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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just got followed by someone on LinkedIn who is a "barrister and solicitor." I swear to god, my first thought was, "If they're a lawyer, why are they also working as a barista?!"

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My favorite from Prague was, in lieu of scrambled eggs, "mixed ovaries." Sounds French!

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613 Antifascist @613afa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nazis have (and continue) to attempt to actively recruit homeless or street involved people, often through doing outreach or offering support. Which is even more reason for leftists to make sure the homeless are supported so they are less vulnerable to fascist recruiting

Dominion society tweet about distributing socks to homeless people.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help spread the word! Apply if you're eligible. It's a wonderful honor and an important program.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn't expect Google-Scholar to feed me a 2026 article arguing that a tradition of human sacrifice has persisted among Jews from antiquity and using it to explain Gaza. This helps no one and leads away from more accurate, painful, banal, and usable explanations of genocide.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2026

This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers

Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I teach about the Holocaust I ask my students if they know who Roma are. Until about five years ago, most students had no idea but were familiar with the g-word. For the past five years, most students have known. I asked a scholar about what happened: Marvel's Wanda, that's what.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help spread the word! Apply if you're eligible. It's a wonderful honor and an important program.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who works in genocide studies, this is one of the most terrifying stunts of the Trump admin. I could not care less about the arch or remodeling the White House. This should be seen as contributing to the conditions that make inciting genocide effective: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

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US installation commemorates victims of South African ‘white genocide’

Memorial crosses installed in the US have revived erroneous claims of a ‘white genocide’ against farmers in South Africa

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026

Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is so cool! I take my study-abroad students to the opera in Prague every time we go.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My love to that sweet moment between finishing a brilliant draft and editing a bullshit first draft.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you are interested in reflections from individuals working in Gaza, I highly recommend this program via PeaceMed. "Gaza: Updates & Testimonials" October 5 at 6PM EST us06web.zoom.us/j/8946495553...

Peacemed Webinar: "Gaza: Updates & Testimonials"

Monday, October 5 at 6PM EST via Zoom

Hear PeaceMed members discuss their time in Gaza. Followed by Q&A

Featuring (with headshots)
Javeria Qureshi, General/Trama Surgeon
Dorotea Gucciardo, Director of Development, GLIA
Mark Perlmutter, Orthopedic Surgeon
Feroze Sidhwa, Trauma Surgeon
Jennifer Arriaga, NICU/PICU Nurse
Rasha Abousalem, Humanitarian Aid Worker (Moderator)

The pic includes a QR code. I have copied the link in the post.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely. I learned through this process of data analysis as well. My initial story was a small but significant turning point in a larger narrative. What I'm going to need to do is find a real data scientist to check my work.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the majority of cis people would rather die than be forced to undergo unwanted transition. cis men in particular would go on killing sprees to protest being forcibly injected with estrogen. and yet this is the condition they expect trans people--trans kids especially--to accept as a given

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Exactly how I'm talking to them about it. Things get trickier with research. I'm experimenting with using AI to help me sort through massive datasets. It looks promising (and I will check outputs). But this would not have worked without my expertise already in place. It's a tool, often a shitty one

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Any antifascist out there have a full download of the VNN forum and other compiled DBs of posts? I have stormfront and want to compare how they speak for a paper I'm writing.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's nice when the data, which has taken you years to find and then analyze, confirms your anecdotally based hypothesis.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey y'all. I'm returning to a research project tracing specific phrases through WN and racist literature. 1) Pls help me access now defunct WN sites and their full archives: 2) Pls share searchable archives of paper documents and newsletters dating back to 1900.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mazel tov to Sweden which just elected a left-leaning coalition to replace its erstwhile fascist government. I'm not convinced that a liberal state can do anything more than mitigate the rise of fascism, but I'll take it. May this begin a trend that spreads throughout the continent and the world.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a very smart move!

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, this is about one dude, right? There can't be leagues of otherwise qualified folks who would be clamoring to join the FBI were it not for their pesky bestiality convictions. (Remember the problem isn't "gross." It's consent and intent.)

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Best driving I have ever witnessed I saw the most terrifying thing on the highway... We were all driving about 65 mph down a curving decline... When someone's hood unlatched and flew up to block their windshield. The driver navigated carefully and successfully to the shoulder with their mirrors.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me, when I inadvertently prove my own point.

