Yiddish Gothic (Rokhl K)
@rokhl.bsky.social
Teacher of Yiddish language, literature, and Ashkenazi culture. Specialist in "Everyday Ashkenazi Magic." Ask me about my b'nei mitzvah heritage tutoring! Also, writer of Rokhl's Golden City (2017-2024)
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From the Valentine's archive:
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Tapper has spent the better part of two and a half years legitimizing this kind of rhetoric with how he's used his cable television news slot but wants to act like Fine is now suddenly beyond the pale.
Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.
Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.
February 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Tapper has spent the better part of two and a half years legitimizing this kind of rhetoric with how he's used his cable television news slot but wants to act like Fine is now suddenly beyond the pale.
Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.
Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.
If you take my everyday ashkenazi magic classes, you find out why we need our multiple verb shadings for covering in spit. Saliva is one of our most powerful magical substances! 😏💦💦💦
why wouldn’t yiddish have multiple verbs meaning “to cover in spit” isn’t this something every normal speaker of every normal language has available to them
February 17, 2026 at 5:03 AM
If you take my everyday ashkenazi magic classes, you find out why we need our multiple verb shadings for covering in spit. Saliva is one of our most powerful magical substances! 😏💦💦💦
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Everything else is commentary
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Everything else is commentary
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Worth thinking about how John Fetterman's position polls at 5% among Democratic primary voters and AOC's polls at 75%
Senator John Fetterman calls out AOC and Hasan Piker over Israel criticism
"Why wouldn't you can't just stand? And why would you align yourself for raging anti semitites and very pro-Hamas people like Hasan Piker?"
"Why wouldn't you can't just stand? And why would you align yourself for raging anti semitites and very pro-Hamas people like Hasan Piker?"
February 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Worth thinking about how John Fetterman's position polls at 5% among Democratic primary voters and AOC's polls at 75%
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
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Americans are campaigning for European right wing Russian supporters. Russian media is loving every minute.
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Americans are campaigning for European right wing Russian supporters. Russian media is loving every minute.
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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*mötley crüe voice*:
February 15, 2026 at 8:35 AM
*mötley crüe voice*:
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can’t believe we are still doing this
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#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
Particularly gloopy Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) last week.
Particularly gloopy Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) last week.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
Particularly gloopy Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) last week.
Particularly gloopy Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) last week.
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My next book? 😆
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
My next book? 😆
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb
Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862
wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb
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What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
www.thenation.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
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Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.
1000% 🎯
I think it’s bad that the major American Jewish organizations that claim to speak for the community have decided that college student protesters are a bigger danger to Jews than the actual US government supporting a German far-right that wants to stop Holocaust remembrance.
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
1000% 🎯
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I think it’s bad that the major American Jewish organizations that claim to speak for the community have decided that college student protesters are a bigger danger to Jews than the actual US government supporting a German far-right that wants to stop Holocaust remembrance.
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I think it’s bad that the major American Jewish organizations that claim to speak for the community have decided that college student protesters are a bigger danger to Jews than the actual US government supporting a German far-right that wants to stop Holocaust remembrance.
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This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
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This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.
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In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US
February 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US
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One of the morals of the Epstein story is that when governments stop funding research, foreign aid, and the arts, the void is filled with billionaires who use nonprofits as vehicles for political intrigue.
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
One of the morals of the Epstein story is that when governments stop funding research, foreign aid, and the arts, the void is filled with billionaires who use nonprofits as vehicles for political intrigue.
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had a very respectful chat about theology tonight
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
had a very respectful chat about theology tonight
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Many people have said this before, but this is the sort of thing that in the ancient world would have gotten you cursed by the gods for five generations
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Many people have said this before, but this is the sort of thing that in the ancient world would have gotten you cursed by the gods for five generations