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Sasha Senderovich 🌻

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𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Apr 21

Our book is on its way to publication! “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is a collection of short stories translated by me & Harriet Murav from Yiddish & Russian, written after WWII by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/jewish...

In the Shadow of the Holocaust | Stanford University Press

In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish au...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 32m

Really excited for Seattle’s own Shelley Fairweather-Vega for being named, together with the Uzbek-language author Hamid Ismailov, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Awards (in the Translated Literature category). www.nationalbook.org/books/we-com... @nationalbook.bsky.social

We Computers: A Ghazal Novel - National Book Foundation

In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon‑Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he lea...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 33m

Eli Valley on Bari Weiss’s appointment to lead the CBS newsroom. Looks about right. @elivalley.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 22h

Shaul Magid @theguardian.com, two years after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ongoing war of revenge against Gaza and what many conclude to be an ongoing genocide, on the disappearance of the American Jewish consensus on Israel and Zionism. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3d

That’s our timeline.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3d

A right-wing hack with zero experience in reporting who rode the wave of grievance culture (on the backs of “concerned liberals” whose fears she successfully stoked) to power, that’s who Bari Weiss is.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

Headlines like this — "Morale is extremely low at CBS ahead of Bari Weiss taking over" — is, perversely, a key reason Paramount's leadership paid such a ridiculous premium for Free Press. The *point* is to break the real journalists. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Image from Mediagazer website with headline "Sources at CBS News say newsroom morale is extremely low ahead of Bari Weiss' imminent arrival, and employees worry about her lack of experience as layoffs loom "

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3d

One would have to agree, I’m afraid.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 3d

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 3d

Whether a hysterical fascist of a plain regular fascist, he’s a fucking fascist.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

Is hysteria an essential ingredient for fascism?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

BIG news here: the second judge to find at least some aspect of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard is unlawful. This comes as Governor Pritzker says Trump is going to federalize the Illinois National Guard.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 4d

Good for Dartmouth for being the first to set the example that one has to say “no” to this totalitarian bullshit quickly.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Office of the President
Dear Dartmouth community,

As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.

You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.

Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 5d

On the other hand, if you signed that Harper’s letter back in 2020, you can probably make a quick buck as a talking head on CBS!

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 5d

Failing upward, this one. Nothing but the culture of grievance and resentment. On the other hand, an excellent choice to run Pravda.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 6d

Re-watched "Battleship Potemkin" for tomorrow's class. The Odesa staircase sequence in these United States in 2025: it’s about the use of the military to suppress a peaceful urban protest, isn’t it?

Frame from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with Russian troops shooting at civilians in Odesa.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 7d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 8d

Good thing that Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, defended Musk’s Nazi salute on Trump’s inauguration day.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d

The ADL defended Elon Musk's "awkward gesture." Now he calls it a hate group.

The ADL Defended Elon Musk's 'Awkward Gesture.' Now He Calls It a Hate Group

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 9d

Pass the leadership to someone with more spine, please. As quickly as possible.

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 9d

Coates has this verbal tick, saying “you know what I mean?” frequently. But I was thinking about while listening to this conversation how if we take his question literally, Ezra Klein maybe actually has no idea what Coates means and what experience and historical memory he is speaking from. 3/3

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 9d

… naively thinks that liberals should adopt Kirk’s approach to preach some version of a modified gospel (which Coates tells him would require overlooking / ignoring / denying the humanity of many in the democratic polity) to get back to a “more effective” politics. 2/3

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 9d

In his interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates @ezraklein.bsky.social comes off as ignorant and extremely privileged, committed to some idea that Coates tells him again and again America never was. Coates is clear-eyed about the animating force that is the kind of hate practiced by C. Kirk while Klein
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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 9d

Spot on.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10d

This is a great discussion. What it makes clear to me is that Ezra Klein is lost right now in a way that TNC isn't, and I don't mean that as a dunk.

The past 9 mos, most of us have been navigating w/o magnetic north. Across a range of disciplines, heuristics we took for granted no longer apply.

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 15d

Yes he is!

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15d

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 15d

We just need to tell stick together and tell them to get fucked more often.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 15d

FCC boss Brendan Carr now says his 'easy way or the hard way' comments about Jimmy Kimmel weren’t meant as a threat to pull licenses if Disney didn’t suspend him 🧢

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 16d

I just hope Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social was in the audience at the Arizona “memorial” — politics done the right way, etc. etc., I hope he didn’t miss it.

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 17d

Corruption all the way down — that’s one of the three key pillars of the current regime. Fear mongering and utter depravity are the other two.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 17d

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.