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Ein bissele déjà vu leide ich darunter fragdenstaat.de/artikel/klag...

Contributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentiments Try outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you.

Before @newyorker.com drops #TheNewYorkerAt100, @thebupkes.bsky.social drops … this: www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi...

The Jews who fought with Nazis: “Talk about bupkes!” with Oula Silvennoinen Listen now | A Finnish Holocaust researcher shares the lesser-known story of how his country's Jews ended up fighting for Hitler — and the impact that legacy has today.

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Contributor's contribution: I’m something rhino In the basement of a Brussels bar, the fluidity of meaning as distraction from the abundance of fluidity.

Read it here:
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New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars.

Ruining it for the rest of us That's a nice Star of David you got there, shame if something were to happen to it.

Full story here:
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Finland is finally getting rid of the last of its swastikas. While we sit shiva for the ancient symbol, its demise is an opportunity to consider what other artifacts of pluralistic significance and cultural continuity may nonetheless need to be done away with thanks to genocidal nudniks.

A voice from Gaza: “Talk about bupkes!” with Shahd Alnaami The Palestinian writer, translator, and student gives us a glimpse of loss, hope, and survival – that is, everyday life amid Israel's destructive campaign of impunity in Gaza.

New episode! We go to Gaza for a moving conversation about loss, trauma, and hope.

Get it here or most any podcast platform:
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The logic of the "market" ...

Trump announces tariffs: stocks tank.
Court announces tariffs were illegal: stocks tank.

Monsters (and other lies) When a double's not enough, make it a triple.

New for The Bupkes:
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
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You say it like it's a bad thing.

It’s hard to fully grapple with the insanity of it if you didn’t grow up drinking the poison like it was a healthy smoothie (present company here included). Once you start to think of it like a cult, it starts to make more “sense.”

The Chronicle is for Christian Zionists. I mean, it’s in acronym: JC!

It doesn't take a Freud to see the denial, narcissism, projection, and transference. We're so pleased to see Germany get the help it needs.

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New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable.

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Of course, this is the same mechanism of media complicity that buttresses far-right narratives on the domestic front — policing, immigrant communities, urban crime etc.

ConWatch: Week 1,819 Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany says no to weapons for Israel now — kinda sorta maybe whatever.

And our latest ConWatch looks at Germany’s decision to halt some weapons to Israel, and asks: Is what should have been enough now enough — and is it enough?
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We know it’s tough keeping up with bupkes. So here’s some of our latest …

Our interview with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu. Full episode on The Bupkes.

“German officialdom defends its Staatsräson as a recognition of its ‘historical responsibility.’ Yet employing one state of exception in response to the crimes that emerged from another is more likely to replicate those authoritarian effects than compensate for them.”

ConWatch: Week 1,819 Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Germany says no to weapons for Israel now — kinda sorta maybe whatever.

In light of Germany’s decision this week to stop weapons exports to Israel that “could be used in Gaza” (whatever that might mean), we ask:

When is what has been enough enough?
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The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle Listen now | The press guy for The Left group in European Parliament talks about the European Union's "grave" moment and why the internet is not really real.

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What is community and where is it? @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu has some ideas …

You don’t really buy the Applebaumian hegemonic worldview, do you?

NB: Germany does not have a “culture ministry” for similar historical reasons.

The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle YouTube video by The Bupkes

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The EU Left wants to rebuild community: "Talk about bupkes!" with Manus Carlisle Listen now | The press guy for The Left group in European Parliament talks about the European Union's "grave" moment and why the internet is not really real.

New episode of “Talk about bupkes!” with @manuscarlisle.bsky.social on leftist politics in the EU.

Listen here and subscribe:
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“But don’t you condemn Oct. 7.”

Well, 9/11 was pretty shitty, too. And then post-9/11 happened.

We prefer the active voice: Israel is ___ Gaza.

Head of U.S. pro-Israel group J Street 'won't argue' with those calling Gaza war genocide ***

If it took @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com to get @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social’s @jeremybenami.bsky.social to stop fighting the G-word, you know the denial goes very very deep.

Israel is murdering Palestine. And it’s destroying the Jews.
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ConWatch: Week 1,818 Does Germany have a constitution yet? This week: Choose your favorite pseudo-constitutional adventure!

It’s August, when northern Europeans are obligated to leave their cities the only time of year they aren’t dark and gray, to pack sweltering beaches elsewhere.

And The Bupkes has gone traveling too! To places other than Germany with not-constitution constitutions.
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