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"A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind" McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.

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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

09.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 11045 πŸ” 2459 πŸ’¬ 301 πŸ“Œ 118
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Opinion | How Civil-Rights Law Was Turned Against Civil Rights Title VI is now a tool for silencing dissent.

"Of the 102 antisemitism complaints sent to the Department of Education analyzed in the report, all but one focused on speech critical of Israel."

Thanks to Biden and Trump, fighting actual antisemitism is much harder. archive.is/8tbOM

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

10.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Spain needs to respect cultural differences and understand the indigenous value of being a "Good German"

10.03.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spain's Deputy PM Yolanda DΓ­az accuses German Chancellor Merz of behaving like a "vassal" to Trump, slamming his silence as Trump attacked Spain at the White House.

"What Europe needs today is leadership, not vassals who pay homage to Trump”

10.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

A great feeling when an extreme oddity in the history of ancient writing is literally keeping you up at night and you're afraid you might be the only one it bothers and then you hear from maybe the most expert person in the world that it seems just as puzzling to them too.

10.03.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

10.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 6033 πŸ” 1421 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 87
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On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

10.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 8513 πŸ” 1141 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 89

WWJD? ABS (Always Be Skeptical)

10.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: Whole Foods is owned by Amazon and Bezos and stealing from a company that underpays it's workers and forces drivers to piss in bottles and giving the finger to the guy who sank the WaPo is fine with me

09.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

fake news

10.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hogmogging

10.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Soviet demonstration with a large (papier mache) sculpture of a pig, 1920-30’s

10.03.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

on some Veggie Tales shit in there that even God wasn't meant to see

10.03.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i love to put my delicious fresh produce in the crisper drawer and never see it again πŸ₯°

10.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 941 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 4

never ask a lady her age, a man how much he benches, or the produce in the crisper drawer how it's been since you locked it away forever

10.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump tells Times of Israel: The decision to end the war with Iran will be a joint decision in consultation with Netanyahu.

09.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 114

whoah this is pretty nasty sounding, gives me a different context for Big Black, Live Skull, Big Flame et al

09.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly I was mainly focused on Marvel Comics and the Six Million Dollar man at that point in my life

09.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Move to Canada where Carney will let us have a few thousand of these, as a treat

09.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

never gave this a chance bc of the insane title but come to think of it when has this ever stopped me before??

09.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Got a fuckin' Old Shatterhand novel stuck in my Jack Wolfskin rucksack gonna rustle me up some currywurst ach ja!

09.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was recently reminded that in addition to telling Jewish people and Palestinians the acceptable limits of protest, antisemitism, and Jewishness itself, white Germans also love to create and dance to "Ghetto Tech." I'd say the country needs therapy except the past 75 years of it didn't seem to help.

09.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am begging people to understand that More People Disapprove of Trump does not in any way imply that those same people Approve of current Dems who have already lost to Trump.

If there is literally anything to be learned from the GOP in the past ten years, it's that you pander to your actual base

09.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Toronto-Area Synagogues Are Struck by Gunfire

3 synagogues shot at in a week. This attempt to intimidate the Toronto Jewish community must be unequivocally condemned and thoroughly investigated. We are deeply relieved no one was injured.

09.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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9 days in, the most basic question about the Iran war remains unanswered In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began

WE STILL DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER ON THE MOST BASIC QUESTION ABOUT THE IRAN WAR

WHY did the U.S. go to war?

A Popular Information review of public statements over the last 9 days found 17 DIFFERENT EXPLAINATIONS. Many of which contradict each other.

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09.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 2144 πŸ” 741 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 53

Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky., died March 8, from injuries sustained during an enemy attack on March 1, at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.

And while the Pentagon doesn't count him among the Iran war dead: Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, of Queens, N.Y., died on March 6

09.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Maj. Jeffrey R. O’Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa, died on March 1, 2026, in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, Calif. as well.

05.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 9140 πŸ” 3040 πŸ’¬ 430 πŸ“Œ 163

the united states may be the leading world exporter of radicalization.

09.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Poll: Primary voters prize ideology over electability as their parties get low marks A higher share of Democratic voters than Republican voters prioritize backing primary candidates who can win, but poll respondents say it's complicated.

"electability" is such a dumb concept. if you win an election, you are by definition able to win an election.

09.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 332 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 13