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Prof of Holocaust and Yiddish Studies, mother, author of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish, proud to be a political outsider in both Israel and US

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Not sure if democracy remains on the docket? My law firm is litigating 53 voting and election cases in 22 states.

When we fight, we win.

26.05.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22495    ๐Ÿ” 4439    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 518    ๐Ÿ“Œ 135

Iโ€™m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night.

The fact that the gunman said he did it to โ€œfree Palestineโ€ makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.

22.05.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17436    ๐Ÿ” 2157    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 400

Thank you, dear friend!

21.05.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hannah Pollin-Galay Named Pen Tishkach Chair and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies | UMass Amherst Pollin-Galay, whose role is effective Sept. 1, 2025, will also join the faculty with joint appointments to the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and the Department of History.

Congratulations to my friend Hannah Pollin-Galay, the new Holocaust chair at Umass Amherst (I knew but said nothing)
www.umass.edu/news/article...

21.05.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents

If there is a Rubicon, we have officially crossed it:

25.04.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

EMERGENCY ACTION

Join us weโ€™re actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse.

25.04.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16438    ๐Ÿ” 5183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 412    ๐Ÿ“Œ 304
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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

25.04.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20875    ๐Ÿ” 8419    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 315    ๐Ÿ“Œ 349

This is a really important response to the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by Kash Patel's lawless FBI. Good on Representative Clancy.

25.04.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1984    ๐Ÿ” 655    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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RFK Jr. is wrong about autism His lies endanger neurodivergent people โ€” and everyone else.

"Kennedyโ€™s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

21.04.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19582    ๐Ÿ” 5183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1275    ๐Ÿ“Œ 420
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They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

21.04.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37561    ๐Ÿ” 9672    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3392    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1069

Iโ€™m freakin falling in love with her right now.

15.04.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking moment, Karoline Leavitt MOCKS the El Salvadoran immigrant mistakenly deported. โ€œBased on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for Father of the year.โ€ Sheโ€™s despicable.

15.04.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2261    ๐Ÿ” 565    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 585    ๐Ÿ“Œ 167
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๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€

15.04.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59588    ๐Ÿ” 19101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1616    ๐Ÿ“Œ 862
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๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

14.04.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37440    ๐Ÿ” 11462    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 949    ๐Ÿ“Œ 648
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What to Know About the Mistaken Deportation of a Maryland Man to El Salvador President Trumpโ€™s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.

Top aides to President Trump on Monday contradicted what other administration officials have said about the deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador last month. Here are some of the ways in which the White House has twisted the truth.

14.04.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 249    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

Not peace of course, but op eds, writing, words can be antisemitic or racist .

14.04.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It can be both.

14.04.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Katy Perry, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn praise a Blue Origin rocket.

Theyโ€™re going to space for 11 minutes on Monday with Jeff Bezosโ€™ fiancรฉe Lauren Sanchez.

Just lost all respect for every one of them for sucking up to Bezos.

13.04.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1456    ๐Ÿ” 270    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 378    ๐Ÿ“Œ 117
Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the government has alleged.โ€ฉThe finding, contained in a March memo that was described to The Washington Post, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient grounds for revoking Ozturkโ€™s visa under an authority empowering the top U.S. diplomat to safeguard the foreign policy interests of the United States.

Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the government has alleged.โ€ฉThe finding, contained in a March memo that was described to The Washington Post, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient grounds for revoking Ozturkโ€™s visa under an authority empowering the top U.S. diplomat to safeguard the foreign policy interests of the United States.

Big scoop from John Hudson at the Washington Post on Rumeysa Ozturk and the State Department.

Full Story: bit.ly/3G72SZM

14.04.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 706    ๐Ÿ” 226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I will also know the cause by this fall, because I know it now? that cause is 'being human'

humanity is diverse and that includes neurodiversity

11.04.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 170    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

10.04.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26398    ๐Ÿ” 6225    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1482    ๐Ÿ“Œ 574
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Occupied Words by Hannah Pollin-Galay wins a National Jewish Book Award! - University of Pennsylvania Press Photography by Ethan Segal and Matt Clements / Image courtesy of the Jewish Book Council Penn Press is thrilled to announce that Hannah Pollin-Galayโ€™s

Congratulations to author @hpollingalay.bsky.social, whose book OCCUPIED WORDS recently won a National Jewish Book Award from the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social!

Learn more on our blog: bit.ly/3RxWVYp

10.04.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This Instability May Be Worth It. Hereโ€™s Why. Oren Cass makes the case for tariffs. Hosted by Ross Douthat

This Instability May Be Worth It. Hereโ€™s Why. Oren Cass makes the case for tariffs. Hosted by Ross Douthat

In any authoritarian regime, there are people who make a livelihood by rationalizing the actions of the leadership, making them palatable to a general audience by offering analogies with reasonable theoretical statements. Their profesisonal title is usually something like "chief propagandist"

10.04.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3782    ๐Ÿ” 743    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 197    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

09.04.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5834    ๐Ÿ” 1468    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 159    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
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Episode 124: Dayenu: Jewish Climate Action Now | Jewish Women's Archive The climate crisis has entered an alarming new era. Since President Trump started his second term, the Environmental Protection Agency has fired scores of climate scientists and is trying to rollโ€ฆ

The climate crisis has entered an alarming new era. For orgs like Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, it's been a giant step backward.

In our new podcast episode, we speak with Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, CEO of Dayenu:

10.04.2025 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.

09.04.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2662    ๐Ÿ” 920    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

09.04.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12660    ๐Ÿ” 4139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 426    ๐Ÿ“Œ 199

Our National Parks create 17x more economic activity than what we pay for it. You have to be economically illiterate to support cutting its budget.
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09.04.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

09.04.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13913    ๐Ÿ” 3933    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 252    ๐Ÿ“Œ 144

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