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Jen Again

@jyoungb.bsky.social

History/museum/education. Writing a book about radical housewives. Yiddish cultural worker. PDA Parent. Unapologetically bad knitter. Western MA but recovering Canadian and New Yorker.

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i feel it is worth pointing out that Christians United For Israel, a single maniacal christian zionist organization, has more members than there are jews in the united states

13.06.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 983    πŸ” 300    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 14

We love Wanczyk!

13.06.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I have come across other people doing this.

13.06.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, funnily enough, I have noticed this too...

12.05.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A quick reminder that there was a massive "pure milk" campaign in the early 20thC., largely organized by women, because children were dying from adulterated milk or TB-infected milk in significant numbers.

22.04.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Sam Kassow was just saying that Emanuel Ringelblum was in Switzerland at a Labor Zionist conf when the war broke out, but he chose to go back to Poland. Bc his community needed leaders. (Also bc he couldn't get his family out.) So we got the Oyneg Shabes archive and the Ringelblums were murdered.

28.03.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also Max W. wrote "Hitler's Professors" in 1946.

28.03.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme - Boston Review Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

To FDR, the best way to combat despotism was simple: a popular politics of public goods, social insurance, and life-saving regulation. The kind of public goods that only government can provide are not only morally just and enriching, but essential in the β€œwar for the survival of democracy.”

27.03.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

27.03.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 26594    πŸ” 7611    πŸ’¬ 583    πŸ“Œ 339

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

26.03.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14579    πŸ” 3500    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œWhat the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist β€” the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art,” argued Schneiderman in 1912. β€œThe worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”

25.03.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.

I transcribed the speech here: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-illi...

24.03.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2567    πŸ” 580    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 76
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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

20.03.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 50851    πŸ” 11117    πŸ’¬ 708    πŸ“Œ 724
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.03.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1958    πŸ” 770    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 86
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Costco emerges as the big winner following Target’s DEI pullbackβ€”while Target experienced a decline of nearly 5 million shopping trips in the four weeks ending Feb. 9, Costco saw an increase of approximately 7.7 million visits during the same period.

17.03.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 443    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 16

I’m gonna be a broken record about this. They are *using Jews as a tool to advance their fascist agenda*

This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism.

We do not consent this. We want no part of this.

14.03.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1843    πŸ” 543    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 16

Chuck Schumer would rather sell books about fighting antisemitism than fight the antisemites who are dismantling liberal democracy, which is the only thing that protects us as Jews in the diaspora.

14.03.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

14.03.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32439    πŸ” 6904    πŸ’¬ 783    πŸ“Œ 581

Hospitals and schools should have done the thing we were told they would do: upgrade their systems and implement improvements to protect against COVID and other hazards. Instead govts and health regions decided to break our entire understanding of disease being bad, so that we’d accept it

12.03.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil β€” then ICE arrested him Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.

As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.

11.03.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4437    πŸ” 740    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 46

The teens I saw in 2020 were getting together at night and having big parties. My first grader now has to deal with the fallout of the never ending pandemic, with half the class out sick at any given point, their immune systems scarred by having had covid at least 2x.

09.03.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would like very much to see more drowning out of names with festive noisemakers as part of our daily political landscape.

09.03.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

For #InternationalWomensDay, from @jyoungb.bsky.social.

Long live the EMMAS! πŸ—ƒοΈ

08.03.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Black and white print cover image from Working Woman magazine, March 31, with the headline "Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8" and an image of a woman raising her fist and a background image of people protesting.

Black and white print cover image from Working Woman magazine, March 31, with the headline "Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8" and an image of a woman raising her fist and a background image of people protesting.

American Communist ladies knew how to celebrate March 8.

09.03.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Canadian tuxedo!

09.03.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
1917 photo of suffragist Lucy Burns in a cell at Occoquan Workhouse.

1917 photo of suffragist Lucy Burns in a cell at Occoquan Workhouse.

Happy International Women's Day! Your favorite suffragist was probably queer. Women's history is queer history. #IWD

08.03.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judith Butler, philosopher: β€˜If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

21.02.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10409    πŸ” 3985    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 182

getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life

06.03.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2808    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 18

If you don't understand this: Please read Cedric Robinson's Racial Capitalism body of work. Learn how capitalism is intertwined with white supremacy. You cannot talk about capitalism without talking about racism, white supremacy & anti-blackness.

05.03.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊

This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!

Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

04.03.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6738    πŸ” 2050    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 114

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