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Anxious Pickle

@pdnell.bsky.social

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Former public defender, single parent, bicyclist, baker, Jew, Democrat. Don’t like name-calling, but sometimes I do it quietly in the car. Black Lives Matter. 🗽🇺🇸🌎🌻

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Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 8m

So -- you can't say, "it's not bias, it's their donor structure." If they're taking their donors into consideration, they should just close up shop.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 11m

They have to be independent of their donor structure. Miriam Adelson can buy and sell us all.

Jews-- and everyone else, since the ADL's mandate was broader than just us-- have been profoundly ill-served by our legacy organizations.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 1h

a woman with red curly hair is sitting at a table with her mouth open

ALT: a woman with red curly hair is sitting at a table with her mouth open

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 2h

I know people like to believe that, but she is how non-Christians have experienced Christianity for 2000 years— Crusades, Inquisition, colonization, slavery, Salem, etc. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I agree Jesus would have found that all objectionable. @jsx.bsky.social

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 3h

She was way off on the quantity.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 3h

With you until that last line.
Christian isn’t a synonym for good. They’re like everyone else, and for 2000 years have done terrible things in power.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 3h

Her parents and Stephen Miller’s parents need to form a “where did we go wrong?” support group.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

They’re all terrible, but save some hate for Barrett: if she’d had a shred of integrity she’d have turned down the nomination. Transactional trash.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

People did this. Jews went along or supported it. it’s not ok.
There are horribly racist Zionists.
The idea that all Zs are the same and that they are WORSE than other racists is Western offloading of whiteness onto Jews and it’s poisonous and a distraction from the hard work of a just peace.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

Worse.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating.

Sincerely Lisa @sincerelylisa.bsky.social · 10h

I've never met anyone more proud of their racism than a Zionist.

Even my toothless Uncle Billy Bob tries to hide his racism towards anyone who isn't vanilla.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

That was supposed to say “ANTIFA.”

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

(And I’m certainly not defending people saying you should die)

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not defending Jewish institutions.
and women mansplain, too — it’s a behavior. A friend compared it to male-pattern baldness: a male trait that some women also have.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

For worse. People worked hard to perpetuate that belief, while sitting comfortably (ok, well, before the election) in the US. Anti-occupation Jewish students were barred from progressive circles bc of this.
The number of non-Jews who mansplain to me about the hx of Zionism is staggering.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

This.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

Same 20-25 percent who voted for him.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 6h

Photo of my father as an anti fascist medic in WWII

Photo of American GIs including my father walking down the steps of Sacre Coeur.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 7h

This.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7h

As long as I live, I will never forgive Mitch McConnell for both causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7h

As long as I live, I will never forgive Mitch McConnell for both causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 7h

I thought PA was in — concerned.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 8h

The goal of focusing on Zionism rather than conduct is an obstacle to coalition building in Israel and in the US, because what you might describe as anti-Zionism is another person’s Zionism.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 8h

They don’t, though. They should: I’d support them. Boycotting Standing Together is only productive if your goal is to make people hate Israelis rather than making change.

Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 10h

I want justice, safety and peace for Palestinians.
I also want it for Israelis.
Francesca Albanese is not a hero and I am exhausted by the way a whole generation is in her thrall, and … I don’t blame them. Thanks, Netanyahu.