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To avoid the mere possibility that Holocaust remembrance might make a person draw contemporary political conclusions, JD Vance managed to post a Holocaust Remembrance Day message that does not mention Nazis, fascists, Jews, Romani, queer people, disabled people, nor any other victim or perpetrator.
January 28, 2026 at 3:58 AM
To avoid the mere possibility that Holocaust remembrance might make a person draw contemporary political conclusions, JD Vance managed to post a Holocaust Remembrance Day message that does not mention Nazis, fascists, Jews, Romani, queer people, disabled people, nor any other victim or perpetrator.
Reposted by Ruth Becker
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
January 28, 2026 at 4:19 AM
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
Reposted by Ruth Becker
COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
Solidarity will break them.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
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“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama."
Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 PM
“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama."
Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.
Inaugural meeting of Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.
From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Inaugural meeting of Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.
From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.
Vance: "The couch thing was entirely offline"
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Vance: "The couch thing was entirely offline"
Siri, show me Betteridge's law of headlines
August 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Siri, show me Betteridge's law of headlines
🫶🫶🫶
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
July 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🫶🫶🫶
This is truth spoken soft and low, opening a window into the increasingly featureless desert of Israel's soul.
@lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.
@lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.
NEW: As the war in Gaza staggers toward its third year, it feels as though there is no room for critical engagement in today’s Israel. @lisang.bsky.social discusses a documentary about army service that struck her as almost subversive in its quiet dissent.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/fi...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/fi...
Finding Space To Dissent From Israel’s Wartime Narrative
In ‘Shivtown’, an Israeli filmmaker uses the story of his years as a conscripted army photographer to ask profound, universal questions
newlinesmag.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is truth spoken soft and low, opening a window into the increasingly featureless desert of Israel's soul.
@lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.
@lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.
Oh those clever Gen Z kids! It's almost like... these are their only possible options?
FFS
FFS
Co-buying homes is increasingly popular with Gen Z-ers — the youngest buyers — according to a recent study. nyti.ms/4kyft6L
July 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh those clever Gen Z kids! It's almost like... these are their only possible options?
FFS
FFS
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We are in the phase of the Gaza war where Gazan towns’ Wikipedia pages are having to be rewritten in the past tense.
The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.
The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We are in the phase of the Gaza war where Gazan towns’ Wikipedia pages are having to be rewritten in the past tense.
The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.
The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.
Waiting for the ADL to explain these are just “awkward statements” made in a “moment of enthusiasm”
July 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Waiting for the ADL to explain these are just “awkward statements” made in a “moment of enthusiasm”
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July 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
nice upgrade
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
fuck these fuckers to hell
Twelve hours of suspenseful "Will they? Won't they?" reportage about the House. Before that, same with Senate.
Simple rule — GOP quislings always bow to Trump — made these foreseeable from the get-go.
(Will stop believing in this rule, when there's an exception to it. So far, none.)
Simple rule — GOP quislings always bow to Trump — made these foreseeable from the get-go.
(Will stop believing in this rule, when there's an exception to it. So far, none.)
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
fuck these fuckers to hell
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Given KAG's filing outlining torture in El Salvador, *anyone* being removed to El Salvador should, under both domestic and international law, have an opportunity to file a claim showing that they have a credible fear of being tortured if removed to that country (in addition to other due process)
July 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Given KAG's filing outlining torture in El Salvador, *anyone* being removed to El Salvador should, under both domestic and international law, have an opportunity to file a claim showing that they have a credible fear of being tortured if removed to that country (in addition to other due process)
hey Siri show me Betteridge's Law of Headlines 🫠
Was Netanyahu telling the truth about Israel's goals and achievements in its 12-day war against Iran? Some very smart analysis from @origoldberg.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...
newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...
What Did Israel Achieve With Its 12-Day War Against Iran?
The two countries have accepted a fragile ceasefire, but Netanyahu’s claims of victory are questionable
newlinesmag.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
hey Siri show me Betteridge's Law of Headlines 🫠
Reposted by Ruth Becker
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU NYT
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU NYT
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I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
June 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
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gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget
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All the racist tropes of "global intifada" and bla bla bla coming out in corporate media and through pundits against Mamdani.
Oh, silly racists, you are spitting in the face of the majority of NYC voters without realizing it.
Not going to work this time.
Oh, silly racists, you are spitting in the face of the majority of NYC voters without realizing it.
Not going to work this time.
June 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
All the racist tropes of "global intifada" and bla bla bla coming out in corporate media and through pundits against Mamdani.
Oh, silly racists, you are spitting in the face of the majority of NYC voters without realizing it.
Not going to work this time.
Oh, silly racists, you are spitting in the face of the majority of NYC voters without realizing it.
Not going to work this time.
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
I GOT A TEXXXXXTTTTTTTTTT
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I GOT A TEXXXXXTTTTTTTTTT
Get over it, America!
"They'll get over it."
That's apparently the closing message from Senate Republicans before they vote to take away health care from millions of Americans — all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
Unbelievable.
That's apparently the closing message from Senate Republicans before they vote to take away health care from millions of Americans — all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
Unbelievable.
June 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Get over it, America!