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I've commented before that the parallels between the Right-Wing's racism and the Left-Wing's antisemitism are stark, and now I have another parallel for the pile...

Both are deeply invested in a historical conflict that they feel was unjustly lost by their preferred side, and wish to endlessly relitigate and reimagine their preferred Lost Cause.

I'm honestly wondering how long it's going to be before we see an influx of Hamasniks in Alternate History spaces, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the seemingly endless supply "What If the Confederacy/Third Reich had won?" spec-fics. "What if the Arab League had won in 1948?" would be quite on par with those other offerings, I think, with the mass murder and slavery apologia we've already seen from them.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

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they are no talking

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable divorce #it’s an amazing style

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Goth bofriends support group

#wwdits #ofmd #good omens #it’s an amazing style

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give it a thousand years and our children will have a holiday about this with the most amazing food

#maybe 100 #jumblr

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I Have Found A Solution!

So, obviously classic wizard robes aren’t wheelchair friendly. (Alright, admittedly this isn’t common knowledge and also this definitely isn’t a problem for most but listen, this is a problem for me and I’m pleased to present a solution for it nonetheless.)

The issue is in the sleeves and the length of the robes. The traditional trumpet style allows them to get snagged, dirty, and caught in the wheels.

This is distinctly not an issue with other mobility aids such as canes and crutches, these wizards are fine to carry on with their trumpet sleeves simply rolled up if needed.

Now, one solution might simply to shorten the sleeves and hem to be out of the way, but that looks rather silly so I won’t do that. Instead I propose the more elegant design of a hanging sleeve to maintain that flowy magical feel while allowing for better range of motion.

Honestly I just love the look of hanging sleeves in general and think more people should appreciate them, wheelchair user or not.

In conclusion…

#digital illustration #wizard posting #wheelchair wizards #it's an amazing style

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

#free iran #say his name #toomaj salehi #save his life

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reblog for sample size !!

#polls #cats

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it’s insane to me that people are painting the protestors at columbia and yale as “anti-war.” in fact they are very much pro-war! they have cheered for iranian missiles and hamas rockets, shouted “october 7th will be every day” and “burn tel aviv to the ground.” they don’t want the war to end, they just want the side they support to succeed in killing more jews. absent that, they themselves are happy to harass and physically assault local jews that they can get their hands on.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #jumblr #israel

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Given how unsafe queer spaces have become for Jews, I’d really love to hear how queer goyim plan to make these spaces welcome for us again.

Because you are the reason they’ve become hostile and unsafe. You haven’t stood up for us or said, “hey, this is wrong, we shouldn’t be pushing our own people out!”

What do you plan to do to make your spaces inclusive? Do you care that the queer Jews who have also been a huge part of the movement have fled your spaces?

#queer community #jewish #october 7 #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

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"Jews aren't indigenous to Southern Levant"

My guy, you literally used the word jew. Jews comes from the old kingdom of Judea, it literally means from Judea. Judea existed before Palestine.

How tf are you going to claim jews are not indigenous whilst using a word which is linked to jewish indigenousness

#antisemitism #israel #jumblr #i/p #am yisrael chai #i/p war #kept tags

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I can't do anything for pesach because I can't drive, I didn't plan ahead, it's finals week at uni, and there are no uni seders planned.

I haven't experienced antisemitism at my uni, but that's because there is probably less than two dozen Jews. I am spared from the antisemitism because there's no Jewish community.

Is this what it takes to end antisemitism, we just don't exist?

I can't help but worry for all who will attend seders whether at uni or anywhere else. I worry for their safety. I worry about everyone when I see videos like the ones at Columbia.

Please stay safe,

פסח שמח ועם ישראל חי

#same tbh #jumblr #antisemitism #פסח שמח #עם ישראל חי

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i told someone “I’m Jewish, so easter is off my radar” and she very confidently said “well, I’m sure you do easter egg hunts with your family or whatever”

this is a new one for me!!!!

#yiddishkeit #news for the goyim

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A whole new perspective

#good omens #good omens show #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable partners #ineffable husbands #it's an amazing style

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14

April 12-19 2024

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.

The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.

The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.

The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.

The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.

The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.

The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.

Bonus:

President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #jobs #Economy #student loan debt #Environment #PFAS #politics #US politics #health care

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The general jumblr mood lately myself included.

#jumblr

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Because I saw a poll that asked a very good question, but did not have *nearly* enough options:

#jumblr #religion #to be clear #no does not mean that one G-d is better or worse #Just different #kept tags #polls #comparative religion #ways of understanding god #'there is only one gd and we don't believe in him' #si no creo en mi di_s que es el verdadero como voy a creer en el tuyo?!

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"When life gives you lemons" FALSE LEMONS ARE A HYBRID OF A BITTER ORANGE AND A CITRON, MEANING WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS

#we might think we are schlemazel but we are shlemiel