Professor Power
@powerofacademe.bsky.social
16thC after it was cool. Any pronouns except 'it.' Political theorist (ops =/= my employer's). Tired Jew. Solo parent. Curmudgeon extraordinaire.
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My summary of the 'torah' of gender, standing on one foot:
Gender can and should be a home, not a prison. That is the entire teaching. The rest is interpretation.
(inspiration: www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.31a....)
Gender can and should be a home, not a prison. That is the entire teaching. The rest is interpretation.
(inspiration: www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.31a....)
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The Government Lawyers Database is live. A lot of people have put a lot of work into this, and it's definitely worth taking the time to check out.
What is it? The short is, it documents the good and the bad that government attorneys are doing right now.
What is it? The short is, it documents the good and the bad that government attorneys are doing right now.
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Government Lawyers Database is live. A lot of people have put a lot of work into this, and it's definitely worth taking the time to check out.
What is it? The short is, it documents the good and the bad that government attorneys are doing right now.
What is it? The short is, it documents the good and the bad that government attorneys are doing right now.
I wonder if I'd be able to like the new IWTV series had I not been so invested in the books growing up. I tried pretending that it's not supposed to be Anne Rice's vampires at all, hoping that would make it okay. It did not.
I *want* to like it (& any vampy stuff), but it's just so terrible.
I *want* to like it (& any vampy stuff), but it's just so terrible.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I wonder if I'd be able to like the new IWTV series had I not been so invested in the books growing up. I tried pretending that it's not supposed to be Anne Rice's vampires at all, hoping that would make it okay. It did not.
I *want* to like it (& any vampy stuff), but it's just so terrible.
I *want* to like it (& any vampy stuff), but it's just so terrible.
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From the vaults: 45 years ago today, voters cast their ballots in one of the ugliest municipal elections in Toronto history, which involved a lot (and I mean a lot) of homophobia.
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From the vaults: 45 years ago today, voters cast their ballots in one of the ugliest municipal elections in Toronto history, which involved a lot (and I mean a lot) of homophobia.
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
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I wrote about how American politicians love to blame foreigners and external actors for domestic problems, and how this often prevents us from understanding the real causes of those problems and solving them. Gift link:
Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I wrote about how American politicians love to blame foreigners and external actors for domestic problems, and how this often prevents us from understanding the real causes of those problems and solving them. Gift link:
Baruch haShem
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Baruch haShem
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Without a high court that will challenge the administration’s human rights abuses, Americans can look only to the ballot box for relief. They began to speak on Tuesday.
Among the major Democratic victories last week, Pennsylvania saw the election of its first openly transgender mayor, Eria Deuso
Among the major Democratic victories last week, Pennsylvania saw the election of its first openly transgender mayor, Eria Deuso
The courts are moving ahead with a scheme to make trans people as a category of second-class citizen, unprotected by law.
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology — Assigned
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology
www.assignedmedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Without a high court that will challenge the administration’s human rights abuses, Americans can look only to the ballot box for relief. They began to speak on Tuesday.
Among the major Democratic victories last week, Pennsylvania saw the election of its first openly transgender mayor, Eria Deuso
Among the major Democratic victories last week, Pennsylvania saw the election of its first openly transgender mayor, Eria Deuso
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““Whether you want to judge it by the number of supporters of the white nationalist movement, by their capacity for fundraising, or by the number of people who are signing up for their more militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger.”
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
““Whether you want to judge it by the number of supporters of the white nationalist movement, by their capacity for fundraising, or by the number of people who are signing up for their more militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger.”
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
Is America great yet?
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Is America great yet?
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UN independent experts decry the “sadistic levels” of sexual violence and abuse committed by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, armed by the United Arab Emirates. “We are appalled by credible reports of ethnically targeted summary executions of civilians."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on Thursday.
news.un.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
UN independent experts decry the “sadistic levels” of sexual violence and abuse committed by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, armed by the United Arab Emirates. “We are appalled by credible reports of ethnically targeted summary executions of civilians."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Imagine your child struggling in class, so you turn to your local trustee for help.
Under Bill 33, Doug Ford will replace that trustee with a $350,000 Conservative insider—someone you didn’t elect, can’t remove, and who doesn’t answer to you.
Under Bill 33, Doug Ford will replace that trustee with a $350,000 Conservative insider—someone you didn’t elect, can’t remove, and who doesn’t answer to you.
