Dan "The Bear Jew" Lapidus M.Div.
@droylapidus.bsky.social
Author of "The Bear Jew" on Substack. Jew. Bible Scholar. Focus on how the NT cites the HB/OT and the power dynamics implied therein. Foodie. Chess player. Liberal. Depressed Chicago sports and Juventus fan. He/him/הוא/אתה
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"Orange man bad" doesn't imply "everything before Orange man good"
This, indoor smoking bans, seatbelt requirements...there's a bunch of stuff we take for granted that we probably couldn't pass today
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This, indoor smoking bans, seatbelt requirements...there's a bunch of stuff we take for granted that we probably couldn't pass today
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
We need to preserve the testimonies of southern Black folks of a certain age. Too many people seem to neither know nor care about the sacrifices that people have made to expand sufferage
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We need to preserve the testimonies of southern Black folks of a certain age. Too many people seem to neither know nor care about the sacrifices that people have made to expand sufferage
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It's a combo of perfect being the enemy of the good & laziness. The want to do this one neat trick and be done & not have to mess with it any more. It's the false equivalency that really gets me tho. Like yes, annoying procedural incrementalism is in fact preferable to extrajudicial killings.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's a combo of perfect being the enemy of the good & laziness. The want to do this one neat trick and be done & not have to mess with it any more. It's the false equivalency that really gets me tho. Like yes, annoying procedural incrementalism is in fact preferable to extrajudicial killings.
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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One idea I've had is for the 2016 Democratic primary to end
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
One idea I've had is for the 2016 Democratic primary to end
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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JJ McCarthy is Kenny Pickett with slightly better PR. Thank you for your attention.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
JJ McCarthy is Kenny Pickett with slightly better PR. Thank you for your attention.
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This, THIS is how I want to talk to everyone about their AI use. I am a hater. There is no reason to be polite. This is an insult to life itself. I am embarrassed for you.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This, THIS is how I want to talk to everyone about their AI use. I am a hater. There is no reason to be polite. This is an insult to life itself. I am embarrassed for you.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
The fact that human beings are capable of changing represents the only chance we have for social progress
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The fact that human beings are capable of changing represents the only chance we have for social progress
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
Clay Higgins' friends: one guy arrested for int'l sex trafficking, and another convicted of incest
Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest.
A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Clay Higgins' friends: one guy arrested for int'l sex trafficking, and another convicted of incest
Everything I've learned about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Everything I've learned about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will
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Random quote from a re-quote on reddit: “MTG was an enemy of the left for years, and never feared for her life. She turned against MAGA for one day and needed to get security”
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Random quote from a re-quote on reddit: “MTG was an enemy of the left for years, and never feared for her life. She turned against MAGA for one day and needed to get security”
Megyn Kelly will go down as the worst person involved in the Epstein scandal short of the actual child rapists
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Megyn Kelly will go down as the worst person involved in the Epstein scandal short of the actual child rapists
“The midterms will be a referendum on whether Trump’s pedophilia coverup should be allowed to succeed.”
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“The midterms will be a referendum on whether Trump’s pedophilia coverup should be allowed to succeed.”
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If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
Donald "Lock her up" Trump would've indicted Clinton in his first term if he could've
My conspiracy brain was that there was nothing in there they could pin on Bill or else we would have heard about it during the first Trump administration. CDS is real.
incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Donald "Lock her up" Trump would've indicted Clinton in his first term if he could've
They're all grifters
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
They're all grifters
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I thought about Mike Johnson and the other professing Christians who have worked extremely hard to protect the accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile - whoever they are.
I wondered “why do these supposedly Christian people do this?”
Then I realized. This is what some of them do at church.
I wondered “why do these supposedly Christian people do this?”
Then I realized. This is what some of them do at church.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I thought about Mike Johnson and the other professing Christians who have worked extremely hard to protect the accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile - whoever they are.
I wondered “why do these supposedly Christian people do this?”
Then I realized. This is what some of them do at church.
I wondered “why do these supposedly Christian people do this?”
Then I realized. This is what some of them do at church.
There's a big difference between being a smarmy prick and being a pedophile
it feels like a minor miracle that Newsom didn't show up in this somehow
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
There's a big difference between being a smarmy prick and being a pedophile
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The New York Giants QB room was always an allegory for the New York City Mayor’s Race:
A young and potentially reckless savior (Zohran/Dart)
A classic New York Crazy but at least he loves this city/football (Sliwa/Jameis Winston)
BOOOOOOOOOO/GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE (Cuomo/Russell Wilson)
A young and potentially reckless savior (Zohran/Dart)
A classic New York Crazy but at least he loves this city/football (Sliwa/Jameis Winston)
BOOOOOOOOOO/GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE (Cuomo/Russell Wilson)
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The New York Giants QB room was always an allegory for the New York City Mayor’s Race:
A young and potentially reckless savior (Zohran/Dart)
A classic New York Crazy but at least he loves this city/football (Sliwa/Jameis Winston)
BOOOOOOOOOO/GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE (Cuomo/Russell Wilson)
A young and potentially reckless savior (Zohran/Dart)
A classic New York Crazy but at least he loves this city/football (Sliwa/Jameis Winston)
BOOOOOOOOOO/GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE (Cuomo/Russell Wilson)