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Ishmael @hexkrona.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This week’s Pirkei Avot: Chapter II— “Which is the oath of virtue a person should follow? Whichever brings honor to his Maker and brings him honor from his fellow human beings.” “Be as attentive to a minor mitzvah as to a major one, for you do not know the reward for each of the mitzvot.”

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Ishmael @hexkrona.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I recently learned about the custom of studying Pirkei Avot between Pesach and Shavuot. In my quest to bring more Jewish practices into my life, I will begin studying this each Shabbat and sharing my thoughts here. This will be my first thread on the subject. #judaism #torah #pirkeiavot

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Ishmael @hexkrona.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This Shabbat was magical 💙

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Israeli academics say: "We strongly denounce the cynical use of 'combating antisemitism' as a pretext... The current acts of the Administration do not keep Jewish people (or anyone) more protected or safe." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ISRAELI ACADEMICS: US GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES DOES NOT PROTECT US

We, Israeli professors, educators, researchers, graduate students, and members of academia, hailing from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, possessing diverse political views, living in and outside ...

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Chernynkaya @chernynkaya.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Yes, Shapiro is a Democrat but what’s relevant here is he is Jewish and last night was the first night of Passover.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yeah, we don’t do that kind of study on vaccines we know work because it would be wildly unethical, you evil shit-for-brains. If you don’t know what clinical equipoise is, MAYBE, and I’m just spitballing here, MAYBE you’re spectacularly unqualified for this job.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“The Holocaust was not an irrational outflow of the not-yet-fully-eradicated residues of pre-modern barbarity. It was a legitimate resident in the house of modernity; indeed, one who would not be at home in any other house.” - Zygmunt Bauman

“Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’”

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Ishmael @hexkrona.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Trump admin cares not for American Jewry or antisemitism. We are just pawns in his political game to target “the libs” and immigrants. This will definitely breed more antisemitism, particularly with those on the left and make it harder for us…

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Hi @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social. Appreciate your discussion of McCarran-Walter Act in @politico.com Note ... the provision Rubio is now using was added in 1990 & not part of the original act in 1952. I wrote about the history of ideological exclusion & deportation & the Act in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Donald Trump calls for his own impeachment 👇🏻

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Josh @shuabragg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Time for a Tea Party

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is the guy who said COVID was targeted to spare Ashkenazi Jews, and also that an unvaccinated person in the US today has it worse than Anne Frank had it under Nazism. Now he pretends to care so much about antisemitism, when it becomes a pretext to attack higher education. Don't listen to him.

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Unveiling the hidden partnerships of rare orchids: A journey into symbiotic mysteries Kenji Suetsugu discusses symbiotic relationships between #orchids & #mycorrhizal #fungi, & highlights the need to combine multiple techniques to unveil nature's secrets 🧪🌎 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/04/u...

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Unveiling the Hidden Partnerships of Rare Orchids: A Journey into Symbiotic Mysteries

In our new post Kenji Suetsugu, professor at Kobe University (Japan), presents his work ‘Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dacty…

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Increasing timber production would likely target the larger, older trees that are most critical to protect as climate change accelerates. 'These trees are most important trees to leave standing, both for climate resilience, but also for wildfire resilience.'” 🌏 insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...

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Trump’s Executive Order on Forests ‘A Devastating Blow,’ Activists Say - Inside Climate News

Environmentalists say increasing timber production will harm the climate and environment and could worsen wildfire risk.

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we've all seen coming: America's national forests & old-growth trees have never been more at risk than they are today -- "'We Have the Trees' — Trump signs executive order to 'free up' millions of hectares of federal forests for increased timber production." 🌏 woodcentral.com.au/we-have-the-...

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We Have the Trees—Trump 'Frees Up' Forests for Timber Production

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to "free up" millions of hectares of United States forests for lumber production - coming days after President Trump

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

They believe US Jews should be naturally loyal to Israel, their homeland, and owe transactional loyalty to the USA (as a protected national minority) and MAGA (as our champions). The dual loyalty trope vs Israel turns on a belief that Jews belong in USA by grace alone. forward.com/opinion/6993...

