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Hey, does anybody (@pargolettasworld maybe?) know where this tune for Mizmor Shir comes from?
https://voca.ro/13qshRoitwoW
Not sure where it originates from, but we used this at my (pluralistic but largely conservative) Jewish summer camp in the northeast US
No wait! Itâs Debbie Friedman!
Hey, does anybody (@pargolettasworld maybe?) know where this tune for Mizmor Shir comes from?
https://voca.ro/13qshRoitwoW
Not sure where it originates from, but we used this at my (pluralistic but largely conservative) Jewish summer camp in the northeast US
There are people â some in my own Party â who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, heâll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. Iâll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say â almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most â public praise on the Sunday news shows â in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work â just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I wonât be fooled twice.
Iâve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times Iâve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.
The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population â so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis â contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.
As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case â but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 â a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately â and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Hereâs what Iâve learned â the root that tears apart your houseâs foundation begins as a seed â a seed of distrust and hate and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didnât arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
Iâm watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac â and suggests â without facts or findings â that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks â arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too âfemaleâ and ânonwhite.â The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who donât look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
I just have one question: What comes next? After weâve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities â once weâve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends â After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face â what comes next.
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we donât want to repeat history â then for Godâs sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincolnâs Bible: âI do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We donât have kings in America â and I donât intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions â but in deference to my obligations.
If you think Iâm overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All Iâm saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 â just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the ârally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.â It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.
Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the âtragic spirit of despairâ overcome us when our country needs us the most.
Sources:
âą NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text
âą Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)
being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years
what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past âdresses are for women and pants are for men.â i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress weâve made
âWeâre in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of womenâs liberation was built on, and that was âBiology is not destinyâ. âOne is not born a woman,â Simone de Beauvoir said, âone becomes oneâ. Now thereâs some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? Itâs a reactionary tool.â
â Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that Iâll keep going with you
i mean this in the meanest way possible, if you as a leftist, in an attempt to 'punish' the democrats, either didn't vote or voted for a third party, go fuck yourself. you chose your own self righteousness over actually doing good.
Can you be a leftist if every choice you make enables fascism? Isnât making choices to enable fascism what fascists do?
Or earlier! Any red state can turn blue if enough voters turn out.
sorry but i want to hit every american talking about not wanting to vote democrat anymore with hammers. lol
yes the democratic party also sucks but you know what sucks more? republicans winning elections because the left is too idealistic to vote. fuck you. not only would that have massive repercussions on human rights and just about every social issue in your country but it influences international politics too dipshit!! a far right government in the us is bad for the whole world!! i dont care that you dont like liberals you dont have to like them just fucking vote for the party that doesnt want poc and queer people dead. yes even if they have shit stances on things like israel. because its better than having a republican government. fucks sake
i just. i want to grip these people by the shoulders and shake them. i dont care that you dont like biden. i dont like biden. but if your other options are trump and desantis you have a moral obligation to vote for the guy that isnt trump or desantis. abstaining wont get you a better government that doesnt contribute to genocide itll get you a far right government that contributes to genocide even harder
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My post on the 100% hypocrisy of the so-called âPro Lifeâ movement
Happy Pride everybody! Don't fall for the yearly "divide and conquer" tricks from the right
Forever thinking about how, on election day in 2016, I wore a shirt with an American flag on it because it was what was clean. And the 20-ish year old bagging my groceries made a snide remark about it, followed by 'I didn't vote, they're all the same anyways.' And a fellow grocery worker chimed in agreement that he wasn't voting for the same reason.
And now I can't go to a local drag event without having to walk through a gauntlet of nazis.
I realize that the election is a year and a half away, but please don't fall for the 'they're the same' rhetoric this time around. Both candidates will suck, but they'll suck in different ways and one of them wants my community dead.
I spent 2016 trying to elect Hillary Clinton President, every single day, for months, 7 days a week, often times early in the morning, to deep into the night. I got blisters on my feet that bled, and split my knuckles knocking doors.
it was the worst experience in politics I've ever had.
and I can not tell you how many times I talked to people, people who were politically engaged and was like "if we don't pull this off, we could lose it all, we could slide into fascism" and people would smile at me indulgently but I could tell they didn't really buy it. They thought I was being hysterical, silly little gay boy getting all worked up, you know how they are. Appeals to people about how we could lose the Supreme Court and Roe were treated the same way. I had at least one person say "well thats a great campaign line but you don't really think they'll do that do you?" I wish I could say it was a man, but no it was a woman.
