Yiddish Gothic (Rokhl K)

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Daniella doesn't want that

The ancestors are very unhappy ☹️

vhs cassette titled bears bears bears

*mötley crüe voice*:

פֿײַגיש פֿינקל

Stuff like this truly makes me wonder if the poster is being held hostage or something? because the rhetoric is so insane (deeply racist) and the benefit to her is... unclear

And i actually LIKE american cheese (in the right time and place)

Those limp triangles of american cheese are deeply upsetting

Can’t believe we are still doing this

This is such a good one. A sub sub genre of very divorced dad body horror.

א ביסל גרוי פּופּאָן, מײַן הערר? זײַ אזוי גוט??

I have so many questions... 🧐

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
Particularly gloopy Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) last week.

My next book? 😆

black and white illustration of skeletal death about to leap onto a tobogganer's sled. The tobogganer wears boots, an anorak, and a fur hat and grasps a rod in one hand.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb

What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.

What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein

"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."

"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Tyler Austin Harper on twitter: I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.

hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

Time to start blaming the real villain of the holocaust, AOC

1000% 🎯

I think it’s bad that the major American Jewish organizations that claim to speak for the community have decided that college student protesters are a bigger danger to Jews than the actual US government supporting a German far-right that wants to stop Holocaust remembrance.

Post from the Department of State: "We do not want allies to be shackled by guilt and shame"

This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.

This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.

AOC's attack on the Jewish state in Munich unfolded in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler's Nazi movement that carried out the worst genocide in human history.

In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US

"Was launched" BY WHOM, pray tell... anyway, Rubio just gave a speech telling Germany it's time to stop apologizing for the holocaust already so....

One of the morals of the Epstein story is that when governments stop funding research, foreign aid, and the arts, the void is filled with billionaires who use nonprofits as vehicles for political intrigue.

the holy trinity The Felt is not The Hand is not The Henson Spirit. But together...they are Muppet.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

Many people have said this before, but this is the sort of thing that in the ancient world would have gotten you cursed by the gods for five generations

The story of our current political moment will be written in retrospect as one of elites creating alternative information environments for themselves and then freaking out because of them. It’s like telling exaggerated ghost stories at a sleepover and then everyone not sleeping.

A lot of people have convinced themselves that the most cosmopolitan liberal-socialist ever elected to prominent office in the history of the United States is a raging Hitlerite because he refuses to recognize the "right" of another country to define itself first and foremost by ethnic citizenship.