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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There must be no equivocation in mourning those killed and expressing solidarity with those who lost loved ones. Pain and sympathy are not zero-sum, and everyone should find the space in their hearts to hold these victims and their families.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Three years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel and carried out a deadly, horrific attack, murdering around 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Families were torn apart in a single morning. We remember every one of them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The striking thing about this chart is how clearly it shows that, for many, "immigration" is primarily a means of rendering moral judgment about whole nationalities. Far more people are MAGA-on-Somalis than they'd ever admit (they just swap some countries around). h/t @jackkessler.bsky.social

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

sitting in the vatican, full outfit, bottle of malort, yelling about the natives about their trash pizza

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There may be good reasons to adopt these strategies anyway, but they’re not an auto-win button.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my least favorite political narratives is this weird idea that it’s *obvious* how to defeat the fascists and the only reason Democrats don’t do it is because they’re feckless/corrupt/cowards.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But nobody is gonna care, because they're gonna read a fact in an unrelated book about punctuation of all things, and that fact will determine their understanding of a culture they have no access to, and that will be how they perceive my culture

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are copious sources one can read on this if one is interested in knowing something about another culture rather than simply painting an image of it that matches one's own concept of evil, frequently obtained from looking in a mirror and noticing what one doesn't like about themselves

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hebrew punctuation precedes Zionism as a political movement by about a 800 years. It was not in any way integral to "spoken Hebrew" and the unity between Jews across the world was never "artificial". It's just wrong on so many levels.

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like the relationship of the DNC towards both El-Sayed and Mamdani is best described as “weirdly horny” which seems like something you could work with

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like c’mon, nothing?

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Matt Calcara @mattcalcara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, no, this is a totally normal way to talk about a mayor's accomplishments.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time something like this happens, before we know anything about the motive, people come out of the woodwork to say that they don’t approve of these attacks, they just have created a headcanon where the attacker is a tragic and sympathetic figure who has the same goals as them

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Librariansaysook @librariansaysook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think another tricky part of the question is that the Israeli govt includes both people who have made genocidal statements (the guy who said they should nuke Gaza) who had no power to actually implement their suggestions, and those who did have power who could point to legitimate objectives

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tl;dr, it's not surprising that that thread got this reply, putatively in support.

Two posts by "Johnny Bravo", the first asking "what's an innocent Israeli", and the second answering "An Israeli child. An Israeli with mental health and learning disabilities so debilitating they could not possibly be of 'sound' mind. That's it."

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it possible to ask that w/out it being a backdoor way of saying "one cannot call Gaza a genocide even if it is?" It'll be hard. But if we are fearless about explaining social behavior, then we have to reckon w/this question too, and how it might prompt a different sort of "desperate" behavior.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So if we're doing the pure cold-hearted causal explanation thing (with no normative apologia encoded into it, of course), then we also must coldly assess whether "genocide" allegations have served as a moral licensing regime legitimating (or at least making "understandable") violence against Jews.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Closer to home it explains the blowback against the "hurt people hurt people" response the Temple Israel attack, and the whole discourse that puts Jewish life on a jeweler's scale to decide just how distant your family has to be from Israel before good people can mourn your death w/out complication.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was literally the locus of the Rome Pride scandal--gay Italian Jews expressed solidarity with the suffering of Gazans, but declined a demand to use the word "genocide" bc of their experience of that term being used to impose collective responsibility on all Jews, and were dumped as a result.

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The Submission is the Point, Part II

The Rome Pride Parade has banned Keshet, Italy's LGBTQ Jewish organization from having a float in their parade . They say it's because Keshe...

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But another reason is that many Jews have observed a straight line between using the term "genocide" and deciding that it is understandable, if perhaps sad and distasteful (or perhaps not!), if someone massacres your family. That is obviously going to be feverishly resisted.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Regardless, the reasons why many Jews are so resistant to calling Gaza a "genocide" are multiple, and overdetermined. One of them really is, I think, simply that it is too horrible to contemplate that "we"--our people, a Jewish state--could do such a thing, and that is, to reiterate, a bad reason.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Is Gaza genocide" is a question that should be answered by the relevant legal principles. If a "yes" answer is wrong, it's not bc "yes" is a slur against Jews or Israelis or bc it disrespects the Holocaust; if a "no" answer is wrong, it's not bc "no" means one doesn't care about Palestinians.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And that raises something else: The line I've taken on "is Gaza genocide" is simple: "genocide" is a legal term w/legal criteria. It's not false bc one cannot bear to think "we" could do it. And it's not true bc no other term can mobilize as effectively or express the depths of your grief or rage.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The "empathy" that seeks to elevate alternative explanations beyond the obvious almost never is actually universal, which is how one knows it is not actually about pure causal explanations of social phenomenon but justification (and minimization of hate) w/a sheen of plausible deniability.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most plausible "cause" of BG's massacre is that he hated Arabs, in a milieu that bent over to explain why such hate is "understandable". The most plausible "cause" of the pilot's mass murder attempt of Israelis is that he hated Israelis, in a milieu that likewise sees such hate as "explainable".

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course, in either case, what the purportedly "neutral" attempt at explanation is actually trying to bury are the far more obvious explanatory factors: the offender's hateful/dehumanizing view of the target population and the social architecture that generates and nurtures such views as valid.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is a small, cold, dead-hearted social scientific part of me that thinks this sort of causal hypothesis (on why someone tried to crash an airplane full of Israeli civilians) is always legitimate and doesn't entail any normative apologia. But a larger part of me knows better than to be so naive.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Baruch Goldstein was reportedly traumatized as a physician who saw injury & death during the First Intifada. And the people who use that fact to "explain" his massacre--"desperate people do desperate things"--are not doing so in service of cold, value-neutral social scientific causal explanation.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani's plan Increase funding to help protect Synagogues by 1 mill which you can debate about but that seems reasonable and they do that also for Mosques More awareness and education on American Jewish contributions and culture and increasing the school fund for museum trips

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I've caught up on what Zohran Mamdani proposed to fight Antisemitism and some of y'all I follow I am seriously side eyeing because you practically revealed that anything Jewish must mean Israel or Zionism , which his plan has nothing to do with. His plan is -checks notes--

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ted Lasso is the apex of a particular type of show that fundamentally defends basic human decency as a worthwhile pursuit. But "apex" implies other members of the category -- so which other shows are of this type? Parks & Rec I'd say is obvious. And I'd locate The Good Place there too. What else?

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The Power of Positive Thinking

My wife and I are finally watching Season 4 of Ted Lasso. Much has been written about the show's relentless positivity, and the degree to wh...

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sadly, I don't think David Harris is going to give us an Abe Foxman-style post-retirement redemption arc. dsadevil.blogspot.com/2026/09/harr...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh man, Wyoming.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm going to start telling everyone that I'm a "practicing Jewish".

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

the thing that stands out to me is less the Dem spread than the fact that the GOP seems stuck in the low 40s. if that holds, and if undecideds/double-haters break for Democratic candidates in the final stretch, you are looking at a total collapse for the congressional GOP

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just got a phishing email from someone posing as my Rabbi, so that's a fun escalation.

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Librariansaysook @librariansaysook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“free Palestine” has been the justification to harrass, assault, and sometimes literally kill Jews in the diaspora for the past 3 years. You’ll forgive us if we’re no longer interested in the *nuances* of the phrase

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026

Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration.

Two bandaids, one for my COVID shot and one for the flu. I didn't know which is which, I didn't look.

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