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Bing remains a weird rust belt town with lots of sorority girls running around
Yup that’s what I was thinking of. Gotta brush up on that section of Jewish history.
Really? I could have sworn it dated back to the final centuries BCE.
The Babylonian Talmud def existed by then
I was totally there when you turned it off.
My mom’s watching the Mad About You pilot episode, and I feel like I’m watching a parody of 80s and 90s sitcom. Or like Kevin Can Fuck Himself
Me: I try really hard to not be too parasocial about any celebrities, that is a very important boundary to me Also me: [crying IRL about my close personal friend Taylor Swift getting engaged]
If all of our presidents outgoing to be narcissistic manbaby reality tv nightmares from now on, I nominate Spencer Pratt.
CURRY
Dude the Nazis were obsessed with the American West and frontiers and shit. They even adopted the ideas of “manifest destiny” and “reservations” for unwanted individuals while planning their invasion of the Soviet Union
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
Oh damn someone else got there first But It’s accurate :/
the banality of evil
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
It's a bit odd that we expect our public officials swear upon the Bible (or some holy text officially regarded as cognate but implicitly "alternate") to uphold the Constitution is bananas. They should be swearing on the Constitution as the only document that binds us.. and, apparently, barely so.
It's absolutely maddening when I speak to other white "liberals" and they have bigoted views and refuse to believe and respect that Black and Brown Americans have been living in a fascist police state every day, and to those communities this is neither new or all that uniquely alarming, just more.
According Kirkus reviews #GirlBandits is “uncompromisingly terrifying” and imma get that tattooed somewhere.
I'm still working on my poker face.
Be an abusive piece of shit who shows no respects for boundaries, and treats human responses to objectively traumatic information like a challenge. Treat them the way they believe others should be treated. (6/6)
And if they start to show signs of distress, tell them to stop being "such a fucking snowflake pussy," and keep going. if they try to end the conversation, follow them and keep going. ask them why they're trying to deny your right to free speech. (5/)
Tell them what a human looks and sounds like while being immolated alive. Read them testimonies from vivisection survivors. Describe rape camps. Go as deep and sick and traumatic as you can while keeping up the pretense that you're just having a fun not-that-deep friendly convo. (4/)
and then share with them the most horrific fucked up pieces of information you know about such issues as: american slavery, african american history post betrayal of reconstruction initiatives, the holocaust, the genocide of bosnian muslims, and unit 731. (3/)
when they say that slavery "wasn't that bad" and "it's just the roman salute it's not that deep" agree with them. when they say that can't blame nation states for wanting to destroy pesky minority populations, agree with them. enthusiastically engage them in wide eyed conversation (2/)
don't argue with fascists don't attempt to appeal to their intellect and compassion instead, traumatize them. (1/)
one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
People like that aren’t content in their mayonnaise hamlets. Oh sure they like it fine at first, but then the black neighborhood across the tracks starts getting a little too prosperous and boom pogrom. These people will never be content with segregation. They want subservience and misery.
He left a collective of Europe's military, economic, political, and cultural might to have a side chat with a gangster running a petro-state.
What fresh hell
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
He is a real President elected by a tribalistic hateful majority
What writer HASN’T gone on reddit scrounging for tarot readings?
Went full anti-racist Karen at the staff of an Upstate vintage/antique/junk store over this booth full of racist “cowboys and Indians” shit. The woman behind the counter was like “I’m sorry you feel that way.” I’m sorry you don’t, you MAGA c***
I call those “Kahanists”
The Zionists I associate with are furious and losing their minds over the ongoing war crimes in Gaza. They’re not scum. But this small minded jackass is.
A “Christian Zionist” just rolled up in my notifs to call me an anti-Semite.
Buddy don’t fucking roll up on Jews who have dedicated their lives to studying the Holocaust and call them self-hating Jews. I’m not voluntarily traumatizing myself in order to be spoken to like that, and that’s not how adults speak to one another.
I’m actively not reading anything even slightly resembling the news and I’ve had an amazing two days. Happiness can also be resistance.
Humans literally never learn anything 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Are you srsly using an AI preview to argue a historical point rn
It’s giving Succession
I walk slowly and dramatically down the stairs, and I say to my cats: “Have you missed me, good monsieurs? I have written you an opera!” And they stare at me. Vacantly. #phantomoftheoperabrainrot
They sure do. And US governments like to allow the concept to float.
The US joined WW2 because it cared about the Jews.
Yes. I didn’t dispute that he is presiding over a genocide in Gaza, and expanding into the West Bank.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
No it’s not. Netanyahu, his government, and his country do not have a long term claim on Holocaust memory, history, or survivors. It’s that he invokes Holocaust memory while committing war crimes, that is the shame.
Truth. Although Greenblatt is allegedly a nightmare boss and a harbinger of organizational chaos. Allegedly.
Very few ppl seem willing/able to learn anything from history. And when you point out the parallels they say you’re a hysterical drama queen. Much as Judenrat heads told the kashariyot that they were hysterical drama queens when they rolled up w/ news of mass murders of entire Jewish populations.
