Omarickman
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"I hear again and again that the Israelis – the Jews – had it coming. Knowing allusions to Jewish influence, Jewish power. Stereotypes of Jewish cruelty."
Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
The 7 October attacks changed what it means to be Jewish in Britain
The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there
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October 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I hear again and again that the Israelis – the Jews – had it coming. Knowing allusions to Jewish influence, Jewish power. Stereotypes of Jewish cruelty."
Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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There's this dynamic I've been seeing online in social justice spaces since at least 2009, and it goes something like: "My morals are self-evidently good & my cause is self-evidently righteous, so any abuse I inflict on others in the service of this cause is not only justified but mandatory."
May 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's this dynamic I've been seeing online in social justice spaces since at least 2009, and it goes something like: "My morals are self-evidently good & my cause is self-evidently righteous, so any abuse I inflict on others in the service of this cause is not only justified but mandatory."
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
The Constitution is the floor. Not the ceiling.
March 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The Constitution is the floor. Not the ceiling.
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Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."
March 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."
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"A nationalist will say that 'it can't happen here,' which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it."
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
February 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"A nationalist will say that 'it can't happen here,' which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it."
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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The Democrat Party sucks at being an opposition party
January 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Democrat Party sucks at being an opposition party
"We don't want them coming back" but also "we don't trust the countries to hold them." So the plan is either death or detained forever in horrible conditions
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"We don't want them coming back" but also "we don't trust the countries to hold them." So the plan is either death or detained forever in horrible conditions
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
January 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
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some ways to generate electricity
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
January 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
some ways to generate electricity
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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Still the best two sentences on climate action.
December 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
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Blue birds huddling together for warmth
December 27, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Blue birds huddling together for warmth
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The greatest poem ever written, by Nael, aged 6. Nael would be at least 14 today. He said that tigers made him happy.
#ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn
#ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn
December 25, 2024 at 12:02 PM
The greatest poem ever written, by Nael, aged 6. Nael would be at least 14 today. He said that tigers made him happy.
#ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn
#ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn
I feel that scientists will eventually discover that there's no such thing as food-safe plastic.
December 20, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I feel that scientists will eventually discover that there's no such thing as food-safe plastic.
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Still too often I hear “families will never want to live downtown” or in urban places, ignoring contrary evidence from successful cities. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy — we design downtowns to virtually repel families, and then when families don’t come, or don’t stay, we say “See? We were right!”
December 4, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Still too often I hear “families will never want to live downtown” or in urban places, ignoring contrary evidence from successful cities. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy — we design downtowns to virtually repel families, and then when families don’t come, or don’t stay, we say “See? We were right!”