Notices by Jessica :propride: 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 ✡️ (jewishreader@sfba.social), page 2

Can anyone give me an example that isn't 'he promotes a policy that I think is morally questionable or incorrect ' that demonstrates that Biden is *mentally unfit* to be president? Again, *not* 'he does shit I disagree with.' This is in response to a post I saw that genuinely baffles me.

@kingrat Even though I know intellectually there are extremists everywhere, I would not have guessed West Coast.

@kingrat Wow! Where did you grow up?

Greg Sargent says he was told "The Biden campaign has no plans for paid ads involving the verdict." Goddammit. They better change that with a quickness. [Edit: somebody over on Bluesky noted that they must think that if Biden himself emphasizes it, it will make it look more like a political prosecution, and that's not a terrible point.]

I was under the impression that we learned in WWI that chemical weapons were basically unusable because of, you know, the wind. But no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of police. Also this awesome sentence "Tear gases are banned for military use, but law enforcement agencies are allowed to use them for domestic circumstances, like riot control." [Gift link]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-jail-chemical-weapons-19476975.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NyaW1lL2FydGljbGUvc2YtamFpbC1jaGVtaWNhbC13ZWFwb25zLTE5NDc2OTc1LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcxNzAxMDkxMjMzMQ%3D%3D&rid=YTYyMzA1ZGUtMDFkMy00YjVhLWJlMjctOTA1NDY5MDMzYjc2&sharecount=MA%3D%3D

Social media communication thought of the morning: don't ask rhetorical questions, because people will answer them.

Can the President just stop making own goals with regard to this????? It is MADDENING. I don't think it's only political calculus, I think he genuinely believes this shit. But it's both morally horrendous *and* as far as I can tell terrible political calculus. Edit: and I say this as someone who is fighting like hell for his re-election.

I see a lot of folks on here who say they give books a
predetermined amount of reading time, like a chapter, before giving up. Anyone else who, like me, often gives them two pages or fewer? #bookstodon

Holy. shit. No American automaker makes a sedan anymore?

Something that Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes ignore is that attacks on trans people are also deeply dangerous for cis gender-non-conforming people. This is especially true for Black women, whom our white supremacist culture masculinizes.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/teaira-mccowan-trans-transgender-tiktok/

Just in case this discourse starts again, because I saw a post about the anniversary of the first major Nazi book burning: Magnus Hirschfeld's work was targeted *both* because it was about queer and trans identities AND because he was Jewish. The Nazis saw these things as linked, with the Jews as the source of cultural perversion.

Gift link: Jewish protesters arrested at Gaza border trying to bring in food:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/world/middleeast/rabbis-arrested-gaza-israel-border-starvation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.7Wat.riZP9Ed8gRo4&smid=url-share

@siege
It's OK; this is the way we feel about British architecture and landscapes.

I am once again begging a certain subset of leftist to stop pushing the 'abandoned working class' narrative while completely misidentifying who constitutes the majority of the working class in this country and also ignoring the MOUNTAINS of research on why lower-middle-class white people voted for Trump. The actual poor voted Democratic, as they always do.

As a trained scholar of religion who is herself agnostic, I am once again begging you to stop saying silly things about religion, which is a massively diverse phenomenon, culturally and historically.

🎵 Dear Non-Jews: You can fight against the oppressiveness of the Israeli state, and work toward the liberation of the Palestinian people, or even think that Israel shouldn't exist as currently constituted, and still acknowledge that Palestine was the historic homeland of the Jews as well as the historic and current homeland of Palestinians. That is just a fact of history and does not commit you to believe anything about the current state of Israel. And it makes many Jews, including many non-Zionist Jews, feel respected around you. Thank you.🎵

@thomasfuchs Had to cancel my first appointment because my insurance wouldn't cover that location, then waited in line for over an hour to finally get it three weeks later. There are so many barriers.