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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants

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The USA, Trumpocene. The Jewish ancestors have a lot to say. The great-grands don't want to 'make Bubbe a podcast'.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧵#HeroesoftheTrumpocene.

LA high school principal saves non-communicative 15yo from armed ICE agents.

"The boy was released after the school principal intervened, backed by officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department."

www.huffpost.com/entry/la-boy...

Immigration Agents Detain Boy With Disabilities Outside LA School

After the school principal intervened, the agents left live bullets behind in a case of what the district superintendent called "mistaken identity."

www.huffpost.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 21h

No need to import racists - we've produced plenty of them here in the US. If what you want are US Nazis, check out a Young Republican chat and Buy American.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump admin wants to make the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program — which has saved people from wars and persecution for generations — into a program to bring more Europeans into the United States who "oppos[e] mass migration."

The proposed changes would put new emphasis on whether applicants would be able to assimilate into the United States, directing them to take classes on “American history and values” and “respect for cultural norms.”

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

A senior official said the Trump administration was monitoring the situation in Europe to determine whether anyone would be eligible for refugee status. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan had not been finalized.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7d

The President of the United States is living in an alternate reality and it's long past time for media outlets to start talking about it.

We're beyond "Trump said without evidence." Trump is governing a world that only exists in his warped mind.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8d

Dems should have adopted Pritzker’s current orientation towards Trump from day one.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 8d

If the damage being done to US universities & immigration isn't stopped*, result will be zero Nobels going to people who are US educated/based. For decades.
2035 - 2055, the last USian will win a Nobel. (Nobel prizes are awarded for work done decades earlier.)

*& then vigorously undone

Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 8d

My immigrant grandma has her "surprised NO" face on.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 9d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 8d

Doesn't matter how many dystopian books you've read or how much history you've studied. They might have prepared you intellectually for this time, but they can't prepare you emotionally.

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 9d

Under the Canopy of a Shaken World.
This Sukkot, the world feels fragile. Hope feels harder to hold. But Sukkot has always been a festival of fragility. We sit in open huts, under a sky we cannot control, to remember: our security has never come from walls, but from one another.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 10d

PSA: Yep, the news has been extra awful {this day | this week}

AND

you should {up your medication | go to the support group | see the therapist sooner | call your sponsor}

Both things are true.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 16d

Trump just called us "the enemy within"

Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Klein: it's uncomfortable living under Trump, it's uncomfortable having people criticize me, it's uncomfortable facing the consequences of coddling up to racist rightwingers, it's uncomfortable wondering if there's no guaranteed happy ending, why oh why must I be so uncomfortable?

Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, wow. Yes. This.

Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

My ancestral Jewish warning system, like that of many other Jews in the US, has been screaming for months bc y'know history happens, evil people exist. I have no idea what Klein's problem is.

Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Dunno if its as dramatic as swerving, but you can see this on an individual or family level in other arenas. Arlie Hochschild's Second Shift describes how people will do enormous emotional work to maintain "family myths", ignoring reality hard bc the myth is key to their concept of themselves.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

The Emperor is shivering <SWERVE>
to avoid thinking that the Emperor is cold because he has no clothes on.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Klein says he will define "we" -- and then goes on to say, without ever defining we

"But I think of the huge backlash to Bernie Sanders for going on Joe Rogan’s show because Rogan was transphobic. Such a big backlash that when I defended him — I became a Twitter trending topic."

Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Which is the childish part: sometimes good people lose. Part of adulthood is accepting that.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

Coates does this, IMO.

'Coates: "But if you ask me what the truth of his life was... it is the usage of hate and the harnessing of hate toward political ends.

Klein: Then let me flip that question a bit. Why are we losing?'

SWERVE.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

THIS.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 16d

The amorality of Klein's position here marches along with a childish refusal to accept an unhappy ending. He repeatedly asks "why did Kirk win? Why did we lose?"
Coates tells him. (Spoiler: history happens. Evil people exist.) Klein doesn't want to hear the truth. Swerve.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 17d

The wild thing is that he both thinks ideas have consequences - and also that they don't.
Consequences: he thinks its his job to "do politics" and provide "the solution" for Dems to win.
No consequences: making nice with people who wanna hurt TNC.
Makes for more swerving.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 17d

Swerving! Yes, EXACTLY. He's swerving bc he really, really doesn't wanna face hard truths. He doesn't wanna do the work, he doesn't wanna be uncomfortable or make other people uncomfortable. He wants a guaranteed happy ending. He wants to play around with words and ideas and keep everyone happy.

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Teivel Reizel & Her Descendants @jewishancestorpod.bsky.social · 17d

The Klein - TNC discussion has Klein asking "how did we lose?" ; searched it for "voter suppression", "Voting Rights Act", "Citizens United" : nada.

ContolF for "Supreme Court": didn't find "Supreme Court corruption" or "Supreme Court rules Trump eligible for ballot."