Yonatan
@yonatans.bsky.social
Nice Jewish Boy from the Bay living in Chicago. Tikun Olamnik, Israeli-American, Democrat, Whovian, Doing Daf Yomi. ✡️
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Also, for Millennials and late Gen X, part of the reason why there weren't so many queers/trans folks when we were kids as opposed to today is that THEY WERE ALL DYING OF AIDS!!
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"
February 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Also, for Millennials and late Gen X, part of the reason why there weren't so many queers/trans folks when we were kids as opposed to today is that THEY WERE ALL DYING OF AIDS!!
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I feel like we've all lost sight of the fact of the sheer magnitude of the failure of Putin's latest offensive, i.e. the one that began in 2024—mainly because it's been so baked into the day-to-day.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I feel like we've all lost sight of the fact of the sheer magnitude of the failure of Putin's latest offensive, i.e. the one that began in 2024—mainly because it's been so baked into the day-to-day.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
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An excuse!
February 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
An excuse!
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the thing with Fetterman is that he was a pretty normie lib, got severe brain damage, and became a right winger. the takeaway seems pretty obvious to me
As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
the thing with Fetterman is that he was a pretty normie lib, got severe brain damage, and became a right winger. the takeaway seems pretty obvious to me
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The promise was that by privatizing Judaism in a Protestant sense, Jews could become equal citizens and integrated into the polity. The fact that this failed to reduce racialized anti-Jewish bigotry is a big part of what led many Jews to define themselves as a national group and turn to nationalism.
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The promise was that by privatizing Judaism in a Protestant sense, Jews could become equal citizens and integrated into the polity. The fact that this failed to reduce racialized anti-Jewish bigotry is a big part of what led many Jews to define themselves as a national group and turn to nationalism.
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I’ve never had it explained to me why so many people have a special rule when it comes to Israel to suddenly use emit terminology, when for every other nation we’d typically use terms like “ultra-nationalist” or “nativist” which has clearer definitions for most people.
For me this is very simple.
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
Here is an explanation on why Jewish Greens (who obviously don't speak for every single Jewish person in the party, etc) are so opposed to the Zionism is Racism motion brought to the #GreenParty's spring conference.
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...
February 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I’ve never had it explained to me why so many people have a special rule when it comes to Israel to suddenly use emit terminology, when for every other nation we’d typically use terms like “ultra-nationalist” or “nativist” which has clearer definitions for most people.
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A Jewish friend of mine in college dated an Asatru girl. At one point, she said to him “unlike you, I worship the old gods” and he said “the Torah was written a thousand five hundred years before the poetic edda, your gods are Johnny-come-latelies compared to ours” and she dumped him
February 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM
A Jewish friend of mine in college dated an Asatru girl. At one point, she said to him “unlike you, I worship the old gods” and he said “the Torah was written a thousand five hundred years before the poetic edda, your gods are Johnny-come-latelies compared to ours” and she dumped him
For the entirety of the New 52 till maybe the firing of Dan Didio, Transformers: More than Meets the Eye/Transformers: Lost Light was either the best or the 2nd best book in the American comics market.
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
For the entirety of the New 52 till maybe the firing of Dan Didio, Transformers: More than Meets the Eye/Transformers: Lost Light was either the best or the 2nd best book in the American comics market.
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the winter olympics are magical
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 AM
the winter olympics are magical
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The community included in #IL09 is incredible diverse and includes tons of immigrants and people of different backgrounds, including a very! diverse list of candidates she’s running against
She also said a line “if where I’m born is your dealbreaker”
That’s also very much not the argument
She also said a line “if where I’m born is your dealbreaker”
That’s also very much not the argument
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
The community included in #IL09 is incredible diverse and includes tons of immigrants and people of different backgrounds, including a very! diverse list of candidates she’s running against
She also said a line “if where I’m born is your dealbreaker”
That’s also very much not the argument
She also said a line “if where I’m born is your dealbreaker”
That’s also very much not the argument
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"just say Palestinian" is an extremely weird clapback to people noticing you didn't live in the district when you declared and then it turning out that you and your friend group were hiding the relationship that prompted you to run in that district in the first place
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 AM
"just say Palestinian" is an extremely weird clapback to people noticing you didn't live in the district when you declared and then it turning out that you and your friend group were hiding the relationship that prompted you to run in that district in the first place
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Somehow we all know which heritage they mean, and unfortunately not the good sides.
February 16, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Somehow we all know which heritage they mean, and unfortunately not the good sides.
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Haman was just brutally framemogged while trying to jestermaxx the Jews by gigachad Mordechai.
Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed.
With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.
Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed.
With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.
February 16, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Haman was just brutally framemogged while trying to jestermaxx the Jews by gigachad Mordechai.
Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed.
With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.
Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed.
With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.
Time for episode 4 of #Sense8
a cartoon character with a very long neck is laughing
Alt: a cartoon character with a very long neck is laughing
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February 16, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Time for episode 4 of #Sense8
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My message remains the same a year later.
We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.
We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.
February 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
My message remains the same a year later.
We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.
We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.
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Now that lobster Nazi is back in the discourse, here is my reminder that if you show up demanding people to not only forgive but politically support someone who hasn’t repaired the damage they’ve done, you’re communicating that you are not safe to be around.
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Now that lobster Nazi is back in the discourse, here is my reminder that if you show up demanding people to not only forgive but politically support someone who hasn’t repaired the damage they’ve done, you’re communicating that you are not safe to be around.
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"I always enjoyed watching us beat Indiana" -- Barack Obama roasts Reggie Miller
February 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
"I always enjoyed watching us beat Indiana" -- Barack Obama roasts Reggie Miller
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It’s almost like these online data points that are so easily manipulated by the public are…NO DATA POINTS AT ALL.
February 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It’s almost like these online data points that are so easily manipulated by the public are…NO DATA POINTS AT ALL.
Whenever I order food these days I am spending roughly double what I was spending when Obama was President.
Just because I now have a wife now and am often paying the bill for both of us rather than just myself is purely coincidental, I'm sure... /s
#inflation
Just because I now have a wife now and am often paying the bill for both of us rather than just myself is purely coincidental, I'm sure... /s
#inflation
Most people spend about 11% of their income on food - hardly the major part of their expenses. Half of food spending is away from home - restaurants and delivery. The idea that most people's economic existence requires carefully monitoring the price of milk and eggs is literally absurd.
4% of a monthly budget is a bit more than a day's worth of food. You did not think about what you were saying. People notice when they are missing more meals.
February 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Whenever I order food these days I am spending roughly double what I was spending when Obama was President.
Just because I now have a wife now and am often paying the bill for both of us rather than just myself is purely coincidental, I'm sure... /s
#inflation
Just because I now have a wife now and am often paying the bill for both of us rather than just myself is purely coincidental, I'm sure... /s
#inflation
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Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
How could the DNC do this? /S
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
How could the DNC do this? /S