Elisheba Rachel tell me for real

Anyway here’s some information from the National Center for Transgender Equality on how you can support trans people, and here’s a direct link to their donation webpage, and here’s their page for national/federal and state advocacy efforts and actions if you wanted something specific to get involved in.

And there’s no guarantee I get even that job with its like $3000 more a year than I’m making now salary! I could basically be doing everything there and have no movement in any way!

An Israeli rep recently said that American Jewish leftist orgs which don’t unconditionally support Israel are a “cancer” on the Jewish community.

It hasn't been destroyed. It's under attack, and it's needed now more than ever, but it hasn't been destroyed.

Something that's come up again and again in these "fleeing Europe" Holocaust memoirs, is the presence of passionate Nazis who seem incapable of grasping why Jews might not want to socialize with them. They can't seem to comprehend the impact of their politics on these very real people, and some behave in a confused, even hurt manner.

Jewish media is jumping into the neo-Bundism vs. Zionism discourse and it’s….ahistorical.

It's infuriating. The larger left-lib Punditsphere appears to really want to Make Everything the Interwar Period again too what with anointing Platner Temu Smedly Butler (And gazing lovingly at all the father coughlins in the wings,) couching everything in rusted populist phrasing like the "Working Class" are still Big Tough (White) Men Who Do Metal Banging Jobs and Are All Latent Socialists (Remind me how class-conscious the Teamsters leadership was this last election) so I guess we need to have that same discussion and not update anything because everything is the EXACTLY the 20s/30s, or the 70s, or 2004 when you were young and full of piss and vinegar or when you aspired to the aesthetic of a time period vs actually contextualizing Meanwhile, across the board we have people re-litigating pop history through the use of youtube slop, Wikipedia edit gangs, public pressure and social engineering while different interest groups try to constantly fuck with college academia and even K-12 education so even if you have access to verifiable facts or just want to say "This shit is complicated and does not map 1:1" you're suddenly a bad person for wanting to apply nuance and not try to apply a popular astheticized conception of a 1930s 'solution' to an approaching 2030s problem. Ultimately we're back on my 'favorite' rant which is "It's a Fandom." And that's the problem. It's a Fandom and everyone wants to consume and level up and cosplay and have their little roles and have Bad Monsters to yell at. That's the peak of the theory of mind involved here and it's Everwhere.

someone on instagram just asked me to imagine what bundists leaders were thinking about polish reactions to their ghettoization and i was like "bro as a historian it's not my job to imagine what they were thinking. my job is to understand them within their context. the rest is for novelists." because historical fiction is a fandom. but history? naw son.

but there's also this way of looking at history and how these political factions behaved as though the holocaust was a foregone conclusion. it wasn't. even extraordinarily intelligent jewish leaders of all stripes struggled to grasp it. neither zionism not bundism existed to anticipate and respond to the holocaust.

An Israeli charity that distributes meals to impoverished and isolated Holocaust survivors just came up on my insta. I don’t really have money to throw around, but this is very important. More important than my skin care bullshit.

So I started watching You’re The Worst because it was on my dash, thinking it would be funny, and then I hit S2 which focuses primarily on Gretchen’s depression and I have honestly NEVER cried like that watching a TV show. I’ve never seen my depression depicted so accurately on screen and it just hit me so hard like yes, that’s what it’s like for me.