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The Bupkes

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It rhymes with justice: A zine of side-eye journalism, cathartic satire, and literary relief with the curmudgeonly conviction in basic decency and a good sandwich. Here, our half-baked ideas. More baked, thebupkes.com.

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megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Before @newyorker.com drops #TheNewYorkerAt100, @thebupkes.bsky.social drops … this: www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi...
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Contributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentiments
Try outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We got a new episode and new music ... let us know what you think! www.thebupkes.com/p/the-jews-w...
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The Jews who fought with Nazis: “Talk about bupkes!” with Oula Silvennoinen
Listen now | A Finnish Holocaust researcher shares the lesser-known story of how his country's Jews ended up fighting for Hitler — and the impact that legacy has today.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Finland is finally getting rid of the last of its swastikas. While we sit shiva for the ancient symbol, its demise is an opportunity to consider what other artifacts of pluralistic significance and cultural continuity may nonetheless need to be done away with thanks to genocidal nudniks.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New episode! We go to Gaza for a moving conversation about loss, trauma, and hope. Get it here or most any podcast platform: www.thebupkes.com/p/a-voice-fr...
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A voice from Gaza: “Talk about bupkes!” with Shahd Alnaami
The Palestinian writer, translator, and student gives us a glimpse of loss, hope, and survival – that is, everyday life amid Israel's destructive campaign of impunity in Gaza.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The logic of the "market" ... Trump announces tariffs: stocks tank. Court announces tariffs were illegal: stocks tank.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New for The Bupkes: Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice. www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...
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Monsters (and other lies)
When a double's not enough, make it a triple.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It doesn't take a Freud to see the denial, narcissism, projection, and transference. We're so pleased to see Germany get the help it needs. Get the rest at The Bupkes!
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable. Get more at thebupkes[dot]com.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We know it’s tough keeping up with bupkes. So here’s some of our latest … Our interview with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu. Full episode on The Bupkes.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“German officialdom defends its Staatsräson as a recognition of its ‘historical responsibility.’ Yet employing one state of exception in response to the crimes that emerged from another is more likely to replicate those authoritarian effects than compensate for them.”
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
In light of Germany’s decision this week to stop weapons exports to Israel that “could be used in Gaza” (whatever that might mean), we ask: When is what has been enough enough? www.thebupkes.com/p/conwatch-g...
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ConWatch: Week 1,819
Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany says no to weapons for Israel now — kinda sorta maybe whatever.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
What is community and where is it? @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu has some ideas …
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New episode of “Talk about bupkes!” with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social on leftist politics in the EU. Listen here and subscribe: www.thebupkes.com/p/eu-left-pa...
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The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle
Listen now | The press guy for The Left group in European Parliament talks about the European Union's "grave" moment and why the internet is not really real.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“But don’t you condemn Oct. 7.” Well, 9/11 was pretty shitty, too. And then post-9/11 happened.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
If it took @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com to get @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social’s @jeremybenami.bsky.social to stop fighting the G-word, you know the denial goes very very deep. Israel is murdering Palestine. And it’s destroying the Jews. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Head of U.S. pro-Israel group J Street 'won't argue' with those calling Gaza war genocide
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
It’s August, when northern Europeans are obligated to leave their cities the only time of year they aren’t dark and gray, to pack sweltering beaches elsewhere. And The Bupkes has gone traveling too! To places other than Germany with not-constitution constitutions. open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
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ConWatch: Week 1,818
Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Choose your favorite pseudo-constitutional adventure!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Deadpan copy like this, by @tomstevenson.bsky.social, is why we read @lrb.co.uk. And aspire to it.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our exclusive trailer has dropped! Because who needs a “Zohan” when you can have a @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social? youtu.be/PA9U0B3IR_Y?...
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The Bupkes reboots a liberal Zionist classic for better use
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“Do you support more Israel or more Hamas.” Bupkes poll: Do you think pollsters are dumb or disingenuous?
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thank goodness JPost issued this trigger warning to its readers, otherwise they might know that Gaza is being starved.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Germany: The worst thing Israel is doing is disappointing us. Also Germany: We just can’t quite say why they’re disappointing us. Read the latest ConWatch here! open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
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ConWatch: Week 1,817
Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany demands a Wiederwiedergutmachungsabkommen with Israel. Plus: Death of a satirist.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Bupkes just traveled four days on trains across Europe and everything was right on time — including @bahn.de. If that’s possible in Europe, who knows what else is. Maybe even stopping what every respectable and informed thinking person is increasingly calling a genocide.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We’ve got lots more for you about Germany’s psychotic breakdown — as its antisemitism, philosemitism, and Islamophobia fuse together to form a clusterfuck of resurgent ethno-nationalism. This week’s ConWatch: open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
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ConWatch: Week 1,817
Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany demands a Wiederwiedergutmachungsabkommen with Israel. Plus: Death of a satirist.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just when you thought “drecksarbeit”/dirty work could not be topped …
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Fmr. 🇩🇪 Prez Gauck: “an early awoken anti … not antisemite … uh … philosemite.” We believe him. Deeply.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Never forget. That German Officialdom was already stupid before Oct. 7. It has only gotten stupider. Thanks, @lrb.co.uk, for the reminder.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Fresh Bupkes! When you don't get to where you want to go, when you want to get there, you get lots of time to think. www.thebupkes.com/publish/post...
