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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✨YIDDISH GOTHIC✨ starts Tuesday afternoon. This was one of my favorite classes and I'm excited to offer it again. I'd love to see you there - email me to sign up or lemme know if you have any questions cjcrokhl @ gmail com
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Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
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This is such nonsense, Athanasius Kircher wrote a whole book about them showing that they are living creatures
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is such nonsense, Athanasius Kircher wrote a whole book about them showing that they are living creatures
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A group of Jewish faculty and staff at my college wrote an open letter, about what it means to be torn between one side that thinks acknowledging antisemitism on campus means shutting down academic freedom, and another that responds by denying it exists: sarahlawrencephoenix.com/features-arc...
Open Letter from Faculty and Staff — The Phoenix
The Editorial Board of The Phoenix received this open letter from a group of Sarah Lawrence professors and faculty, signed below, with the request that we publish it on their behalf.
sarahlawrencephoenix.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A group of Jewish faculty and staff at my college wrote an open letter, about what it means to be torn between one side that thinks acknowledging antisemitism on campus means shutting down academic freedom, and another that responds by denying it exists: sarahlawrencephoenix.com/features-arc...
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City ablaze at dusk. Frightening prospect by Aert van der Neer, whose day is today.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
City ablaze at dusk. Frightening prospect by Aert van der Neer, whose day is today.
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
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This guy wants us to pay attention to the baptismal formula and he's not brooking any nonsense. ⚓
British Library MS Royal 2 A XX, fol. 2v.
iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
British Library MS Royal 2 A XX, fol. 2v.
iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This guy wants us to pay attention to the baptismal formula and he's not brooking any nonsense. ⚓
British Library MS Royal 2 A XX, fol. 2v.
iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
British Library MS Royal 2 A XX, fol. 2v.
iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...
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That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
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They call themselves the pro-family party, but they're threatening to punish states for feeding hungry parents and kids.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
They call themselves the pro-family party, but they're threatening to punish states for feeding hungry parents and kids.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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At the end of the short heartbreaking account are places to help support and critical is this disinformation 👇
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
At the end of the short heartbreaking account are places to help support and critical is this disinformation 👇
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
This was a doomed exercise from the outset. They picked a fight to give the GOP something they thought they would want anyway, and have now been embarrassed into capitulating on even that. Beyond pathetic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
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I just called my senators, leaving messages asking them not to vote for any deal to end the shutdown without a deal to extend ACA subsidies. It is shocking to me that they are about to cave without this.
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I just called my senators, leaving messages asking them not to vote for any deal to end the shutdown without a deal to extend ACA subsidies. It is shocking to me that they are about to cave without this.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
Must be the communism that's cancelling your flights and starving poor kids dang
Didn't that start in 1917 and never end?
Long week
Long week
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Must be the communism that's cancelling your flights and starving poor kids dang
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Hey look, it's me
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Hey look, it's me
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One thing from our piece on Saturday: Sen. Shaheen is leading the Senate cave caucus. She's on the appropriations committee and wants whatever little goodies she got in her appropriations bill passed into law. As we wrote:
prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
One thing from our piece on Saturday: Sen. Shaheen is leading the Senate cave caucus. She's on the appropriations committee and wants whatever little goodies she got in her appropriations bill passed into law. As we wrote:
prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
Wait did the Muppets in fact take Manhattan before Leonard Cohen?
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Wait did the Muppets in fact take Manhattan before Leonard Cohen?
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Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties
“.. The Agriculture Department issued the command in a late-night Saturday memo .. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.”
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties
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This led, indirectly, to the existence of groups of Ashkenazim in Eretz Yisrael (including ~¼ of my ancestors) who wear Palestinian dress - as in, traditional Palestinian men's robes made from traditional fabrics.
Avoiding loan sharks with a dash of mysticism.
Avoiding loan sharks with a dash of mysticism.
A charismatic movement of #OrthodoxJews set out for Palestine in 1697 under #JudahHeHasid. They were poor but pious. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1720, #HeHasid's synagogue was burnt due to debts and Ashkenazim run out of #Jerusalem. Many resettled in other holy cities in #Palestine.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This led, indirectly, to the existence of groups of Ashkenazim in Eretz Yisrael (including ~¼ of my ancestors) who wear Palestinian dress - as in, traditional Palestinian men's robes made from traditional fabrics.
Avoiding loan sharks with a dash of mysticism.
Avoiding loan sharks with a dash of mysticism.