Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
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people are doing this, I will do it too. One like, one niche Jewish opinion
there is a somewhat popular local pizza chain in the San Diego area called “Sammy’s Wood-fired Pizza” and the first time my very New Yorker grandmother saw it she said “Wood-fried? How the heck do you fry pizza in wood?”
Why would I want to fry the air?
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
there is a somewhat popular local pizza chain in the San Diego area called “Sammy’s Wood-fired Pizza” and the first time my very New Yorker grandmother saw it she said “Wood-fried? How the heck do you fry pizza in wood?”
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"I'm a non-Christian and it has never occurred to me that [thing Christians invented for their Christian holiday about Christ] has anything at all to do with religion"
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I'm a non-Christian and it has never occurred to me that [thing Christians invented for their Christian holiday about Christ] has anything at all to do with religion"
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
This is basically the CCA (culturally Christian atheist) motto
here's a worksheet that i filled out in preschool (someone else clearly wrote, my handwriting would not be legible)
somehow it took until second grade for me to get an autism diagnosis
somehow it took until second grade for me to get an autism diagnosis
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
here's a worksheet that i filled out in preschool (someone else clearly wrote, my handwriting would not be legible)
somehow it took until second grade for me to get an autism diagnosis
somehow it took until second grade for me to get an autism diagnosis
it's almost like any attempt to get *some people* to reproduce at a different rate than they already are reproducing is going to end up being that
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
it's almost like any attempt to get *some people* to reproduce at a different rate than they already are reproducing is going to end up being that
if your issue with Trump is his tone rather than the things he is doing then you are not an ally
Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
if your issue with Trump is his tone rather than the things he is doing then you are not an ally
good. Live in that fear. In fact, maybe think of it less like fear and more like guilt.
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
good. Live in that fear. In fact, maybe think of it less like fear and more like guilt.
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Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.
Until a few years ago, ugly holiday sweaters didn’t exist. They’re ugly Christmas sweaters, with some generic Jewish iconography to be “inclusive.” But the truth is, when I have to buy one to wear to a work party, I feel like I’m in another culture’s drag.
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.
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So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So Bezos is in them too then?
Charles Dickens, the Pickwick Papers, 1837.
the fact that people call "fall" a "vulgar Americanism" when it was attested first in England in the 1540s irrationally angers me. Fall is when the leaf falls, just as spring is when the leaf springs. Does the leaf autumn in autumn? Didn't think so
the fact that people call "fall" a "vulgar Americanism" when it was attested first in England in the 1540s irrationally angers me. Fall is when the leaf falls, just as spring is when the leaf springs. Does the leaf autumn in autumn? Didn't think so
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Charles Dickens, the Pickwick Papers, 1837.
the fact that people call "fall" a "vulgar Americanism" when it was attested first in England in the 1540s irrationally angers me. Fall is when the leaf falls, just as spring is when the leaf springs. Does the leaf autumn in autumn? Didn't think so
the fact that people call "fall" a "vulgar Americanism" when it was attested first in England in the 1540s irrationally angers me. Fall is when the leaf falls, just as spring is when the leaf springs. Does the leaf autumn in autumn? Didn't think so
"Something Just Broke" from Assassins
YouTube video by 5thAvenueTheatre
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November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
chanukah is coming soon
daisy commercials imply that people are having entire sour cream themed parties. people are dipping chips and hamburgers and all kinds of things into sour cream. i bet the u.s. still owns a lot of those islands mostly made of guano deposits that we could give them for free. they’d love it
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
chanukah is coming soon
the only flag i will stand for
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
the only flag i will stand for
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do yall think brad lander is jealous of donald trump rn?
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
do yall think brad lander is jealous of donald trump rn?
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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There's no realignment you moron, Trump did that because he's a brain rotted fool, and Greene did that because she blames all those things on the Jews!
I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There's no realignment you moron, Trump did that because he's a brain rotted fool, and Greene did that because she blames all those things on the Jews!
very good article. not reading the replies is self-care though. @pymundgenealogy.com lots of people there ripe for putting on blocklists
“Uttering, promoting, and in some cases even tolerating anti-Israel rhetoric that crosses the line into anti-Semitism does double damage,” @ibishblog.bsky.social argues: both fueling violent attacks and tarring the pro-Palestinian movement.
Anti-Semitism Is Poison for the Palestinian Cause
No good will come to the pro-Palestinian movement from any association with violent attacks.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
very good article. not reading the replies is self-care though. @pymundgenealogy.com lots of people there ripe for putting on blocklists
yep. this includes both if and rf. rosemary had a mistake done to her and never got the chance to be a mistake
kennedys were a mistake
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
yep. this includes both if and rf. rosemary had a mistake done to her and never got the chance to be a mistake
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
are you going to edit the word “orthodoxy” to the word “accuracy,” or are you also pro child-death ghouls? Don’t answer that because we know what the answer is
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
are you going to edit the word “orthodoxy” to the word “accuracy,” or are you also pro child-death ghouls? Don’t answer that because we know what the answer is
When all you have is a hammer
The Missouri GOP is so scared about the referendum efforts to stop their redistricting scheme that they are trying to get *ICE* involved.
Pure desperation.
amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Pure desperation.
amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group
The attorney general did not provide any evidence to support her claims, which the campaign called false.
amp.kansascity.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
When all you have is a hammer
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if marjorie taylor green has 0 haters, I am dead
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
if marjorie taylor green has 0 haters, I am dead
Turns out they were actually fucking deplorable
Yeah Hillary got a lot wrong in 2016, but she was dead on about the fundamental incompatibility of Trump and democracy
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Turns out they were actually fucking deplorable
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It feels like Judaism is increasingly viewed with repugnance & distaste, unless the Jew in question self-negates through performative disdain for other Jews (especially Israel) &, frequently, is marginalized along some other axis which in effect makes their Judaism be seen as a secondary identity.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It feels like Judaism is increasingly viewed with repugnance & distaste, unless the Jew in question self-negates through performative disdain for other Jews (especially Israel) &, frequently, is marginalized along some other axis which in effect makes their Judaism be seen as a secondary identity.
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Everyone acting like she’s not getting popular on the left take your fucking blinders off.
Here’s a thread of people on the left praising her.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
Here’s a thread of people on the left praising her.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like
You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools
As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.
You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools
As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Everyone acting like she’s not getting popular on the left take your fucking blinders off.
Here’s a thread of people on the left praising her.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
Here’s a thread of people on the left praising her.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
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What such people ALSO are is fundamentally lazy. They haven't updated their priors in years, which is why (for example) they insist that every Democrat is basically Like a Bothsides Take on Obama to keep using a tired old meme despite Biden essentially ending the drone war.
What's really starting to come into view is that "online tankies" aren't even really that radically communist, it's just people with anti-American sentiments who are also culturally-4chan.
If you press them, they're absolutely racist, misogynistic, transphobic, and homophobic. That's their culture.
If you press them, they're absolutely racist, misogynistic, transphobic, and homophobic. That's their culture.
Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What such people ALSO are is fundamentally lazy. They haven't updated their priors in years, which is why (for example) they insist that every Democrat is basically Like a Bothsides Take on Obama to keep using a tired old meme despite Biden essentially ending the drone war.