Lauren Weinberg
@ldweinberg.bsky.social
Home baker. Antizionist Jew. Former proprietor of Open Sesame in Kitchener-Waterloo.
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"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
Are you freaking kidding me?!
Most media headlines right now are like "We are laying off 2/3 of our staff and also the president is our ombudsman now" but somehow David Brooks got two new jobs in one day
January 29, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Are you freaking kidding me?!
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Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
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Just performative cruelty. By, among others, the nation’s top diplomat.
January 22, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Just performative cruelty. By, among others, the nation’s top diplomat.
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The AGO is an embarrassment. Rotten to the core.
The Art Gallery of Ontario voted not to acquire a work by the famous photographer Nan Goldin, because of allegations that Nan Goldin is antisemitic. Nan Goldin is a Jewish artist who engages in Jewish themes in her work, and whose work is in the Jewish Museum in NYC. archive.is/jr3Wh#select...
archive.is
January 22, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The AGO is an embarrassment. Rotten to the core.
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I didn’t realize cassian andor was a real person bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I didn’t realize cassian andor was a real person bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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File under: no sh*t
The Ford government is making our streets more dangerous
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
The Ford government is making our streets more dangerous
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Ottawa sees dramatic drop in speed compliance after photo radar scrapped
City of Ottawa data from a handful of former photo radar sites show a steep drop in driver compliance through school and community safety zones.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
File under: no sh*t
The Ford government is making our streets more dangerous
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
The Ford government is making our streets more dangerous
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Waterloo Region’s finest citizen journalist has all the details from the very very sketchy vote at council that resulted in $173 million being earmarked for a new police comms centre. Read down this thread for the shenanigans.
Staff leads role call and it seems everyone is present except for Cllr Shantz, which should mean we can't have any tie votes like at the earlier meeting...right?! Well, stay tuned.
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Waterloo Region’s finest citizen journalist has all the details from the very very sketchy vote at council that resulted in $173 million being earmarked for a new police comms centre. Read down this thread for the shenanigans.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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New from me at @inthesetimes.com: I talked with new Jewish anti-Zionist projects, from a radical Hebrew school in NYC to a chavurah in Sacramento to a new siddur in DC. What binds them together is a commitment to diaspora Judaism:
inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...
inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...
The Jewish Diaspora Movement
As young Jews break with established Jewish organizations over Gaza, a new kind of Judaism is flourishing.
inthesetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
New from me at @inthesetimes.com: I talked with new Jewish anti-Zionist projects, from a radical Hebrew school in NYC to a chavurah in Sacramento to a new siddur in DC. What binds them together is a commitment to diaspora Judaism:
inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...
inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...
Gross but not surprising! It's disappointing to see organizations partnering with the SA in Waterloo Region. :/
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Gross but not surprising! It's disappointing to see organizations partnering with the SA in Waterloo Region. :/
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It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities.
This ends terribly for everyone.
This ends terribly for everyone.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities.
This ends terribly for everyone.
This ends terribly for everyone.
If the link to write U of Guelph admin doesn't work for you, you can adapt the organizers' statement (here: tinyurl.com/EmailUoGNow), but please note that the university has apparently blocked Action Network. :/
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If the link to write U of Guelph admin doesn't work for you, you can adapt the organizers' statement (here: tinyurl.com/EmailUoGNow), but please note that the university has apparently blocked Action Network. :/
Like many other Jewish presenters + attendees, I was looking forward to the People's Conference for Palestinian Solidarity this Sat: drive.google.com/file/d/1M4D9... Too bad @uofguelph.bsky.social abruptly cancelled it after pressure from Hillel! Tell them how you feel: tinyurl.com/EMAILEMAILUoG
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Like many other Jewish presenters + attendees, I was looking forward to the People's Conference for Palestinian Solidarity this Sat: drive.google.com/file/d/1M4D9... Too bad @uofguelph.bsky.social abruptly cancelled it after pressure from Hillel! Tell them how you feel: tinyurl.com/EMAILEMAILUoG
Ugh.
Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Ugh.
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Makes my stomach hurt every time I see it, knowing not one cowardly, feckless piece of garbage journalist colleague spoke up for her. Not one.
Why should I pay attention to any of these desperate social climbing gizzards when they allow that, and so much else?
Why should I pay attention to any of these desperate social climbing gizzards when they allow that, and so much else?
can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Makes my stomach hurt every time I see it, knowing not one cowardly, feckless piece of garbage journalist colleague spoke up for her. Not one.
Why should I pay attention to any of these desperate social climbing gizzards when they allow that, and so much else?
Why should I pay attention to any of these desperate social climbing gizzards when they allow that, and so much else?
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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no I’m not surprised, just imagining (among other things) an opposition party that took this population seriously and devoted itself over the many years it would take to make this country actually livable for them
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
no I’m not surprised, just imagining (among other things) an opposition party that took this population seriously and devoted itself over the many years it would take to make this country actually livable for them
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Today is Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918. The official commemorations never mention what actually ended the war: the mutinies and revolutions which swept Russia and Germany, as well as in Bulgarian, French and British forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today is Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918. The official commemorations never mention what actually ended the war: the mutinies and revolutions which swept Russia and Germany, as well as in Bulgarian, French and British forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position