Emil Kerenji
@emilkerenji.bsky.social
Washington-based historian, writer, translator. Yugoslav antifascist. Jew. Ajvar, travel, געשיכטע.
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brilliant, succinct, imaginative. read it. by @harikunzru.bsky.social www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
brilliant, succinct, imaginative. read it. by @harikunzru.bsky.social www.artforum.com/features/yea...
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I don't consider the Supreme Court to be legitimate. I also know that the Democratic party is not up to the challenge of disempowering the court so the illegitimate court will continue to exist for years to come. Folks will have to figure out how to move with this in mind.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I don't consider the Supreme Court to be legitimate. I also know that the Democratic party is not up to the challenge of disempowering the court so the illegitimate court will continue to exist for years to come. Folks will have to figure out how to move with this in mind.
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One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away
Justices just asking questions
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Justices just asking questions
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forty-one minutes is a long time to spend premeditating
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
forty-one minutes is a long time to spend premeditating
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
It's insane that our president is issuing genocidal statements from the oval office and there is no 5-level emergency everywhere around. It's also deeply demoralizing that the opposition party is not sounding an alarm. We can't throw any community under the bus in the name of some imagined normalcy.
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's insane that our president is issuing genocidal statements from the oval office and there is no 5-level emergency everywhere around. It's also deeply demoralizing that the opposition party is not sounding an alarm. We can't throw any community under the bus in the name of some imagined normalcy.
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I don't think they can say that which is why they don't. Some of them don't have a problem with what he is saying. The entire caucus should have been up in arms on their COLLEAGUE Ilhan Omar's behalf. They haven't been.
Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I don't think they can say that which is why they don't. Some of them don't have a problem with what he is saying. The entire caucus should have been up in arms on their COLLEAGUE Ilhan Omar's behalf. They haven't been.
Read this magisterial thread on eugenics 👇🏻
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this magisterial thread on eugenics 👇🏻
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
"The brain-breaking effects of autocracy are why we need small magazines as places of sense-making." Could not agree more. That's why I am a sustaining member of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at the Elder of Zion level, and you can be, too. (Gift link to always brilliant M. Gessen.)
Opinion | A Small and Impossibly Brave Voice for Truth
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December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"The brain-breaking effects of autocracy are why we need small magazines as places of sense-making." Could not agree more. That's why I am a sustaining member of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at the Elder of Zion level, and you can be, too. (Gift link to always brilliant M. Gessen.)
Време е за бушавата азбука
Busava azbuka spica
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December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Време е за бушавата азбука
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love when non-Jews accuse Jews of being too stupid to... support Israel's genocide
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
love when non-Jews accuse Jews of being too stupid to... support Israel's genocide
Somalis, Palestinians, Afghans, or any other people are not "garbage." The vile incitement that describes people in this murderous language--especially if it is coming from the powerful--is unconscionable, disgusting, and potentially criminal. Do not become desensitized to dehumanization.
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Somalis, Palestinians, Afghans, or any other people are not "garbage." The vile incitement that describes people in this murderous language--especially if it is coming from the powerful--is unconscionable, disgusting, and potentially criminal. Do not become desensitized to dehumanization.
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Really enjoying how the Yiddish paper referred to a new transmasc in the shtetl as A CURIOUS OCCURRENCE (אַ טשיקאַװע פּאַסירונג) and then just happily tells the tale
In 1936 Forverts published a reader's letter about a trans man from his Ukrainian shtetl
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Really enjoying how the Yiddish paper referred to a new transmasc in the shtetl as A CURIOUS OCCURRENCE (אַ טשיקאַװע פּאַסירונג) and then just happily tells the tale
So much love for refugees, for immigrants, for migrants, for those searching for a home, for those not knowing where home is, for the displaced. So much.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So much love for refugees, for immigrants, for migrants, for those searching for a home, for those not knowing where home is, for the displaced. So much.
Good riddance
DC Mayor Bowser says she won't seek a fourth term in 2026
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told News4 she won’t run for reelection next year, ending months of speculation over whether she’d seek a fourth term.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Good riddance
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Alcohol is legal in every state
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
It's possible to get addicted to pot. Here's what to know
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Alcohol is legal in every state
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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this is the hidden potential of every AI. as a social practice in 2025, AI is a new media engagement machine designed to disseminate countless iterations of the same underlying fascist propaganda
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
this is the hidden potential of every AI. as a social practice in 2025, AI is a new media engagement machine designed to disseminate countless iterations of the same underlying fascist propaganda
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
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The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.
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Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...