Anarchic Squid

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I sentenced a man to die in Alabama. I was wrong: op-ed I once helped sentence a man to die. That truth will always stay with me. But today, I am asking my state to choose a different path.

"When the punishment simply does not fit the crime, when time has revealed flaws in how a sentence was reached, mercy serves justice better than death," writes former juror Priscilla Townsend in an op-ed.

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

Disgusting.

Tweet from Columbia Jewish Alumni Association: "Maybe if Mamdani had grown up in NYC and not Uganda, he'd know that snow days are a cherished part of American childhood"

I think it's really bad that the group that claims to speak for Jews at Columbia University is so grossly xenophobic.

Also - Mamdani did grow up in NYC.

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

Nothing can prepare your soul for the first image ever transmitted onto a television

[stares directly into the camera]

Deadly shooting in Minneapolis could lead to partial government shutdown over ICE funding | Alabama Reflector Five of the eight Democrats and independents who voted with Republicans to end a shutdown in November have said they will not support the package if it includes DHS funding.

Good

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pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

No snow in Montgomery, but I do own a dog and he doesn’t mind

May we all some day soon achieve this same unmitigated level of pure joy as this happy dog.

Very snow. Such freeze.

Only one question…

When was enough… enough?

a man eating a donut with a straw at a table with a menu on it ALT: a man eating a donut with a straw at a table with a menu on it

PSA: if you’re exhausted and need a break, I highly recommend inviting friends over and eating cookies while watching Wayne’s World.

And, I have some hangups about the other choices Jews here made over the centuries to keep themselves safe and upwardly mobile. I don’t know what I would have done in their place - I was never in it and that’s a privilege. But it’s all very yuck.

I didn’t take it that way. You seem like a thoughtful person. ☺️ And I do know you’re right. I guess it’l was the first time I’ve heard someone from the particular minority I’m part of talk about it. …

I do know that and I’ve witnessed it. I understand the way it’s necessary for minority groups’ survival and why joining the Bigot Country Club once it was open to them was professionally and personally prudent for Jews of that time … and yet also … yuck.

👀

Germany Says Nazis Were Responsible For Holocaust After Netanyahu's Remarks The Israeli Prime Minister had said a Palestinian persuaded Hitler to kill Jews

If you think I'm joking, I am not. The German Chancellor had to correct Netanyahu publicly.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

spent this morning at synagogue making cookies w Sisterhood ladies who talked about how their neighbor and now “dear friend” used to be the enforcer of the policy barring Jews from membership in the Montgomery Country Club until the 1990s and I … did yall talk it out or just let him be your friend?

This entire thread is making sense. And is historically accurate. And clarified for me that some US folks think urging nonviolence is undercut by the violence of the state, when that *contrast* is one of the goals. Nonviolence involves accepting risks of violent treatment.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶

It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion

The ADL has elected Rev. Johnnie Moore, who led the Gaza Humanitarian Fund responsible for the "humanitarian shooting galleries" (tinyurl.com/27dftt42) which killed over 2,600 and wounded over 19,000 Palestinians (tinyurl.com/272lnumu), to its board of directors

Impossible to imagine the leadership of my employer issuing this message