August is Women in Translation Month! Introducing Dina Kalinovskaya (1934-2008), translated into English for the first time by Harriet Murav & me for our new book with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. She was from and wrote about Odesa; I especially loved working on this paragraph about the Odesa harbor.

August is Women in Translation Month: one of the writers Harriet Murav & I translated for our new book is Rivka Rubin--a Soviet Yiddish author now published in English for the 1st time. We have two stories of hers in the book; here's an excerpt from "That Kind of Day.” @stanfordpress.bsky.social 1/2

The problem with having Haley Stevens as the AIPAC-supported Dem nominee also is that AIPAC wouldn’t very much care about her actually winning the senate seat — they are an equal-opportunity one-issue lobby who are way more comfortable with the Republican winning that race, and the Senate.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

Abolish ICE, indeed.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Finished Asako Yuzuki’s “Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder” (trans by Polly Barton) while on a long plane ride last night. And it was so long that I realized I had nothing after it in mg queue. What are y’all reading this summer? (Existence of an audiobooks version of your recs preferred.)

Lindsay Graham is having a 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell.

I’m speaking today, June 8, at 16:00 at the University of Regensburg, on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” that I co-translated from Yiddish and Russian with Harriet Murav @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-lite...

Vortrag von Sasha Senderovich

Wir laden Sie herzlich zum Vortrag von Sasha Senderovich ein!

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Looking forward to talking about “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” at the University of Konstanz tomorrow, July 9 at 18:00! www.literature.uni-konstanz.de/slavistik/ak... @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Oh fuck now the Wikipedia article on George Washington will have to include a reference to Bill Ackman’s stupidity regarding the drawers on George Washington’s desk and Bill Ackman will fight Wikipedia next, the idiot.

In case you remember the shenanigans under the interim directorship of Günther Jikeli at the Indiana University’s Jewish Studies last fall. www.cair.com/press_releas...

BREAKING: CAIR Files Lawsuit Challenging Indiana U’s Suppression of Doctoral Student’s Speech and Scholarship

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, filed a federal lawsuit today against Indiana University for violating Jewish doct...

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Why had I not seen until just now that folks have taken to calling the algae-infested reflecting pool in DC “the Strait of Warm Ooze”? 😂

Ah, yes, losing to another Jewish challenger in the most Jewish congressional district in the whole of these United States is antisemitism, per antisemitism expert.

The vandal is the orange ogre 👹

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last mo.

He used our tax dollars to pay for it. He ruined it. Now we’re being treated like trespassers.

Now do Schumer. He’s useless.

Incredible. Mamdani is an incredible politician. A sweep for his candidates in NYC congressional primaries. I know, I know, I’ll die on this hill but: there’s no Mamdani without Bernie, so thank you Bernie, the grandfather of all this.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

Wow, high risk, high reward this Mamdani guy — two out of his three candidates won their races easily in NYC primaries, and the third one is leading with about 85% of the votes counted.

They called the NY-10 race for Brad Lander five minutes after the polls closed. F— AIPAC, indeed.

He’s a Nazi, so this checks out.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

I am **so** excited about my 4th of July plans this year! Namely: theater tickets, with friends, to a matinee (with Sandra Oh!) *and* an evening show, far away from America, in London.

Today is the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Mobile killing units followed the troops, rapidly murdering Jews in areas of Eastern Europe that had been part of the USSR since 1922 or more recently annexed through Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939. 1/3

😂 Someone appropriately entrepreneurial should rapidly set up some kind of an authentication process for the pieces that float up on their own and offer to sell small chunks like parts of the Berlin Wall. Best to do this as a fundraiser to, say, some aid organizations nuked when Trump killed USAID.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.

My colleague @dnbrgr.bsky.social @thenation.com on the reactionary brand of Zionism that has cast itself in a central role as far as attempts to destroy American universities / higher ed go. The essay, among other things, recounts some of the happenings here at UW. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How Reactionary Zionists Became the New Birchers

We are seeing a kind of modern-day John Birch Society with Zionist characteristics. I call it the Jonah Birch Society.

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Listening to BBC Newshour while making lunch. Mazel tov to all the right-wing Jewish idiots who hitched their wagon to Trump because he’s “pro-Israel.” A special shoutout to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Well done.

😂 pretty much

The Needling@theneedling.com · 2mo ago

Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb

They with their heads up the Recto

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fake feds are investigating ballots that don’t exist from a made-up city. other than that, totally checks out.

😂

Guy Venables@guyvenables.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro

It turns out, the answer to the question: “Would I watch the gladiatorial games sponsored by the hated emperor designed to distract the public from the regime’s failings?” is “no.” No I would not. Glad that’s been cleared up.

Trump vs. the Weather or, Old Man Yelling at Clouds. Literally.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2mo ago

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

First day of summer break: one of the reasons I like an (absurdly privileged because tenured) academic summer: I get to read other people's work. Spending today with a book manuscript, under the shade of our kiwi tree, with another book queued up in the coming week, and then some more. 🥝 📚

Gut shabes with the latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social that has finally made it to the West Coast earlier today. Jon Danforth-Appell’s essay on (not having) Jewish trauma is excellent.

Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-and-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, and is, a political project—with particularly violent aims." Read Jon Danforth-Appell's new essay, "Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?" jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...