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Up, up, and back where we started
A supposedly fast thing we'll never do again. Never again.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What's that? Intel is abandoning its billion-euro plan to save the east from the AfD and Make Germany tech-Great Again? Not sayin' told you so. But, we did write this two years ago ... schland.substack.com/p/germany-wa...
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Germany wants to drink your milkshake
When the chips are down, buy them.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We take back every mean thing we’ve ever said about Emmanuel Macron. In the end, he will have done at least one thing in a decade in power. That’s way more than we’ve ever done not in power.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
While we work on our next episode of “Talk about bupkes!” don’t miss our last one. Talmudist and philosopher Oded Schechter explains why — along the way to colonizing Palestinians — Zionism first had to colonize Jews. Link to episode: www.thebupkes.com/p/how-israel...
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Satire: Neither dead nor illegal.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Things are going well when you need the descendant and remnant of European imperialism to use his speech for a holiday rooted in European imperialism to tell European democrats that colonial destruction is bad. thebulletin.be/disgrace-bel...
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'Disgrace': Belgian king uses national holiday speech to draw attention to Gaza crisis
Belgium’s King Philippe used this year’s national holiday speech to draw attention to the crisis in Gaza, calling it "a disgrace to all of humanity".On the eve of 21 July, Belgium’s national holiday, ...
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Even Earth wants to get the fuck away from itself. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/s...
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Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move | CNN
Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. But these days are not ‘short’ in terms of how many sunlight hours ...
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We should be so lucky as to one day produce something as worthy of sinking into the Zeitgeist as @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s “Bloodlands” that it can be used elsewhere as a fixed term without reference to its origins.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
While he starves Gaza, the self-proclaimed King of the Jews gets sick from food. Yes we are in a medieval hell of our own making.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
With today's arrest of Israeli soldiers in Belgium, following a complaint by @hindrajabfoundation.be, it's a good time to check how rule of law is going elsewhere in Europe. This week's ConWatch: Germany keeps confusing non-laws for laws and police for protesters. www.thebupkes.com/p/conwatch-s...
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ConWatch: Week 1,816
Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: German courts tell the German state to stop sucking so hard.
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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM #BELGIUM!🚨 🇧🇪 Belgian federal police have arrested + interrogated 2 Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza. The action came in response to an urgent legal complaint filed by the #HRF and #GLAN earlier this week. #NoMoreImpunity READ ARTICLE ➡️ bit.ly/4ogNtrx
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BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN
Boom, Belgium — In what may become a turning point in the global pursuit of accountability,  Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers  credibly accused of war...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Before we mourn too hard for @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, let's take a moment to remember how his previous show concluded — and with whom. What started as satire ended in parody. Too bad Kissinger isn't around this time to bring the bagel-lox spread to shiva. www.nbcnews.com/video/heres-...
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Here's Everyone From the Colbert Report's Epic Finale
Stephen Colbert gathered an incredible group to help see off the Report. Here's (almost) everyone who was there.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Speaking of Talmudic cliche, here's a chance to make some meaning out of it. The need in Gaza is endless, but every life saved or helped is a small victory against impunity. No bupkes here. Just a friend of The Bupkes, hoping to keep his family live: gofund.me/9a4e672c
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Donate to Help Me Support My Family in Gaza By Mohammed Al-Majdalawi, organized by Mohammed Al-Majdalawi
My name is Mohammed Al-Majdalawi. I’m a Palestinian filmmaker… Mohammed Al-Majdalawi needs your support for Help Me Support My Family in Gaza By Mohammed Al-Majdalawi
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It’s very nice that Mandy Patinkin thinks what Israel is doing in Gaza, allegedly on behalf of Jews everywhere if not (western) civilization itself, is a bad thing. Now-Patinkin should tell Then-Patinkin that. youtu.be/-ly9Px4AjNo?...
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Homeland - Saul Berenson shares his thoughts on the hijab as a workplace garment
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We at The Bupkes love languages and cultures. We want to preserve and promote them. But maybe not with a government body with a name that sounds like something out of every dystopian story ever.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“Zionism is the negation of the Jew.” Miss the latest Bupkes podcast? You’re in luck. Link to full episode below.
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Europe: We brought international law into this world, after being the reason for needing international law, and don't think for one second we won't be the ones to take it out. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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EU-Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’
European leaders had the opportunity to take a principled stand against Israel’s crimes, but instead gave it a greenlight to continue its genocide in Gaza, its unlawful occupation of the whole Occupie...
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Oy vey! Even Mamaloshen is being mean to Israel. Where will it end?
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Update: After protest, the company affiliated with the guy who was affiliated with the thing helping Israel kill and starve Gazans, under the pretense of feeding them, is postponing feeding Gazan food to goyim in Berlin. www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...
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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NEW EPISODE: Forget about notions of national liberation; to the contrary, Zionism turns Jews into a colonial subject. (Palestinians, too, of course.) Clip here and link to full interview below.
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"In the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before." Important moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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