People refused to believe Trump would be "that bad" and people acted like being asked to be... for Hillary was like being asked to eat moldy cheese.
He was that bad, and he uncorked something deep dark and truly horrid in America, we clawed our way to holding onto the edge here people.
I'll say this till I'm blue in the face, Joe Biden right now, is the most pro-trans, most pro-LGBT world leader, bar none, on earth right now. The Democratic Party is the most pro-LGBT major political party on Earth, over in Europe parties like the Labour Party are being like "well what about a little transphobia?" while Red State Democratic Governors facing re-election this year are saying "fuck no" and vetoing transphobic laws knowing it'll lose them votes. And they're up against maybe the most aggressively anti-LGBT political party in the Western World, there might be some worse ones in non-democracies (like Russia) but in terms of democratic countries the GOP is the worst.
Vote, because your fucking life does depend on it.
Seattle Public Library is doing this awesome program called Books Unbanned that allows teens and young adults (ages 13-26) access to their collection of e-books and e-audiobooks from anywhere in the USA. All you need to do is fill out a simple form and you get their Books Unbanned card. Please share this information far and wide. I know they're not the only ones to have done this, but the more the merrier!
The fact that anti-abortion laws and anti-transgender laws are both being implemented en masse, at the *same* time, by the *same* people (who, it hardly needs to be remarked, are overwhelmingly neither women nor transgender) should be enough to convince any reasonable person that the narrative of conflict between and women's and transgender is, first and foremost, a divide-and-conquer strategy by the far right.
Your survival is our survival. Our survival is your survival. Anyone who says different is a fed.
Itâs the same fight for bodily autonomy and a right to make your own medical decisions.
And both abortions and happy, healthy trans people are terrifying to patriarchal structures because they threaten the established gender roles that keep men dominant.
But also, plenty of (white, cis) women are perfectly happy to argue against abortion and trans rights because they think the approval theyâll get from patriarchal forces benefits them more than the right to make decisions over their own healthcare. (Also, puritanical beliefs who believe that they are âgood peopleâ who would never be âpunishedâ with an unwanted pregnancy or ectopic pregnancy or medical emergency during pregnancy)
right now itâs almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic partiesâthe exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters.Â
Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.
You work with what youâve got, not what you wish you had.
I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:
Biden/The Former Guy
Biden/DeSantis
Biden/Republican Fascist to be Named Later
No Labels is an op. Itâs being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.
No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and heâs a Democrat for all intents and purposes).
Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but thatâs not looking as likely as it did two years ago.
If youâre pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if youâve got a conserva-Dem somewhere nowâprimary them).
Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless youâre up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isnât full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isnât going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesnât like.
As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.
Thereâs a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.
Starting mid-April Iâll be posting to-do lists and action items for people whoâve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.
Speaking as a Michigan resident: Look at the laws being passed in Michigan. Now look at the laws being passed in Florida. Spot the difference? Thatâs because Michigan is being governed by the Democratic Party, and Florida is being governed by the Republican Party. Thatâs the difference. Theyâre different parties. It is not the same.
You want what weâve got? Vote for it.
(And you want Michigan to stay the way it is and not slide backwards into the shit we had to deal with with Rick Snyder, or even just the way it was when the House and Senate were Republican-controlled? Keep fucking voting.)
Janet Protasiewiczâs victory gives Democrats an opening to reverse the state GOP's onslaught on democracy.
BREAKING NEWS: "Liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz won a critical seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008 and a pathway to challenging the GOPâs decade-plus stranglehold on power in the Badger State.
Protasiewiczâs impact on the court could be felt quickly. She ran an outspoken race for a judicial candidate, criticizing the âriggedâ maps and saying she believes that âwomen have the right to choose.â A challenge to the abortion ban is making its way through state court and progressive groups have vowed to challenge the redistricting mapsâwhich give Republicans a near super-majority in the legislature despite Democrats having won 14 of the past 17 statewide electionsâafter the new judge is seated on August 1."
Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/progressives-win-a-majority-on-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-janet-protasiewicz-daniel-kelly/
