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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 9h

If fascists are the only true natives, then anti-fascists are by definition foreign

Trump looks to label antifa as a foreign terrorist organization

President Donald Trump instructed members of his Cabinet to move to declare antifa a foreign terrorist organization at an antifa roundtable event Wednesday.

www.seattletimes.com

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 11h

@kuow.org host before my interview joked that instead of asking me about Israel/Palestine she could ask me about the Mariners postseason. Fear gripped me. Oh, please don’t, i said. I know nothing about that.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 11h

@thedailyuw.bsky.social gives a little love for the tiny Wallingford branch of the Seattle Public Library @spl.org www.dailyuw.com/article/seat...

Seattle on Hold: Exploring the Wallingford Library

www.dailyuw.com

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 14h

Our email guidance from UW about what to do in the event of a disruptive intruder in class (following the well publicized incident last week in a psych class) ended on the following upbeat note

Ps, another type of disruptions, earthquakes!

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 15h

This is my answer to every survey question I receive from now on

Donǎt€tmt know which is supposed to be “don’t know”

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 16h

Whatever genius decided that ebooks need not show the pagination of the original book really f-ed things up.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 18h

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 21h

Hooked on Books, Margaret Chiu Greanias/ Kristyna Litten (2023) www.peachtreebooks.com/book/hooked-...

Red lantern fish in dark blue sea reading a shell book

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 21h

So Tortoise Dug, Emmy Kastner (2025) www.simonandschuster.com/books/So-Tor...

Green tortoise burrowing through earth with mouse holding yellow flower at top of burrow

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 21h

Little Bear’s Treasures, Stella Dreis (2020) greystonebooks.com/products/lit...

Little bear holding a button. Feather, and blueberry

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 21h

More beautiful children’s picture books to soak in

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 1d

My interview on KUOW’s Soundside about the anniversary of 10/7 www.kuow.org/stories/how-...

How Oct. 7th transformed Israeli politics

What do things look like inside Israel right now? And will a ceasefire, if it happens, or the return of hostages, change the picture in Israel?

www.kuow.org

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Oy… “The man said he was hunting rats on Wednesday with a pellet gun…
Ordinarily, that would have been that, a minor criminal justice matter. But these are not ordinary times. The man is a visiting professor at Harvard, and he fired the pellet gun near a synagogue during a Yom Kippur service.”