Chance McMahon-Harrer, PhD
@chancepmh.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ✡️ ☭ | They/Them | PhD in Comparative Literature | Decolonial Thought and Rabbinic/Late Antique Literature | US American Living in Mainz | freelance copyediting/proofreading https://hcommons.org/members/cpmcmahon1988/
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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This statement from Jikeli is the kind of thing that shows a person isn't intellectually serious about the issue.
The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.
The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This statement from Jikeli is the kind of thing that shows a person isn't intellectually serious about the issue.
The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.
The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.
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These QUEENS
Today is the day to elect “a socialist who’s young & lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, & knows how to do social media, & has moral clarity” ❤️🗽
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
Thank you to JFREJers Ruth + Barbara for so clearly articulating why they are Jews for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Let’s win this thing 💪
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
These QUEENS
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Democrats worried that likable guy who seems to care about the average New Yorker’s success will mean they have to talk to poor people and not just shit the bed all the time 😔
The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory
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As Mamdani nears victory, Democrats worry about national fallout
The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Democrats worried that likable guy who seems to care about the average New Yorker’s success will mean they have to talk to poor people and not just shit the bed all the time 😔
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The central premise of US liberals that if only Democrats adopted Republican positions on everything, then they’d be as successful in elections as Republicans have been, is absurd sophistry. People don’t want another Republican Party, they want an alternative and realize that isn’t the Democrats!
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The central premise of US liberals that if only Democrats adopted Republican positions on everything, then they’d be as successful in elections as Republicans have been, is absurd sophistry. People don’t want another Republican Party, they want an alternative and realize that isn’t the Democrats!
Coming home to Mainz and my husband being able to hold the hard copy of his first book. Though, I don’t know who this Chance is 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Coming home to Mainz and my husband being able to hold the hard copy of his first book. Though, I don’t know who this Chance is 🤔
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Leaving Berlin, and this sweet (elderly) baby, today 🥺
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Leaving Berlin, and this sweet (elderly) baby, today 🥺
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Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game
It’s interesting to see how much the (now rightly criticized) trope of the “good” observant Jews of Judea vs the “bad” Hellenistic diaspora Jew is being recycled in the present but reinforced as a “true” and “good.”
The Jerusalem Post says American Jews aren't real Jews because we're too tolerant and too liberal.
I'm not joking.
I'm not joking.
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s interesting to see how much the (now rightly criticized) trope of the “good” observant Jews of Judea vs the “bad” Hellenistic diaspora Jew is being recycled in the present but reinforced as a “true” and “good.”
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this is how I imagine Isaac Chotiner requests interviews
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
this is how I imagine Isaac Chotiner requests interviews
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it really is amazing that he’s the best interviewer simply because he has the gall to ask, “wait, huh????”
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
it really is amazing that he’s the best interviewer simply because he has the gall to ask, “wait, huh????”
I think we should be defending trans rights at all costs and shaming anyone opposed to them. But I think what especially makes these proposals a joke is that it says to lay off Medicare for All??? Something 6 in 10 Americans support?
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I think we should be defending trans rights at all costs and shaming anyone opposed to them. But I think what especially makes these proposals a joke is that it says to lay off Medicare for All??? Something 6 in 10 Americans support?
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5 years ago today, professor larry jacobs crafted his finest work
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
5 years ago today, professor larry jacobs crafted his finest work
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This person says “unless a film makes a serious point very, very well” as if ALIEN isn’t the greatest work of anti-capitalist cinema that will ever get major distribution in the United States lol
This is commentary on Alien (1979) but it's basically what everyone said about John Carpenter's The Thing, and Blade Runner. "Why would anyone make a movie this bleak and miserable and nihilistic?"
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This person says “unless a film makes a serious point very, very well” as if ALIEN isn’t the greatest work of anti-capitalist cinema that will ever get major distribution in the United States lol
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corrupt politicians advancing a conspiracy theory in which cosmopolitan leftists who are always already foreign are undermining society from within—but somehow in the name of *fighting* antisemitism.
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
corrupt politicians advancing a conspiracy theory in which cosmopolitan leftists who are always already foreign are undermining society from within—but somehow in the name of *fighting* antisemitism.
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Stephanie Wong discusses ancient Halloween traditions, including Oaxacan pumpkins 🎃 💀 Then, reading ancient texts in Braille, AI for Chinese calligraphy, Sanskrit philosophy, the sons of Attila, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
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October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Stephanie Wong discusses ancient Halloween traditions, including Oaxacan pumpkins 🎃 💀 Then, reading ancient texts in Braille, AI for Chinese calligraphy, Sanskrit philosophy, the sons of Attila, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
We went to the Jewish Museum today in Berlin and, while it’s true, and he certainly is one of the most famous Jews, I do think it’s a little funny having Jesus on the wall of prominent Jewish individuals.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We went to the Jewish Museum today in Berlin and, while it’s true, and he certainly is one of the most famous Jews, I do think it’s a little funny having Jesus on the wall of prominent Jewish individuals.
It’s not particularly aesthetic but this tart i made was pretty delicious
October 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s not particularly aesthetic but this tart i made was pretty delicious
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The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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The genocide continues.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The genocide continues.
While I’d still tend towards moral and political arguments against it, the older I’ve gotten, the more in my heart of hearts I tend to think of Zionism as Avodah Zarah
There is more than a whiff of incarnation in Zionist theology. The people, embodied, is holy and divine. It’s the whole people instead of just the one guy. But that’s Christian nationalism too!
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
While I’d still tend towards moral and political arguments against it, the older I’ve gotten, the more in my heart of hearts I tend to think of Zionism as Avodah Zarah
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."