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When Abe Lincoln was up for reelection in 1864, someone, uh, rewrote the Ten Commandments for a different *kind* of covenant-- prohibiting a different kind of idolatry ("iniquitous Slaveocracy"), with some v. personal shots taken, etc. It's FASCINATING & apt for this season. Here, annotated:

NEW: 1) A pulse check on Christian nationalism's (ugly) thriving 2) Receipts on the US' founding as secular/pluralistic 2) A lesser-discussed backstory on how the Right ascended (hint: they deliberately jacked progressive tactics) 3) What this & other wisdom teaches about how we can win today.

If you send me a fundraising letter and the envelope is marked with any of the following words, I’ll know that I can’t trust anything you say: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

If you’re looking for something to watch as the weather cools down, The New Yorker has you covered with Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview!

“You may have heard otherwise, so let’s set the record straight: People love going to the movie theater.” If I wanted to be snarky, I would point out that Brooks Barnes has been saying otherwise for more than a decade, and he’s almost always been wrong.

VACCINES CAUSE ADULTS

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck And Busy Philipps has a brain tumor. #Dolly&Tim

Well, day has already peaked.

Sitting on the internet archive is a copy of the Amnesty International Report that JK Rowling and her TERF mates threatened to sue over. Amnesty took it down. If - for research - you wanted to read it the address is archive.org/details/repo...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

so much light. yet another woman whose voice we refused to hear. An homage to her prophetic voice through a feminist theological lens:

We're in what's known in the Jewish world as the 3 Weeks; a time of communal mourning-- but *why* do the Rabbis say the scaly, hairy, many-eyed demon the Ketev Meriri-- who sometimes shows up in the porridge-- rules during this time??! Come and learn: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/3weeksdemons/

The Luddites were right by the way. They were violently suppressed by the military, working on behalf of the factory owners. Chartists and other activists took up the fight of Luddism to win us back worker rights. George, just have a read of this mate: tomhumberstone.com/luddites

I've been waiting for someone to put something like this together and of course it would be my fave internet-savvy rabbi.

Someone please tell me this was written by @nytpitchbot.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

Thread! (Exclamation point added because: Muppets)

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

I threw this together for a friend real quick, but I'm sure others will find it helpful :> Behold, a very unscientific tutorial on how I draw bird wings

Woke up this morning wanting to swallow your own tongue? Here, then, I wrote this for you!

so so beyond honored to join @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social @simranjeetsingh.bsky.social @daisykhan.bsky.social @randywoodley.bsky.social @mjadekaiser.bsky.social @isaacvillegas.bsky.social and so many other brilliant people in this sacred offering.

What would it take to get Viola Davis and Emma Thompson to just -- be handed the keys to all the production studios and make the guys behind the desks go away?

Ice cream, blintzes, and other sweet dairy (or dairy-ish things in spirit) are holy to my people this week. Feel free to join us if you'd like an excuse!

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @robkutner.bsky.social and his new book "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting." Join us on May 14 at 6PM! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit... #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth

Leave a comment for the FCC, they want to warn ppl when a show contains a trans character. Your comment doesn't have to be long, you can literally just say it's discriminatory, offensive and absurd. In the first box put: 19-41. More info in this thread.

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

Book censorship has so many far-reaching consequences, especially in the world of children’s publishing. Whoever your audience, if you’re an author you should be screaming about this.

Which part of the White House is 73 yards from the Oval Office? No one else will think that’s funny, but I stand by it.

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“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

1,500 books banned. Someone really wants to be the villain in a Ray Bradbury story. thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

a) This is correct, the mainstream J orgs benefiting from fucking MamdaniWatch etc are not going to give him props for this b) said same orgs / groups STILL do not get that the REAL antisemitic threat is the WHITE SUPREMACY in POWER c) collective liberation or bust (linking to convenient list)