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The news show Democracy Now! interviews Molly Crabapple, the author of "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," a book about the Jewish Bund. This Jewish socialist party, which existed from the 1890s to the 1920s in what was then the Russian Empire, and in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, was fiercely anti-Zionist.

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"Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/14/the_bund_crabapple

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Jack the Waterlogged Count 5h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lawfare/116574227147672798

This garbage is what Gary Bauer used to crap out into the bloodstream of the American information economy: racist bullshit phrased in educated, academic sounding language that easily fooled the average white person into taking him as an informed observer rather than a bigoted dipshit.

Jack the Waterlogged Count 6h ago

Immigrant students, at the graduate and doctoral level, are actively fighting (unjust and racist) deportation to stay at their US universities.

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Don Moynihan 7h ago

Good thread, and especially relevant to the question of why US scholars aren't rapidly exiting.

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Jack the Waterlogged Count 6h ago

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Fluse 14h ago

@dogzilla
This burn is beautiful. Here with added #alttext

Jack the Waterlogged Count 8h ago

Some really respectable dad jokes in those comments.

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Don Moynihan 8h ago

When you realize this is in oral arguments, you start to get an accurate sense of his expectation for how the judiciary should service the executive

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Jack the Waterlogged Count 9h ago

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Chris Geidner 9h ago

Notably, both decisions today came in cases in which the court was reviewing a decision of the former court of the justice writing (Sotomayor, Second; Barrett, Seventh) — and the court for which they are assigned as the circuit justice.

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Farhad A.9h ago

A major win! The U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese have been suspended by a U.S. court. And in the judge’s words: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".

#FrancescaAlbanese #USSanctions #Genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #UApol #Activism #politics

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Lisa Gets Politik 9h ago

“If Republicans ever used their power to help Georgians, they wouldn’t have to waste time and money redrawing the maps every few years to keep their majorities."

- Georgia Senate minority leader Harold Jones II

#USPOL #Gerrymandering