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Haman Haymaker inventor, PSL aficionado, former baby nicknamed “Guidette,” neurasthenic vagabond, shitlib, Tikkun Olamite, Jwitter’s Vulgar Id, & recovering Jewish American Princess. Never go against a Sicilian when the chance to be petty is on the line!

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · Dec 12

I guess this is my “So you want to know more about antisemitism outside the context of Nazis ...” thread.

Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · Dec 12

Since it’s come up a lot recently, here’s a post from a Christian to Christians explaining how the table flipping didn’t happen the way you think it happened.

binarybreakingworship.com/2022/03/29/a...

Jesus Flipping Tables: Unpacking antisemitic readings of the “Temple Cleansing”

Lent is one time of year we talk about Jesus marching into the Court of Gentiles, sitting down and braiding a whip, and proceeding to wreak havoc upon money-changers’ tables and sacrificial a…

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 1m

I had my grief counselor yesterday, so it’s not bad-bad, but it’s not great given my current hella stressed and sleep deprived state.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 3m

FUCK I missed my therapy appointment because I got handed a new work project and was DEEP in it.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

Oh yay, this game.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

This is Mario Buda erasure.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

Follow @nexusproject.bsky.social

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The Shofar Report: A Call to Defend Democracy and Confront Antisemitism

Explore how defending democracy and confronting antisemitism ensures safety for all. Discover actionable steps inside this report.

nexusproject.us

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4h

Really glad to see this much needed report. The Nexus Project is the moral voice we need against antisemitism and for democratic pluralism, at a time when too many other organizations have abdicated that role.

The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 5h

This just in: Today, we’re releasing our response to the weaponization of antisemitism by the Trump administration and Project Esther.

The Shofar Report is a new blueprint for combating antisemitism while defending democracy.

Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response.

Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded, the Forward’s guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno Rosenfeld.Most American Jews have taken a...

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a terrifying number.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 5h

I think a lot of people (hell, me included!) are having trouble getting their heads around the fact that 1 in 7 men admitted(!) to willingness to commit CSA.

Of course, we had so much trouble reckoning with the prevalence of fathers sexually abusing their kids that we did the Satanic Panic.

Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 5h

If you follow this to its logical conclusion then only women can be caregivers, so we must ban them from working.

Needless to say, I reject that. There are abusive men - and women - but we should not assume all people are bad because some are.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4h

The party of Christian values endorses shooting pastors with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Dec 21

I mean who could tell the difference

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

I’m also skeptical it will hold. Domestic pressure will shift now that the hostages are home. An end to the war also makes Bibi personally and politically more vulnerable (see: Israeli protests & charges) A finalized peace will, similar to the Abraham accords, likely fuck over the Palestinians.

Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 4h

Debbie downer:

I don’t think the anti-war protests were that big of a factor in the cease fire agreement. It’s been in the works for ages, with talks happening continuously through failed previous ones.

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Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @itus.bsky.social · 14h

One out of two… so far

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 6h

We have to do with billionaires what we more or less did with kings: strip them of their ability to control the world based on their whims and grudges

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6h

By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the 6th Amendment was violated when a juror completely lost her mind and viciously coerced other jurors to return a death verdict even though they opposed it and voted 11-1 for life without parole. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

On the second day of deliberations, “even when the other
eleven jurors . . . voted for life without parole” in an internal
poll, “Chancey would not even consider it.” Id., at 71a–72a.
At that point, the foreperson wrote a note to the trial court
explaining that the jurors were “‘unable to come to a
unanimous decision on either death or life imprisonment
without parole as a sentence.’ ” Id., at 9a. Chancey,
believing the note as written would result in a mistrial,
revised the note to say that the jurors were “‘currently
unable to come to a unanimous decision.’” Id., at 9a–10a.
The court instructed the jury to continue deliberating.
Chancey then “snapped.” Humphreys v. Sellers, No.
1:18–cv–02534 (ND Ga., Sept. 19, 2018), ECF Doc. 42–7, p.
443. She yelled, cursed, and screamed that she would “stay
[t]here till forever if ” that is what it took “for [Humphreys]
to get death.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 9a. She threw the
victims’ photos across the table and demanded, “‘[D]o you
want this to happen to someone you know?’” Ibid. She
reminded the jurors of the similar details of her own attack,
and told them that “‘they had to reach a unanimous
decision or [Humphreys] would be paroled,’” which was not
true under Georgia law. Ibid. She then levied personal

attacks against the jurors and refused to engage in any
debate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, jury deliberations almost
completely broke down. Screaming could be overheard from
the courtroom. One juror “‘took a swing’” at Chancey and
punched a hole in the wall. Ibid. Jurors were seen crying
on several occasions. A juror later recalled that “it was as
if an evil force took over . . . Chancey.” ECF Doc. 33–12,
p. 13. The foreperson even wrote a note asking to be
removed from the jury because of the “‘hostile nature of one
of the jurors.’” App. to Pet. for Cert. 12a. The court instead
gave an Allen charge and instructed the jury to deliberate
further. See Allen v. United States, 164 U. S. 492 (1896). It
also rejected defense counsel’s renewed motion for a
mistrial. On the third morning of deliberations, the jury
returned a unanimous verdict of death.
The above facts constitute a likely violation of
Humphreys’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
The problem for Humphreys is that these facts came to light
largely through juror affidavits and juror testimony
obtained after the trial. The Georgia courts held this
evidence inadmissible under Georgia’s no-impeachment
rule, which generally prohibits the use of juror testimony to
impeach a verdict, even in death penalty cases. See App. to
Pet. for Cert. 325a (citing Spencer v. State, 260 Ga. 640, 643,
398 S. E. 2d 179, 184 (1990)). The no-impeachment rule,
however, is not an absolute shield, and in extreme cases it
must give way to constitutional guarantees.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 6h

Boo this man. Boo.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

A man pleads guilty in the arson that damaged the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion and forced Gov. Josh Shapiro’s family to flee.

Pennsylvania man pleads guilty in arson attack at governor’s mansion while Shapiro’s family slept

A man who scaled a security fence in the middle of the night and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 6h

My friend’s husband is in Space For e. I chatted with him this weekend. He’s over worked and wearing all the hats because so many levels of management and direct reports are civilians and on furlough.

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6h

and government workers aren’t getting paid while congress is.

so, basically, we taxpayers are funding vacations for GOP congresspeople while also dealing with the downstream effects of a shutdown.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9h

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 18h

Nobody was called an anti-Semite for calling for a ceasefire. Everyone but Likud and Hamas wanted a ceasefire.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 6h

As my mom said, you can’t argue with extremists.

Jarred The Wyrd-Worker @jarredh.bsky.social · 6h

I believe you can politely argue SOME people out of their toxic and hateful beliefs. However, I also believe there are some people you will NEVER politely argue out of their toxic and hateful beliefs.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 16h

“I don’t hate Jews, I just think blah blah blah”

Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 16h

Wild how many of these idiots are pre-blocked for me by the “verified tankies” list.

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 16h

thank you to all my allies who call out antisemitism but for fucks sake use the words antisemitism/antisemite without a hyphen

Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · Jun 1

jfc for the people in the back...

antisemitism is anti-Jewishness

"anti-semitism" is itself an antisemitic term invented to create a fake ethnic group defined by speakers of Semitic languages that aren't all Jewish to co-opt anti-Jewishness as a broader form of oppression against non-Jews

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