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In a time of rising antisemitism, we could use an organization dedicated to opposing it.
Instead we have the ADL, which shrugs at Sieg Heils and anti-Jewish slurs at the top levels of govt to fixate on this.
I grew up a few miles from Brighton Beach, and we called the area "Russian," not "Jewish."
In 1936, Marc Chagall wrote, “Although the world views me as an ‘international’ [artist] and the French consider me to be one of their own, I think of myself as a Russian artist and take pleasure in doing so.”
Was Marc Chagall being antisemitic against himself when he wrote this?
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States.
"In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct."
Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Whether it's Republicans not being allowed within 200 feet of a Chuck E. Cheese or Democrats making jokes about a Cheesecake Factory, both side have a fraught relationship with chain restaurants.
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...
Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch
'According to an ex-Sucker Punch employee, 26 people have been let go.'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that.
If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!
An important point from a Kazakh political analyst, that Russia's identity as an empire goes far deeper than just the Soviet Union but extends back to Tsarist times. I would add that this identity is bound up in the Russian psyche with Russian insecurities about how Russia compares to other powers.
Russia Unlikely to Give Up Imperial Ambitions Anytime Soon Because These Do Not Rest on Soviet Nostalgia Alone, Kazakh Analyst Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/10/russia-unlikely-to-give-up-imperial.html
I find it entirely understandable that people can't bring themselves to vote for a bigot. I do think, however, that it's good to push back on civic religious ideas of a vote being a sacred declaration of your alignment on all issues, rather than a strategic push for certain parties to govern.
Gosh I sure wish my existence would stop being a referendum.
Wishing every parent who makes people feel like there's votes to be had running anti-trans campaigns a very... Hell, what can I say on bsky? I hope they suffer extreme dehydration from unstoppable shitting.
Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece
This is an explicit demand for American Jews to have dual loyalties, a classic antisemitic trope. And none of the major groups that claim to defend American Jews against antisemitism will say so, because they've decided protecting Israel from criticism is more important. www.jta.org/2026/10/26/u...
Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power.
People are sick of it.
New in PN: Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limits
"This is the nature of today’s right-wing bubble, whose residents are not only acculturated to a particular political style — cruel, often hateful — but become convinced it’s the only effective way to do politics, & any other way is weak"
I remember tons of people were POSITIVE Lula was going to lose yesterday. I think of the Chris Berman quote "That's why they play the games." Doomerism is bad, yo. /Jesse Pinkman
People died in ICE custody because their medical claims never got paid. Guess who just got a $982 million contract extension.
The company ICE hired to process those claims took nearly a year to start doing it.
Nationalists, Europe, 1926: "Jews cannot be good members of the polity if they have loyalty to the Jewish nation above the nation where they live."
Nationalists, USA, 2026: "Jews cannot be good members of the polity if they do *not* have loyalty to the Jewish nation, first and foremost."
Trump on El-Sayed: "Any Jewish person that supports this guy should be ashamed of themselves. I'll tell you right now, you should never speak to them again. I'm polling at 99% in Israel. I cannot understand how anybody who's Jewish can even think about voting for this guy."
I think the Flaming Lips may have broken the Smooch Curse, or at least suppressed it. Been listening to Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots a lot.
The voice of Bugs and Daffy in Coyote v Acme, Luke Skywalker, Jimmy Pesto (replacing that insurrectionist chud I used to like), Stimpy, Bane, Commissioner Gordon, and hundreds of other voices died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease
After hearing news of BioWare's closure on Wednesday, over 75,000 Mass Effect fans have signed a petition demanding that EA put another studio in charge of the franchise or license out the IP. https://bit.ly/4siIubW