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People in the comments saying the play is that if there are no vaccines then chemo makes money and nope! The reason someone you know will die of an vaccine preventable disease is some academics with twitter followings felt they didn't get enough NIH respect in 2020 and came down w/ poster's madness.

A Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City - New York Almanack The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City, offers a new look at over a century of New York City's history of Yiddish popular culture.

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025), offers a new look at over a century of New York City‘s history of Yiddish popular culture.

This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.

Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA...

The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

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Israel’s Emerging Occupation Consensus Despite misgivings about Netanyahu’s Gaza plans, most Israelis support his approach to the Palestinians.

This piece, by @dahliasc.bsky.social, gives a very good and accurate overview of how right wing Israeli public opinion has become over the past decade, and why Netanyahu is not an outlier. These are my takeaways - and differences.

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www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.

"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

What an absolutely pathological thing to say when the humanities subsidize the sciences and all the science funding is getting cut to the bone. Like just look at the vaccine stuff and the cancer research that’s disappearing. They hate science as much if not more than the humanities

"Russia and the United States have discussed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as a model for ending the war in Ukraine"

“Ukraine will never give up its sovereignty. But the reality is it’ll be occupied territory and the model is Palestine.”

An abomination.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

"Sarah Shaw, 33, a New Zealander who has lived in Washington state for just over three years, dropped her two eldest children to Vancouver airport on 24 July, so they could take a direct flight back to New Zealand for a holiday with their grandparents."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

UConn closes 7 academic programs after low-enrollment review The University of Connecticut has permanently closed seven academic programs and placed dozens more under monitoring following a comprehensive review of low-enrollment offerings, according to meeting ...

The future of higher ed is here. UCONN has permanently closed 7 academic programs & placed 70 more under monitoring following a comprehensive review of low-enrollment offerings. Most cuts appear to be in the Humanities. @aaup.org @ct-aaup.bsky.social
hartfordbusiness.com/article/ucon...

truly one of the worst U.S. proposals since Trump's Gaza plan. Ukraine should never agree to any part of this

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether?

Cool.

Given urban centres generally lean NDP and rural areas generally lean UCP, gerrymandering ridings in Lethbridge could create an electoral map where it's next to impossible to oust the UCP

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are there truly no roadblocks to a mayor who wants to order staff to waste their workdays on nonsense like this?

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim continues bitcoin pursuit Mayor among speakers at weekend conference at Vancouver Convention Centre

that's not how municipal politics works bro

"If they miss the mark, if they come up with recommendations that are factually incorrect or based on the wrong data, I will be personally filing an amendment to correct those discrepancies, and then we'll vote on that as well, and then it will pass,"

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

How BC’s Labour Laws Help Gig Workers Organize Workers at Amazon and Uber, two companies notoriously difficult to organize, have just formed unions in BC. What makes its labour environment so special?

Workers at Amazon and Uber, two companies notoriously difficult to organize, just formed unions in British Columbia.

What makes BC's labour environment so special?

pressprogress.ca/british-colu...

'A matter of life and death' OneCity Coun. Lucy Maloney described the mayor’s continued interest in bitcoin as a misplaced priority, particularly when many Vancouverites are struggling to make ends meet in what has become an expensive city. “The hill I die on is a safer, more affordable, more livable city for every one of our neighbours,” said Maloney, noting the provincial government has already stated it’s not interested in Sim’s bitcoin pursuit. “We've got such serious problems that are a matter of life and death for the residents of Vancouver. It would be nice to see him putting this energy into addressing the homelessness crisis, the poison drug epidemic, the people that die on our roads. There are bigger issues that I wish he was putting his passion into.”

Ken Sim is back on his Bitcoin crusade this weekend, speaking at the Learning Bitcoin conference.

The mayor has called Bitcoin a "hill he'll die on."

The hill @lucymaloney.bsky.social will die on is a safer, more affordable, more livable city for every one of our neighbours.

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:

- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls

We’re doing degenerate art again.

The Night of the Murdered Poets | Yiddish Book Center The Night of the Murdered Poets teaching resource kits

it's the anniversary of the "night of the murdered poets" when 13 Yiddish writers were executed by the state in the Soviet Union www.yiddishbookcenter.org/educational-...

the best. I bought it when it came out and the cost to get it sent to Canada was pretty rough, and that was pre trade war. maybe someone local can lend you a copy

which textbook are they using?

Next week, Sandra Fox will discuss how summer camps met—or failed to meet—the postwar fears and hopes of American Jews, and @aaronkreuter.bsky.social will explore their potential as transformative sites for reckoning with settler colonialism both at home and in Israel/Palestine. Join us! 👇

Aaron Kreuter: Lake Burntshore “Funny, frank, and sexy, Lake Burntshore is a richly felt examination of the Jewish diaspora.” - Gabe Liedman Set in a Jewish sleepover camp in the summer of 2013, Aaron Kreuter’s new novel, Lake Burn...

The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and the Vancouver Public Library are collaborating to put on this book talk with @aaronkreuter.bsky.social on Sept 13th at the Central Library. shall have to look for a copy before then😁

Netanyahu says he’s on a ‘historic and spiritual mission,’ feels a connection to vision of Greater Israel * * *

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells i24 he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission,” and that he is “very” attached to the vision of Greater Israel, which includes areas slated for a future Palestinian state and possibly also areas that are part of present-day Jordan and Egypt."

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid WASHINGTON—Claiming the luminous potion would make the nation strong and vigorous, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued an order Friday directing all Americans to drink a m...

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid