Yiddish Gothic (Rokhl K)
@rokhl.bsky.social
Teacher of Yiddish language, literature, and Ashkenazi culture. Specialist in "Everyday Ashkenazi Magic." Ask me about my b'nei mitzvah heritage tutoring! Also, writer of Rokhl's Golden City (2017-2024)
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The entire 2016 campaign was defined by the media's outrage over Hillary's use of a private email server. In 2026, a high ranking government official's use of an encrypted app to avoid scrutiny as he sends ICE goons around the nation is a one day story. YOUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA 🙃
February 5, 2026 at 11:09 AM
The entire 2016 campaign was defined by the media's outrage over Hillary's use of a private email server. In 2026, a high ranking government official's use of an encrypted app to avoid scrutiny as he sends ICE goons around the nation is a one day story. YOUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA 🙃
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It's Fairy Tale February on #FolkHorrorFriday. The lineup:
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
February 4, 2026 at 1:40 AM
It's Fairy Tale February on #FolkHorrorFriday. The lineup:
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
2/6 THE LURE
2/13 THE HATCHING
2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL
2/27 THE HALLOW
All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.
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That’s wild cause Black people were just trying to go to work without dealing with racism, sorry you had to endure that tho
It is critically fucking important to get that people hated that stuff - and the general business Maoism shift of Late Woke - because of how incredibly insulting and demeaning it is to be lectured about your personal culpability in inequality by your evil corporate overlords. That's what sucked
“Diversity trainings were annoying” okay, name a work training that you loved to do?
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
That’s wild cause Black people were just trying to go to work without dealing with racism, sorry you had to endure that tho
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Actually Star Trek isn't preachy *enough* come to think of it. We needed to have Patrick Stewart climb through the screen, grab us by the lapels, and scream "HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE BEFORE IT BECOMES WRONG?" whilst shaking vigorously, apparently.
February 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Actually Star Trek isn't preachy *enough* come to think of it. We needed to have Patrick Stewart climb through the screen, grab us by the lapels, and scream "HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE BEFORE IT BECOMES WRONG?" whilst shaking vigorously, apparently.
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Sometimes a document comes along that distills a matter to its sordid essence, like this email from Epstein to a young Russian woman: "you are 22, --only ask questions of men. they are not really intersted (sic) in your opinions until you are 30. and then only marginally"
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Sometimes a document comes along that distills a matter to its sordid essence, like this email from Epstein to a young Russian woman: "you are 22, --only ask questions of men. they are not really intersted (sic) in your opinions until you are 30. and then only marginally"
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I wrote about why the Trump administration's antisemitism envoy is lying about Holocaust history to avoid the possibility that people might draw parallels between the condition of Jews in occupied Europe and the condition of migrants hiding from ICE today. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...
religiondispatches.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I wrote about why the Trump administration's antisemitism envoy is lying about Holocaust history to avoid the possibility that people might draw parallels between the condition of Jews in occupied Europe and the condition of migrants hiding from ICE today. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
Did you know I have a class starting next week about the everyday magic of Jewish Eastern Europe? Whether you know a lot of Yiddish - or none! - all are welcome. We'll explore the world of Ashkenazi folk magic through primary sources. Email me to register: cjcrokhl at gmail com
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Did you know I have a class starting next week about the everyday magic of Jewish Eastern Europe? Whether you know a lot of Yiddish - or none! - all are welcome. We'll explore the world of Ashkenazi folk magic through primary sources. Email me to register: cjcrokhl at gmail com
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The county commissioners meeting about potentially barring cooperation with ICE was packed with people in favor of the move. Even the Republican made noises about not being fond of ICE.
Not only are we going to win, but we are in the process of winning.
Not only are we going to win, but we are in the process of winning.
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The county commissioners meeting about potentially barring cooperation with ICE was packed with people in favor of the move. Even the Republican made noises about not being fond of ICE.
Not only are we going to win, but we are in the process of winning.
Not only are we going to win, but we are in the process of winning.
