Jen Again
@jyoungb.bsky.social
History/museum/education. Unapologetically bad knitter.
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i feel it is worth pointing out that Christians United For Israel, a single maniacal christian zionist organization, has more members than there are jews in the united states
Interfaith Action for Palestine is demonstrating against Christians United for Israel again in a couple of weeks and I feel like this is going to come up a lot
mike huckabee sitting there with a full on apocalypse boner
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
i feel it is worth pointing out that Christians United For Israel, a single maniacal christian zionist organization, has more members than there are jews in the united states
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To FDR, the best way to combat despotism was simple: a popular politics of public goods, social insurance, and life-saving regulation. The kind of public goods that only government can provide are not only morally just and enriching, but essential in the “war for the survival of democracy.”
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme - Boston Review
Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.
www.bostonreview.net
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To FDR, the best way to combat despotism was simple: a popular politics of public goods, social insurance, and life-saving regulation. The kind of public goods that only government can provide are not only morally just and enriching, but essential in the “war for the survival of democracy.”
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
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“What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art,” argued Schneiderman in 1912. “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”
114 years ago today the Triangle Fire killed 146 people, mostly young women. In the face of tragedy, labor activists organized. In my piece for @satevepost.bsky.social I talk about how their demand for Bread and Roses shaped the labor movement. 🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/03/comm...
Common Threads: Bread and Roses — How Working Women Shaped the Labor Movement | The Saturday Evening Post
The idea of “Bread and Roses,” which sought to center self-fulfillment, education, and culture in the struggle for justice, came to define women’s labor activism of the early 20th century.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art,” argued Schneiderman in 1912. “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”
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I transcribed the speech here: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-illi...
Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment
As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.
www.readtpa.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I transcribed the speech here: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-illi...
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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
March 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
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"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Costco emerges as the big winner following Target’s DEI pullback—while Target experienced a decline of nearly 5 million shopping trips in the four weeks ending Feb. 9, Costco saw an increase of approximately 7.7 million visits during the same period.
March 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Costco emerges as the big winner following Target’s DEI pullback—while Target experienced a decline of nearly 5 million shopping trips in the four weeks ending Feb. 9, Costco saw an increase of approximately 7.7 million visits during the same period.
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I’m gonna be a broken record about this. They are *using Jews as a tool to advance their fascist agenda*
This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism.
We do not consent this. We want no part of this.
This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism.
We do not consent this. We want no part of this.
Scooplet from me at @rawstory.com:
Leo Terrell, the DOJ lawyer who heads Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, this week re-posted Patrick Casey, the former Identity Evropa leader, and the Hodgetwins, who regularly fawn over Hitler on their podcast.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Leo Terrell, the DOJ lawyer who heads Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, this week re-posted Patrick Casey, the former Identity Evropa leader, and the Hodgetwins, who regularly fawn over Hitler on their podcast.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
The head of Trump’s antisemitism task force just re-posted two antisemitic X accounts
Leo Terrell, the Department of Justice lawyer who heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made multiple appearances on the network and other conservative outlets to unapologetically p...
www.rawstory.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I’m gonna be a broken record about this. They are *using Jews as a tool to advance their fascist agenda*
This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism.
We do not consent this. We want no part of this.
This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism.
We do not consent this. We want no part of this.
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Chuck Schumer would rather sell books about fighting antisemitism than fight the antisemites who are dismantling liberal democracy, which is the only thing that protects us as Jews in the diaspora.
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chuck Schumer would rather sell books about fighting antisemitism than fight the antisemites who are dismantling liberal democracy, which is the only thing that protects us as Jews in the diaspora.
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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Hospitals and schools should have done the thing we were told they would do: upgrade their systems and implement improvements to protect against COVID and other hazards. Instead govts and health regions decided to break our entire understanding of disease being bad, so that we’d accept it
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hospitals and schools should have done the thing we were told they would do: upgrade their systems and implement improvements to protect against COVID and other hazards. Instead govts and health regions decided to break our entire understanding of disease being bad, so that we’d accept it
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As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.
forward.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
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Ooh - I really love these "Emmas" (the radical Jewish women in the Emma Lazarus clubs). Here in 1950, calling out the red scare & all who it targeted. This is from Jennifer Young.
March 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life
Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online:
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
Pentagon deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson is a prolific purveyor of antisemitic conspiracy theories
The Trump appointee compared the slaughter of Israeli babies by Hamas to abortion shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks
jewishinsider.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life
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If you don't understand this: Please read Cedric Robinson's Racial Capitalism body of work. Learn how capitalism is intertwined with white supremacy. You cannot talk about capitalism without talking about racism, white supremacy & anti-blackness.
March 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you don't understand this: Please read Cedric Robinson's Racial Capitalism body of work. Learn how capitalism is intertwined with white supremacy. You cannot talk about capitalism without talking about racism, white supremacy & anti-blackness.
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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
March 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
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This bathroom issue was the big talking point used to defeat...the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982.
This idea that to protect (white) womanhood we have to sacrifice minority rights is a very old one in US history. It's always a lie, an excuse. It's not about keeping women or children safe. 🗃️
This idea that to protect (white) womanhood we have to sacrifice minority rights is a very old one in US history. It's always a lie, an excuse. It's not about keeping women or children safe. 🗃️
bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
March 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This bathroom issue was the big talking point used to defeat...the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982.
This idea that to protect (white) womanhood we have to sacrifice minority rights is a very old one in US history. It's always a lie, an excuse. It's not about keeping women or children safe. 🗃️
This idea that to protect (white) womanhood we have to sacrifice minority rights is a very old one in US history. It's always a lie, an excuse. It's not about keeping women or children safe. 🗃️
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This afternoon in DC, a grassroots multiracial group of disabled people is gathering for a speak out and singalong to raise the alarm against Republicans' attack on Medicaid.
Check out their statement at this link, or in the screenshots below, and pass it along! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check out their statement at this link, or in the screenshots below, and pass it along! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This afternoon in DC, a grassroots multiracial group of disabled people is gathering for a speak out and singalong to raise the alarm against Republicans' attack on Medicaid.
Check out their statement at this link, or in the screenshots below, and pass it along! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check out their statement at this link, or in the screenshots below, and pass it along! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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If we're judging just in policy the fact that he slow walked covid is a huge part of why NYS had so many more covid deaths early on compared to states like California and Washington. Did NYS eventually reverse course? Yes. But only after many people died. You can't unring that bell.
March 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If we're judging just in policy the fact that he slow walked covid is a huge part of why NYS had so many more covid deaths early on compared to states like California and Washington. Did NYS eventually reverse course? Yes. But only after many people died. You can't unring that bell.