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Steve Bannon has given an old antisemitic trope a fresh 'pro-Israel' spin

Steve Bannon said in an interview that American Jews are the top threat to Israel. It's an old antisemitic idea, repackaged.

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Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com · 26/02/2025

Israel didn't vote with the majority of the Americans. They voted with the Russian asset occupying the White House.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The goal of the Zionist ethos was to give Jews control over their own destiny for the first time in history, to no longer be dependent on what more powerful nations envision for them. Now we have Israel admitting it is being pressured into changing its position on the invasion of Ukraine.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/02/2025

In case it wasn’t clear before, the U.S. is officially aligned with Russia

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 24/02/2025

Trump just straight up refused to call Putin a dictator, saying it’s not a word he likes to throw about (despite calling Zelensky one). And then Macron is just straight up correcting him on live TV. Incredible stuff.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2025

Trump gets fact-checked by Macron in real time. Trump and Elon’s poll numbers continue to crash. Americans pack town halls—even in deep red districts—to confront their reps. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

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LIVE: Trump Admin TERRIFIED as People RISE UP - 2/24/25

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is” (This is not how the Constitution works)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

No need to parse dog whistles with the advocate for Germany’s neo-Nazi party, who laments the end of Apartheid in South Africa, does sig heils in public, denigrates minorities, and proclaims that white men are inherently superior. Yes, he is. We don’t need to ask anymore, we need to deal with it.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

A Blue whale fall can feed sea creatures for a century. From zombie worms to sea pigs, whale falls can feed nature’s cleanup crews far down the ocean deep. This book is a beautifully illustrated way to teach children about oceanic ecosystems. It’s World Whale Day #scicomm #naturewriting #kidlit

Cover art for Life After Whale, illustrations by Jason Chin, book by Lynn Brunelle. Image shows the underside of a whale with the sun above and a small school of tiny fish below.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Elon Musk retweeted a conspiracy theory about white people being ethnically cleansed from South Africa, a lie spread by white nationalists. Not only that, the person he RTed said this is the “human rights cause of our lifetimes.” You shouldn’t need a salute to know that this man is a Nazi.

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The human rights cause of our lifetimes is the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Afrikaners.
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U.S. Mission Acknowledges Petition on South Africa's Land Policies: @POTUS @StateDept
#SouthAfrica #Expropriation
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The U.S. Embassy in South Africa received a petition this morning addressed to President Donald Trump, seeking U.S. support to change policies and laws affecting the Afikaner community in South

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Dorian J. Burnette @djburnette.com · 14/02/2025

On 14 February 1990, Voyager 1 took an image that Carl Sagan would popularize as the Pale Blue Dot (image in quoted post). See also the video below. 🧪

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Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

YouTube video by carlsagandotcom

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Managing wildfire risk in southern California's chaparral landscapes: What works and what doesn't -- “Large-scale attempts to preemptively thin or burn these coastal [shrubland] areas make the landscape more flammable in the long run.” 🌏 wildfiretaskforce.org/managing-wil...

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Managing Wildfire Risk in Southern California’s Chaparral Landscapes - California Wildfire & Forest Resilience

California's Progress on Wildfire Resilience

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Extremely promising sign that the army is already rejecting illegal orders.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

FINE: TL;DR 🦑🧪🌎 Plastic pollution is a problem. People should use less plastic when they can Straws became a culture-war flashpoint and are not the biggest source of plastic pollution. Everyone talks about this, especially solutions, wrong. Some people absolutely need plastic straws. More: 🧵

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Perfectly put, @julianhoffman.bsky.social. Few other animals are so dulled as to be unable to understand the other animals around them.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One could argue, and one will, that 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 non-Christian is guilty of anti-Christian bias because they choose not to become Christian.

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