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Librariansaysook

@librariansaysook.bsky.social
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Oregonian Liberal Jewish Librarian. I’m kinda a big deal with the age 2-5 set. I block you if I think you’re an asshole or it’s pointless to argue with you

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Every so often the ghost of Ted Stevens is roused to claim vindication: “It IS a series of tubes!”
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
After living through a few years of vice-signaling, virtue-signaling doesn’t seem so bad anymore.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Being untenured is like being a baby pig on a farm. You look at senior faculty and are like “these guys are my friends! They feed me and shelter me and nurture me…. They’re so caring!” And they look at you and are like “we probably shouldn’t give this guy a name in case we need to, you know…”
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: Two Jewish schools in New York City were placed under lockdown following bomb threats. Look at these children, how little they are, being taken from their classes because someone thought it would be funny or righteous to threaten to murder them. There is a sickness in New York.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The pretty cat with words in front of it saying stop using chat GPT I can also give you miss information and I'm beautiful
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I CANNOT not read this as "St. Pancreas".
"Pirates of the Pancreas" from Rick and Morty.
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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.
A black text-based graphic reads, "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.

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." At the bottom is the Nexus logo.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Among the alleged statements by the professor: “The goyim have woken up, Jew. Run. Flee. Leave.”
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A Haverford professor called antisemitism complaints 'Zionist witch hunts.' Authorities say he was stalking a Jewish person online.
Professor Guangtian Ha, arrested Tuesday for cyberstalking, once referred to student attempts to combat antisemitism as 'Zionist witch hunts'
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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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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/isaa...
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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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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE PEOPLE! UNITED! WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!
jta.org
Sunkist Fruit Gems return after panic over loss of synagogue staple - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The company told JTA its candy would retain kosher certification, individual wrapping and fruit flavors.
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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
They knew what they were doing
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK voters:
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ALT: Checkout Supermarket: Everything In One Bag
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Librariansaysook @librariansaysook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(My usual “I am not an expert on international law or the laws of war, this is just how I understand things” disclaimer applies)
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Librariansaysook @librariansaysook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And this is not helped that the vast majority of the “Israel committed genocide” camp seem to be made up of people who want to use “genocide” as a way of showing their disapproval of Israel, rather than their desire to adjudicate whether this or that action the IDF did was genocide or not
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Librariansaysook @librariansaysook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(freeung hostages, defeating Hamas) that would excuse the IDF from the genocide charge (although possibly not lesser war crimes charges). Therefore “did Israel commit genocide” becomes a sticky question
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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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