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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social they’re stealing your schtick

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

where did you get your smicha

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

what is “zionism”?

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, was waiting for.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

“We can think of more polite ways to withdraw from the Geneva Conventions,but I think everyone can agree that withdraw from them we must.”
-The New York Times

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

🎶Bashana haba-ah neshev al hamirpeset venispor tziporim🎶

Steven (Cube) he/him @cubesteven.bsky.social · 6h

No they don't.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

all the news that’s fit to print

The New Hork Cimes
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1924
HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.
Released on Parole, He Is Expected
to Return to Austria.
Copyright, 1824, by The New Tork Times Company.
By Wireloss to THe NEW YORK TIMES.
BERLIN. Dec. 20.-Adolph Hitler,
once the demi-god of the reactionary ex-
tremists, was released on parole from
Imprisonment at Fortress Landsberg.
Bayarla, today and immediately left in
an auto for Munich. He looked a much
sadder and wiser man today than last
Spring when he, with Ludendorff and
other radical extremists, appeared be-
fore & Munich court charged with con-
spiracy to overthrow thę Government.
His behavior during imprisonment con-
vinced the authorities that, like his
political organization, known as the
Völkischer, was no longer to be feared.
It is belleved he will retire to private
life and return to Austria, the country
of hig birth.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

what in the name of bea arthur is this

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

nyti.ms

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

Speaking on behalf of the Jews, David Frum can go fuck himself with Ari Fleischer’s dick.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

This, apparently.

with Wite-Out. Her envy and unease only mushroomed when she
moved to New York City, at 18, to study illustration at the Pratt
Institute. While she spent spring breaks clocking hourly wages, her
friends — heiresses and overseas noblesse who kitted themselves
in off-runway Gareth Pugh and their off-campus apartments in
$3,000 sheets - were gliding down alpine slopes.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 6h

AND MOSHEH RABBEINU SPOKE UNTO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL:
'AFTER THE INGATHERING FROM YOUR THRESHING FLOOR AND
YOUR WINE VAT, YOU SHALL HOLD THE FEAST OF SUKKOT FOR
SEVEN DAYS." WHAT IS THIS "INGATHERING?" THE SAGES
TELL US IT IS NOT THE PICK OF OUR HARVEST, BUT
WHAT IS LEFT-OVER. THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE SUKKAH:
IT IS THE PLACE WHERE THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ONE
DWELLS; NOT BECAUSE IT IS MADE FROM OUR FINEST MATERIAL,
BUT BECAUSE WE TAKE WHAT IS CAST ASIDE AND SAY "THIS IS
ALSO OF VALUE. THIS, TOO, IS HOLY!"

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 7h

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Chag Sukkot Sameach!

Charlie says, "I know! I'll go home and make one with my own hands!" Levi says, "I dunno, Charlie Baron. I don't think that's what Libby had in mind." "It'll be great!" he says. He gathers scraps of wood, branches, and fabric. then calls out, "Hey everybody! Come see the sukkah I built!" But the sukkah is a very sad, ramshackle structure, with barely enough walls and boxes and duct tape holding it up. A crowd of kids - and his dog - gather. "What kinda sukkah is that?" "It looks like leftover junk!" "Can't you tell the difference between a Kosher Sukkah and a BAD Sukkah?" "There's no WAY that counts!" Charlie says, "Oy." Levi comes over, sucking his thumb. Charlie says, dejectedly, "You were right, Levi. I guess I couldn't make a good sukkah. Isn't there anyone who can tell me what makes a good sukkah?!" Levi then puts his seccurity-blanket-tallis around his shoulders and says, "Sure, Charlie Baron, I can tell you what makes a good Sukkah."

Levi stands in front of the sukkah and says, "And Mosheh Rabbeinu spoke unto the people of Israel - 'After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine vat, you shall hold the feast of sukkot for seven days.' What is this 'ingathering?' The sages tell us it is not the pick of our harvest, but what is left over. This is the essence of the sukkah: It is the place where the presence of the Holy One dwells; not because it is made from our finest material, but because we take what is cast aside and say, 'This is also of value. This, too, is Holy.'" Levi then walks over to Charlie. "That's what makes a good sukkah, Charlie Baron." Charlie smiles. He then tries to hang a gourd on his sukkah, but the pole falls down instead. Depressed, he walks away with his head held low. "Everything I touch gets ruined!"

The other kids gather around and say, "You know, it's not such a bad little sukkah... maybe it just needs a little love." They then work to fix it up in the next panel, and in the panel after, it miraculously looks like a classic sukkah with lattice walls and a roof of leafy branches. Fruits hang on the walls and construction paper chains are on the ceiling. Charlie Baron walks back in frame. "Chag Sameach, Charlie Baron!" they all say. The final panel shows them in the sukkah saying the Shehechiyanu blessing, written in Hebrew. With Gratitude to: Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, Josh Rosenberg, and Yosef Goldman.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 7h

A Charlie Baron Sukkot

This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.