Clip of text that reads "People—at least folks without the same learnding dissabilities as I have—would gain." There are red lines indicating spelling errors under "learning" and "disabilities."

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"No. Iron. Spike. Can. Pierce. A. Human. Heart. As. Icily. As. A. Period. in. The. Right. Place." - Isaac Babel.

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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Extremism Prevention Starter Pack go.bsky.app/F2Y8oZq

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Folks, I'm tremendously excited to co-host this exhibition with Ramapo College Galleries and to collaborate with the Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University. You do not want to miss this. The artists are phenomenal. Tue., Sep. 8, Dr. Wendy Lower will offer a preparatory lecture (below).

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm "I just bought a second pill organize for midday" years old!

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a running joke in my house whenever we realize that something will likely remain beyond our reach forever... The bar is so low and the thirst for repentant traitors is so thirsty...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A Texas Tech professor was told her course on the Holocaust could stay in the university’s core curriculum only if she agreed to cut the content about queer victims of Nazism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This was some of my best art during the second Iraq war. We had a party and I glued crayons to the wall, so people could poop and draw. It was glorious. Guess the toilet would need to be golden now.

Black and white picture of a bathroom (a toilet only in a small room... it's European) with wallpaper made of GWB's face.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The author's confidence in their excessive moral worth is at one astounding and pedestrian: "Grief over dead children in Gaza may have a genuine quality, albeit as a naïve response to propaganda..."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

26% of American Jews say they would be more involved in American Jewish life if there were more “spaces where non-Zionist and anti-Zionist views can be expressed without being labelled antisemitic.” www.sajr.co.za/some-young-j...

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Some young Jews are pulling back from Jewish life over Israel discourse, study finds

JTA – Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or become more selective about where they participate, with disagree...

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I particularly love how Cofnas has switched from race realism to hereditarianism.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Incredible new resource: Mapping database of all of the Holocaust monuments and memorials in the Czech Republic. One of the principle investigators told me that the list I compiled in my diss from 40 years of Jewish newsletters proved extremely helpful. No attribution. zachovanipameti.udu.cas.cz/en

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Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in the Czech Republic

Explore more than 600 Holocaust monuments and memorials in a unique database and specialized map of the Czech Republic.

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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We're thrilled to see this book come out in print! It is the first produce of our Publishing Symposium Series, supported by the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Turns out, no one is too refined to make an unboxing video... including yours truly and @rkpejsova.bsky.social. You can purchase "Keeping Contact" with a 30% discount directly from Purdue University Press: www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/ youtu.be/XQJko4RPGtc?...

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Keeping Contact Unboxing

YouTube video by Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, RCNJ

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

ChatGPT could not identify this and got most things wrong. Google Image search led to a claim, with a shocking amount of "evidence" that these are Syriac-Jewish migrants in Scandinavia. Gemini said, likely most convincingly, that it is an early Jewish LGBTQ group in the Netherlands. I hate this.

A black and white picture of (mostly) young adults holding a banner with a Jewish star and the word "Sjalhomo" in Latin and Hebrew letters.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Using AI to do an image search is wild. Each returns something different. Much of it is bananas. How is anyone relying on this shit.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My co-editor, @rkpejsova.bsky.social, and I spoke with Purdue University Press about our new edited volume, "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (PUP, 2026) The post includes a code for 30% off ours and other books! www.press.purdue.edu/blog/2026/07...

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New Book Explores Communication and Cultural Practices Among Jewish Diaspora During Cold War - Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press spoke with editors Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz about their new book, Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Check out our new project at OyKay. Feel free to DM if you or someone you know is interested in supporting our work. www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5...

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24. července 2026

YouTube video by Oy Kay TV

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Genesis (car) ad today just straight-up told the truth: "Living in your purpose is the ultimate luxury."

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

He looks just like Leopold Hilsner, who was convicted of ritual murder in turn-of-the-century Bohemia. Of course, this was an antisemitic slander and catastrophe... BUT, sources all seem to agree that there was something VERY odd and off-putting about this dude.

Picture of Leopold Hilsner in a suit with a long waistcoat.

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