Annie Gottfried Cohen
@annsplaining.bsky.social
Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 1930s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) Jewish women whose job was to talk to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator. She/her. Live in 🥐, come from 💂, part-time 🗽
![Screenshot from the website of French homeware store Leroy Merlin reading "-10% sur les caméras de surveillance avec le code LOUVRE" [10 percent reduction on surveillance cameras with the code LOUVRE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxl2iqfaiqvjxcqinv5an6ke/bafkreiann4brt7pr2rr6672wrmik26wcdvnck2vtsjebmbmbdxkvwwfc7u@jpeg)
It was an emotional topic, and I also found myself welling up at the sight of a room full of masked faces. As a #longcovid sufferer I'm usually the only one in a mask, hoping it will be enough to keep me safe. This was such a rare relief in what sometimes feels like an ocean of denial
Beautiful talk with Basma Ghalayini and Mazan Manrouf on their new book Palestine -1, stories from the Eve of the Nakba at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair organised by @lighthousebks.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was an emotional topic, and I also found myself welling up at the sight of a room full of masked faces. As a #longcovid sufferer I'm usually the only one in a mask, hoping it will be enough to keep me safe. This was such a rare relief in what sometimes feels like an ocean of denial
Beautiful talk with Basma Ghalayini and Mazan Manrouf on their new book Palestine -1, stories from the Eve of the Nakba at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair organised by @lighthousebks.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Beautiful talk with Basma Ghalayini and Mazan Manrouf on their new book Palestine -1, stories from the Eve of the Nakba at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair organised by @lighthousebks.bsky.social
I'm at 6 😭
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'm at 6 😭
Since I last posted on Bluesky (which i still pronounce as if it were a Russian-Jewish surname) I've moved to Edinburgh to (re)start my PhD. Here's some photographic evidence
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Since I last posted on Bluesky (which i still pronounce as if it were a Russian-Jewish surname) I've moved to Edinburgh to (re)start my PhD. Here's some photographic evidence
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
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Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Hey y'all air traffic controllers are understaffed and working 60 hour weeks. If you can avoid flying, you really should.
They're doing their best out there but someone is going to mess up, they're being set up to fail. In addition to not being paid.
They're doing their best out there but someone is going to mess up, they're being set up to fail. In addition to not being paid.
The airline cancellations are going to cause a riot. The dude from the Real World is about to see what happens when constituents stop being polite and starting getting real. 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hey y'all air traffic controllers are understaffed and working 60 hour weeks. If you can avoid flying, you really should.
They're doing their best out there but someone is going to mess up, they're being set up to fail. In addition to not being paid.
They're doing their best out there but someone is going to mess up, they're being set up to fail. In addition to not being paid.
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I wish with my whole heart that THIS was the kind of essay we could see in the Sunday paper. It's so good. Thoughtful, critical, self-aware, funny, and deliberately cited.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I wish with my whole heart that THIS was the kind of essay we could see in the Sunday paper. It's so good. Thoughtful, critical, self-aware, funny, and deliberately cited.
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The thing about the people who run the Labour Party is that they're not very good at politics, which is a shame because that's their only job.
Their next act of genius is to copy Denmark's "tough" (far right) migration policy to stop the far right. In fact, the Danish far right is surging:
Their next act of genius is to copy Denmark's "tough" (far right) migration policy to stop the far right. In fact, the Danish far right is surging:
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The thing about the people who run the Labour Party is that they're not very good at politics, which is a shame because that's their only job.
Their next act of genius is to copy Denmark's "tough" (far right) migration policy to stop the far right. In fact, the Danish far right is surging:
Their next act of genius is to copy Denmark's "tough" (far right) migration policy to stop the far right. In fact, the Danish far right is surging:
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It was great to speak today at the IOHA oral history conference in Krakow as part of a leftist Jewish panel, in which we attempted to draw on various aspects of modern Jewish history to oppose genocide in Gaza.
September 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It was great to speak today at the IOHA oral history conference in Krakow as part of a leftist Jewish panel, in which we attempted to draw on various aspects of modern Jewish history to oppose genocide in Gaza.
