Today, my all time hero Janis Joplin (1943-70) would have been 80 years old. Here is a thread of Janis quotes to remind you what a goddamn legend she was.

I’m trying to get through this day with humor and sometimes (misdirected) rage. I’m really good at deflecting. 365 days ago our youngest threw himself in front of a train at 6:37 am because he was gay and couldn’t take the bullying anymore. He was loved at home. We didn’t know 🌈

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

regular reminder that the depiction of problematic things in fiction is not an endorsement of those things, that the views of a character in a story are not always the views of the author, and that writers should be allowed to write about difficult things without fear of censure.

Innocent Israelis were the victims of a terrorist attack that resulted in the largest loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust. Now we know that the tragedy at the Gaza hospital was not caused by Israel.

Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire. We must support Israel in efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent men, women, and children. Hamas does not want peace, they want to destroy Israel. We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.

I am seeing a liberal use of the word "genocide." It is a heavy word. It has legal, political, and emotional resonances. 1200 Jews were murdered on the 7th. For being Jews. If your definition of "genocidal" does not include that act, what precisely does the word mean to you?

This is Noya Dan. She was a 12 year old autistic Israeli girl who loved Harry Potter. She was kidnapped by Hamas along with her grandmother. Her body was just identified by authorities. May her memory be a blessing. 🇮🇱🕊️

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There were two rallies where participants were found holding up a sign featuring the Star of David that read: “Keep the World Clean.” The notion that the world must be “kept clean” of Jews is a genocidal antisemitic trope ripped right out of the Nazi playbook. The first

Held Hostage: Naama Levy On October 7, Hamas uploaded a video of a young woman with bloodied pants being dragged from the back of a jeep into the backseat as Palestinians jeered around her. That was Naama, a 19-year-old Israeli who studied diplomacy and chemistry and recently

One year ago today Israel elected the most extremist and incompetent government in its history. May the Jewish state never make the same mistake again.

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #WomensArt

Today I am at Torkham, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, where 10s of thousands of Afghans have gathered, having been expelled from Pakistan. >2,000 families have crossed here in the past 24 hours. We’re seeing perhaps the largest forced expulsion in the world since the 1950s.

Fuck this. Fuck Nathan Woodyard Fuck the jury Fuck Aurora Police Dept Fuck Colorado's 17th Judicial DA's Office-Brian Mason Fuck Adams County Government Fuck City of Aurora, CO Fuck 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office Fuck each and every person involved in murdering Elijah McClain and/or did not hold his killers accountable.

The IDF have found the body of another one of the 10/7 hostages in Gaza. Clemens Matanga (22) was a Tanzanian citizen who was visiting Israel to study agriculture when Hamas attacked and took him hostage on 10/7. May his memory be a blessing.

Today it was confirmed that Art History will be ‘phased out’ at the University of Kent – along with Anthropology, Journalism, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Music. What a tremendous loss.

Noa Fay, a Jewish Columbia student says this about her Jewish classmates involved in the pro-Palestinian protests: “Take them as seriously as we all take Blacks for Trump and Gays for Trump. It’s absolutely a fair comparison, it’s the same tokenization. That’s how seriously we

catch me in any contemporary art museum calculating the precise minimum amount of time I need to spend in the “video art” room before I can leave without looking too dismissive