Ethan Harfenshvitz

Now for something completely different.

Purim starts tomorrow night. And I had a thought this shabbos on one of the most interesting Purim rules mentioned in the Talmud: The obligation to get so drunk on wine that you cannot tell the difference between "blessed is Mordechai" & "cursed be Haman"

YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know We wouldn't happen to be invading Iran today, would we?

Classic WKUK sketch youtu.be/S3o-3pL79O4?...

I've blocked a couple of people for being Platner supporters today, and one of them had an account full of talk about 'diasparoids'

Literally the only thing to do to impact them is make them lose power, influence and standing in some form—that’s why they’re going thru such lengths to distract from Epstein and any shred of domestic issues. It’s almost obvious to the point that it seems stupid.

While I’ll admit that it is necessary to document such blatant hypocrisy, I do think that at this time we’re going to ditch the notion that these evil, power-mad men give a fuck about lying to the public. At this point, they probably see deception as strength. They have no shame.

While Israel and the U.S. present a huge amount of problems, if you don’t think nuclear-capable Shiite theocracy who sponsors terrorism around the world is not on equal footing, I have a memorial bridge to sell ya

The long red, black and white banners draping building facades while featuring a bizarre mix of actual heroes and one clear case of white nationalist dei is, to borrow parlance from my zoomer brethren, giving Third Reich.

Maybe in very specific and niche contexts like people who subscribe to the ‘great replacement theory’; otherwise, if the growing antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza show anything, is that (actual) antisemitism are often coming from different places. But yes, sometimes.

Kinda unreal how much this skit has held up

While your first point is true in the U.S. and Europe a lot of the time, they absolutely do not go “hand in hand.”

And as much as this is true, just as many people need a reminder that Judaism isn’t just a religion, it’s an “ethnic-religion” that encompasses ethnicity and cultural identity outside of the religious teachings.

This always seems so lost on Americans brought up Christians, and a lot of Muslims.

It already is, @donmoyn.bsky.social, but I appreciate you shining a spotlight on it as a non-Jew.

Things have been getting progressively more awful for us, but I don’t think most American Jews are ready for things like threats of the “goyim waking up”, as so put by that Young Turks nut job

YouTube video by Roll Call Factbase Videos Donald Trump Vlog - Deleted: From the Desk of Donald Trump - Iran, Occupy WS - November 16, 2011

It’s never not projection, and I’m so tired and drained.

While I do “get” how we ended up here, I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand it, intellectually or emotionally.

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I won’t fault anybody for not liking McDonald’s but like, why are the ultra-rich seemingly so incapable of acting like normal people? Who the fuck tries to sell a burger by calling it “product” and then takes the smallest, most uncomfortable bite and is like, “Yeah let’s go with that take!”

With none of Trump’s public rationales making any sense, the most compelling reason to start a war seems to be to distract from the growing Epstein files scandal. trib.al/nKOy46F

Until I was about 12 years old I thought “Father of the Bride” and the “The Princess Bride” were the same movie.

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

Senators Reveal That Feds Have Secretly Reinterpreted The PATRIOT Act We had mentioned, briefly, the amendment that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall had tried to push for with relation to the renewal of controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act, however didn&#8217…

The deal Sam signed is the kind of deal someone who doesn't know how the NSA lies by telling you what you want to hear, but then secretly changing their definition of the plain English words in the contract.

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Jesus fucking Christ

Watched Carlson interviewing Qatari FM (2025) and being stunned that attack on Iran's Bushehr NPP could contaminate Persian Gulf

Indeed, as Qatar/Bahrain/UAE rely on desalination, radioactive contamination could disrupt water supplies within days, leading to environmental/humanitarian catastrophe

Six dead in the Iranian strike on Beit Shemesh, Israel.

Worth remembering Iran was facing economic collapse and a devastating drought before this attack. Even if the hardliners find some way to survive they’re going to have to deal with that and they couldn’t before (because as a theocracy they’re interested in religion not good governance).

Your paper was complicit in propelling him and continues to sane-wash him by refusing to call a lie a lie. “False and unproven claims” are lies, but NYT is keenly aware that more clinical language like this is easier to swallow.

And not a single piece about his mental acuity despite clear decline.

Not that I expect any better but it is so poisonous that the value of Iranian lives never warrants a mention in posts like these

I think this was widely accepted already but fwiw

*IRAN STATE TV CONFIRMS KHAMENEI'S DEATH

“As a final message to our warriors, the Ivy League faculty lounges may loathe you, the so-called elite of academia may mock your patriotism and disdain your sacrifice, but never forget that we the War Department have your back.”

First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams.

Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.

That's the (minimal) context for the blind non-English speaking man whom ICE killed in Buffalo, New York by dumping him outdoors at night in the middle of the winter.

What he had already lived through would have felled most of us.