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nabalkattu.bsky.social
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University. "A laid-back country picker with a laid-back country mind" Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, and Liberation Philology. Nova Scotia and California.
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If you think the way the most powerful men treat their partners and families isn’t important, you’ve already fallen for their manipulation. The violence at home is part and parcel of their abuse of power

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Not a charge anyone should deploy lightly, but what the ADL is doing right now is kapo shit

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Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

This guy has classic Bowery Wino face. Like boxcar hobo depression era. Stealing pies off windowsills ass looking potato head, bathtub gin cooking flop

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Thanks to a loud public outcry and a relentless media campaign from outdoors influencers the Trump administration is reversing its plan to eliminate thousands of national parks jobs. Amazing work everyone. Keep speaking up, it matters!

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Memo from Constitution and Civil Rights Scholars to Universities: Trump Administration Order is Wrong. Why DEI and Ethnic Studies Programs Remain Legal and Vital app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

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It's Bible Lore Podcast day once again! This time, I've got the inimitable @nabalkattu.bsky.social on the show to talk about early Hebrew writings, as we journey through golden calves, scapegoats, and a talking donkey. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/1j0K...

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If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

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The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

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The @nytimes.com changed the story and has now added this info after I caught them last night. This is why I screenshot these stories. There was no editors note added nor did they point out that a stealth edit was made. h/t @shoq.bsky.social

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It turns out dinosaurs had lice, but did you know the oldest known magical spell in the linear alphabet was against lice too? Dating around the 14th century BCE, this inscription on an ivory comb says “May this tusk root out the lice of the hai[r and the] beard!" 1/3

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Final Boss Dad Level Unlocked: got up at 5:30, made coffee for everyone and did a full squat workout before anybody else was conscious.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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In his senate hearings, RFK Jr said he was committed to the issue of Long Covid Yet here we are…”Secretary of Health and Human Services shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID” What is he committed to doing? Wellness farms. “Reparenting”. Its open season on chronic illness

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Next newsletter on wheresyoured.at I believe, outside of ChatGPT, that the combined generative AI industry is smaller than Pokémon Go at its peak, with apps like Gemini and Copilot having less than 20 million monthly active users. These unprofitable, unsustainable apps are also deeply unpopular.

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New Executive Order just dropped, and this one hits different. It puts the architect of Project 2025 in direct control of the Federal Election Commission + requires FEC follow White House directives. States must #VerifyTheVote or fair 2026 midterms will become a pipedream. EO: tinyurl.com/u8hrk9bu

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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Americans HATED Jan. 6. That the political opposition wasn't able to harness that and turn it into a lasting defeat of Trumpism will be one of the defining stories of the 2020s, if not the century.

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This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

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Recently listened to this lecture that defined Kant's categorical imperative as "believing other people are not a means to an end but an end themselves" and now I see it everywhere

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I wrote a sonnet about not being manipulated at the New York Times. (jacobbacharach.com/2025/02/20/i...)

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I actually read through this (something I rarely do when not assigned as homework) and (1) feel educated at the end - completely separate from the critique of a book I have not seen - and (2) I can't decide if I agree with the sum over all parts, but I resonate strongly with what's said here. ...

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