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YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

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It's not just married women. It's people who've changed their name for any reason. It's older people who haven't seen their birth certificates since college enrollment. It's anyone who can't afford $165 for a passport. It's anyone who moves and needs to register.

It's a voter suppression bill.

US Supreme Court upholds order to facilitate return of deportee sent to El Salvador in error The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to block a judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to facilitate the return to the United States a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

Some actual good news. Now we see if Trump defies the Supremes.

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I have been experimenting with chickpea pasta, which I think is the best tasting of the pasta substitutes, and with cooking it ahead of time to develop resistant starch.

Screenshot from Duolingo reading “The Jews are tired” in English and Yiddish.

Can anyone point me at the origins of the phrase, “The Jews are tired” or a use from before 2017?

Every one of my grandparents was an immigrant. I can’t imagine the courage it took to leave everything they knew for another country across an ocean.

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Crazy

Elon Musk bought and paid for Brad Schimel. That tells you all you need to know, Wisconsin.

Vote Susan Crawford today.

The Budapest Memorandum (1994) saw Ukraine give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for U.S., UK, and Russian security assurances. Today, as the U.S. halts aid under Trump, it abandons those commitments, signaling to the world that American promises are worthless. A betrayal of global trust.

Vote NO on the SAVE Act! The SAVE Act is a trick to undermine our voting rights. Urge Congress to vote no on the SAVE ACT.

Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

If you’re concerned about birth rates, shouldn’t you also be concerned with keeping those people alive?

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

The more you know…

Tammy Duckworth is just killing Hegseth.
Gets him to admit he has never done internationals security arrangements. Doesn't know what SecDef has to do on same.

She asks him to name ASEAN countries and significance of them. He names a bunch of countries that aren't part of ASEAN.

Then there’s the fact that American English has adopted so many Yiddish words (albeit with Germanized orthography and slightly altered definitions) that all kinds of people use them without any clue of their origins.

Many happy returns of the day!

ווי אזוי זאָגט מען "What the fuck?" אויף ייִדיש?

That and the idea that when you’re sick, you should stay home.

“It was three o'clock in the morning—the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”
—Lucy Maud Montgomery, “The Blue Castle,” 1926.

YouTube video by Jesse Welles United Health

Very nicely done, reminiscent of Woody Guthrie. The tune is John Prine’s “Fish and Whistle.”

All the more reason to organize resistance.

I am seeing lots of gnashing and wailing. What I am not seeing are plans for resistance and taking back seats in the midterms. Who is there even to run? What about the grassroots level?

Don’t mourn. Organize!

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 220-215. 53-47. 48.43%-49.91%. No landslide. No realignment. Just an election.

Chris is correct. Everyone stop saying landslide or mandate now. And let’s get to work blocking their most extreme plans.
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Such a simple cartoon that really speaks volumes.

Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye A smattering of Yiddish happens to be all the Yiddish I have.

Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker.

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Astounding Stories v17n06 1936-08 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Astounding Stories, August 1936Volume 17, Number 6 n17n06 1936-08Table of Contents6 • The Incredible Invasion (Part 1 of 5) • serial by Murray Leinster...

Free fiction: “Proteus Island” by Stanley G. Weinbaum (1936)

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Weinbaum, one of the best of the pre-Golden Age sf writers, remains eminently readable. Here, a zoologist marooned on a island discovers its flora and fauna are dangerously odd.

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Gutenberg.org is full of neglected gems.

I’m adding that to my reading list. Thanks!