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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 5m

Got a trip planned to see my family this weekend but mom thinks I should postpone due to the shutdown. But uh when is that actually going to end? Anybody know? lol

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vanagonfan @vanagonfan.bsky.social · 3h

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Gingit 🎗️ @virgosprincess.bsky.social · 1h

May their memories forever be a blessing.

May their families find peace and comfort.

Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 1h

Hamas confirmed that the fallen hostages: Yossi Sharabi, Bipin Joshi, Daniel Peretz, and Guy Illouz will be handed to Israel today.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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StandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 7h

Emotional moments: Family of Matan Angrest, held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for over two years, watch his release from captivity. Credit: Ichilov Hospital

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StandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 5h

Alon Ohel, a survivor of more than two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, aboard an IDF helicopter on his way to a hospital in Israel to begin his recovery, undergo further assessment, and reunite with more loved ones.

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 2h

What a wonderful thing to wake up to, for a change.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome home. 🇮🇱🎗🇮🇱

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

I feel very very good about this one

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · Nov 21

People will say shit like 'war crimes don't justify war crimes' and not immediately follow it up with 'which is why I believe the illegitimate leadership of Hamas should immediately surrender, give up the hostages, and end the violence in Gaza'

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

It never got better

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · Nov 21

The implicit argument that Israel's general conduct re Palestine justifies wholly and fully a deliberately strategized and ordered infantry massacre by Hamas is and remains the most alienating part of the entire business for me

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Juicy Cake Of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ @datadivajf.bsky.social · 2h

Baruch Hashem.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

Hamas has released all 20 remaining living hostages.

The Israeli military says it has taken custody of them and will transport them onward to Israel. Follow AP's live updates.

Live updates: Israel says Hamas hands over first 7 hostages to Red Cross as part of Gaza ceasefire

The key exchange follows a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. U.S. President Donald Trump was also arriving in the region along with other leaders to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal and postwar plans.

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Wonder Woman Demands Justice 🐝🎗 @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 12h

Renee i will never forgive them for hating the hostages so much that they tore down posters and denied the rapes and mutilations.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @handle.invalid · 14h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15h

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 13h

when your low stakes jokey jokes didn't come from any actual interaction with Israel or Israelis and are actually just memes generated by nazis on 4chan, you can see how the "they call everything antisemitic" doesn't work, right?

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Wonder Woman Demands Justice 🐝🎗 @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 18h

Dirtbag left has always been antisemitic, anti-Black and misogynistic. Always.

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 13h

This is so great tbh. The Christian backlash to the Christofash is good to see.

D. Earl Stephens @handle.invalid · 16h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 14h

ISRAELIS STOLE THE PIZZA BOUREKAS FROM THE INDIGENOUS OTTOMAN ITALIANS

Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 17h

or pizza bourekas tbh

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 17h

you are apparently confused about the demographic composition of Israel

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 18h

This seems to be esp true of ppl encountering Mizrahi culture for the first time. Does not click for them that Jews lived all over what we call the Middle East as early as the 7th cent BCE. These aren’t Polish ppl making hummus to be exotic. These are Iranians who lived in Tehran since before Jesus.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 18h

“Israelis are merely culture vultures who don’t have any traditions or customs of their own” do you freaks fucking hear yourselves?

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 20h

Great bit of Thiel lore was that as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding, he sent out a company wide email (Thiel Capital) musing that this may be the start of the Biblical apocalypse, and that everyone receiving the email should spend time with their families and read the Bible

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 17h

or pizza bourekas tbh

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 17h

every time I see somebody casting aspersions on Israeli cuisine as somehow fake I just wish I could find a local falafel joint that has amba

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