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Every day I see a post complaining about how we don’t have universal healthcare, food stamps are being diminished, etc. in the United States. And it being blamed on “because we’re funding Israel’s healthcare, iron dome missiles, genocide on gaza.”

YALL ARE SO MISINFORMED AND TERRIBLE

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I haven't reblogged any of it or looked into it myself (or believed any of it), but can you elaborate? Maybe, in case it comes up in convo (cause I have a friend I think who believes it or has mentioned it to me)? If that's not too much to ask. (About Gal Gadot)

So, there’s this trend that happens in liberal/activist spaces, where the second gentiles find out you’re Jewish, they no longer trust you unless you immediately, completely denounce every aspect of Israel down to its very existence. 

Example: at UCLA, a Jewish woman named Rachel Beyda applied for the student council. They interrogated her about whether she would be able to be “objective” because she was Jewish. They literally asked her, “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?”I have experienced this interrogation and distrust personally, in activist spaces at UCSC. At one point I even made a Facebook post about it because I was curious if it was just me and discovered that every other Jewish person I know at UCSC had also experienced something similar. Leftists do not welcome or trust Jews who have any qualms about disavowing Israel. To be clear: I’m NOT talking about acknowledging that the Israeli government is committing human rights violations against Palestinians. That should be obvious, and isn’t inherently antisemitic. What IS antisemitic is this trend that has been going on for years in liberal activist spaces, where the second a Jewish person is involved in literally anything, ie Existing While Jewish, gentiles HAVE to bring up Israel, and quiz us on it until they’re satisfied that we have completely denounced it, including its right to exist. And if we don’t denounce every aspect of it to their satisfaction, then obviously we must support the genocide of Palestinians and are cast out of activist spaces. That’s what’s going on with Gal Godot. The plot of Wonder Woman had NOTHING to do with Israel or Palestine but because she is Israeli, because she served in the Israeli Army (which by the way, is mandatory, and also she served as a goddamn fitness instructor) gentiles are pouring out of the woodwork to deem her “problematic.” And I’m fucking pissed. 

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Rand’ relationship with the Maidens means the absolute world to me

when somara offers him a coat cuz he might get cold even though its like 100 degrees outside (classic mom energy)

the way they arent scared of him and constantly follow him around to defend him, the way they still joke around with him and about him even after mat and egwene and the others start putting awkward distance between themselves and rand

the fact that they all love him because hes their brother or nephew or cousin by an adopted relationship of sisterhood, and follow him because of who he is outside of the dragon reborn

How rand wants them all safe, because he cares about them too, but he cant keep them from fighting and dying because sacrificing who they are for safety would destroy them

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decades

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hey so i was rewatching "we gull way back" this morning and i have a question for the fandom here: do we think Calico Jack is even drunk at all during this episode?

might seem like an obvious "yes" but hear me out. i'm not sure how much of this is obvious but i know personally my initial impression of CJ was "oh he is aware of maybe 25% of what is happening around him" and that was allowed to carry over even as the episode progressed and we learned he had ulterior motives. even after learning that i let it color my perceptions of him in hindsight until i rewatched the episode more. because he really does just act like a barely-functional alcoholic!

...but i don't think we even see him drink more than rare performative sips in the whole episode. and i think he's faking it to make himself seem more harmless (which obviously worked on me!).

especially on rewatches, it stands out how manipulative CJ is the entire episode. we don't see him drink a lot, but he's constantly encouraging Ed to drink more by reminding him of the rules of their games or even pouring alcohol directly into Ed's cup. he's constantly steering conversations in very pointed directions to either make Ed feel like a monster or demean Stede. there's the obvious example where he cries in front of the crew to turn them against Stede, then glances at Stede in such an obvious way where you can tell he did it on purpose. there's something so cunning about him and it just keeps happening. he hits Ed with a coconut right as he and Stede are getting somewhere in their conversation in just the right way so it's left cut short and they're on the wrong foot with each other, he even kills Karl the bird right as Ed is apologizing and trying to get everyone to bed. it all seems like an accident on first watch, but on rewatches he is so clearly pushing the whole episode to get Stede and Ed isolated from each other and make Ed feel terrible so when Stede inevitably cracks and tells Jack to leave, Ed will go with CJ.

laid out like that, i'm shocked i didn't see it more clearly on the first watch. but CJ is so good at acting like your average party bro! he feels like an immature guy who can be a bit of a bully but who is ultimately pretty harmless until the second he's got Ed alone and they're leaving and you realize he planned out every part of what happened, and he did it so effortlessly he made it look like an accident.

