Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it.

A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Was discussing this yesterday. I was asked about the USHMM’s guidelines for Holocaust education. They’re fine: good for secondary school teachers without specialization but the lowest bar of responsibility at the collegiate level.

But they damningly refuse to uphold their own standards.

Help settle a debate. At what age is it safe and advisable to begin slathering your baby with beef tallow?

It would be really something if Jewish organizations could stop blathering about identity to focus on literacy, creativity, sociability, and action.

I think that Joel makes a salient point here. We’ll inevitably end up debating what this means for some time, but it does strike me that Jewish Americans can support a right to exist (conditional on democracy?) and have unique connections to Israel, without identifying with that state. Kinda normie.

Trump just claimed that before he intervened, people were sticking up restaurants in DC and clocking people in the head with their guns. Guess someone just watched Pulp Fiction.

The scope of the ignorance around our immigration politics may be the most dangerous factor, especially combined with the inability of mainline liberals to compete at all with the memetic claims of the ethnic cleansers flooding out media and running our state.

National Socialists in our Backyard: The German-American Bund in New Jersey. Dr. Angela West, Drew UniversityThursday, February 12, 1:10 pm, SC-156The German-American Bund was a pro-Nazi group that operated in the USA from 1936-1941. Chapters and social camps flourished in NJ, even in Bergen County. Dr. Angela West will lead a discussion of Nazism in our regional past—a topic of enduring resonance and consequence. Her research focuses attention on the roles of women in hate groups, which is all too often overlooked. Dr. West Serves as the Coordinator for Programming and Fundraising for Drew University's Center for Holocaust/Genocide Studies.

Email holgen@ramapo.edu for parking.

Not everything is a journey. Y’all’s sound like you’re in a cult.

You can only think this if you believe the humanities to be the objective study of humans, rather than a project of self-understanding by humans which depends upon researchers recognizing their full humanity in and through the production of knowledge about us.

Not pumped about this Gladwell 2.0.

Heinrich Heine FTW!

He left performatively with a public statement about current conditions. The worry about fascism predated the elections too. Is he an enemy? No. Absolutely not. Lots of us could have left. Some of us had to. He made a choice. It’s not like he’s part of some Trotskyite world revolutionary movement.

Timothy Snyder posting about US affairs and urging us to take a stand just hits different from his Canadian refuge. Dude, you left us here.

The fact that AI agents made a crustacean-themed religion surely has much to do with the use of the word “claw” in naming the system, but I can’t help but hear some Jordan Peterson in there, which may not be bananas given bro-culture in tech.

I have too much related trauma for that.

Bringing dates to my Jewish History course in honor of Tu Bishvat.

Rate this, my professor!

Keep your congregants safe—at least the privileged ones—by endangering your congregants… This has been the trade-off and discussion for some time now. Stand strong.

This absolutely applies to the humanities, especially the fields in which I am active. (I’m speaking generally about capital and not directly about Epstein.) It has taken a long time to learn to navigate, and it’s never perfect. How can you trust yourself to act rightly even to your disadvantage?

“Just keep pushing boundaries.”

Maybe that’s the problem.

This is overtly part of the plan. They worry about future good and future humans, which excuses the absolute immorality of sacrificing actually living humans to test and improve their tech, which is eugenicist at best, and actively seeking to replace (most of) humanity at worst.

So, is Adam Louis-Klein an op? He has to be, right?

Milion podpisů a pak Letná. Centrum Prahy zaplnili příznivci Pavla „vojnou s Turkem“ - iDNES.cz Staroměstské a Václavské náměstí zaplnili účastníci demonstrace, kterou pořádá Milion chvilek na podporu prezidenta Petra Pavla. Sbírají se podpisy pro výzvu spolku. Předseda Mikuláš Minář oznámil, že...

Prague fills the streets to support their president in his refusal to appoint a coalition member to a ministerial post due to his history of public racism, refusal to apologize, and political blackmail (a charge I find a bit hyperbolic but not unjustified).

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Looks like someone improved the early COVID Zoom happy hour.

Backlash after Republican who called Mamdani a 'terrorist-lover' is picked to helm NYC Council antisemitism task force - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Plus, where did all the pumpernickel bagels go?

This is precisely why we must reject all calls for Jewish political unity, even in the face of antisemitism.

It’s OK and normal for our community to be divided; for us to understand our safety in opposing ways… integrity must always come well before unity.
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Never heard about this guy until just yesterday, when a gym buddy told me that he gives great advice for aging well… Looks like he had other secrets too.

The crush deepens.

Nothing is too big to fail when those of us with so very little come together to help each other.

Trying to live the America dream.

People who used these numbers were labeled “Hamas supporters” by mainstream organizations and politicians.

Incredible how forcefully people objected to these figures.