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Imagine your child struggling in class, so you turn to your local trustee for help.
Under Bill 33, Doug Ford will replace that trustee with a $350,000 Conservative insider—someone you didn’t elect, can’t remove, and who doesn’t answer to you.
Under Bill 33, Doug Ford will replace that trustee with a $350,000 Conservative insider—someone you didn’t elect, can’t remove, and who doesn’t answer to you.
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Gender stereotypes in video games can subtly propel those stereotypes and sexism. #gender #genderstereotypes #sexism
#girls #videogames
#girls #videogames
Gaming isn't just a teenage boy's hobby anymore - it's a massive, diverse cultural force.
When Dr. Teresa Lynch studies gender stereotypes in games, she's studying how an entire generation learns about power and identity:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
When Dr. Teresa Lynch studies gender stereotypes in games, she's studying how an entire generation learns about power and identity:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Gender stereotypes in video games can subtly propel those stereotypes and sexism. #gender #genderstereotypes #sexism
#girls #videogames
#girls #videogames
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Shalom friends, IT’S CHAOS TIME: Miriam and Eitan Don't Want This! A Review of "Nobody Wants This" with @eitanthegoalie. Buckle up, we have THOUGHTS
#nobodywantsthis
youtu.be/kjqy6gvJILE
#nobodywantsthis
youtu.be/kjqy6gvJILE
Miriam and Eitan Don't Want This! A Review of "Nobody Wants This"
YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Shalom friends, IT’S CHAOS TIME: Miriam and Eitan Don't Want This! A Review of "Nobody Wants This" with @eitanthegoalie. Buckle up, we have THOUGHTS
#nobodywantsthis
youtu.be/kjqy6gvJILE
#nobodywantsthis
youtu.be/kjqy6gvJILE
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For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Ah yes, something we were missing for our #20thCRedux: physiognomy.
ok at this point the racists have to just be trolling us, right?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ah yes, something we were missing for our #20thCRedux: physiognomy.
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Sharing my review of Sarah Hurwitz's AS A JEW over @therevealer.bsky.social:
therevealer.org/wrestling-wi...
therevealer.org/wrestling-wi...
therevealer.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sharing my review of Sarah Hurwitz's AS A JEW over @therevealer.bsky.social:
therevealer.org/wrestling-wi...
therevealer.org/wrestling-wi...
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It feels like this is a point people are constantly rediscovering, but these are the women who put together every church event, every school event, every Christmas tree lighting and Fall Pumpkin Festival. They are the unpaid infrastructure of civic life in many places and they're PISSED.
You want the Live Laugh Love women in your foxhole. You want them on that line. You do not want to fight them. You will lose.
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It feels like this is a point people are constantly rediscovering, but these are the women who put together every church event, every school event, every Christmas tree lighting and Fall Pumpkin Festival. They are the unpaid infrastructure of civic life in many places and they're PISSED.
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A core challenge of epistemology—especially political epistemology—is that the final, all things considered answer to hugely important & consequential questions is often: "we don't know, and probably can't know."
A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.
A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.
John sides on moderation
"I have a half-baked thesis that the more uncertainty surrounds some empirical claim, the more heated the argument. It should be the opposite, I think. If the evidence is pretty mixed or uncertain [....] The right view is basically 'it’s hard to know.' "
"I have a half-baked thesis that the more uncertainty surrounds some empirical claim, the more heated the argument. It should be the opposite, I think. If the evidence is pretty mixed or uncertain [....] The right view is basically 'it’s hard to know.' "
us12.campaign-archive.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A core challenge of epistemology—especially political epistemology—is that the final, all things considered answer to hugely important & consequential questions is often: "we don't know, and probably can't know."
A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.
A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.
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LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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In case you would like to turn off the default AI Overview on your devices
tenbluelinks.org
tenbluelinks.org
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In case you would like to turn off the default AI Overview on your devices
tenbluelinks.org
tenbluelinks.org
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The law also ends accommodation for religious holiday leave for both staff and students in public schools, as well as no dietary accommodations based on religion, i.e., supplying kosher or halal meat for students. 🧵
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The law also ends accommodation for religious holiday leave for both staff and students in public schools, as well as no dietary accommodations based on religion, i.e., supplying kosher or halal meat for students. 🧵
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...