'As the world becomes increasingly ugly, callous, and materialistic, it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, 1:2

This is pedantry on my part but I have to indulge it. Ashkenazi Jews were never considered 'White' in Europe either. We were foreign semites, as my Soviet birth certificate can attest to. I don't understand why we concede on this to people who hate all Jews.

#snippetoftheday #interview #intergenerationaltrauma

'My father had an indoor job in Auschwitz, sorting clothes of dead people. One day, an SS guard said, where's Stalner? Stalner was another prisoner that worked with my dad. My dad was what I would call street smart. My dad…

Everything is stupid. This is Sharif Suad, an Arab/Palestinian citizen of Israel, killed last night by a missile fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah while driving his truck at work. To historians he will be an asterisk. But his family will mourn for decades. And for what? For shame.

We're out here. Don't be feeling alone in the fight now. It's a long long process helping the human race to grow up.

#lesbianvisibilityweek

…jokes involving Manischewitz 🍷. Not for the faint of heart:

The oldest known photograph of London - Whitehall from where Trafalgar Square would later be built, taken in 1839 by M. de St. Croix. Charles Dickens was only 27 when this photo was taken.

Thank you for screaming into the void. Your scream is important to us. We're busy serving other screamers but someone from the void will scream back at you shortly.

Sutcliff had “very little idea” what made the difference between her children’s & adult books. “I have this thing… I don’t write for adults, I don’t write for children. I don’t write for the outside world at all. Basically, I write for some small, inquiring thing in myself.”

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Julia Ioffe Josh Marshall Lipstadt is partially mischaracterizing right wing antisemitism. Yes, the racist sees Jews as interloping outsiders, but simultaneously sees them as members of a wealthy, powerful and evil conspiracy. They punch down and up at the same time, a classic paradox of antisemitism.

Can we just take stock of what an insane 24 hour stretch we're in:

• Trump's lawyers want presidential immunity for coups and assassinations

• in the middle of a trial where Pecker is explaining how they rigged 2016 for Trump

• as the NYT is pulling a National Enquirer and…

This is fascinating, horrifying to read. My dad’s been muttering about this, but I haven’t wanted to hear it. I still don’t. Who wants the cold brutality of war? We no longer study military strategy. But that doesn’t make it vanish. 🕊️

Alito: 'Did I understand you to say, 'Well, you know, if he makes a mistake, he makes a mistake. He's subject to the criminal laws just like anybody else' You don't think he's in a peculiarly precarious position?'

Michael Dreeben, representing the U.S.: 'He's under a…

WOW: This banger by Sotomayor: 'There is no failsafe system of government, meaning, we have a judicial system that has layers and layers of protection for the accused in the hopes that the innocent will go free. We fail. Routinely. But we succeed more often than not. In the vast…