Librariansaysook
@librariansaysook.bsky.social
Oregonian Liberal Jewish Librarian. I’m kinda a big deal with the age 2-5 set. I block you if I think you’re an asshole or it’s pointless to argue with you
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December 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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But mix that w/unitary executive, and the result is a belief that the President is ultimately responsible for all exercises of the executive power, combined with the belief that courts cannot hold the President to his own words in assessing the legality of exercises of executive power.
It’s absurd.
It’s absurd.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
But mix that w/unitary executive, and the result is a belief that the President is ultimately responsible for all exercises of the executive power, combined with the belief that courts cannot hold the President to his own words in assessing the legality of exercises of executive power.
It’s absurd.
It’s absurd.
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The broader principle SCOTUS is applying is that we can’t hold Trump responsible for what he says because if we did large swaths of his policy agenda would be obviously unlawful and SCOTUS’ prime directive is to let Trump so basically whatever he wants.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The broader principle SCOTUS is applying is that we can’t hold Trump responsible for what he says because if we did large swaths of his policy agenda would be obviously unlawful and SCOTUS’ prime directive is to let Trump so basically whatever he wants.
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Re: the above post, the “normal” thing to do would be, when we see govt actions targeting broadcasters that appear retaliatory, to reference posts like this and say “hey, the relevant actor admitted their unlawful and retaliatory motive! Easy case.”
But SCOTUS won’t do that (at least for Trump).
But SCOTUS won’t do that (at least for Trump).
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Re: the above post, the “normal” thing to do would be, when we see govt actions targeting broadcasters that appear retaliatory, to reference posts like this and say “hey, the relevant actor admitted their unlawful and retaliatory motive! Easy case.”
But SCOTUS won’t do that (at least for Trump).
But SCOTUS won’t do that (at least for Trump).
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Obviously Trump v. Hawaii is the template here, where the Court decided it would simply be too *rude* to attribute racist motives to an executive order just because the president unambiguously announced that the motivation behind the order was expressly racist.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Obviously Trump v. Hawaii is the template here, where the Court decided it would simply be too *rude* to attribute racist motives to an executive order just because the president unambiguously announced that the motivation behind the order was expressly racist.
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A slight tangent, but there’s an interesting confluence between SCOTUS’ hyperexpansive unitary executive theory and its complete allergy to letting courts holding the government responsible for what Trump says when assessing the legality of executive actions.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A slight tangent, but there’s an interesting confluence between SCOTUS’ hyperexpansive unitary executive theory and its complete allergy to letting courts holding the government responsible for what Trump says when assessing the legality of executive actions.
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My baby caught his first real cough this week. He's fine -- miserable last night, but fine -- but it did serve as a healthy reminder to hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with every fiber of my being.
Because it's bad enough feeling helpless when your baby has a basic cough. Now imagine it was the measles.
Because it's bad enough feeling helpless when your baby has a basic cough. Now imagine it was the measles.
Sick Baby
Nathaniel is feeling under the weather. He has a cough, which he caught from me, and before I go any further, he's fine. In fact, he's mostl...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My baby caught his first real cough this week. He's fine -- miserable last night, but fine -- but it did serve as a healthy reminder to hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with every fiber of my being.
Because it's bad enough feeling helpless when your baby has a basic cough. Now imagine it was the measles.
Because it's bad enough feeling helpless when your baby has a basic cough. Now imagine it was the measles.
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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as scholars widely recognize, Jesus is a classic "Frodo figure." The celebration of the Old New Year on March 25 - the destruction of Mordor - lasted for many centuries.
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
as scholars widely recognize, Jesus is a classic "Frodo figure." The celebration of the Old New Year on March 25 - the destruction of Mordor - lasted for many centuries.
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for instance, "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is clearly nonsensical as a depiction of the events of the Gospel, which involve no sailing, and is indeed a distorted version of the departure of Frodo to the West, accompanied by 'His Lady' (Galadriel)
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
for instance, "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is clearly nonsensical as a depiction of the events of the Gospel, which involve no sailing, and is indeed a distorted version of the departure of Frodo to the West, accompanied by 'His Lady' (Galadriel)
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a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
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I lost, but only because I didn't win. And I could have easily won. So in a way, I did win. I won that fight.
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I lost, but only because I didn't win. And I could have easily won. So in a way, I did win. I won that fight.
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I do enjoy that the guy in the picture is obsessed with a warship that (a) broke its own radar, leaving it blind, (b) was designed to bully merchantmen and smaller ships, (c) spent its last hours doing circles while the RN pounded it so hard that you’d have to show ID to watch it in Red States.
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I do enjoy that the guy in the picture is obsessed with a warship that (a) broke its own radar, leaving it blind, (b) was designed to bully merchantmen and smaller ships, (c) spent its last hours doing circles while the RN pounded it so hard that you’d have to show ID to watch it in Red States.
