unethicist

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If you're in Charlottesville, free at 5pm today, and interested in learning more about solidarity with Palestinians and resistance to the settler-colonial Zionist project from within Jewish traditions, this is the place for you to be!

Text on a white background reading "Palestinian Justice and Jewish Reimaging: Jewish Critics of Zionism and the Challenges of Justice" by Dr. Atalia Omer (University of Notre Dame) October 1, 2026 5pm-6:30pm Nau Hall 101"

Bottom one third is a professional headshot of Dr. Omer

Raccoonosaurus would like to enter himself into Fat Bear Week 2026. He feels he's nearing peak raccoon perfection and is disappointed his previous mail in applications were lost in the mail. 🤣 #mammals

(ms. rachel showing a squad of UMD-YDSA militant recruits how to clean the breech and bolt carrier group of a looted m4 carbine during the 2027 Hyattsville Offensive) aaaand open! yaaaay!

Humanities education can widen the horizons of the possible, to realize that the rapacious imperatives that treat people as things are just claims among other claims, not inevitabilities as the Altmans of the world want us to believe. And it can provide vocabulary and space to articulate other ways.

Really struck by the parallels between Mario Mieli's "Toward Gay Communism" and Christopher Chitty's "Sexual Hegemony." In the content of the books, but also in the deaths of the authors. No profound takeaways at the moment, just feeling sad about all of it.

look at this happy little fucker. i fenced in the perennials this year and the rabbits are starving but the bees are slurpin that good shit down. get on your knees, pray to god: the birds and the bees

little bee sucking off a coneflower in the foreground, just guzzling that good nectar and getting nice and bee-fat