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After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

Anyway, I’m rewatching all the Bourne movies today.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

13 Sivan 5785 “At the foot of the pyramid, there is a campfire.” Here are a few fragments of my “Sinaiism.” Hope you like them. Link in next post. Feel free to print out, hand it around, read it out loud in small gatherings in abandoned warehouses, etc. #jewishleft

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Very 2025 that NYT Opinion is basically doing Adam Curtis knock-off vids: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"Abolish ICE" needs to be the moderate Democratic position going forward. The progressive position is, "Send everyone who works for ICE to the Hague."

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

People credit The Simpsons for predicting our current moment but fail to mention that Kevin Smith posited a world that was off-kilter, askew, and gets no credit for predicting our current crisis 🤔

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin: “We are going to defund major universities due to the presence of campus protestors against Israeli war crimes, based on disingenuous claims that they are antisemitic.” The Trump admin: “Also, we think that universities should hire Holocaust deniers to ensure ideological diversity.”

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

In this same vein, I am Jewish and do not want anyone to be censored/detained/retaliated against for expressing anti-Israel/pro-Palestine opinions in my name. I don’t want people to lose fundamental rights of expression and freedom under the guise of “fighting antisemitism.”

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this act of violence against participants in a walk for Israeli hostages still in Gaza.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I actually agree with this. The game is rigged, such that at a time when Leo Frank truthers are in the federal govt, any Jew who speaks up about antisemitism gets conscripted involuntarily into Trumpist politics that American Jews overwhelmingly oppose. But that itself is evidence of antisemitism.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

We know not only that most American Jews do not support this administration’s use of antisemitism to justify its xenophobic policies, but that it is wrong and frankly dangerous to conflate Israel with all Jews.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

People have covered the reactionary tendencies here extensively, but as best as I can tell, a lot of the "rationalist community" is also just people incapable of basic critical thought being wowed by it like it's street magic. open.substack.com/pub/astralco...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Seriously though, that’s my in-brain soundtrack to 2025. A 2000s era Trance breakbeat blaring as what I imagine Dean Acheson’s voice sounds like intones: “Mistake” 🎶 “Mistake”🎶 “Mistake” “Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake” ABSOLUTE MASSIVE BEAT DROP

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“Hi ai, I can’t be arsed to read up on it but did Dean Acheson actually say that one banger quote about Vietnam and, if so, did he also ever do anything that, in the ultimate balance of things, would make him seem less cool to me if I knew anything else about him?” - Me, in the horrible future.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Too many left-wingers think saying, "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" implies, "No anti-Zionists are antisemitic." And too many right-wingers think saying, "Anti-Zionism is always antisemitism" implies, "Zionists are definitionally not anti-semitic."

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments