Librariansaysook
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Oregonian Liberal Jewish Librarian. I’m kinda a big deal with the age 2-5 set. I block you if I think you’re an asshole or it’s pointless to argue with you
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Right, exactly.
What the Mamdani meeting demonstrates, hopefully, is that 'normalizing Trump' doesn't happen because Libs are closet fascists but because politicians have more complex incentives than 'stand up to the fascist at every turn', and if you do try to play that game alone, you lose badly
What the Mamdani meeting demonstrates, hopefully, is that 'normalizing Trump' doesn't happen because Libs are closet fascists but because politicians have more complex incentives than 'stand up to the fascist at every turn', and if you do try to play that game alone, you lose badly
And look, this makes me realize I really don’t know what the answer is. Snub Trump and lose billions of dollars in funding for NYC? Or “stand up to him” and … what?
But the lack of reflection and twisting themselves into knots I’m seeing here is funny
But the lack of reflection and twisting themselves into knots I’m seeing here is funny
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Right, exactly.
What the Mamdani meeting demonstrates, hopefully, is that 'normalizing Trump' doesn't happen because Libs are closet fascists but because politicians have more complex incentives than 'stand up to the fascist at every turn', and if you do try to play that game alone, you lose badly
What the Mamdani meeting demonstrates, hopefully, is that 'normalizing Trump' doesn't happen because Libs are closet fascists but because politicians have more complex incentives than 'stand up to the fascist at every turn', and if you do try to play that game alone, you lose badly
I think the pettier amongst us might want to save screenshots of certain people to be strategically deployed when they get too mouthy about “centrist sell-out Dems”
I think Mamdani is doing what he has to for his voters by charming the pants off Donald Trump, and I'm glad he's got the natural charisma to do it, but I do want to point out that people would absolutely savage Whitmer or Shapiro for doing the same
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I think the pettier amongst us might want to save screenshots of certain people to be strategically deployed when they get too mouthy about “centrist sell-out Dems”
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Every response to this is hilarious. Since Jan this entire website has agreed that a major problem, a threat to our lives, a threat to Democracy is that Dems are acting like it’s “politics as usual” with Trump in office, which is EXACTLY what happened today but he has a nice smile so it’s ok.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Every response to this is hilarious. Since Jan this entire website has agreed that a major problem, a threat to our lives, a threat to Democracy is that Dems are acting like it’s “politics as usual” with Trump in office, which is EXACTLY what happened today but he has a nice smile so it’s ok.
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Urging the US to topple Maduro is like urging Iran to overthrow Netanyahu. It’s not that the target isn’t a schmuck, but why would anyone believe the regime changer is even interested in, much less capable of, replacing him with someone better?
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Urging the US to topple Maduro is like urging Iran to overthrow Netanyahu. It’s not that the target isn’t a schmuck, but why would anyone believe the regime changer is even interested in, much less capable of, replacing him with someone better?
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He's gearing up to sing Sweet Caroline
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
He's gearing up to sing Sweet Caroline
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I'd like you who know me to imagine how reading this made me feel.
And if you support this...person...I'm blocking you faster than you can say "Rumpelstiltskin".
And if you support this...person...I'm blocking you faster than you can say "Rumpelstiltskin".
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'd like you who know me to imagine how reading this made me feel.
And if you support this...person...I'm blocking you faster than you can say "Rumpelstiltskin".
And if you support this...person...I'm blocking you faster than you can say "Rumpelstiltskin".
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I get the "... if any other Dem had a glowing meeting w/Trump like Mamdani just did, the left would go ballistic!" line, but I think the better lesson to take from it is not "Mamdani is a traitor" and more "other Dems should get room to maneuver like Mamdani."
(Grim remains a gullible fool though).
(Grim remains a gullible fool though).
Two Queens
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump met today , and it went ... well? For all of Trump's prior bloviating about Mamdan...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I get the "... if any other Dem had a glowing meeting w/Trump like Mamdani just did, the left would go ballistic!" line, but I think the better lesson to take from it is not "Mamdani is a traitor" and more "other Dems should get room to maneuver like Mamdani."
(Grim remains a gullible fool though).
(Grim remains a gullible fool though).
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Here it would be far more than rhetorical: Trump is targeting Jews who leveled antisemitism complaints! I’m literally writing an article right now about how these actions are going to chill Jews who want to speak out on antisemitism (but don’t want to be pawns of MAGA repression).
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Here it would be far more than rhetorical: Trump is targeting Jews who leveled antisemitism complaints! I’m literally writing an article right now about how these actions are going to chill Jews who want to speak out on antisemitism (but don’t want to be pawns of MAGA repression).
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I’ve suggested this before, but this is an even clearer case where folks need to form a group named something like “Penn Jews Against Antisemitism” and then sue the admin—with their name leading on the caption.
