Yiddish Gothic (Rokhl K)

Americans are waking up to right-wing antisemitism. We're still ignoring the root problem Concerns about antisemitism on the right have focused on individuals like Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson. But networks are the real issue.

New piece.

On how media, leaders, and all the rest of us focus breathlessly on individual personalities on the far right instead of the networks they’re part of.

And in realizing that, we can find the answer for how to defeat them.

Networks, networks, networks.

FBI’s Bongino tries to explain his discredited conspiracy theory in pipe-bombs case Why did the FBI deputy director get the pipe-bombs case wrong? He has an answer, but it isn’t a good one.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about.

“I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said.

I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Talking about the UK’s bounty of graveyard waxcaps, here are a group of Hygrocybe conica, Blackening Waxcaps or commonly known as Witches Hat mushroom, all lined up like the Three Amigos. #fungi

Bizarre figurine said to be a model of a ghost

#PhantomsFriday In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him. In response, a Dutch author sent this photo, said to be of a ghost, and asked how he (and ghost) could be tested.
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/ghosts-...

I take scam fighting personally, been doing it for over 25 years.

It pisses me off.

GSE is bringing people together to offer simple tools to keep us all safe online.

I’m putting my money where my mouth is.

www.globalsignalexchange.org/blog/craig-n...

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

This trio of headless figures were found at Vercovicium Roman Fort (Housesteads), Northumberland on Hadrian’s Wall.
They represent Matres or mother-goddesses carrying cups & fruits.
Roman military communities payed respect to local deities.
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #RomanFortThursday
📸 my own.

Nicholas Penny · Diary: Church Monuments To record the changing conventions of memorial sculpture is to trace the ways in which our ancestors affirmed their...

‘Not only was the death of a young wife or a daughter a common pretext for commissioning a monument, but mourning female figures were favoured now that the erection of a monument was a part of the business of mourning.’

Nicholas Penny on church monuments.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.

It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

In 1959, the JBS's first Christmas as a national membership organization, a contributing editor to the JBS magazine argued that Bamberger's was scheming to usher in One World Government under the UN by destroying the Christian religion with UN decor.

The Birchers believe that the UN is a communist plot to usher in One World Government. When Bamberger's department store in Newark announced that that year's holiday theme was "The UN--We Believe" the Birchers freaked out.

The modern War on Christmas is based on a combination of antisemitism and isolationism. They hate Jewish retailers crafting our secular Christmas. The John Birch Society kicked off the War on Christmas in 1959 because a Jewish department store decorated with United Nations ornaments.

Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over.

They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.

A cob of corn on a stalk, jet black instead of the usual yellow.

"I'm not goth! I'm not goth!" I continue to insist as I turn into a heirloom corncob

I would just add that some of these folks, like Chatterton Williams, get paid not for their clarity but rather for their willingness to muddy the obvious. Some pundits entire job is to make things harder to understand.

Paganism is top choice for Christians who convert to new faith The religious landscape in the UK has changed rapidly, with 83 per cent of those abandoning Christianity now identifying as atheist or agnostic

According to @thetimes.com, people leaving Christianity in the UK are now more likely to become Pagans than converting to any other faith: www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them - Berkeley News The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley.

The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/02/w...

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

America’s largest meat company, Tyson Foods, became an early commercial adopter of Palantir in 2020, causing concern for the U.S. food industry’s particularly vulnerable workforce.

I'm tempted to read this through a sociological lens. Whether or not they believe there is a danger of Mamdani arresting Bibi (LOL) the larger discourse is about community leaders using imaginary/hypothetical dangers to justify their own leadership and reinforce communal boundaries

The last line really zings. Indig knows that all these people are so full of shit and they know it, too.

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.

You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.

My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

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The Serpent Who Shelters the Sun (Ra’s Journey in the Duat)
Book of Gates scene from the Tomb of Seti I, c. 1290–1279 B.C.

Though the scene is serene, it conveys a cosmic drama: the nightly triumph of order over disorder, protection over peril, life renewed from the brink of darkness.

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Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert | Peretz Centre As part of Or Shalom's long-running Light in Winter Concert Series, the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and Or Shalom proudly present a special klezmer concert featuring Ira Temple and Michae...

on Wednesday evening in Vancouver, two of NY's finest klezmer musicians are playing here at the Peretz Centre. please come check it out!