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To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
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The only Epstein files I want to read
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 AM
The only Epstein files I want to read
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The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
February 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence
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Are you an US healthcare professional that has had enough of the regime? Are you looking for a safe landing for you, your family and career? British Columbia Canada is actively recruiting doctors and nurses and fast tracking credential recognition. See more here. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
British Columbia is taking action to attract doctors, nurses from U.S.
The Province is taking new steps to attract more doctors and nurses from the U.S. by fast-tracking credential recognition and launching a co-ordinated, targeted recruitment campaign.
news.gov.bc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Are you an US healthcare professional that has had enough of the regime? Are you looking for a safe landing for you, your family and career? British Columbia Canada is actively recruiting doctors and nurses and fast tracking credential recognition. See more here. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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"Was there anyone of prominence who passed on being penpals with the pedophile? Epstein was a self perpetuating delusion machine."
"Here’s Tina Brown’s account of all the shit Jeffrey Epstein tried to do to get the Daily Beast to stop writing about him including breaking into her office:
"Here’s Tina Brown’s account of all the shit Jeffrey Epstein tried to do to get the Daily Beast to stop writing about him including breaking into her office:
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
"Was there anyone of prominence who passed on being penpals with the pedophile? Epstein was a self perpetuating delusion machine."
"Here’s Tina Brown’s account of all the shit Jeffrey Epstein tried to do to get the Daily Beast to stop writing about him including breaking into her office:
"Here’s Tina Brown’s account of all the shit Jeffrey Epstein tried to do to get the Daily Beast to stop writing about him including breaking into her office:
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The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
February 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
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Trump is suing the U.S. government for up to $10 billion, claims he’s already “won a lot of money,” then plays it off as no big deal because he’ll donate it, before pivoting to phantom “$19 billion” fraud in Minnesota. This is not normal.
February 5, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Trump is suing the U.S. government for up to $10 billion, claims he’s already “won a lot of money,” then plays it off as no big deal because he’ll donate it, before pivoting to phantom “$19 billion” fraud in Minnesota. This is not normal.
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
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The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism, altering the historical record about the legal status of Jews under Nazism to avoid the possibility people might draw uncomfortable parallels to today. I wrote about it here: religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...
religiondispatches.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism, altering the historical record about the legal status of Jews under Nazism to avoid the possibility people might draw uncomfortable parallels to today. I wrote about it here: religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
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Bessent's really just another curdled MAGA degenerate awash in the same bootlick toadyism they all feed off ... remorse over armed degenerate hordes storming the democratic citadel of the nation's liberties. think of that level of trash oblivion.
VAN HOLLEN: You suggested Alex Pretti was culpable for his own killing because he had a gun he was licensed to carry. Would you like to retract that statement?
BESSENT: I would not. Would you like to express remorse over the death of Ashli Babbitt here in the Capitol?
BESSENT: I would not. Would you like to express remorse over the death of Ashli Babbitt here in the Capitol?
February 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Bessent's really just another curdled MAGA degenerate awash in the same bootlick toadyism they all feed off ... remorse over armed degenerate hordes storming the democratic citadel of the nation's liberties. think of that level of trash oblivion.
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
Bravo to whoever is writing headlines at @forward.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Bravo to whoever is writing headlines at @forward.com
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TW: School Shooting/Epstein
An elementary kid in my area took a gun to school & accidentally shot himself in the hand. I hate how this country wails & rings their hands & says "protect the children" but it's a deceit bc the people making the laws and running the world are pedophile baby killers.
An elementary kid in my area took a gun to school & accidentally shot himself in the hand. I hate how this country wails & rings their hands & says "protect the children" but it's a deceit bc the people making the laws and running the world are pedophile baby killers.
February 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
TW: School Shooting/Epstein
An elementary kid in my area took a gun to school & accidentally shot himself in the hand. I hate how this country wails & rings their hands & says "protect the children" but it's a deceit bc the people making the laws and running the world are pedophile baby killers.
An elementary kid in my area took a gun to school & accidentally shot himself in the hand. I hate how this country wails & rings their hands & says "protect the children" but it's a deceit bc the people making the laws and running the world are pedophile baby killers.
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in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.
February 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.
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Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
February 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.
www.yahoo.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."