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This is your annual reminder:

Judaism is a closed religion

Christians historically mass murdered us for celebrating Passover

So I better not see anyone doing a Christian Passover. If you want to experience Passover then find yourself some Jewish friends and get invited over—but it is not your custom, it is not your practice, and it is not acceptable for you to take and bastardize our holiday when your ancestors slaughtered us for celebrating it.

Back off.

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I have been asked to clarify this. I am discussing his chasing the money lenders out of the temple.  First you need to understand what was the context of them being there in the first place. You could only make sacrifices in The Temple. Your sacrifice was a lamb that needed to be in good condition (not sick or injured). This means if you were going to bring a sacrifice with you, you needed multiple lambs in case one became injured or sick, and feed/money for feed for multiple lambs. By this point, Jews lived anywhere from what is now Egypt, to Iran to Syria. It was INCREDIBLY expensive to travel with your family and your lambs on what could be a several month journey to Jerusalem. Most people who were not rich would just spare the expense and buy the lambs at the temple (there are historical records from Roman historians on this). Money lenders were there for people who were traveling from different kingdoms to make sacrifices, so the lower income families would have the correct currency to buy a lamb for sacrifice.  Lets also note that most of the sacrificed animal would be eaten by that family. 

In chasing the lenders out, they screwed over every poor family that spent months traveling. They would not have the correct currency to spend in that region, and they would not have been able to buy the lamb that would be used to feed their family.  This would not have impacted the priests of the temple as they were still able to do sacrifices from locals, or the rich. This wouldn't impact the rich as they could afford to bring their own lambs. All it did was hurt poor people. 

The thing Jesus is constantly praised for as this amazing anti-capitalist unilaterally fucked over the poor in a really big deal way and I truly do not understand why we praise him for it. Can someone explain this to me?

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The thing Jesus is constantly praised for as this amazing anti-capitalist unilaterally fucked over the poor in a really big deal way and I truly do not understand why we praise him for it. Can someone explain this to me?

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Eddie Murphy at the ‘Purple Rain’ premiere when asked what he thought about the film | July 27 ‘84

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Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them

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Rubbing alcohol on the inside of your wrist, the inside of your elbow, the back of your knees, or down the back of your neck are super helpful. 

Hot drinks can cool you down if the amount you sweat can evaporate off of you (meaning you arent wearing too many layers, and you arent dripping in sweat already). This trick is better for a dry heat than a humid heat. Spicy food works the same way. 

Know the subtle signs of dehydration - leg cramping, stomach cramping, headaches, dizziness. 

Stay safe out there!

genuinely friendly reminder

if you’re staring down that looming heat wave and you don’t have ac, or your ac can’t keep up:

put your feet in a tub of water.

just regular tapwater. if you don’t have a bucket or washtub you can use, run a few inches in the bathtub and pull up a chair to the side of it.

this got me through a summer in a sunbaked attic apartment with no AC, in minneapolis, where highs in the 90s are pretty much guaranteed for at least a couple weeks every summer. it was at LEAST 110 in that apartment every day of that hot stretch. i cannot overstate how much soaking your feet helps.

you can also fill a plant mister from the cold tap and mist yourself.

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This!!! Arbitrary rule setting and peoples inability to be straightforward send my anxiety into the stratosphere. My mom used to get really angry because she would ask me to do my dishes, and I would do my dishes. But apparently that meant do all the dishes????

Theory that neurotypicals are the ones with "communication issues" actually. You're the one who can't communicate with ME, buckaroo

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So there were 215 dead children found in a residential school in Canada. In a report from the UN detailing just the schools in the USA, not including Canada: “Thousands of children have died in these schools, through beatings, medical neglect, and malnutrition. The cemetery at Haskell Indian School alone has 102 student graves, and at least 500 students died and were buried elsewhere. The practice of schools when children died at school was that their dead bodies were simply dumped on the floors of their families homes. In one boarding school, the skeletal remains of babies were discovered in the walls after the school was torn down.” The last residential school in Canada closed when I was a year old. Yall we need to be making noise about this to get the rest of these schools searched in the US and Canada. These communities deserve to have their children found. 