Speaking French with an Anglo brain is like
Husband: the government has fallen
Me: what will happen now
Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now
Me: there isn't another way to ask that?
Him: what is that who will happen to itself now
Husband: the government has fallen
Me: what will happen now
Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now
Me: there isn't another way to ask that?
Him: what is that who will happen to itself now
September 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Speaking French with an Anglo brain is like
Husband: the government has fallen
Me: what will happen now
Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now
Me: there isn't another way to ask that?
Him: what is that who will happen to itself now
Husband: the government has fallen
Me: what will happen now
Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now
Me: there isn't another way to ask that?
Him: what is that who will happen to itself now
Me, whimsically: you ever imagine the people you love as fictional woodland creatures? Like we could be Mr and Mrs Beaver
Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood.
Me: ok...
Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.
Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood.
Me: ok...
Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Me, whimsically: you ever imagine the people you love as fictional woodland creatures? Like we could be Mr and Mrs Beaver
Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood.
Me: ok...
Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.
Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood.
Me: ok...
Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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August 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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In case you were wondering what to get your kids for Yom Kippur this year, a clever friend and collaborator has turned my cemetery and grave measuring ritual guides into a cute little grave measuring kit, complete with wax to make soul candles 🧵🪦🕯️ pushcartjudaica.com/products/gra...
Grave measuring and soul candle making: A Ritual Guide & Supply Box fo
In Elul (the month leading up to Rosh Hashanah) and Tishrei (the month that begins on Rosh Hashanah), this kit can be used for a self-guided "soul candle" making and home ritual. Text & translati...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In case you were wondering what to get your kids for Yom Kippur this year, a clever friend and collaborator has turned my cemetery and grave measuring ritual guides into a cute little grave measuring kit, complete with wax to make soul candles 🧵🪦🕯️ pushcartjudaica.com/products/gra...
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This is your regular reminder that, under international law, there is no such thing as "arriving illegally" if you are claiming asylum.
Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.
Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.
August 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is your regular reminder that, under international law, there is no such thing as "arriving illegally" if you are claiming asylum.
Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.
Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.
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It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.
A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide,
@simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.
@simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.
Rhetoric Without Reckoning
A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
August 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.
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L'accord-cadre US-UE est catastrophique. Humiliation sur humiliation. En plus de dérouler la liste de tous les milliards que l'UE promet unilatéralement aux US, c'est la course à la dérégulation (déforestation, CBAM, CSRD/DDD). A pleurer. Voilà une bonne raison de "tout bloquer". urlr.me/gdzMwV
Joint Statement on a United States-European Union framework on an agreement on reciprocal, fair and balanced trade
The United States and the European Union are pleased to announce that they have agreed on a Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade ('Framework Agreement').
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu
August 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
L'accord-cadre US-UE est catastrophique. Humiliation sur humiliation. En plus de dérouler la liste de tous les milliards que l'UE promet unilatéralement aux US, c'est la course à la dérégulation (déforestation, CBAM, CSRD/DDD). A pleurer. Voilà une bonne raison de "tout bloquer". urlr.me/gdzMwV
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here's a plain-language explainer for anyone who wanted one:
Plan for a world of post-COVID immune effects
These changes are small, but across tens of millions of people, they add up.
canadahealthwatch.ca
August 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
here's a plain-language explainer for anyone who wanted one:
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"How do new stigmas emerge? How do they relate to existing #Stigma? Why are we seeing an emergent devaluation & discrimination of people who have #LongCOVID, given how common it is to have experienced COVID-19?"?
Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"How do new stigmas emerge? How do they relate to existing #Stigma? Why are we seeing an emergent devaluation & discrimination of people who have #LongCOVID, given how common it is to have experienced COVID-19?"?
Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
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🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
August 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
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Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub.
Not one of those men helped her up the stairs.
Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
Not one of those men helped her up the stairs.
Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub.
Not one of those men helped her up the stairs.
Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
Not one of those men helped her up the stairs.
Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
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"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download:
Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Durham
Massachusetts
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
More to come! Please share!
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Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Durham
Massachusetts
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
More to come! Please share!
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August 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download:
Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Durham
Massachusetts
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
More to come! Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Durham
Massachusetts
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
More to come! Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...