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As a grad student, Liyang Chen spent a year working out how to carve a nanowire that’s thinner than a single bacterium. Using the wire, Chen helped show that the metal it’s made from — and others like it — may carry electrical charge without electrons. quantamagazine.org/meet-stra…
Have these guys considered protesting Trump or something instead.
The "crimes" for which these Jewish businesses are being targeted in Philadelphia:
Goldie, Dizengoff, and K'Far Café:
Co-owned by chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner.
Following the October 7, 2023 attacks, they donated $100,000 to United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization.
Their crime? Helping provide medical care.
Schlesinger's Deli
Hosted a fundraiser in October 2023 for the local Jewish Federation's Philly Stands with Israel emergency relief fund.
Crime? Helping fund emergency services in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7.
Huda
A burger shop that has no publicly reported political donations; the owner previously trained in Israel.
Crime? Training to cook in Israel.
Mac Mart
A macaroni-and-cheese shop that has made no political or international donations. Its Jewish co-owner stated she has never brought politics into her business and believes she was added to the boycott list simply for wearing a Star of David necklace.
Crime? Not hiding her Jewish identity.
(Interestingly, businesses not owned by Jews that support Israel aren't being targeted.)
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I love it when my comedy show does a sketch where they stare directly into the camera and tell me that they're the exact same type of Brooklyn leftist that I am. This is the peak of comedy, to me.
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This is along the lines of "Slavery wasn't so bad because many slaves never got whipped." Any Jew living in Tsarist Russia, no matter how successful, knew that he or she could always become a victim of persecution and have everything taken away.
A common myth about Zionism was that Zionist settlers in Palestine were themselves fleeing persecution ….
However so many of them dispel that myth in their own writings.
This is Moshe Dayan’s memoir: archive.org/details/mosheday…
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I would be more left if leftists weren't such West loathing freaks. Like I support universal healthcare and workers rights, but I don't support ayatollah Khamenei and Putin
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"As a hockey mom" lmao. Nice try, FSB.
As a hockey mom, I find it absolutely disgusting that young Russian hockey players are being punished for the actions of their country’s leader.
These young men didn’t start a war. They’re hockey players who have dedicated years of their lives to a sport they love.
And let’s not forget their families.
The countless hours at the rink. The early mornings, the endless travel, the financial sacrifices, and the years spent supporting their sons’ dreams of going as far as they possibly can in hockey.
As a hockey mom, I know firsthand what families give up to get their children to this level.
And now, because of politics, those dreams and opportunities are being taken away.
Mark Carney, these young men are not responsible for Vladimir Putin’s decisions.
Since when did we decide that punishing young athletes for the actions of their government was acceptable?
Hockey should bring people together, not divide them.
Absolutely disgusting.
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I still think the single funniest moment of this entire campaign season was when leftists were passing around a clip of David Crowley saying "we should listen to people we disagree with because nobody has all the answers" thinking it would make people like him less
Francesca Hong's opponent, David Crowley, says: "we have to listen to independents and Republicans because we [Democrats] don't have a monopoly on good ideas."
Interview credit: @DanRShafer
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The Enabling of Russell Brand @suzanne_moore suzannemoore.substack.com/p/…
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[Guy whose political consciousness doesn't extend earlier than 2016]: Wow, suddenly all these Democrats sound like Bernie Sanders.
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Bernie Sanders refused to endorse Ossoff in 2017 and instead endorsed anti-abortion shitbag Heath Mello that same week, it’s 9 years later and Ossoff is doing Kim Jong-un numbers in Georgia, what are we talking about
Bernie Sanders lost the fight in 2016. A decade later, he won the war. politi.co/4ekGIS5
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Lots of leftists who spent the last few years saying "both sides are the same" are sure celebrating as if there is a huge difference between the sides.
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I think it’s great that the goalposts have shifted from “leftists know how to win where mainstream Dems have failed” to “leftists are worse than mainstream Dems but only by a small amount.”
Next step is to look at Blue Dogs.
Or you can look at this way — Abdul’s vote share was only 2 points lower than Jocelyn Benson — a popular statewide elected official who faced an opponent that was abandoned by Republican outside groups weeks ago — after:
— Enduring the most disgusting onslaught of racist and Islamophobic attacks in modern political history
— An unprecedented onslaught of negative ads from outside groups dating back to the primary
— His primary opponent (who nearly defeated him) endorsing his general election opponent days before the primary
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I love how this guy did a whole ass show about how @neeratanden is supposedly helping Republicans (and wants them to win) because she was critical of a Streamer from California and then when the Dems win BIG his only statement of the entire night is........bitching about Dems.
Thinking that might have been justttttt a big of projection by Sam, there.
Jolly and Nixon came so close with nearly no resources. Abject failure of Democratic leadership in deploying rsources. #youhadonejob
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Mainstream candidates trounced, and left candidates underperformed to differing degrees.
This narrative just doesn’t fit what happened.
Here’s the thing, Nancy. Last night wasn’t just the American people defeating Republicans. It was the American people rejecting the establishment, spineless, corporate wing of the Democratic Party. Makes no sense to maintain the leadership of that wing.
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Comparing candidates on electoral swings shows the opposite: progressive candidates vastly underperformed the moderate ("establishment") ones. Without the large shift seen in the national electoral environment, they likely would have lost.
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If Ukraine did this to Russia you would already have every Zog-Right account on this website writing about how heckin evil Ukraine and how Russia is the saviour of the West with 60K likes
I honestly have no issue with this? It's probably been a long exhausting day for him and he's just trying to get that journalist to stop pestering him.
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
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