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Usdi Crittenden

@lilusdi.bsky.social

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Same doofus as on twitter. Ndn anarcho-judaism. Non-dirtbag leftist. Unemployed cell/molecular biologist with a powerful rage for health misinfo. Wants to see pictures of your pets. Wondering how long I can make a descri

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · May 20

My policy on sharing campaigns:

I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · Nov 26

In-progress thread of my own Palestinian-made gift sources!

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · Nov 26

I definitely am seconding the recommendation of Canaan brand and Handmade Palestine (which is run by a delightful couple in Ramallah), but would also like to recommend the Al-Ard brand (run by the Anabtawi family) for their oils and foods. You can shop at alardproducts.com or look in your local

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 1m

antisemitic tropes. It's almost like we're descended from the same people, are inherently intertwined in our identities and futures, and threaten the ruling class most when we are united. Solidarity, baby!

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 1m

It's actually really fascinating how the same rhetoric is repeatedly applied to both Jews and Palestinians, with the only real determining factor being who the speaker considers the "villain." Even the islamophobic, racist caricatures of Arabs (and Palestinians especially) draw from centuries-old

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3m

I literally said free Palestine first on this post. You're straight up doing antisemitism here. Great job.

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 51m

Non-Palestinian gentiles be normal in the replies to this post challenge

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway. Free Palestine and End Antisemitism. These are not remotely conflicting statements.

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 52m

Just because some random bluesky asshole thinks all Jews are rabid genocidaires doesn't make it true.

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3h

Please, please help Taqwa. She has suffered truly unimaginable loss

Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 13h

I’m Taqwa
I lost all my six kids,my parents, my siblings,my home💔

the ceasefire has begun
we are entering a new phase rebuilding our lives from scratch

You are our hope to rise again

We need your support to have a second chance at life a chance to live with dignity 🙏🏻🙏🏻

gofund.me/b4901a75

Donate to Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide, organized by Taqwa Alqoqa

Hello, I am Taqwa Khaled Al-Qouqa (Abu Said), the pregnant an… Taqwa Alqoqa needs your support for Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide

gofund.me

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway. Free Palestine and End Antisemitism. These are not remotely conflicting statements.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3h

On my great grandparents' immigration documents, their RACE is listed as "Hebrew."
The peopling of the Jews is neither recent nor exclusive to our worldview.

bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 8h

In response to the claim that Jews consider themselves to be a People.

Mustafa: But they Iraqi Jews also identified as Arabs.. and spoke Arabic.. so what did they have in common with polish jews, please make it make sense

Rachel: You can actually take our word for it. That's a thing you could do. Because we have no reason to lie, so what's your reason for calling us liars? But also: Jews, wherever they lived, continued to study and worship *in Hebrew* so that they could worship together when they *did* meet.

Mustafa: Im not saying you're lying. I just think your zionists brainwashing is keeping you from seeing the truth. Jews aren't a monolith... that's just commons sense, based in reality but since in your reality (I'm assuming) a chant for free Palestine is somehow antisemitic, I dont see how we can talk at all

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking as a Pharisee, I assure you my engagement farming is strictly content-based

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Who Shot J.R.R.T. @smollusk.bsky.social · 15h

*blows you up, making you big and leftist*

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 16h

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

Terrible punk band in your city 🤝 old-timey cholera sufferers

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 7h

Cock Gush

United States, Census, 1900

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 3h

...if you tell the rabbi this, you might get mikvah'd on the spot

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty apt comparison when you consider that the Jewish conversion process aligns pretty neatly with gender transition. A Jewish soul, assigned gentile at birth, you have to prove to an authority figure that you really want to convert before they prescribe you your Judaism classes. Transjewnder.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats has a trifecta in 2021 and did not do any of these things. Maybe Dems should be taking notes on power politics here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

Would advocate against a chiropractor. They can be really dangerous.

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome home 💖

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

like that. But the originators? Definitely knew.

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

I've seen that line for quite a few years and it's never been slick. Wishing Jews to "return" to Poland is a call for violence, in my eyes.

I know that many people have likely repeated this talking point without this knowledge, of course. I don't think everyone who has ever said it has meant it

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

I'm just dropping in to say that I've always felt the specific choice of Poland for this narrative was intentionally cruel. Half of the Jews killed in the Shoah were from Poland. Poland is widely regarded as the most antisemitic country in Europe. Why so insistent that Jews go there, specifically?

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 19h

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

I had an illustrated book with this story when I was a kid!

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

Gender is complicated and confusing and deeply nuanced. My gender and status as a trans person essentially depend on whichever will make a transphobe look stupider at any given moment.

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 4h

I really want to try moose someday. Elk is really good!