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Sam Brody

@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social

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religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought. book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76 new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god. אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi, new followers! I wrote a book back in 2018 about Jewish anarcho-theocracy. You might like it if you are interested in the idea of God’s direct rule without a human intermediary, as devised in Weimar Germany and with application to colonial Palestine. Also if you only know Buber from “I and Thou”

The cover of “Martin Buber’s Theopolitics” by Samuel Hayim Brody. An image of a field of crosses, at the base of which are a mass of raised fists.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 7h

the thing about “minarchist,” “anarcho-capitalist,” “Austrian economics” is you eventually run out of other people’s money

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 14h

more “no one asked for this, Sam” predictions of problems we would love to have in four years:

The Trump regime will fail. all this will pass away like a nightmare. BUT the oligarchs will still control the media and if the D president expands the Court they will suddenly remember what “tyranny” is

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 16h

look, it’s just unrelated that they think the left per se is 33% Jewish. this has nothing to do with that. this… is SCIENCE

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

look, just stick to ibuprofen and you can do as many circumcisions as you want

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

They're going after big mainstream Democratic campaign and fundraiser groups like Indivisible and ActBlue. They're going after Soros. And they're going after INN and JVP?

The left is 33% Jewish to these people

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

"Other groups on the list include two Jewish nonprofits that oppose Israel's war in Gaza - IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace."

Of the nine groups named, two are Jewish pro-Palestinian groups. (They didn't even bother to name any NON-Jewish pro-Palestinian groups.)

www.reuters.com

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

if all this turns out to be is that the Qataris paid Trump a lot of money to care about them more than Israel, I will be fine with that

what I will not do is “give credit where credit is due” to the guy who got bribed the most

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 18h

the Dr. Pepper of ultra-rich Ivies

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18h

Kudos to Princeton for being completely invisible.

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 20h

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

“Popes are in lockstep on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist”

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

“First shalt thou wear togas. Then shalt thou wear one of those olive branch wreath things. It has to be one of those olive branch wreath things, and none other. A fedora shalt thou not wear, neither wear thou a baseball cap. Samurai masks are right out!”

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

“the point of the Bible is that the time and place in which the Bible was written is the best time and place, I am very smart”

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

The New Testament was written in a slave empire. It didn’t call for abolishing slavery in the same way that it didn’t call for abolishing Roman imperialism.

It’s so funny to me to be like “this is how it is in the Bible” as if the Bible was recommending that everyone live in first-century Rome

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21h

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

“larger plan” could also just be a face-saving line though

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

really, nothing? I know it’s not Gulf money but I didn’t think it was nothing

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22h

So that makes sense to me about why *they* want it. But now they need Trump to do what they want, and it means he has to do something he’s never done before, which I’m not sure he knows how to do. It’s like if they demanded he pay his workers on time

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22h

I have seen rational, interest-based accounts of what Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt get out of this that led them to pressure Hamas.

I haven’t seen a single one that accounts for why Netanyahu would need to change his approach now. “Trump made him?” Why? He wants a Nobel? The emir gave him a plane?

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 1d

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

Sudan is bleeding in silence: A humanitarian crisis the world cannot ignore

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

globalvoices.org

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

i'm still gonna be "wait and see" in two weeks

maybe in two months i'll change my mind

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

me: i'm "wait and see" on this israel-hamas deal

them: it looks like he's gonna get it done though

me: i said i'm "wait and see" on it

them: ok but now he actually did it, it's done, it's happening

me: I SAID I'M "WAIT AND SEE" ON IT, WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

nobody ever says Franco was "better at fascism" than Hitler, even though Franco was in power until 1973.

being "good at it" basically just determines: 1) how big is the blaze of glory you go out in, 2) how many people do you kill along the way, 3) does the fascism last past your death

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 3d

:::sansa stark voice:::

your words will disappear.

your house will disappear.

your name will disappear.

all memory of you will disappear.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 3d

this is going to put haley stevens in a very uncomfortable position

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 3d

Probably this

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 3d

call me when they put Amy Goodman in charge of CBS News if you want me to be impressed that somehow a "contrarian" got that job