 were from South Africa, according to newly released State Department data. www.notus.org/immigration/...
Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto
I think it's an incredible thing that the US is a place where a pregnant woman can be turned away from an international flight because she is too pregnant to fly and then her son that us born here always has a home here, even if he and mom fly home a month later.
I wrote this between the third and fourth quarters and, god willing, it will be the most essential paragraph I’ve ever written about the wonderful, awful New York Knickerbockers
@knickerbacker.bsky.social · 2mo agoI started writing my recap down 21 in the second quarter because I didn’t want to stay up late. I just kept typing. I have not gone back and read or edited it. It’s 3400 words. Also, my house lost power when Castle was at the line at the end. Read it here: knickerblogger.net/2026/06/2026...
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.
Also, I don't think I've felt someone else's joy more strongly, more contagiously, than when I've seen friends grow more confident and comfortable with them selves by being who they are. I don't think I've ever been able to say "I'm so happy for you" with such honesty.
The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.
Every time someone I follow posts heartfelt concerns about the rising antisemitism, they get replies asking why they're Netanyahu apologists (they're not) who hate Palestinians (they don't), and if I wasn't so busy being furious about the antisemitism I'd be furious at the inability to see the irony
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 5mo agoY’all…I just…the growing antisemitism on the left and the acceptance of it. The way people shrugged and ignored the synagogue attack. The way people made excuses. The endless Platner shit. The way y’all warp and defend Jew hate. The way you don’t even see yourselves doing it. It’s eating me alive.
I’m REALLY disturbed by how much horrific anti-Semitic bigotry I’m seeing casually thrown around these days, yes. Becoming a virulent anti-Semite is not doing a damn thing to alleviate the very real suffering of Palestinians. But somehow, I don’t think that’s what it’s about for these people.
Zach Rabiroff@zachrabiroff.com · 5mo agoI don't know, guys, feel like I'm seeing more casual antisemitism around here in the past three months than I did in the previous 39 years of my life.
I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont
Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet
I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo agoA statement from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan:
There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.
feel like the casual antisemitism prompted by epstein is bleeding beyond X. i don't care for it.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5mo agoImo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat
Absolutely fucking vile how quickly antisemitism is now spreading on the left. Fix your fucking heads
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
The only immigration crisis this country has ever had is nativism.
He is the one who heard the Watergate burglary on the scanner. www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/307...
Video: A Chat with an ex-Washington Post Colleague Who Heard a Police Scanner the Night of the Watergate Break-in
Washington Post reporter and editor Martin Weil was listening to the police scanner on a Saturday around 1 a.m. on June 17, 1972, 50 years ago, when he repeatedly heard: "Doors open at the Watergate."
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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her)@rerbelding.bsky.social · 6mo agoMarty worked at the Post for 60 years. Not a typo. SIXTY YEARS. Until, apparently, today.
Marty worked at the Post for 60 years. Not a typo. SIXTY YEARS. Until, apparently, today.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 6mo agoI just learned that The Post fired Marty Weil. I wasn't in the newsroom much, but when I was, he came in for his evening shifts, he would come through and say hello to literally everyone there. A really great guy, and a true sign of what The Post is giving up.
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.
