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@carlasulzbach.bsky.social

I write and teach about biblical stuff and Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. I also do editing and proofreading. Love political and social science fiction and how this interacts with religious studies and current unpleasantnesses.

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The New MAGA World Order This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social. “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:

18.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 112    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 1
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21st Century Fascism is Democratic A deep dive into the evolution of fascism. And how understanding that evolution is the key to defeating it.

eladnehorai.substack.com/p/21st-centu...

14.05.2025 00:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope that segment will be posted! Watched it and it was great!

24.04.2025 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

17.04.2025 02:07 — 👍 21625    🔁 8535    💬 6798    📌 4328
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Douglas Murray & Co are no allies of Jews Extreme-right figures are parasitising the Gaza war — some masquerading as pro-Palestinian, some as pro-Israeli. Don't let them.

thelead.uk/douglas-murr...

11.04.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’ Vivian Jenna Wilson tells Teen Vogue she feels obliged to take stand for trans rights as Trump attacks community

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

20.03.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Invading Canada Is Not Advisable We’ve tried before. It didn’t work out.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

17.03.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid Trump’s attack on higher education and scientific research undermines some of our most competitive advantages.

"America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

13.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 1838    🔁 373    💬 79    📌 30
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with the following text over his shoulder: Trump "insane"

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with the following text over his shoulder: Trump "insane"

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on Trump's 'vile, antisemitic' attack on Schumer: Trump's mind is gone. It is shattered. youtu.be/n804BwrNwQo?...

13.03.2025 03:48 — 👍 1463    🔁 337    💬 136    📌 25
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Opinion | ‘It Is Facing a Campaign of Annihilation’: Three Columnists on Trump’s War Against Academia What went wrong for higher education?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

16.03.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hayim Katsman was not involved in making ‘No Other Land.’ So why are some of the film's critics saying he was? Hayim's mother, Hannah, sets the record straight about an online rumor about her late son, who was murdered by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.

Hayim Katsman was not involved in making ‘No Other Land.’ So why are some of the film's critics saying he was? forward.com/news/702907/...

11.03.2025 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, antidemocratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.”

Timothy W. Ryback on Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs: theatln.tc/Hy5fsNe5

28.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 325    🔁 104    💬 10    📌 2

This is a recent piece by Prof. Timothy Snyder. Must read!

23.02.2025 02:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Affirmative Action for Dictators American Foreign Policy seen from Munich

Affirmative Action for Dictators
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23.02.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fuck that is right.

Let @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social know how you feel about this. You can provide feedback on their website.

On @ianhanomansing.bsky.social ‘s Cross Country Check up homepage as well.

23.02.2025 01:50 — 👍 162    🔁 36    💬 7    📌 3
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Ex-NFL Player Dragged Out by Cops After Calling MAGA a “Nazi Movement” Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was protesting during a city council meeting.

newrepublic.com/post/191744/...

20.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

17.02.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Erasing of American Science How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

17.02.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@theatlantic.com

17.02.2025 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rosemary Barton Live | Season 5 | CBC Gem Hosted by our CBC chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton Live delivers a weekly dose of compelling conversations, need-to-know political news, and issues affecting Canadians by tackling the la...

Watch today's Rosemary Barton's Sunday Scrum panel, especially Emilie Nicolas. Start at 20 mins. in.

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16.02.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.

03.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 11814    🔁 3555    💬 468    📌 313
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People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

03.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 17849    🔁 4997    💬 370    📌 483
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Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

I've been wondering that for the past FOUR years!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.02.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP

Donald Trump has just stated that the tariffs will stay on until Canada ceases to exist as a nation.
From here on in, my priority is Canada. All other considerations are secondary. Trump will never win. He will never break us.
Canada. True. North. Strong. Free.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvS...

02.02.2025 18:45 — 👍 1748    🔁 514    💬 200    📌 93

Canada will never back down. Canadians will never surrender. Together we are strong and united and no one will break us. Canada is strong and will always be free 🇨🇦

02.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 142    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 1

Haven't quite found out how to do this yet as I somehow can't see comments on posts of others or my own. But with FB going haywire I may need to delve into that more.

01.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When you don’t know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy

14.12.2024 21:54 — 👍 7913    🔁 1342    💬 498    📌 88
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Opinion | Why I’m Not Giving Up on American Democracy (Gift Article) The free and decent country that saved my family from Soviet Hungary is now under threat.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

01.12.2024 00:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | R.F.K. Jr. and Trump’s MAGA Science Agenda If there’s a thread tying this coalition together, it’s suspicion of expertise and elitism.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/o...

28.11.2024 01:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Joel Grey: ‘Cabaret’ Was a Warning. It’s Time to Heed It. (Gift Article) Much has changed since the show debuted on Broadway in 1966, but it’s what hasn’t changed that should worry us.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

25.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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