Susan Kristol
@susankristol.bsky.social
Trying to be joyful despite it all. Seeking solace in Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Latin, and 19th century novels.
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Every “Pro-Palestinian” protestor who chanted these slogans, or who stood by while their fellow protestors chanted them without pushing back, is tangentially culpable in this shooting.
The same way the NRA and GOP are tangentially responsible for shootings that result from THEIR violent rhetoric.
The same way the NRA and GOP are tangentially responsible for shootings that result from THEIR violent rhetoric.
"Globalize the intifada"
"Zionists don't deserve to live"
"Victory of jihad or martyrdom"
"Long live the Al-Aqsa Flood [Oct 7th]"
"Any means necessary"
"We are Hamas"
"Al Qassam [Hamas], make us proud"
What did you think those slogans from so called "pro-Palestinian" activists and protesters meant?
"Zionists don't deserve to live"
"Victory of jihad or martyrdom"
"Long live the Al-Aqsa Flood [Oct 7th]"
"Any means necessary"
"We are Hamas"
"Al Qassam [Hamas], make us proud"
What did you think those slogans from so called "pro-Palestinian" activists and protesters meant?
May 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Every “Pro-Palestinian” protestor who chanted these slogans, or who stood by while their fellow protestors chanted them without pushing back, is tangentially culpable in this shooting.
The same way the NRA and GOP are tangentially responsible for shootings that result from THEIR violent rhetoric.
The same way the NRA and GOP are tangentially responsible for shootings that result from THEIR violent rhetoric.
The new Odyssey translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social arrived at my doorstep today. It looks great! Interesting intro and notes, too.
March 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The new Odyssey translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social arrived at my doorstep today. It looks great! Interesting intro and notes, too.
Yes, overregulation of chicken farming has been the only thing keeping Bill and me from raising chickens in our backyard.
“Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also encouraged Americans to produce their own eggs…. We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens…”
“Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also encouraged Americans to produce their own eggs…. We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens…”
March 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Yes, overregulation of chicken farming has been the only thing keeping Bill and me from raising chickens in our backyard.
“Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also encouraged Americans to produce their own eggs…. We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens…”
“Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also encouraged Americans to produce their own eggs…. We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens…”
Big brave Hamas terrorists celebrate the deaths of a defenseless woman, a five-year-old boy, a baby, and an 84-year-old man whom they kidnapped.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...
Hamas Hands Bodies of 4 Dead Hostages to Israel
The group staged a handover of four coffins with the remains of abductees. Shiri Bibas, an Israeli woman, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were said to be among those returned.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Big brave Hamas terrorists celebrate the deaths of a defenseless woman, a five-year-old boy, a baby, and an 84-year-old man whom they kidnapped.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...
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The deaths of innocent kids Kfir and Ariel Bibas in captivity is a war crime & a heartbreaking tragedy.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
February 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The deaths of innocent kids Kfir and Ariel Bibas in captivity is a war crime & a heartbreaking tragedy.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant.
There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.
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And so it begins:
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
And so it begins:
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
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The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
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I see why it’s said that nice people make the best Nazis, because what’s happening now in the US wouldn’t be possible without the polite silence or cordial complicity of great masses of people
January 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I see why it’s said that nice people make the best Nazis, because what’s happening now in the US wouldn’t be possible without the polite silence or cordial complicity of great masses of people
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Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.
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How is “this directly conflicts with federal legal requirements for removing IGs” not a part of your subhed?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
How is “this directly conflicts with federal legal requirements for removing IGs” not a part of your subhed?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Why did it take so long for Mitch McConnell to issue his press release opposing Hegseth? Too little too late.
www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...
www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...
McConnell Comments on Hegseth Nomination
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, issued the following statement today on the nomination of Pete Hegseth to s...
www.mcconnell.senate.gov
January 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why did it take so long for Mitch McConnell to issue his press release opposing Hegseth? Too little too late.
www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...
www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...
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H.R. 1234, An Act of Patriotic Renaming
Whereas: It is an outrage that the home of the next President of the United States of America does not have an American name.
So Be It Resolved: The property now known as Mar-a-Lago shall henceforth be known as Sea-to-Lake.
Whereas: It is an outrage that the home of the next President of the United States of America does not have an American name.
So Be It Resolved: The property now known as Mar-a-Lago shall henceforth be known as Sea-to-Lake.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
H.R. 1234, An Act of Patriotic Renaming
Whereas: It is an outrage that the home of the next President of the United States of America does not have an American name.
So Be It Resolved: The property now known as Mar-a-Lago shall henceforth be known as Sea-to-Lake.
Whereas: It is an outrage that the home of the next President of the United States of America does not have an American name.
So Be It Resolved: The property now known as Mar-a-Lago shall henceforth be known as Sea-to-Lake.
WSJ continues to cause anxiety: “Though the Great Red Spot appears stationary and unchanging through a telescope, an October 2024 study, published in the Planetary Science Journal, indicated that it is anything but stable and jiggles as it gets squeezed between the two jet streams.”
January 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
WSJ continues to cause anxiety: “Though the Great Red Spot appears stationary and unchanging through a telescope, an October 2024 study, published in the Planetary Science Journal, indicated that it is anything but stable and jiggles as it gets squeezed between the two jet streams.”
Here’s an example of why we shouldn’t put too much trust in AI summaries on Google:
“ Maimonides (Rambam) published a commentary on the Mishna’s Tractate Sanhedrin in 1981. The book was published by Sepher Hermon PR and has 239 pages.”
“ Maimonides (Rambam) published a commentary on the Mishna’s Tractate Sanhedrin in 1981. The book was published by Sepher Hermon PR and has 239 pages.”
January 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s an example of why we shouldn’t put too much trust in AI summaries on Google:
“ Maimonides (Rambam) published a commentary on the Mishna’s Tractate Sanhedrin in 1981. The book was published by Sepher Hermon PR and has 239 pages.”
“ Maimonides (Rambam) published a commentary on the Mishna’s Tractate Sanhedrin in 1981. The book was published by Sepher Hermon PR and has 239 pages.”
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking
If the windstorm keeps dwindling, it could someday disappear
If the windstorm keeps dwindling, it could someday disappear
December 31, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking
If the windstorm keeps dwindling, it could someday disappear
If the windstorm keeps dwindling, it could someday disappear
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“Republicans once claimed to admire Madison and Hamilton. But the Founding Father for today’s Republicans is Kent Brockman.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds...
The World’s Richest Man Wants to Burn It All Down
We knew Elon liked strategic acquisitions. We didn’t know the spines of House Republicans came quite so cheap.
www.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:16 PM
“Republicans once claimed to admire Madison and Hamilton. But the Founding Father for today’s Republicans is Kent Brockman.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds...
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December 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
A couple people have asked me whether I really think of The Bulwark as a magazine. I do! And not in some quaint, retro sense.
A magazine is a model for building an audience with shared interests and connecting it with a range of writers worth reading and thinkers worth learning from. That's us.
A magazine is a model for building an audience with shared interests and connecting it with a range of writers worth reading and thinkers worth learning from. That's us.
I don’t know if CEO Brian Thompson was a good person or a bad person, but all the jokes in Bluesky about his murder are upsetting.
December 5, 2024 at 12:15 PM
I don’t know if CEO Brian Thompson was a good person or a bad person, but all the jokes in Bluesky about his murder are upsetting.
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Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
Next year’s Mother’s Day might be a little tense for the Hegseth household(s)(s)(s).
November 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Next year’s Mother’s Day might be a little tense for the Hegseth household(s)(s)(s).
