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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4h

Same!

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4h

The source can also feel different too. I drink green tea and coffee at different times.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4h

If you think that there is a substitute for coffee, let alone plenty, your not addressing the same crisis as the rest of us normal folks.

Canceled.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 14h

Stand back and stand by.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

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Antifa
Counter Terrorism
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Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 16h

P. Kenney’s “A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989” has much to offer for those looking to understand how the tactical-carnivalesque worked effectively against authoritarian rule…

See also J. Krapfl’s “Revolution with a Human Face,” which explore the formation of revolutionary communities.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 17h

There a racism and sexism scandal complicating the formation of a new Czech government… and the party with the problem isn’t even the most racist party in the would-be coalition.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

Earned my first conference rejection today! I was really hoping to participate and meet colleagues from other fields. Too bad. So sad.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

Through Columbus Day, Italian Americans claimed membership in white America by positioning (a supposedly "Italian") Columbus as a founder of the USA through European imperialism... This resonates uncomfortably strongly with the claim that people who hate Jews/Israel also hate the "West."

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is in (a) essentialism; and (b) the tension between outcomes and processes. Trump has had a few positive accomplishments. It matters, though, why he accomplished them and how. Foundations and systems matter. You can’t be a hero for winning temporarily in non-replicable or enduring ways.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

Learning the difference between hope and optimism.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

Grab a shandy and learn about a shanda.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

OUT NOW: Our deep dive into the life and career of Laura Loomer with @willsommer.bsky.social.

“Who the Hell is Laura Loomer?” is available on all the podcast apps!
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044: Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? feat. Will Sommer

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 10/13/2025 · 2h 46m

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 1d

Prague too. Night drinking restricted to folks who can afford to drink in bars…

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 1d

Łodź has become the latest Polish city to introduce a nighttime ban on alcohol sales in shops, in an effort to prevent antisocial behaviour and protect public health.

All of Poland's biggest five cities apart from Warsaw now have such measures in place.

Łódź becomes latest Polish city to ban alcohol sales at night

notesfrompoland.com

Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 2d

Just heard two major voices agree that the days of parsing “when anti-Zionism slips into antisemitism” has ended, claiming that this had been the purview of Jewish (presumably progressive) scholars alone.

Basically, they can no longer twist themselves into pretzels in the face of contradictions.

Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 2d

The inability of some senior scholars to stop using antisemitism as a framework of analysis, despite perpetual failure to produce anything more than a descriptive litany of insults and crimes should stagger the mind, and lead us to question how they maintain their influence. 1/x

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 3d

Had this argument just yesterday.

The tragedy of the Nazis, for example, isn’t that they were monsters. It’s that they and their actions was every bit as human as we and our own.

And if you think that’s beta-talk… The danger of animalizing your enemy is that you’ll inevitably underestimate them.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 3d

You break the middle piece and save half for the afikomen.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 3d

Between Jews and Seventh Day Adventists, there are about 38 million of us!!!

Gupp @kenny-loggoff.bsky.social · 3d

happy satuday mormig to those who celebrate

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 3d

This was how folks debated COVID accommodations at my last school.

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 3d

All hail the Great Frog!

Hop to it or croak. We are but mere toadies.

Kermit to the bit. Ms. Piggy’s got nothing on us.

Seriously, we are one month away from learning that the frog is a potent supernatural being, whose image alone can change the course of history.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4d

The beef jerky hung like this, partially vended, for two full days. Why didn’t someone body-check the machine to get some free food?

I thought that, just maybe, the alright kids have soured on meat… not so fast…

There are cameras everywhere, and with surveillance fear… and a loss of simple joys.

Vending machine. The bottom row has a bag of beef jerky dangling down because it did not fully vend.

Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4d

Bizarro Jonah Hill is cancelled.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

zeteo.com

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 4d

The odd thing about running an academic center on the Holocaust and genocide is how many people feel compelled to confess you that they support genocide… in the future.

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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 4d

We're thrilled at the opportunity to bring this program to Ramapo College for Women's History Month.

In the spring, we intend to stage a table-read of one of Ms. Rana's plays on this difficult subject. Students are encouraged to become involved!

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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 4d

Our trip this past summer was so wonderful, we're running it again in Summer 2026. We encouraged all interested students to attend this info session.

Great news! We raised funds to cover the $1,000 fee for the 2-credit course for all participants! Program, flight & incidental fees paid by students.

Study abroad in the Czech Republic, Summer 2026. "The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights in Central Europe," May 25 - June 4, 2025. INFO SESSION, Monday, October 20 at 1:00 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room, LC-215. (Second floor of the library, through the glass doors in the back). Spend ten days in one of Europe's most beautiful cities studying the region's history of genocide ant its influence on contemporary approaches to human rights and multicultural belonging. Visit www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/study-abroad or use the QR code for more information.

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