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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
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What an incredible resource
Workers Circle Unveils Fully Digitized Archive of the Call, a Landmark of American Jewish History — The Workers Circle
The Workers Circle today announced the unveiling of a fully digitized and publicly accessible archive of the Call , its historic English-language newsletter published from 1929 through the twentieth ...
www.circle.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What an incredible resource
We have people
This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We have people
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Defend our local striking Sbux workers!
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Defend our local striking Sbux workers!
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In an interview with Church Times, the Archbishop of York Cottrell talked about his visit to occupied Palestinian territory and for the first time ever publicly calls Israel's system of control over Palestinians an apartheid regime.
Cottrell also says Israel has committed genocidal acts.
Cottrell also says Israel has committed genocidal acts.
Archbishop of York describes Israeli action against Palestinians in Gaza as ‘genocidal acts’
West Bank subject to regime of ‘apartheid’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’, he says in interview
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In an interview with Church Times, the Archbishop of York Cottrell talked about his visit to occupied Palestinian territory and for the first time ever publicly calls Israel's system of control over Palestinians an apartheid regime.
Cottrell also says Israel has committed genocidal acts.
Cottrell also says Israel has committed genocidal acts.
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Ruby Bridges and John Roberts would have been in the same grade!! It's not that subtle why he's devoted his life to re-establishing segregation!
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ruby Bridges and John Roberts would have been in the same grade!! It's not that subtle why he's devoted his life to re-establishing segregation!
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Rod Dreher did not respond to emails from TPM asking why he is worried about Fuentes’ brand of bigotry and authoritarianism and not Vance’s, Orbán’s, or his own. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
JD Vance Received A Dire Warning About The Groyper Takeover Of The GOP From A Strange Source
The call warning of a dangerous tide of extremism in Donald Trump’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rod Dreher did not respond to emails from TPM asking why he is worried about Fuentes’ brand of bigotry and authoritarianism and not Vance’s, Orbán’s, or his own. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
What an incredible resource
Workers Circle Unveils Fully Digitized Archive of the Call, a Landmark of American Jewish History — The Workers Circle
The Workers Circle today announced the unveiling of a fully digitized and publicly accessible archive of the Call , its historic English-language newsletter published from 1929 through the twentieth ...
www.circle.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What an incredible resource
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“While Zarrow presents ample evidence to support the argument that using Polish in ethnoproduction allowed scholars and museum planners to shore up their own status as modern and belonging to a Polish nation, the sources also reveal more complex language politics, especially in regard to Yiddish.”
"Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941" by Sarah Ellen Zarrow (our peer review editor!), reviewed by Elena Hoffenberg (a former peer review associate!), new on the blog! 🦚
ingeveb.org/articles/mat...
ingeveb.org/articles/mat...
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“While Zarrow presents ample evidence to support the argument that using Polish in ethnoproduction allowed scholars and museum planners to shore up their own status as modern and belonging to a Polish nation, the sources also reveal more complex language politics, especially in regard to Yiddish.”
What would you ask the grandson of a prominent Bundist leader who died in Stalin's prison?
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What would you ask the grandson of a prominent Bundist leader who died in Stalin's prison?
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Remember, kids: If unions weren't an effective counter to the excesses of corporations, they wouldn't spend untold billions trying to stop them from coming into their shops.
UK: GTA 6 scandal grows: fired devs accuse Rockstar of union-busting chronik.fr/2312-gta-6-s...
GTA 6 scandal grows: fired devs accuse Rockstar of union-busting - chronik.fr
Rockstar Games says it dismissed dozens of staff after confidential material about Grand Theft Auto VI surfaced online. Labor advocates argue the firings are tied to union activity, turning a studio c...
chronik.fr
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Remember, kids: If unions weren't an effective counter to the excesses of corporations, they wouldn't spend untold billions trying to stop them from coming into their shops.
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it's funny, but occupy ended my career working as a jewish nonprofit professional. after i started criticizing the donor class, no one who benefitted from its largesse was interested in hiring me anymore. i wound up pivoting to web development for the for-profit sector, which has been tumultuous.
Without Occupy Wall Street I probably wouldn’t be a working journalist. It made change in ways some take for granted (building lasting networks that now appear organic and invisible) and some would prefer to ignore (hence people persistently forgetting Occupy didn’t “end,” cops ended it).
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
it's funny, but occupy ended my career working as a jewish nonprofit professional. after i started criticizing the donor class, no one who benefitted from its largesse was interested in hiring me anymore. i wound up pivoting to web development for the for-profit sector, which has been tumultuous.
Who are Rabbis joining the demonstrations?
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Who are Rabbis joining the demonstrations?
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The first song that came to mind was this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiD...
Di Shvue - די שבֿועה
YouTube video by Jordan Wax
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The first song that came to mind was this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiD...
Play this as you read it borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/umru-u...
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Play this as you read it borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/umru-u...
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patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
Happy Bundist Manifesto day!
88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.
88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union (Bund) in Poland
Baited by Polish nationalism and scoffed at by Jewish nationalism, the Bund never grew tired of calling upon the Jewish masses; ‘‘Do not succumb to despair; do not surrender to any feeling of panic!’’
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November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Happy Bundist Manifesto day!
88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.
88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.
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by far the funniest use of russian suffixes in yiddish is in the word ABORTNIK, a guy who does abortions
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
by far the funniest use of russian suffixes in yiddish is in the word ABORTNIK, a guy who does abortions
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Solidarity is both righteous selflessness and self-defense. Our lives are bound-up with each other, as is our safety. Where we live is, there is our homeland.
I wrote a piece a few weeks ago claiming antisemitism was on the verge of going mainstream. It was clear to me that most people had trouble buying it.
That's understandable. But it's happening.
Example: Conservatives themselves are now saying that 30 to 40% of Zoomers in Washington are Groypers.
That's understandable. But it's happening.
Example: Conservatives themselves are now saying that 30 to 40% of Zoomers in Washington are Groypers.
What I Saw And Heard In Washington
Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real
roddreher.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Solidarity is both righteous selflessness and self-defense. Our lives are bound-up with each other, as is our safety. Where we live is, there is our homeland.
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Potato Village guy didn't like it much when it was coded Jewish either
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Potato Village guy didn't like it much when it was coded Jewish either