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2 min ago Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism Tal Shalev By Tal Shalev The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor. The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land. The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.

This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in

Here's What We Know We know that this is not about Iran’s people, it’s about Iran’s oil and wealth.

"Here's What We Know" — which is maybe everything we need to know right now from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

"We know that this is not about Iran’s people, it’s about Iran’s oil and wealth."

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Max Klinger, Death Pissing, ca. 1880

The vehemence with which I resent the MTA has gotten to the point of rage.

If you’re going to call it fujoshi at least hire a manga artist for your cover art instead of making deranged photo collages.

When you’ve spent like 2 days doing something for a job and then realize it would be better if you did it another way, do you re-do it or move on.

DEAR BLUESKY I just sent an email out to I think everyone I have ever met I know being like LMK IF YOU WANT GALLEY OF MY NEW BOOK// if U have met me (or even if U haven't) and U did not get said email but would like one pls msg me or @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social and we will MAKE IT HAPPEN

Have you read Kay Gabriel’s response?

The academic Jewish Studies world really needs to reckon more with the fact that, even as the humanities as a whole is getting gutted, the Trump administration is funding a parallel right-wing Jewish Studies cohort to produce ahistorical cases for "Judeo-Christian" civilization.

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

I feel like a one to one explainer would be a really useful tool.

If you’re curious I could pass on my correspondence, maybe you can tell if it’s real or AI 😱

I have one definite scam and one I truly can’t figure out in a way that feels very shitty but neither are from Elena Ferrante.

If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...

There’s a bunch of articles about this and everyone is getting them but here’s one: writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

It’s a scam! They’re all scams.

⭕️ BREAKING | UN investigators found the “hallmarks of genocide” in El Fasher, Sudan, detailing mass killings, starvation, rape and ethnic targeting by the Rapid Support Forces, according to a report by the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan. The mission concluded the RSF committed at least three underlying acts of genocide: killing members of protected ethnic groups, causing serious bodily and mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. It said genocidal intent was “the only reasonable inference” from an 18-month siege that cut off food, water and medicine, systematically weakening civilians before the October 2025 assault. Survivors reported RSF fighters explicitly targeting Zaghawa and Fur communities, threatening to “kill them all” and “eliminate anything black from Darfur.” Investigators said the scale, coordination and public endorsement by RSF leadership show the crimes were planned, not battlefield excesses, and warned the risk of further genocidal acts remains serious without accountability.

⭕️ BREAKING | UN investigators found the “hallmarks of genocide” in El Fasher, Sudan, detailing mass killings, starvation, rape & ethnic targeting by the RSF, according to a report by the UN’s Independent Internat'l Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.

The mission concluded the RSF committed at least...

Fox News is using the moral panic about kids and social media to push the Heritage Foundation’s tech policy agenda (removing anonymity from the internet and repealing section 230, both of which would harm minors and adults)

These are SO GOOD

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

www.propublica.org/article/life...

This…does not make it seem like they’re planning to close Rikers.

Gdamn every one of you who makes this evil possible.

That public link to comment is here if you're looking: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.

Palantir reaps millions from NYC's public hospital system to analyze patient health data
theintercept.com/2026/02/15/p...

I have some things to say about this that aren’t covered here if anyone wants to let me write them or talk about them somewhere.

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

I actually really like to talk to other writers and it’s a huge bummer to not be able to always tell if someone is scamming you or just wants to talk about writing (unlike this one which is obviously a scam).

These spam emails are getting better and more annoying but it hits seems like a real tell that @joe-hill.bsky.social wants to help my Amazon visibility and also apparently read “a short passage” of a graphic novel. Stop fucking impersonating writers to fuck with other writers!

Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism

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