Wow I Love Having To Block Mutuals For Sharing Incredibly Cruel Memes Abt I/p And Reblogging From Ppl

“All I want is silence, for myself and for the selves I used to be, a silence like the magical cottage in the forest that lost children find in fairy tales.”

— Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik

this thread and this article detail recordings made available to the media that were taken during the oct. 7 massacre by hamas terrorists. there is a sickness there beyond words, but the sickness i have seen on social media is something different, an almost desperate urge to perceive these acts as noble, misunderstood, exaggerated. it's an utter unwillingness to accept that true evil exists, motivated by ideas that seem almost imaginary - too horrible to be true - to people who have been shielded from such inescapable violence and hatred for so long that no one remembers how to respond. it is so unthinkable that many cannot think it, will not think it. they will retreat to moral equivalence, they will fold it into their existing framework (the victims were not innocent, not really), they will change the subject so that they don't have to admit their moral compass is broken, that they outsourced it to their politics, to their radical friends who like shouting about injustice and revolution without understanding what any of it means. this is what it means.

my mom reminded me today that i woke up on the 4th and came to her crying, and she asked me what was wrong, and i didn’t know, i couldn’t tell her anything except that i was unbearably sad and had this sickening feeling of dread that made me feel like the walls were closing in for no reason

Barbra Streisand in Yentl, 1983

Remembering Fanny Brice born on October 29, 1891 #botd

The Forward

Was Elvis Presley actually the Jewish Elvis?

“The Jewish World of Elvis Presley” by Roselle Kline Chartock tells of the king of rock 'n' roll's many Jewish affinities and ancestors.

Elvis was a nice Jewish boy? 🥹

He’s like a kaleidoscope, there are so many aspects to his life

i knew about this, but hadn’t read these pieces, and yes i will hold those truths close in my comforting worldview

The Berkshire Edge

‘The Jewish World of Elvis Presley’ (November 2020) by Roselle Kline Chartock

"As I discovered, Elvis is the least prejudiced of people; considering his background — coming from the deep South, from a deeply religious

Jenny Holzer, “Marquees,” 1993 (from the collection of Don Shewey)

💜👻💜

I'm so sick and tired of people having a double standard when it comes to empathy, and this counts for people on both sides of the political aisle.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg died and conservatives posted videos with them singing 'ding dong the witch is dead'. It's okay because she had policies that were 'pro-murder'

Hamas rapes, murders and kidnaps children and teenagers and people try to make it sound okay because 'they were provoked'

5 people die in a submarine and people make jokes because they were rich and they 'should have known better'

The Supreme Court judges' kids get doxxed and it's okay cause their parents were 'stealing our rights'

Listen. I don't care what you believe. I don't care what your political affiliation is. If you can look at suffering and try to make it sound less bad simply because you disagree with the suffering person you are losing your humanity. Murder is wrong, whether you like the victim or not. Stop making this about your opinions. It's not about you; it's about other people's agony.