Jo Perry

Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank? 'Slam Frank' sounds unimaginably offensive. But its developmental run has sold out, and audiences are laughing their heads off. What gives?

The Holocaust is a punchline, its victims jokes, and those anyone who rejects is a joyless nag says @forward.com That ALL the Jews didn't die in the Holocaust when given the opportunity proves their insolence: Israel has no right to exist bec Jews have no right to exist.
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Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

A Photographer Who Brought a Vanished Central European Jewry to Life

"'Everyone always asked how we died. No one asks us how we lived.’”

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The time for the No Kings March was in Nov. of 2016 and again Nov. 2024. A march to the voting booth.

Shohei Ohtani just played the greatest game in baseball history On a night of legendary excellence, Ohtani hit three home runs and pitched six-plus scoreless innings to lift the Dodgers to the National League pennant.

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"...This is a guy who, after playing the greatest baseball game ever played, pushed his infant daughter out of Dodger Stadium in a stroller as his dog rode along happily in the bottom...."

The Existential Heroism of the Israeli Hostages The release of the remaining October 7 captives shows that hope can survive even in the darkest hole.

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#freehasanpikersdog

May the memories of those tortured and murdered on the great desecration that was #october7 be for many powerful and beautiful blessings.
May the hostages suffering hunger, pain and darkness hold on.
There is so much to mourn today.🕯️

Thank you, Claudie. I appreciate this. He was a wonderful man.

Here's the hitch-
Love never dies but people do.
That asymmetry is where heartbreak comes from.

Thomas Perry
August 7, 1947-September 15, 2025

Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like ‘Helldivers 2’ and online furry role-play, not a legible political ideology.

"'It’s important to not read too deeply into any face-value political meaning of the messages on... the casings... [They're]...indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular... irony posting and edgelord humor.'”

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Here’s What Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Shooter Wrote on His Bullet Casings One of the messages appeared to refer to old internet slang.

Here’s What Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Shooter Wrote on His Bullet Casings @thewallstreet.bsky.social @abc7.bsky.social and the rest must retract the lies about "trans"people and "trans ideologyhttps" ://newrepublic.com/post/200387/charlie-kirk-alleged-shooter-bullet-casings via @newrepublic.com

Public Apology We're sorry we lied to you.

Public Apology
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Fighting to Protect Public Health in the Trump Era Dr. Roger Mitchell leads the nation’s largest organization representing Black doctors and their patients and is determined to protect health care amid Trump era rollbacks.

David Mascriotra intervies Dr. Roger Mitchell:

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The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.

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Also the left.

Today Marks Start of L.A.’s Dog Transfer Plan, Volunteers Call It a ‘Path to Peril’ LOS ANGELES — Today marks the first day of a new Los Angeles Animal Services trial program to transfer long-stay dogs across the city’s shelter system, a move volunteers say

City of LA "leaders" have failed animals repeatedly by tolerating Inhumane "shelters" and practices. This is the worst yet.
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ICE is entering hospitals. How far can health care workers go to protect patients? Workers, wary for patients' rights, say their employers should offer more guidance and training about the kinds of immigration encounters happening now.

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‘Looks like he's getting ready for a fight’: Why JB Pritzker is slimming down Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, would hardly be the first candidate to drop weight ahead of a campaign.

I hate this.
Why must @politico.com sound just like Trump?
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Yes, LA it will be.

Kinky Friedman has been gone a year, but his family's summer camp lives on Tom and Min Friedman's Echo Hill Ranch is enjoying a second life as a camp for the children of Gold Star families.

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Jo Perry's review of Blood Libels, Hostile Archives 5/5: Brilliant historian Magda Teter writes important and compelling explorations of antisemitism, the blood libel, and the ways supremacist, hierarchal belief systems inform modern antisemitism and r...

We can't fight antisemitism or racism until we understand what they are and how they operate upon the collective moral imagination. @mteter-historian.bsky.social's timely, important, fascinating book written by a scholar who thorougly engages the everyday reader.
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

horrifying

Trump’s Staggering Betrayal of Trans Service Members Trans people signed up to risk death for a country they well knew would likely never return the favor. And now the government is trying to make their lives hell.

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Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritkzer's speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here is the full text of his remarks.

Great and important speech from @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I think the video included in the article is complete. Watch it.

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25% orrr @fahrenheitpress.bsky.social POCKET NOIR books until the end of the month:

Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts Legal experts said the Justice Department subpoenas related to medical care for transgender minors appear to be unprecedented.

This is horrific. And if you think the cruelty and intimidation and violations of dignity and privacy and their sadism will end with trans kids and adults, you are kidding yourself.

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