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Talking in Budapest tonight, PM Netanyahu adopted the Hungarian revisionist narrative of the Holocaust, whitewashing the role of Hungarian Fascists in the persecution and deportation of Jews, and portraying Hungary as an innocent victim of Nazi Germany.

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Wow this is wild. James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.

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I wrote a piece on IHRA and the impact it’s having on the German and North American discourse around anti-antisemitism. Thankful for the @ddgc.bsky.social and its support!

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"Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data." Practical steps - share widely

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Helped in organizing this exciting event! Taking place at UBC March 27! Dr. Shamma Boyarin (UVic) will give a workshop on Judeo-Arabic!! If you’re in Vancouver and interested please register and come attend! #UBC

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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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“As Jewish faculty at Canadian universities, we watch with horror as this repression sweeps across the U.S. in the name of combating antisemitism. And we stand in solidarity with our U.S. colleagues facing this wave of xenophobic attacks.”

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How pliant and pathetic do you need to be in order to go around reassuring everyone that the guy who called you a fake Jew isn't really antisemitic

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"This is how “pro-Israel antisemitism” works in practice. The far-right party’s top leadership takes staunchly pro-Israel and anti-Muslim positions... They deploy antisemitic dog whistles and permit the spread of poisonous antisemitism throughout the party rank-and-file." www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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The richest man in the world and de-facto co-president is giving Nazi salutes, why are we still hearing about poorly worded signs at campus protests

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Canada’s Ambassador to the U.N. calling it like it is.

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A statement signed by 700+ (and tallying) US Jewish academics. (Apologies if I end up deleting, not sure if I'm premature though it seems like there might be other academics here who might choose to sign.) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I have been seeing a lot of posts by US citizens saying they are embarrassed by the government and its policies, even repeating the statements when new policies come out. I am wondering if this is a stifling emotion that is countering organizing against these fascist government policies.

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Does anyone know if any academic associations in the United States are organizing against these cuts to federal grants?

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This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding. If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will. They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education. We all need to respond. #GeneralStrike

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I had a dream last night that I finished my PhD. 🤣 I hope this is a sign.

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Pet sitting this cute kitty for two weeks!

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If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

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I am proud to be transgender. I am proud to be a woman. I am eternally thankful to be made in God’s image. I feel bad for people like Donald Trump, who will never know the comfort and acceptance in his own skin that I feel in mine.

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DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk," Donald Trump says. Cc: @annabower.bsky.social Federal judges in DC, Maryland, and Virginia Yaakov Roth

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It was for transgenic mice, used for research because you can get a certain human gene in them. There are no transgender mice.

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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

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"Free speech is back" he says as he kicks an elected congressman out of the chamber.

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For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history. It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.

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Not enough democrats saying what Justin Trudeau says. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/t...

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We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

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This! 👇👇

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Dear Dems, it’s no longer about decorum. It’s time to show a backbone and do something! Call out this fascist government! Protest! Show Americans that you’re more than just talk!

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Hakeem Jeffries told Democrats to practice decorum while Trump lies to the world. AOC said Trump can go fuck off. #ImWithHer #sotu

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Es ist die Stunde für Europa. Wenn sich das europäische Projekt je zu beweisen hatte, dann jetzt.

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Hey Donald Trump and JD Vance how about you both иди на хуй!! Слава Украïнi 🇺🇦

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If this display in the White House towards Ukraine‘s president does not finally show European leaders that they need to get their act together, I do not know what will. Russia and America are a threat to peace and freedom in Europe.

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Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities “The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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We are excited to announce our third lecture in our 2025 Spring Colloquia! @jonahgarde.bsky.social will give a lecture titled: "Fantasies of Eldorado: Germany's Mythical Place in the Trans* Historical Imaginary." Happening on March 11 at 12:30 PST. In person and on Zoom! 🔗in bio! See y'all there

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I have been living in BC for 6 years and felt my first earthquake today! 🫨

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Trump just called for expelling Palestinians from Gaza. And the ADL doesn't explicitly condemn it, let alone call him a bigot. But if someone says "Palestine will be free from the river to the sea," the ADL calls them an antisemite. open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

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I'm speaking at UBC's Digital Scholarship Showcase alongside @bradruss.bsky.social on Thursday! If you're on campus, looking to spend 90 mins talking about the TEI, and want to come hang out, do come! Registration and more info is here: libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/387215...

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This is so good.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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The guest reporter on The Daily podcast mentioned Cotton Mather and it made me remember @kyfrack.bsky.social and his Witches Myth and Reality course I TA’ed. 🧙‍♀️🧙

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Wenn Historiker*innen sich irgendwann die Augen reiben & fragen, wie die Rechtsradikalen wieder so schnell an die Macht kommen konnten, lautet spätestens ab heute die Antwort: das konservative Lager hat ein zweites Mal versagt. Der bürgerlichen Mitte war die Demokratie einfach nicht wichtig genug.

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Excited to announce our Classical Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts Workshop, taking place on 5 & 12 March as part of our #OSRJL! Details in the poster, application here: forms.office.com/pages/respon.... #rareJewishlanguages #Jewishlanguages #JudeoArabic #manuscripts #manuscriptstudies #workshop

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Anytime I see pictures or interviews of Alice Weidel all can I see is a blonde version of Melisha Tweedy the owner of the chicken farm from the movie Chicken Run.

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Leather marbling workshop was a success!!

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