Putin’s Annexation of Ukraine

Yesterday, Putin annexed four Ukrainian provinces after a sham referendum where people were forced to vote by armed soldiers. In a speech Putin held, he made all the usual homophobic remarks about a decadent West. Liberty and justice are vices in the minds of people like Putin.

Yom Kippur 5783

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In about half an hour, Yom Kippur begins. It’s the most holy day of the Hebrew calendar.

Ignorance Is Bliss

All I do nowadays is working. I used to have time for blogging and living—no longer. I can’s complain. Frankly, I find the break from news and updates soothing. Especially now, when fascists are raping our continent once more. Ignorance is bliss.

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It’s Time to Legalise Cocaine

Joe Bidens has pardoned Americans convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. It’s too timid, The Economist writes.

If You Vote for Racists You Are Probably a Racist

Read a great column by Irena Pozar in Swedish newspaper Expressen. A common argument these days it that the Sweden Democrats can’t be racists because the 20% that supports them can’t all be racists. But they can! If you vote for a party rooted in Nazism, you’re most likely a racist.

Shabbat Shalom

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Another week has gone by and Sweden now has new right-wing government heavily reliant on the Sweden Democrats, a party founded by old and new Nazis in the 1980s. There’s very little liberalism in the government manifest. Long gone are ideas of lower taxes and open border. It all nationalism and conservatism for people terrified of foreigners and globalisation. One good thing though, three of the new government ministers are openly gay or bisexual. It’s gives me some hope that the far right are not yet able to turn back the clock on reforms that have given us near equality under the law.

Shabbat Shalom

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Painting by Geskel Saloman (1821–1902).