The fact all the promo for this book seemed to treat "opposed to Zionism" as the Bund's most distinctive feature, rather than a position they shared with pretty much every contemporary Jewish group *except* the Zionists, did not fill me with enormous confidence .
Things I eagerly want to read about: Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Russia
Things I under no circumstances want to read about: self-hagiographic ramblings by Jews who think the point of all that history was to produce Them
Out of curiosity, does anybody have any books to recommend about the Bund that aren't the recently released book about the Bund?
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
I hate the texture of cold soups, but replacing the beets with sorrel would be an improvement for sure.
I will defend gefilte fish to the death, though. The frozen logs or made from scratch are both delicious; the problem is that jarred *anything* in jelly is garbage.
Chilled borscht is awful. Awful.
Due process isn't negotiable.
Human dignity isn't optional.
ICE warehouse detention violates both.
April 25 we defend our communities against this authoritarian overreach. #StopICEWarehouses #CommunitiesNotCages
This is a horror.
Antizionists make jokes about how people will ask every Palestinian "but do you disavow Hamas" and then do the same "but do you disavow" shtik to to every Jew
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Didn't need to. There are several reasons a man might get (and resist getting rid of) a Nazi tat, but all of them are disqualifying for the Senate, so analyzing his motives to determine if he's a "real Nazi" or not is irrelevant.
Ah, my mother's hometown!
That's some catch, that Catch-22.
Senate is not a starter level position. If you're going to run for it with no political experience whatsoever, you'd better have a really compelling resume and not a single whiff of scandal. "Blackwater merc rape apologist who whines about the fact he was forced to remove his Nazi tat" isn't that.
If the best defense one can give of a grown 40-something man's repeated, ongoing edgelord behavior is that he doesn't really believe in the edgelord things he does (but totally believes in the things he does that *I* like, trust me!), he is not Senate material yet. Try a smaller office first.
The Lion in Winter is one of my favorite films (and a spectacular Hepburn role), so this is a layup.
"A 2025 poll found that 63% of American Muslims reported experiencing religious discrimination, with many reporting at least one such incident every year since 2016." religionnews.com/2026/04/20/h...
this is perfectly said
I still don't fully understand why that IDF soldier pulling a statue of Christ off that crucifix and smashing its head in with a hammer is doing more diplomatic harm than the attacks on the Holy Family Church in Gaza did
For us Brewers fans? Not great.
(Bernie's slide was much cooler, though, when he got to use it.)
At the moment? Yes, that's the best outcome. It would have been better if all the marks who fell for Platner had rallied behind one of the progressive alternatives who didn't get traction because Platner sucked up all the air in the room, but that ship has sailed. This is what's left.
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
(Iran here refers of course to Iran's totalitarian government, not to the citizenry.)
Iran has very few Jews (due to Iran's own actions, it should be noted), and the Jews it has are much more useful to Iran as tokens it can pressure into making statements about the philosemic beneficence of Iran's government than as targets.
Jews it can't use as tokens, however...
If the best defense one can give of a grown 40-something man's repeated, ongoing edgelord behavior is that he is still developing and has the potential to improve, he is not Senate material yet. Try a smaller office first.
He inked over it only when forced to by intense negative coverage, **years** after he knew it was a Nazi tattoo...and then as soon as the news cycle moved on, he walked back his apology and complained bitterly that he did nothing wrong and the uproar was "[r-slur]ed."
He's 41, by the way.
Habeas Cattus
The frogs need a newspaper too.