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My grandmother survived a genocide, 3 civil wars, and an ethnic cleansing across 4 countries in Asia. Prior to college she pulled me aside to remind me to never trust anyone- not family, not friends, and especially not allies. I brushed it off as her hypervigillance from being a refugee multiple times. I am a queer asian jew and after this month I believe her.

I saw an over 400% increase in hate crimes against the Jewish community, over 17,000 tweets saying “H*tler was right”, calls for rape and murder of my community. All the while, the same social justice community who would speak up for me as an asian woman 2 months ago wouldn’t open their mouths for me now because they cant seem to see the difference between an IDF soldier and a diasporic jew. 

A professor told me that I am personally slaughtering Palestinian children because I am a living Jew, and Jews should all be wiped from the earth. Oh, and she assured me that this wasn’t antisemitic, just anti-zionist. Another professor agreed that Jews were dirty thieves. Another professor showed pictures of dead holocaust victims beside a picture of dying pigs as a way to remember a specific disease. A sociology professor said antisemitism doesn't exist anymore. Another professor said that Black Jews dont exist and then shut down the Black Jews who tried arguing with her by saying their opinion doesn't matter because of the forced birth control injections of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. 

Arizona is re-opening their gas chambers, closed over 20 years. They will be using Zyklon B aka hydrogen cyanide aka Nazi gas chamber gas. This is the  gas that killed millions of people - Jews, Roma, LGBT, disabled, and more. From US records of using this as a method of execution, we know that it takes 10-20 minutes for someone to die of it, with witness reports of people slamming their heads into walls to kill themselves before the gas, coughing/gagging, and dying in agony. No one is speaking out against this (please call your senators!)

It is the first of June and I have already seen anti-asexual rhetoric being spewed by people in the LGBT community. Those who believe that the “A” stands for Ally, and that aces deserve zero community support because we have AVEN. We have AVEN, an online chatroom and education database for asexuals. Those who believe we do not have oppression by the cishets, yet ignore data on corrective rape, medical abuse, conversion therapy, job and housing discrimination against our community. 

I am tired. I am sad. I am terrified. I am abandoned by the communities and spaces that were once a safe haven. I am abandoning my cultural name. I am abandoning my asian and jewish mother tongues. I am taking down my mezuzah like many in my community. This and last month were supposed to be celebrating the AAPI community, American Jewish community, LGBT community, and bring awareness to mental health. As a member of all of those communities, I have never felt more alone.

Please see this. Please start speaking out. My communities hear your quiet and it is suffocating. 

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Warning for Disney World’s 4D movie “its tough to be a bug”

If you have any panic response to the idea of a gas chamber, skip this movie. 

There is a scene towards the middle where some bugs “wage war” on the humans. They shake a can of raid, spray it, and a smoke machine pours smoke into the audience. 

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We need to make more noise about the sub-minimum wage in America.

The Youth Minimum Wage: For employees under the age of 20, it is legal to pay them anything over $4.25 for the first 90 days of employment. That means they can pay you $4.26 for 3 months, legally. 

Disabled Sub-minimum Wage: If you have disabilities including but not limited to blindness, mental illness, developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy, alcoholism or drug addiction, it is legal to pay well below minimum wage so long as it can be proven that your disability impacts your productivity as compared to abled workers. One horrific report found that in an entire pay period, one woman only made $0.38. 

When the $15/hour bill was struck down, the provision to end subminimum wage was struck down with it. This needs more attention. 

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Last night I publicly outed a predator with stalking behavior in my community.

The outpour of people reaching out to make sure this POS is blacklisted has been fucking phenomenal. 

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(To the tune of if youre happy and you know it)

If you glorify the USSR I dont trust you If you glorify the USSR I dont trust you

They were colonizers, slavers, and committed genocide

So if you still glorify them then you’re a monster

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I feel like people need to see this. Israelis are currently marching for Palestinians, and against the evictions of Sheikh Jarrah. 

Joint Jewish Israeli and Arab Israeli Pro-Palestinian protests happening right now:

An Israeli organization, who has worked with the PA in the past to do huge protests for peace is planning another one this Wednesday (They had put it on hold to make sure it didnt overlap with Eid or Shavuot so they can get mass participation).  

(Images below are from the 2014 march)

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^^Pro-Palestinian protests in Israel. You are being heard, keep speaking!