Rachel Elise Greiner
@regreiner.bsky.social
PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill studying Jewish food and learning Yiddish!
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Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention
@eltragon.bsky.social
@eltragon.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention
@eltragon.bsky.social
@eltragon.bsky.social
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
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“At the opening of the video, the unidentified interviewer told Pugh, “I’m so glad that you guys are still doing equity work.” Pugh responded by saying, “I mean, we probably still do anyway, but you know, gotta keep it quiet.””
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
UNC Asheville administrator out of job after she was filmed in undercover DEI video
The former employee’s remarks in the video “do not represent the practices of UNC Asheville,” a spokesperson said.
www.newsobserver.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“At the opening of the video, the unidentified interviewer told Pugh, “I’m so glad that you guys are still doing equity work.” Pugh responded by saying, “I mean, we probably still do anyway, but you know, gotta keep it quiet.””
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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If you aren’t at #Farbindungen2025, you’re missing the Yiddish history of Crisco, Yiddish erotic lesbian poetry, and Yiddish as a fandom 🔥
@farbindungen.bsky.social
@farbindungen.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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WE
TOLD
YOU
TOLD
YOU
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
WE
TOLD
YOU
TOLD
YOU
My work was written about in this very thoughtful article! ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...
Farbindungen 2025: Dispatches from Bad Yiddishland | In geveb
Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms.
ingeveb.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My work was written about in this very thoughtful article! ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...
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The NPR article dances around this but reading between the lines it appears that ICE grabbed this guy because he's in a gay marriage.
March 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The NPR article dances around this but reading between the lines it appears that ICE grabbed this guy because he's in a gay marriage.
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Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
March 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
Recording from my recent presentation!
Krisko resepyes far der idisher baleboste: A Short Yiddish and Cooking Experiment | Rachel Greiner
YouTube video by Farbindungen Yiddish Conference
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February 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Recording from my recent presentation!
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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In addition to the good news
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
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THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
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We @chronicle.com reported on Friday that applications for F31 diversity fellowships had been withdrawn.
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
‘We’re Being Punished’: NIH Tosses Some Grant Applications From Minority Researchers
The sudden withdrawal affects early-career scholars who applied for a prestigious federal grant with a diversity notation — flagging that they came from underrepresented backgrounds.
www.chronicle.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
In addition to the good news
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
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THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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Some thoughts on remembering vs talking to the dead and how old Ashkenazi rituals of ancestral connection might serve us in a time of genocide – a new essay for @vashtimedia.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
vashtimedia.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Some thoughts on remembering vs talking to the dead and how old Ashkenazi rituals of ancestral connection might serve us in a time of genocide – a new essay for @vashtimedia.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...