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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 7h

Felt compelled

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 6h

possibly the Britons!!

finagle(v.)
"get dishonestly or deviously," 1926, American English, possibly a variant of English dialectal fainaigue "to cheat or renege" (at cards), which is of unknown origin. Liberman says finagle is from figgle, phonetic variant of fiddle "fidget about," frequentative of fig.

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 6h

still going to refer to a darling finagler as a finagele

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 6h

still remain devastated that "finagle" is not in fact a yiddish word

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 6h

my most nonbinary trait is being ambivalent to syntax

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 6h

that would be my first guess but i'm also probably biased as a multi-generational nyc jew (who similarly grew up hearing פֿאַרקאַקטע in English as "fakakte" and, also via SNL, פֿאַררקלעמפּט in English as "vaklempt")

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 11h

They are so AGGRESSIVE

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 11h

This remains one of the weirder things about being a professor

Meme of a terminator robot captioned with “guy stalking faculty offices trying to buy our textbooks” as an anime girl hides crying under a desk, she js captioned “me”

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 14h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 13h

With his whole chest while talking about the CBS changes

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 13h

as a side note, i AM kind of fascinated with how the Jewish English version of it is frequently rendered without the final /r/ (whereas in Yiddish it would have a final ר)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14h

But the question did lead me to some great writeups by Black Jews, including this one by @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social (which links to another good piece by Erika Davis)

Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish

Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”

jewishcurrents.org

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14h

I've been told that feygele, for example, was never used as a slur in Yiddish and was only used that way as a borrowing in English, and while that isn't true (there are documented uses of it in Yiddish cinema) the reproach did feel grounded in an interesting "Yiddish would NEVER...but English would"

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14h

The recent use of a Yiddish-derived slur for Black people by Norman Finkelstein has had me thinking about the history of how that word has been used by Jewish speakers, and if the racist uses and connotations of the term originate in Yiddish or just in Jewish Englishes that borrowed it

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 15h

Black Jewish Liberation Collective members reported increased marginalization after #October7 so they surveyed #BlackJews on lived experiences amidst political polarization. Here is what they found. www.blackjewishliberation.org/survey

Following the events of October 7, 2025, Black Jewish Liberation Collective heard from members around the world reporting increased and complex experiences of marginalization. From October 2024 - January 2025, BLJC surveyed a diverse sample of Black Jews from across the U.S. and Europe about their lived experiences amidst increased political polarization. BLJC received 100+ responses.

BLJC survey of Black Jews lived experiences post-October 7: "The way in which much of [white] Jewish community has turned from barely doing antiracism work domestically wholly toward Israel and self-protection is so discouraging, especially as the racism within Jewish community is so severe."

FINDINGS, BLJC survey of Black Jews lived experiences post-October 7: - In Jewish spaces, nearly a third of respondents reported feeling increased marginalization due to unquestioning support for the Israeli government's actions in Gaza or denial of Palestinians' humanity. - A quarter of respondents indicated they specifically felt increased marginalization in synagogue. - One in ten respondents indicated challenges to how welcome Jewish communities feel, and feeling unwelcome in more explicitly Jewish left and progressive spaces.

Recommendations, BLJC survey of Black Jews lived experiences post-October 7: - Prioritize antiracism and antisemitism training for staff and community members. Dismantle racist preoccupation with "Black antisemitism." - Recognize Black Jews - and all Jews in the diaspora - are safer in a deeply interconnected, multiracial, multicultural context of mural solidarity. - Resource Black Jewish groups and organizations inside and outside your community - Amplify Black Jewish Leadership

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 17h

פּערפֿעקט פֿאַר אָקטאָבער 👻🧟‍♀️

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

כ׳הער ניט צו צו אַ סך ייִדיש מוזיק אָבער אפֿשר @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social @lydia-levone.bsky.social ??

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

honestly though

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

It’s what really gives the brisket that yidisher tam

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