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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 11m

My Jewish ancestors definitely had an idea of a government name and a real name. But what government name they gave really depended on who was asking.

StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 23m

I had a boss who did research into early childhood education. Early in his career, he wanted to be an early childhood educator, but no one would hire a man.

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s a question and I hate to do this but what about women? Are women immune from being pedophiles? I wouldn’t want to leave my kid alone with Ghislaine Maxwell either. Maybe you just shouldn’t leave your children alone with anybody that you don’t trust

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1h

At the time period I was looking at - 1920s - the citizenship form in New York had a space to put the name you had on entry, so the forms could be connected. But there was no requirement at all that it be consistent.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1h

That said, I came across a citizenship denial document mixed in. The reason for denial was that the woman had apparently lied on entry about her marital status.

StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1h

I was doing a digitization of immigration records. When someone applied for citizenship, they would collect all the previous paperwork and put it together. The names often changed from record to record; mostly what was needed was two witnesses attesting the truth of the document.

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 12h

I think a lot of people don't quite grasp how little documentation of a legal identity anyone had before, like, the 1930s. No social security number, no green card, no driver's license. This made you reliant on your social network; OTOH nobody could force you to write your name a certain way.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 12h

When the reckoning comes, they will plead for the mercy they did now show and claim as their right the process they denied to others. We must have the courage and resolve to mete out to them the justice they have incurred.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 12h

Millennials aren't college students. We're 30-40 year olds with kids

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

Newsmax and MTG openly flouting Trump have me in eyeball emoji mode. I do not trust either of those stopped clocks to be accidentally right. there is palace intrigue afoot. rats leaving a sinking ship. is he crumbling into dust even worse than we're seeing? are they preparing to distance themselves?

Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 13h

Et tu, Newsmax?!

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 15h

Yiddish calls the "mirror eggs"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i do think the revolt of the bosses has caught the car and they're not actually gonna like what they get

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 1d

I should mention that I appreciate this framing from a Christian. It's a fantastic example of calling out the problem without demonizing anyone who isn't the ancient equivalent of a Musk or Pinochet.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 1d

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 1d

Pharisees, the ancestors of nearly every contemporary Jew, don't stop being Jews when they're used by Christians and cultural Christians as props or slurs.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

If they've resolved the issue, they can't change their tune when a Democrat is in power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

More on the legality of Trump paying the troops from another account - now appears maybe it isn't legal? Reporters: Dig into this!

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 1d

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

Last time I checked, the kosher Chinese place in DC had an Ethiopian menu.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

Because it's about being nasty to their local Israelis and Jews, not about the country they only care about in a mythic fashion.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the time I saw a pizza place offering sushi and thought "weird, I assumed only kosher places did that" and then looking up their menu to discover they were indeed kosher.

Scarewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 1d

Sushi at kosher pizza places is A Thing.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

In most cities, there are only a few kosher restaurants. They aren't really competing with those other places much, but with people eating at home. So if they offer an additional cuisine (like sushi, though there's a place in DC that does Indian) they can get some families eating out more often.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 1d

My husband has a great theory: most restaurants are competing with lots of other restaurants, so they want to specialize and only sell what they make best. Most people will get pizza at a pizza store, and go to the Japanese restaurant for Sushi. But...

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's like, also, Israel isn't colonising Montreal or New Orleans or whatever. It's a narcissistic fantasy of pretending to be the real victim of an actual genocide happening in another continent

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 1d

But I don't really get down with the "Israel has never made anything of its own, only stolen things from others." both because I don't think anyone living in a country with a colonial past gets to throw those stones and also because that really flattens how culture actually develops.

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