Miles is short for Mai Li, how else are you going to shorten it
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Miles is short for Mai Li, how else are you going to shorten it
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Seattle in the sheets, global in the streets
#CovidCautiousArtist #Yiddish #Klezmer #JusticeAsCommunityDefense
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Bets on how long until the USian head of state latches onto this as his new reason to invade Canada?
January 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Right on cue. This is looking like it's going to be the American Reichtag.
And there it is. All your fault, Minnesota, that there will be no midterm elections....
January 16, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I needed this today
i don’t know why yiddish needs a word just to describe people who are tall yet stupid but you’re not gonna hear me complaining about it
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 6:54 AM
I needed this today
can’t help but notice how the word tzitzis (ציצית, fringes on the prayer shawl) is basically the same as the yiddish word tsitses (ציצעס, titties) and this has to have led to some bawdy bits of yiddish filth
January 12, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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There’s a bitter irony in these headlines.
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
One week til my 1st show since 2024! It's a weird time, but I'm hoping to leave everyone feeling enraged, empowered, connected w community, centered in the truth of this moment.

Series tends to sell out! Get those tickets soon. Masks required.

Tix: cleanaireventspresents.ticketspice.com/mollylele
Clean Air Events...Presents: Mollylele, Mai Li Pittard, Susan Palmer & Ian Johnson
Clean Air Events presents Mollylele, Mai Li Pittard, Susan Palmer & Ian Johnson — a COVID-safer evening of ukulele folk, Yiddish cabaret-punk klezmer, and jazz in Lower Queen Anne, Seattle. Sliding sc...
cleanaireventspresents.ticketspice.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation.

Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Wow. This is some pretty next level twisting of the law. I hope the courts can slow this down.
“The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, built on the novel use of a federal law meant to punish businesses that cheat the government.” 🤬
Exclusive | Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
Google and Verizon are among those being investigated under the novel interpretation of a law applying to government contractors.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In broader community, there is a lot of holding my breath / feeling crazy, and limiting my time there. Judgement and hostility.

I'm grateful Seattle has a strong #CC community, which keeps me sane. But it's not big enough I can replace a housemate spot quickly, or find anything for my sequins NYE.
How are the rest of my immunocompromised folks doing? I've begun to embrace the "weird isolated shut-in" life because nobody wears masks
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is why I love yiddish culture tbh
yiddish children’s stories are dark man we just read one for class that was like ‘daddy couldn’t find a job so he became a jewish department store santa where he passed out from hunger and all the goyishe kids told their friends about seeing santa faint. in conclusion, capitalism is a scam,’
December 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today's #YNY2025 shitpost so far:

In Susan Watts online class about the Hoffman tunebook recently compiled by her, Hankus Netsky, Dr (! When did I miss that) Hannah Ochner, Ilana Kravitz. She's got video interviews she did w Hankus about these tunes for historical context.

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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Last full day of #YNY2025! And ofc I'm 15m late to AM1 😂😭 but, I'm better slept that yesterday *and* will catch more of it than yesterday, & finally have my tech transitions between spaces / classes a little more figured out!

Now I just have to not let the windstorm in Seattle knock me out today 😤
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Happy to see that the @forward.com has an article out today about the digitial klezmer manuscript project I worked on as a volunteer in 2020-21.😁many fond memories of poking around looking at high-resolution chickenscratch scores of klezmer magnum opuses dating to the 1890s in some cases
How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
Thanks to a mammoth klezmer digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations.
forward.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Y'all

I fucking hate christmas, but this new genre I'm seeing where it's a christmas song but twisted for a doomy shitpost is KILLING ME 🤣
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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1940s Yiddish catposting (morgen zhurnal)
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM