Alyssa S.

Of course Bibi has longed to do this awful thing - but there are plenty of reasons 🍊would've wanted to do this himself. The idea that Netanyahu controls Trump plays into tropes (even unwittingly) of Jews as puppet-masters. See the first cartoon reply in this thread! ☠️

Let's not absolve 🍊's agency!!

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

New curated collection of @sfhs.bsky.social French Historical Studies, by Avner Ben-Amos, on articles showing the influence of Pierre Nora on French history, commissioned by @jenniferheuer.bsky.social & Christine Haynes. 🗃️ All in open access!

read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

That was fabulous. On Purim, it’s a mitzvah to get so drunk that you don’t know the difference between the good guy and the genocidal maniac in the story.

So I took a 🥃 in front of everyone and then read in 🇭🇹 about Mordechai’s resistance to the tyrant! Not quite drunk but it was more festive!!

Text: Haitian Creole Bible (https://biblehub.com/hcb/esther/3.htm) 1Kèk tan apre sa, wa Asyeris mete yon nonm ki te rele Aman nan yon gwo pozisyon. Li nonmen l' chèf sou tout lòt chèf nan peyi a apre wa a. Aman sa a te pitit Amedata, moun fanmi wa Agag. 2Wa a pase lòd pou tout anplwaye gouvènman li mete ajenou, bese tèt yo jouk atè devan Aman pou montre jan yo respekte l'. Tout anplwaye yo te fè sa vre esepte Ma-do-chay ki te derefize fè bagay konsa. 3Lòt anplwaye yo mande Ma-do-chay poukisa li t'ap dezobeyi lòd wa a te bay la

For my #Haitian (or Jewish) peeps, is this cute or what? I've got Esther 3:1-3. I'll ham it up when it's my turn: I'll be the first chanting (H)aman's name tonight.

'Bowing' is not a thing in Haiti, so the translation's lively: li mete ajenou, bese tèt yo jouk atè devan.

✊Mordehai for refusing!

I have to admit, I prefer not to have spinach in my cookies, but the quichentasch is absolutely worth trying. Then I'll go back to non-savory taschen!

Two triangular cookies for Purim, as described in the skeet

Mid afternoon snack:

A quichentasch (A portmanteau innovation of our synagogue bake-a-thon this year)

And an apple cinnamon walnut hamantasch

Hmmmm….

Getting ready to read Esther 3:1-3 nan Kreyòl aswe à! #HappyPurim

Elon Musk's awful AI scores another win, courtesy of Donald Trump Grok, Elon Musk’s scandal-plagued artificial intelligence platform, has burrowed deep into the federal government—and federal officials have some concerns! Too bad, says President Donald Trump.

After Anthropic declined to remove safeguards on its AI tools, President Donald Trump barred federal agencies from working with the company. Elon Musk’s Grok, which agreed to broader “all lawful use,” is now expanding into defense systems.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

It’s incredible how the Dems fumbled the ball by announcing their support for this horrific war, challenging it only on procedural grounds, which should have been the basis of an impeachment… Yes, there are Dems who oppose it. They should handle their own reactionaries to prove we have two parties.

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“God has hung the earth upon restraint (“belimah”) (Job 26:7). R. Ilai said: The world endures only on the account of one who restrains (“bolem”) himself during strife.

(Chullin 89a)

THE RABBIS AREN'T IMPRESSED WITH WARRIORS. SHOWING RESTRAINT IS THE HOLY PATH

What About Now?

[The mitzvah of military conquest was] of a singular nature. It referred to the time of Joshua only, where the master of the prophets [Moses] himself expressed an explicit command.

(Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli, 20th C. Belarus/Palestine/Israel)

THERE ARE NO MORE COMMANDED WARS

How Do We Go to War?

Don't make war against ANYONE until 1st calling to them for peace, whether Permitted War or Obligatory War, as it says: When you come to a city to make war... call out to it for peace (Dt. 20:10)

(Rambam, Mishnah Torah, Laws of Kings and Their Wars 6:1)

PEACE IS ALWAYS FIRST

Lou Reed, striking a pugilistic note.

David Loeb Goodis, loosened tie, at the typewriter.

Harry Belafonte gazes just above the camera.

Jacques Rivette in his habitual sweater.

Celebrating the birthdays of four people whose lives changed ours, and mine.

Today: Lou Reed, David Goodis.

Yesterday: Harry Belafonte, Jacques Rivette.

We are fortunate to have had them among us.

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Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

The same AIs who tell me that 'strawberry' has four 'r's and that most people have six fingers on each hand are now looking at a girls' grade school and seeing a military target. And they're utterly unafraid of war crimes tribunals 'cause they ain't human.

I do not see any good coming of this.

Love to see this preview of Erika Edwards' book!

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

I have to add one thing about Purim this year. Normally I'm embarrassed by the part in Esther 📜where we're to rejoice about the genocidal narcissist being hanged instead of his getting to kill all Jews.

But I have new perspective. If you don't punish evildoers: they can return to power & kill more!

Looking forward to the rest of the thread!!

Amen - hallelujah!!! 🔥

I wish more of our communal organizations paid heed to the wisdom of our texts here!

And you should follow @ravmike.bsky.social if you are not already!

NOTE
1 Pregnant because raped in custody
2 Moved to TX because the regime has anticipated a need to circumvent state laws regarding abortion, medical rights
3 the infants in question will likely be trafficked into evangelical adoption networks or be subject the consequences of a lack of medical care

There is an amazing quote in this, that it doesn't look like anyone has put in any recent scholarship, at least nothing digitized.

I found only two hits in a search engine for it - both are from contemporary media in 1947 reporting on the same speech. 🔥 Can't wait to write this all up!

I am afraid I am going to forget about this source. I think I'm going to print an image out and stick it on the wall above my desk.

OMG, a student just sent a question while doing research - and it dropped me into THE BEST SOURCE, which 100% has to be included as an image in my book-in-progress. Open letters in Variety, FTW!

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

Many such cases. If you fight, you can win. But you have to try.

WTF is this. Grammarly will have dead scholars review your draft? And I'd be shocked if William Cronon signed up to be artficialized as commenting on your draft?