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A lot of other groups jumped on the Sephardic/Mizrahi bandwagon in subsequent years, often with less than stellar motives centered around their own political ambitions (I termed this "The Race to Narrate Mizrahi Jews").
But AWB was doing the right work on inclusion before it was trendy.
But AWB was doing the right work on inclusion before it was trendy.
The Race To Narrate Mizrahi Jews
We are witnessing the start of a race: the race, between various political factions generally but not exclusively tracking "Zionist" vs. "an...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A lot of other groups jumped on the Sephardic/Mizrahi bandwagon in subsequent years, often with less than stellar motives centered around their own political ambitions (I termed this "The Race to Narrate Mizrahi Jews").
But AWB was doing the right work on inclusion before it was trendy.
But AWB was doing the right work on inclusion before it was trendy.
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I'll give one example: in 2016, I was researching which Jewish orgs that were not expressly oriented towards Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews mentioned Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews in their programming. "Mentioned" is a low bar. Most Jewish orgs nonetheless didn't clear it. AWB was easily the biggest exception.
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'll give one example: in 2016, I was researching which Jewish orgs that were not expressly oriented towards Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews mentioned Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews in their programming. "Mentioned" is a low bar. Most Jewish orgs nonetheless didn't clear it. AWB was easily the biggest exception.
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But now JDA feels played out as it's outflanked by further left anti-Zionist critics, while Nexus is suddenly a viable option for establishment-aligned Jews feeling unrepresented by hidebound legacy orgs who don't realize Bibi or bust doesn't even play w/their historic base (let alone the next gen).
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
But now JDA feels played out as it's outflanked by further left anti-Zionist critics, while Nexus is suddenly a viable option for establishment-aligned Jews feeling unrepresented by hidebound legacy orgs who don't realize Bibi or bust doesn't even play w/their historic base (let alone the next gen).
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That said, I am enjoying Nexus' "little engine that could" story arc. At launch, we were absolutely "the other one!" in the IHRA vs. JDA debates (which was the subject of many a joke by me whenever I was asked to speak on IHRA vs. Nexus vs. JDA).
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
That said, I am enjoying Nexus' "little engine that could" story arc. At launch, we were absolutely "the other one!" in the IHRA vs. JDA debates (which was the subject of many a joke by me whenever I was asked to speak on IHRA vs. Nexus vs. JDA).
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The only reason why Nexus is now seen as an "alternative" to the ADL for mainstream liberal Jews is that the ADL decided to self-immolate over the past few years. It wasn't a niche we sought out, it was a niche that just sort of developed a vacuum adjacent to us which we were in position to fill.
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The only reason why Nexus is now seen as an "alternative" to the ADL for mainstream liberal Jews is that the ADL decided to self-immolate over the past few years. It wasn't a niche we sought out, it was a niche that just sort of developed a vacuum adjacent to us which we were in position to fill.
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It is interesting to see @nexusproject.bsky.social described this way, since at our launch I would *not* say that we thought of ourselves as a "progressive alternative to the ADL." To the contrary, we had a fair number of ADL-affiliated people we were working with. www.jta.org/2025/12/18/p...
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It is interesting to see @nexusproject.bsky.social described this way, since at our launch I would *not* say that we thought of ourselves as a "progressive alternative to the ADL." To the contrary, we had a fair number of ADL-affiliated people we were working with. www.jta.org/2025/12/18/p...
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Unfortunately, there is a certain sort of leftist whose brain breaks once they feel they've been deprived of their revolutionary birthright by losing to the Jews, and they fall *deep* into the deep end of the pool.
It seems Jamaal Bowman may be in that category. Sad.
It seems Jamaal Bowman may be in that category. Sad.
Jamaal Bowman, former progressive congressman, supports Nick Fuentes' statements in viral video - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Plus, the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz is back in the courts.
www.jta.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Unfortunately, there is a certain sort of leftist whose brain breaks once they feel they've been deprived of their revolutionary birthright by losing to the Jews, and they fall *deep* into the deep end of the pool.
It seems Jamaal Bowman may be in that category. Sad.
It seems Jamaal Bowman may be in that category. Sad.
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“Wouldn’t you rather be part of a movement with antisemites than take your orders from a Jew?”
Just a vile human being.
Just a vile human being.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“Wouldn’t you rather be part of a movement with antisemites than take your orders from a Jew?”
Just a vile human being.
Just a vile human being.
You notice the “debates” they want to host are always things like “has feminism failed?” and never “is the GOP a white supremacist party?”
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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The useful thing about JD Vance is that he has no principles and is constantly chasing the prevailing conservative political winds, so if he’s talking like this it’s because he perceives this is what the current GOP electorate wants to hear.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The useful thing about JD Vance is that he has no principles and is constantly chasing the prevailing conservative political winds, so if he’s talking like this it’s because he perceives this is what the current GOP electorate wants to hear.