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Galactic Forum, human guide section.

I think we found the perfect enrichment for human crew members.

Our humans really enjoyed this area we provided for them.

They can run, fall, climb and more, to their hearts content.

They really enjoy being lifted and thrown into a large pit of foam blocks, or plastic spheres.

Note: our crew is mostly Xarnian, so we possess the necessary strength to lift the average adult human despite the density they have evolved on their deathworld.

Human larvae enjoy it the most, but even the mature humans are also thrilled by these activities.

Incidents involving "acts of human" are down 18% in the first cycle alone since we installed the enrichment chamber.

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Thinking about humans and aliens. Too hard.

Imagine an alien species that evolved to be semi-aquatic watching humans (a species evolved to climb and run on land) jump eagerly into the water to swim with them. No safety equipment, no flotation devices, just a thin modesty suit and sheer glee.

And humans, by the alien’s standards, are terrible at swimming. Just…truly awful. They can’t hold their breath for long, their bones and muscles are dense, their lungs make them too buoyant, their hair creates drag, their gangly limbs are slow and clumsy, and they can’t open their eyes underwater because the water will hurt them.

And yet the human laughs and splashes with their alien friend and alien can’t help but marvel as the human seems to adapt in real time right in front of their eyes.

The human streamlines themself to glide through the water as best they can, trying their best to turn their grasping hands into paddles, their feet into flippers. The human watches and copies how the alien moves and mimics them, learns and copies them until they move almost gracefully.

Often, they break away from these learned skills and become a land mammal flailing in the water again, but something about the human willingly defying their nature, learning to be more than they are in a bid for connection with another species, makes the alien light up with something that feels an awful lot like fondness.

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People just seem absolutely unable to comprehend what’s happening in Ukraine. You tell them everything that is happening including tens of thousands of kids possibly hundreds but that number hasn’t been fully considered have been kidnapped and being trafficked and they can’t comprehend how bad it is because it doesn’t fit their narrative of the world. It’s just a white country fighting a white country how can any side oppress the other. It’s like their brains literally cannot comprehend it because it doesn’t fit the only framework they know for comprehending the world. I don’t understand how they hear this and then aren’t horrified

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by Jillian Lederman

In the spring of 2022, Yael Nativ taught an Israeli contemporary dance class as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It went so well, she said, that she was encouraged to come back in the future. In August 2023, she submitted an application to teach the same class in the 2024–25 academic year.

Her application was rejected.

“My dept cannot host you for a class next fall,” Nativ was told in a November 2023 WhatsApp message from SanSan Kwan, a Berkeley faculty member in the theater, dance, and performance studies department. “Things are very hot here right now and many of our grad students are angry. I would be putting the dept and you in a terrible position.”

The WhatsApp message appears in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in a California state court. The lawsuit alleges discrimination, claiming that Nativ’s application to return to Berkeley was denied because she is Israeli. She is represented by the Brandeis Center, a nonprofit group that focuses on fighting antisemitism.

At Berkeley, as on many other college campuses across the United States, the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, unleashed a torrent of anti-Israel fervor, including walkouts, encampments, and protests that at times devolved into violence.

During that time, Berkeley launched an internal investigation into whether Nativ was the victim of discrimination. Seven months later, in September 2024, she was told that Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination had found that a “preponderance of the evidence” demonstrated that Berkeley had discriminated against Nativ on the basis of her national origin, the lawsuit says.

Nativ was told that she could propose a remedy for the discrimination. But when she did, the lawsuit alleges, she never received a response.

On Wednesday, Berkeley said that it hadn’t seen Nativ's lawsuit but “is committed to confronting harassment and discrimination of all types, and to gaining compliance with all relevant state and federal statutes, and University policies. When those laws and/or policies are violated, the university believes there should be appropriate consequences.” Kwan couldn’t be reached for comment.

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Bob Dylan (winner of the 2016 Nobel prize for literature) released "Neighbourhood Bully" in 1983.

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August 19, 2025, Jewitches being disgustingly antisemitic, again:

As anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocket in NYC, the ADL is entirely right to ask why Mamdani is entirely uninterested in addressing the problem.

Jewitches appears to believe addressing antisemitic hate crimes would be inherently harmful to other, inherently more deserving, populations.

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the plot of prince caspian is so funny to me it’s like “locals bring back ghosts from hundreds of years ago to help defeat the evil king” except it’s from the point of view of the ghosts

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have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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