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I’ve suggested this before, but this is an even clearer case where folks need to form a group named something like “Penn Jews Against Antisemitism” and then sue the admin—with their name leading on the caption.
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Here's what I can gather. The American mad king is dying and his courtiers hate each other and fundamentally do not agree with each other's opinion on anything
what is going on
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Here's what I can gather. The American mad king is dying and his courtiers hate each other and fundamentally do not agree with each other's opinion on anything
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When people want to means test or crack down on "benefits cheats" or whatever
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When people want to means test or crack down on "benefits cheats" or whatever
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If you want to know the antecedents of the surge in (no longer "far-")right antisemitism, you could do worse than look at Judge Smith's "George Soros is blame" dissent in the Texas gerrymandering case.
As glad as I am that some conservatives are recognizing the problem, it didn't come from nowhere.
As glad as I am that some conservatives are recognizing the problem, it didn't come from nowhere.
Shocked To Find Antisemitism in this Establishment
The decision of the Heritage Foundation to defend platforming an unabashed and unrepentant antisemite like Nick Fuentes has caused a burblin...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
If you want to know the antecedents of the surge in (no longer "far-")right antisemitism, you could do worse than look at Judge Smith's "George Soros is blame" dissent in the Texas gerrymandering case.
As glad as I am that some conservatives are recognizing the problem, it didn't come from nowhere.
As glad as I am that some conservatives are recognizing the problem, it didn't come from nowhere.
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Comments on the epidemic of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank from a retired Israeli Army general as quoted in the Washington Post.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Comments on the epidemic of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank from a retired Israeli Army general as quoted in the Washington Post.
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I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
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It annoys me when nominal support for LGBT rights is used instrumentally to push for clout or unrelated goals. But I *really* hate it when it’s treated as basically a cringe bourgeois affectation, whether it be the right, left, or center that’s pulling out that old canard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It annoys me when nominal support for LGBT rights is used instrumentally to push for clout or unrelated goals. But I *really* hate it when it’s treated as basically a cringe bourgeois affectation, whether it be the right, left, or center that’s pulling out that old canard.
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I've mentioned it before, but in about 2013 I read an article in the Herald Tribune (as was) by an American communist who was writing against gay marriage in France. Aside from 'nobody wants it', he argued that being gay was bourgeois deviationism, which was cured in the gulags. It was... revealing.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I've mentioned it before, but in about 2013 I read an article in the Herald Tribune (as was) by an American communist who was writing against gay marriage in France. Aside from 'nobody wants it', he argued that being gay was bourgeois deviationism, which was cured in the gulags. It was... revealing.
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
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They’re forcing kids to learn about the Mexican-American War because of Polk.
they're forcing kids to read "green eggs and ham" because of yolk
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
They’re forcing kids to learn about the Mexican-American War because of Polk.
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Also worth keeping in mind that there were more non Jews than Jews, that's just simple maths.
This is a case of being technically correct but in a way that is intended to obfuscate.
Jews were not the majority of victims by number, but in the particular animosity, organization and proportion of the population killed they and Roma dominate.
Jews were not the majority of victims by number, but in the particular animosity, organization and proportion of the population killed they and Roma dominate.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Also worth keeping in mind that there were more non Jews than Jews, that's just simple maths.
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The Scholastic Book Fair
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Scholastic Book Fair
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Parenting a baby is a constant mix of 2 parts excited for all their developmental milestones, 1 part resentful about how each of these milestones represent new and annoying ways for said baby to defy your will (and flout their own best interests).
(Nathaniel can crawl/pull himself standing now)
(Nathaniel can crawl/pull himself standing now)
Life is a Metaphor for Life
I had one of those deep/dumb epiphanies the other day. Raising a baby is really a commentary on the human existence and how we relate to the...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Parenting a baby is a constant mix of 2 parts excited for all their developmental milestones, 1 part resentful about how each of these milestones represent new and annoying ways for said baby to defy your will (and flout their own best interests).
(Nathaniel can crawl/pull himself standing now)
(Nathaniel can crawl/pull himself standing now)
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Also for anyone who is curious, Gus is a Maine Coon so essentially cat hardware running dog software.
August 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Also for anyone who is curious, Gus is a Maine Coon so essentially cat hardware running dog software.
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Also, for those who made it this far: my coworkers sometimes ask for get-well messages from Gus when they are not feeling well (sound on)
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Also, for those who made it this far: my coworkers sometimes ask for get-well messages from Gus when they are not feeling well (sound on)
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Side note: love my gender-affirming care and I wish it were this easy for trans women to get it.
August 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Side note: love my gender-affirming care and I wish it were this easy for trans women to get it.
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I am currently getting my 5-minute warning about getting into bed.
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I am currently getting my 5-minute warning about getting into bed.