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In the "24-hour Festival of Digital Jewish Learning" there are some interesting sessions today and tomorrow for Shavuot. For example, Sunday, June 1 at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern: "A Genius Looks at Israel/Palestine: Albert Einstein's Binational (Non)Zionism" www.judaismunbound.com/shavuot2025#...

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"Any thoughtful analysis of how institutions respond to creeping authoritarianism makes it clear: capitulation is the wrong way to go.”

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www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... 🌈 Who knew? "To some... El Cerrito is just another bedroom community... "But in a metro area with one of the nation’s highest percentages of LGBTQ adults, few towns are more queer-friendly than this idyllic burg of ~ 25,000 just north of Berkeley." 🌁

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Shabbat Shalom. 🌿

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxp3... At ~20 mins, Peter Beinart says that a disproportinate number of college students who were arrested or expelled for pro-Palestinian protests, are Jewish. "I'm not making this up" says Beinart, a religious Jew. (This talk took place April 2025 and is now on YouTube.)

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Ahem. The latest issue of our newsletter is finally out. It's a big one. WE WON THE FULL NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, THE WHOLE THING, 1880-2017, WE BEAT THE LARGEST GOVERNMENT AGENCY IN NEW YORK AND WE'RE SETTING MORE THAN TEN MILLION RECORDS FREEEEEE Read all about it: mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxp3... At ~20 mins, Peter Beinart says that a disproportinate number of college students who were arrested or expelled for pro-Palestinian protests, are Jewish. "I'm not making this up" says Beinart, a religious Jew. (This talk took place April 2025 and is now on YouTube.)

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🌈 "It isn’t just that [Carolyn] Wysinger is leading the third town with an #LGBTQ majority city council in California history — after Palm Springs and West Hollywood. In becoming the state’s first out Black lesbian mayor, she underscored how much progress #queer politicians have yet to make."

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Shabbat Shalom. 🌿

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🌈 "It isn’t just that [Carolyn] Wysinger is leading the third town with an #LGBTQ majority city council in California history — after Palm Springs and West Hollywood. In becoming the state’s first out Black lesbian mayor, she underscored how much progress #queer politicians have yet to make."

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www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... 🌈 Who knew? "To some... El Cerrito is just another bedroom community... "But in a metro area with one of the nation’s highest percentages of LGBTQ adults, few towns are more queer-friendly than this idyllic burg of ~ 25,000 just north of Berkeley." 🌁

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Rümeysa Öztürk did not do anything violent. She does not pose any sort of national security threat to America’s interests. She wrote an op-ed — that’s literally it.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... "If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." – Michelle Goldberg

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"Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... "If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." – Michelle Goldberg

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnN... "In this exclusive interview with Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo, Ms Rachel opens up about why she decided to speak out against Israel's war in Gaza, how her experience as a teacher and mother informs her perspective, and responds to the backlash she's received." 29 minutes

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This California bill is important. "AB 1195...ensures that when an incarcerated parent has court-ordered visits, they happen. It requires communication between child welfare agencies and jails. It demands documentation of missed visits and real efforts to keep the parent-child relationship intact."🥚

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Robert Reich film “The Last Class”: see if it will be playing soon in your vicinity! open.substack.com/pub/thelastc...

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This California bill is important. "AB 1195...ensures that when an incarcerated parent has court-ordered visits, they happen. It requires communication between child welfare agencies and jails. It demands documentation of missed visits and real efforts to keep the parent-child relationship intact."🥚

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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza is a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe

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pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

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Fascinating history. "...the Foundling [hospital] also harmed the very children it purported to save.... Nestled into folders of correspondence ...from the 1980s and 1990s are requests from former riders, now elderly, seeking vital information about themselves and their families of origin." ⏬ 🥚

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnN... "In this exclusive interview with Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo, Ms Rachel opens up about why she decided to speak out against Israel's war in Gaza, how her experience as a teacher and mother informs her perspective, and responds to the backlash she's received." 29 minutes

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The Make America Sick Again (MASA) crew — aka the Trump Administration — is on overdrive: Banning the COVID booster for a large majority of Americans Defunding scientific research on cancer & dementia Deemphasizing the importance of measles vaccination, as kids die MASA = illness & death

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"The U.S. population of undocumented immigrants doesn’t have huge numbers of hardened criminals — not surprising since study after study has shown migrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans."

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A brave 8 minutes from Peter Beinart: What Israel is doing to Gaza is a desecration of G-d’s name. "This will haunt the United States because we provided the arms, and all other government that were complicit in this...for the rest of our lives..."

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"At the end of the day, your integrity is all you have. Guard it carefully."

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A few weeks ago, the University of Haifa shut down our student chapter under far-right pressure, just because we – Jewish and Palestinian students – held a silent protest with photos of Palestinian children killed in the war and called for an end to the annihilation. (1/2)

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A brave 8 minutes from Peter Beinart: What Israel is doing to Gaza is a desecration of G-d’s name. "This will haunt the United States because we provided the arms, and all other government that were complicit in this...for the rest of our lives..."

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Georgia-Born Adoptees! Mark July 1, 2025, on your calendars. That's the day your Original Birth Certificates will be unsealed--no restrictions or conditions.SB100 passed on April 3, and on May 13, Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill into law wp.me/paJe97-3GG

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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

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I'm still reading "The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow," an interesting history of American orphanhood. On page 59: "The [1874] case of Mary Ellen Wilson [an abused 9-year-old girl] came at just the right time to spur the beginnings of child protection and child welfare as we know them today...." 🥚 1/2

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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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Wow. Back in 1982. . . ☎️

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