Chance McMahon-Harrer, PhD

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

This statement from Jikeli is the kind of thing that shows a person isn't intellectually serious about the issue.

The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.

These QUEENS

Democrats worried that likable guy who seems to care about the average New Yorker’s success will mean they have to talk to poor people and not just shit the bed all the time 😔

The central premise of US liberals that if only Democrats adopted Republican positions on everything, then they’d be as successful in elections as Republicans have been, is absurd sophistry. People don’t want another Republican Party, they want an alternative and realize that isn’t the Democrats!

My husband holding up his book, “Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Changed the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolution”

The dedication, “To Chance”

Coming home to Mainz and my husband being able to hold the hard copy of his first book. Though, I don’t know who this Chance is 🤔

Garfield, an orange British shorthair (?) laying on the loveseat in the kitchen

Leaving Berlin, and this sweet (elderly) baby, today 🥺

It gets criticized in scholarship frequently because it’s not that useful of a metric as well as there being judgment values tied to it. All Jews were in some sense responding to Greek culture and adapted it to varying degrees because it was hegemonic.

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

Much like the fact there is no one Sharia law, there’s never been one monolithic halakhah. But here we have people inside the house trying to claim there’s one way of doing Judaism. Conflicting minhagim have always existed. Even the notion of rabbinic Judaism as Judaism hasn’t always been true

It’s interesting to see how much the (now rightly criticized) trope of the “good” observant Jews of Judea vs the “bad” Hellenistic diaspora Jew is being recycled in the present but reinforced as a “true” and “good.”

photo of a person holding a sign reading "Come outside! We not gone jump you"

this is how I imagine Isaac Chotiner requests interviews

it really is amazing that he’s the best interviewer simply because he has the gall to ask, “wait, huh????”

These consultants act as if political opinions are inviolable like Ahasuerus’s decree in Esther. But the reality is, 1) a lot of people are low info voters and can be moved on a lot of issues and 2) these consultants are centrist who always push the worst policies that only benefit a select few

I think we should be defending trans rights at all costs and shaming anyone opposed to them. But I think what especially makes these proposals a joke is that it says to lay off Medicare for All??? Something 6 in 10 Americans support?

5 years ago today, professor larry jacobs crafted his finest work

This person says “unless a film makes a serious point very, very well” as if ALIEN isn’t the greatest work of anti-capitalist cinema that will ever get major distribution in the United States lol

corrupt politicians advancing a conspiracy theory in which cosmopolitan leftists who are always already foreign are undermining society from within—but somehow in the name of *fighting* antisemitism.

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She’s very beautiful and I was honestly shocked to learn Fox initially wanted someone else as Scully because she wasn’t considered hot enough

Liberal commentators in the West need Netanyahu as a scapegoat to assuage the fact they support a government whose politicians are largely pro-annexation and pro-apartheid.

It is!

Relief sculptures of Walter Benjamin and Marc Chagall

Relief sculptures of Arthur Miller and Rosa Luxemburg

Relief sculpture of Leonard Nemoy

Some of my favs though 🥰

A relief of Jesus on the wall of prominent Jewish individuals

We went to the Jewish Museum today in Berlin and, while it’s true, and he certainly is one of the most famous Jews, I do think it’s a little funny having Jesus on the wall of prominent Jewish individuals.

A homemade potato and carrot tart with sour cream

It’s not particularly aesthetic but this tart i made was pretty delicious

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

The genocide continues.