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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 13d

We got a new episode and new music ... let us know what you think!
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The Jews who fought with Nazis: “Talk about bupkes!” with Oula Silvennoinen

Listen now | A Finnish Holocaust researcher shares the lesser-known story of how his country's Jews ended up fighting for Hitler — and the impact that legacy has today.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 22d

Read it here:
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Contributor's contribution: I’m something rhino

In the basement of a Brussels bar, the fluidity of meaning as distraction from the abundance of fluidity.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 22d

New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Ruining it for the rest of us

That's a nice Star of David you got there, shame if something were to happen to it.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Finland is finally getting rid of the last of its swastikas. While we sit shiva for the ancient symbol, its demise is an opportunity to consider what other artifacts of pluralistic significance and cultural continuity may nonetheless need to be done away with thanks to genocidal nudniks.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Sep 4

New episode! We go to Gaza for a moving conversation about loss, trauma, and hope.

Get it here or most any podcast platform:
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A voice from Gaza: “Talk about bupkes!” with Shahd Alnaami

The Palestinian writer, translator, and student gives us a glimpse of loss, hope, and survival – that is, everyday life amid Israel's destructive campaign of impunity in Gaza.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Sep 2

The logic of the "market" ...

Trump announces tariffs: stocks tank.
Court announces tariffs were illegal: stocks tank.

The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 28

New for The Bupkes:
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
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Monsters (and other lies)

When a double's not enough, make it a triple.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 19

You say it like it's a bad thing.

The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 19

It’s hard to fully grapple with the insanity of it if you didn’t grow up drinking the poison like it was a healthy smoothie (present company here included). Once you start to think of it like a cult, it starts to make more “sense.”

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Chronicle is for Christian Zionists. I mean, it’s in acronym: JC!

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 19

It doesn't take a Freud to see the denial, narcissism, projection, and transference. We're so pleased to see Germany get the help it needs.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 16

New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 14

Of course, this is the same mechanism of media complicity that buttresses far-right narratives on the domestic front — policing, immigrant communities, urban crime etc.

The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 14

And our latest ConWatch looks at Germany’s decision to halt some weapons to Israel, and asks: Is what should have been enough now enough — and is it enough?
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ConWatch: Week 1,819

Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany says no to weapons for Israel now — kinda sorta maybe whatever.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 14

We know it’s tough keeping up with bupkes. So here’s some of our latest …

Our interview with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu. Full episode on The Bupkes.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 13

“German officialdom defends its Staatsräson as a recognition of its ‘historical responsibility.’ Yet employing one state of exception in response to the crimes that emerged from another is more likely to replicate those authoritarian effects than compensate for them.”

euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · Aug 12

Germany's 'Staatsräson' - undermining Schengen, elevating Israel

German officialdom has shown itself not only unbothered by, but openly celebrating its drip-drip dismantling of rule of law. Of late, it can’t even muster the decency to pretend it’s not.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 10

In light of Germany’s decision this week to stop weapons exports to Israel that “could be used in Gaza” (whatever that might mean), we ask:

When is what has been enough enough?
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ConWatch: Week 1,819

Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany says no to weapons for Israel now — kinda sorta maybe whatever.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 9

Full episode here: open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...

The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle

Listen now | The press guy for The Left group in European Parliament talks about the European Union's "grave" moment and why the internet is not really real.

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 9

What is community and where is it? @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu has some ideas …

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 7

You don’t really buy the Applebaumian hegemonic worldview, do you?

The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 6

NB: Germany does not have a “culture ministry” for similar historical reasons.

The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Or on YouTube:
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The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 6

New episode of “Talk about bupkes!” with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social on leftist politics in the EU.

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The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle

Listen now | The press guy for The Left group in European Parliament talks about the European Union's "grave" moment and why the internet is not really real.

www.thebupkes.com

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Aug 5

“But don’t you condemn Oct. 7.”

Well, 9/11 was pretty shitty, too. And then post-9/11 happened.