Jonathan Greenblatt makes perfect sense if we understand him in the context of Judenrat leadership.
Well damn. I’m extremely grateful to my publisher rn. Apologies for the clueless presumptuousness.
Oh shit. I’m so sorry for being presumptuous! (But also, I shouldn’t be??? Wtf are the marketing and publicity budgets going straight to the big boss’ yacht fund) holy crap)
I thought one of the perks of tradpub is that they provide the publicity? Is my experience an outlier? Am I out of touch?
Did your press like, cut that out of their budget?? Or am I missing a step here.
Where is your publicist?? This is their job.
Honestly the more I learn the more I realize I don’t know. So many books left to read aaaaah.
Sorry! Didn’t mean that to sound condescending! I just love the feeling you get when someone also knows the historiography. The circumcision part had me shook the first time I learned about it. So obvious, yet
Oooh you know your kashariyot!! Yassss. Also, the lack of circumcised penis.
And yes girls need to understand that they are and have always been just as (if not more) courageous and capable as men.
They were the backbone of the Jewish resistance in Poland! None of the well known men would have gotten very far without them and darn it they’re important!
Thank you! Learning about Vladka is what inspired me to write this book ❤️
First official review of #GirlBandits is in, courtesy @publisherswkly.bsky.social! www.publishersweekly.com/9780063355019
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This man is literally a Nazi scientist. D I hate it
I guess I just don’t understand why we’re all so hype on inventing Cylons. I didn’t even watch BSG but motherfuckers warned us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pHUE...
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(And actually the Armja Ludowa was very cool with the Jews, particularly the remnants of the Jewish Fighting Organization)
Ok but for real, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 is the setting for the final chapter of #GirlBandits. Some of the war crimes against Polish civilians was just BEYOND. And the super-weapons holy shit.
Me on the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising: “….and that’s how the Armja Krajowa and other right wing Polish nationalist groups wasted their fire on Jews who wanted to join them in fighting the Nazis. The end.”
A Smithsonian spokesperson says it’ll be restored after “updates”. But let’s not ignore the timing the White House is actively pushing for a more “positive” version of U.S. history. This isn’t just editing an exhibit. It’s an attempt to rewrite the record.
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Thank you! Taking a look now.
Requesting recommendations for a comfy #deskchair. Something with upper and lower back support that I can sit in for hours at a time while doing page-by-page book digitization and then stand up without feeling like I have hot knives in my back. For now let's say that there is no budget.
Chapell Roan’s paper doll book is coming out on the same day as Girl Bandits! It’s like, a JV Barbenheimer.
The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.
Can the boards of non profits located in HCOL cities plus stop offering poverty salaries.
Now I’m happy and sad crying, mother.
She said “c u l8r boi” :(
It’s not even 10am I’m anxious about like 6 different boring grown up things and for some reason I have Sk8r Boi stuck in my head.
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So apparently, while I was on vacation, Sydney Sweeney crowned herself head of the Bund Deutscher Mädel?
(I’m actually genuinely furious and terrified and angrily unsurprised but I don’t have time to engage with those emotions so, sarcastic humor!)
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. (Using referential humor to shield self from rage and fear)
After the war she spent the rest of her life in Israel. (5/5)
A member of the Socialist Zionist Dror movement, she was arrested in Krakow in 1942. Though beaten in custody, she maintained that she was a Polish woman, not a Jewish one, and spent the final three years of the war a prisoner in Auschwitz, maintaining her cover as a Pole. (4/ )
Havka was 15 when she was sealed inside the Warsaw Ghetto with her family. She wasn’t much older when she became a courier, charged with smuggling weapons and intelligence between the Jewish ghettos of Poland, during the war. (3/ )
—Folman-Raban, Havka, They are Still With Me, trans. Judy Grossman [Israel: Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, 2001], 328. (2/ )
“I tell about what happened to me during the war, because it is important to me that the hearers retain something of my memories, but the most important thing is that they understand that hatred for the Arab child is the same as the hatred that there was for the Jewish child.” 🧵(1/ )
Clowns and thieves. You can’t retroactively add shit to a contract and make it opt out.
I’m seeing the Warsaw Ghetto, and I don’t care how much that pisses anyone off.
It’s clarifying to know that (at least) two of the most influential DC political journalists of the past twenty years are out and out fascists.
Your daughter is Louise Belcher.
Because evil is easy
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
So the other day I was critical of Weistling's frontier art and Ive deleted the post because I rather support his actions here because his art was stolen and used to promote a genocidal ideology without his consent.
When ur watching love it or list it and u want them to love it and THEY DO. YAS.
A tea pot has emerged from another trench today from the Warsaw ghetto excavations. Isn’t it lovely?
Ooof. We need Rokhl.
This was found next to the bed and I think it’s a baby’s cot and not the metal balcony it was previously interpreted as.
@gillycarr.bsky.social Hi Dr, Carr, just want to make sure you saw this: Would you be open to speaking with me abt the dig via phone or email? My publisher & I are looking to place longform pieces in major publications in the run up to my book release, & the dig would be an amazing central theme.