One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.
Posting this again from @jaymichaelson.bsky.social bc it’s spot-on:
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“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
This is something very dangerous for him to say as the president of the country with the second largest Jewish population. Jewish safety in the US does not depend on other countries; it depends on democracy and fighting back the creep of fascism and religious fundamentalism.
today congress — a group of people overwhelmingly lacking in actual jewish representation — voted to codify parameters around what beliefs and ideals are valid expressions of my religious and ethnic identity.
Liberal-leaning professors are leaving coveted tenured jobs in Florida. And there are signs that recruiting scholars in the state is becoming harder. We interviewed a dozen academics who have left the public universities or given their notice.
“Leaders of the Republican Party of Texas voted against barring the party from associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers”
Bracing myself for the inevitable biographical opera. #ohFFSmustwe
"International law experts would call them war crimes. And that’s why I don’t think that what Blinken is saying is true, honestly."
- Yuval Abraham, author of this piece in 972 Magazine, speaking to Democracy Now (I'm now going make donations to both outlets; please join me if you can).
@MiddleEastEye: Israeli warplanes launched a series of bombings on Hamad towers in Khan Younis, southern Gaza today, destroying at least six of them https://t.co/Fz4yWbvJgF
@NBCNews: Gaza residents used the fragile truce to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction.
But a particularly disturbing scene emerged. https://t.co/akBqaAUYXF
There’s a line, but I’m not sure what it is.
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
This is good to know.
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The Supreme Court will soon hear oral argument about whether the Constitution allows racial gerrymandering if you call it partisan gerrymandering
Brace yourself for tomorrow's racism rebrand discourse with my latest piece in Balls and Strikes
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alexa...
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet it is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.
in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing
Here it is, gang, the article I've been full-on rage-boiling to write for years now.
For @nytimes.com, against "content."
(Gift article, no paywall.)
tinyurl.com/nyt-content
If you're not getting emotional about the state of the labor movement right now, I need you to allow yourself to be.
It's OK to believe in the power of the working class 💖
Thanks Obama?
A Clarabell doll from the 50s.
I own a 1950s Howdy Doody Clarabell doll. It is perfectly normal and not at all sinister. 
Comic panel of Hulk lying on grass, word bubbles read Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!
Good night
Just finished watching Beetlejuice in loving memory of Lauren Boebert's right hand.
Sexy white tiger man
More sexy white tiger man
Sexy bear surfer
Hands off my cannon but it’s a buff gorilla man eating a mushroom lmfao
Do you think the Republican freaks behind this series of MAGA children’s books know just how incredibly horny this furry art is, or nah?
nice work, fellas
it can and will happen
How often does "brand loyalty" mean "too much trouble to switch brands?"
Screenshot of a twitter thread: "Semitism" is not a real thing, it comes from the word Semitic, referring to a group of languages originating from the Middle East. 4 104 3,438 山 L@challahbackjew Mar 15, 2021 In 1867 an antisemitic German journalist started using the term "Anti-Semitic" to refer to prejudice against Jewish people because he perceived us as an inferior race and not just a religious group, and then the term caught on. Q4 7114 2,879 L @challahbackjew Mar 15, 2021 But using it with the hyphen would imply that "anti-semitism" is hate against Semites which again is not a real group and it was just a way for antisemites to attempt to classify Jews into this pseudo-scientific racial group which they thought was inferior 1 152 3,183 山 L✡ @challahbackjew We use "antisemitism" without the hyphen to distinguish from the semitic language group (and these hateful origins) when discussing pre against Jewish people.
Lot of conversation about antisemitism this week so just a gentle reminder that we don’t hyphenate the word, because it implies there is such a thing as a “Semitic” race (there isn’t, there’s only Semitic language) - and implying there is a Jewish race is of course deadly for the Jews. More info:
Oh so now just because I have a totalizing ideological belief in a Jewish global conspiracy, the genetic inferiority of non-whites, and the necessity of preserving the purity of the white race all of a sudden I’m a nazi
For fun, contrast The New York Times’ trans healthcare coverages with their work on gastric bypass surgery—particularly as it relates to young people and children . There’s a touching, triumphant first person video for the later—and a emphasis on why it’s not offered to kids more often and sooner.