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Unemployed exoplanet scientist | Astrobiologist | Trans Lesbian | Wife | SFF Writer | Lukewarm Ecosocialist | Union Woman | One Half of @asabpod.bsky.social | She/Her| 🌹 www.tessafisher.com Words and opinions are my own.
Nearly every synagogue hosts speakers who don’t pass antizionist standards & congregants have very little say over it short of leaving their house of worship, & there are few alternatives.
But I guarantee every church could say the same & no one is demanding Christians apply this level of scrutiny.
I’m begging leftist non-Jews to put antisemitism on your radar.
It still exists, it didn’t go away just because the term has been weaponized against antizionists.
It will get worse over the next few years, and you’re not immune to accidentally falling into it.
"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle."
I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!
Wake up, babe, new Haute & Freddy album just dropped
what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head
My favorite part of this one is "it could be used to illuminate solar panels!"
Someone has clearly not done the math.
I mean, helicopter taxi services already exist, they're just really, really, *really* expensive.
The position “American shuls are presumed valid targets unless they proactively disavow Israel” is as wrong as “American Muslims need to proactively disavow Islamist violence to be considered good, loyal Americans.” Both are racist, and both are wrong.
I find it baffling how many people online are acting like Israel controls the U.S. It does not.
I’ve had gentile “anti-Zionists” who gets really angry and point out I mainly target and argue gentile Zionists, not Jewish Zionists. As if:
A. Gentile Zionists don’t greatly outnumber Jewish Zionists
B. There isn’t a disproportionate lens focused on the minority that is Jewish diaspora Zionists
It is horrific what happened to this man’s family. But some Jewish American children worshipping at a synagogue in Michigan are not fucking responsible. This is another case of blaming all Jews for the actions of Israel. This is why we constantly beg you not to do that.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Look the feed made a poem
Bad luck, mostly
Also, given I was, like, 5, at the time this was all happening, I'm curious as to how you think I'm somehow responsible for this connection
Well, yeah, why wouldn't it?
....I mean, at the time, Ghilaine wasn't yet involved with Epstein? And Epstein's crimes weren't yet public knowledge? And the publishing world isn't that big?
(Specifically, my mom had a book deal with Robert Maxwell's publishing house in the early 90s--which promptly fell apart when it was revealed he'd bankrupted it in a massive embezzlement scheme)
Hell, I have 3 degrees of separation from Ghislaine Maxwell, imagine how I feel
Literally seeing trans folks in the Carolinas think their healthcare's going to be immediately cut off due to the 4th circuit panel ruling. That absolutely is not the case.
It was bad enough, directly so for WV trans folks on medicaid. It is not the end, or as extensive, as panic is treating it...
can’t believe it’s finally my turn to do this but:
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here is the long-awaited cover for CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS by the incredibly talented Kamille Rodriguez
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In fact, she's rather vehemently opposed to the DSA, iirc
Deranged squirrel lady is not a DSA member and hates DSA.
Whenever someone uses it in a conversation IRL I always find myself stopping the to confirm what exactly they mean by “Zionist” and not letting the conversation go any further until they’ve clarified
Larry Niven's Known Space series has a lot of questionable aspects (as much as I loved it as a kid), but it just dawned on me that he missed a huge opportunity for a plot:
1) humans can be telepaths
2) therefore, a telepathic Pak Protector is possible
Talk about a terrifying antagonist!
Alawieh, a candidate for Michigan State Senate in District 2 and a former leader of Uncommitted, with a statement on the attack on West Bloomfield Temple Israel
I just put "individual consumer"
It's kind of wild how much of modern conservatism had openly distilled itself down to nothing more than mediocre men demanding that they should get whatever they want, whenever they want, including sex.
Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe