Anxious Pickle

@pdnell.bsky.social

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Former public defender, single parent, bicyclist, baker, Jew, Democrat. Don’t like name-calling, but sometimes I do it quietly in the car. Black Lives Matter. 🗽🇺🇸🌎🌻

Shaggy white dog half on half off bed.
Screenshot of Jan 2023 tweet exchange between an American and Israeli lamenting the symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas.
Photo of distraught-looking Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the inauguration.
Photo of white climbing rose among leaves.
Screenshot of Spelling Bee saying Totted isn’t a word.
Jackie Robinson's leaf on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame.
Maurice Sendak's leaf on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame
Ben Shahn's leaf on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame.
Picture of Mel Brooks's leaf on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame in the Botanical Gardens.
Screenshot of Bsky post asserting that Jews eat babies.
Screenshot of threatening text allegedly from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The best fuzzy white dog on a carpet
Screen shot of a tweet exchange between an American Jew and an Israeli from early 2023 about the evil symbiosis of Hamas and Netanyahu.
Happy white dog to calm us down
Photo of empty, graffiti-covered phone booth with the words “connection is key” on the post, in front of a WPA wall in the park.
Photo of crowd of thousands of Israelis protesting last year.
Photo of Trump yelling that Jews are disloyal
Photograph of article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Judith Chernaik, founder of "Poems on the Underground," which for 40 years has selected poetry to be displayed on the tube in London.
Text from the Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the BOrder Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive --because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western Civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force." -Adam Serwer in the Atlantic.
Posters calling on us to learn ALL history taped up in the space where Parks Service staff pried off the stories of people enslaved by George Washington.
posters taped up calling on us to learn ALL history in the space where at Trump's behest, panels about the enslaved Africans owned by Georg Washington were pried off and tossed in a pickup truck.
Bright red step stool with a seat.
Picture of open can of Spaghetti-Os, small concentric circles of pasta in a sugary tomato sauce.
Screenshot of a post from Batya Ungar-Sargon on X, saying that the president has governed with dignity. (Just explaining the image, not endorsing her position!)
Cover of Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin
Screen shot from Pew report indicating that more 2020 Trump voters stuck with him than 2020 Biden voters voted for Harris.
Five chanukiot or menorahs in a window, lit for the first day.
Screenshot of Heather Cox Richardson column using the term “underbussing, as in “throw under the bus.”
Screenshot of post asserting that Israel conducted October 7th itself, despite Hamas having filmed itself.
Actual tweet from @DHSgov account ("Homeland Security"): "This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders."
The cover art for Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin, a wonderful novel that was made into a terrible movie.
Long Facebook post describing the actions of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, murdered 30 years ago today by extremists who now control the government.
Print by Jewish artist Ben Shahn from 1944 showing three children swinging amid the rubble of war.
Photograph of the wreckage of the White House, which is being knocked down so that Donald Trump, sex trafficker and convicted felon, can build a ballroom.
#NoKingsDay poster, photo of Mister Rogers with the caption "The only King Pittsburgh Supports" and "No Thrones, No Crowns, No Kings *Since 1776"
Photo of my father as an anti fascist medic in WWII
Photo taken on commuter train of man in red striped hat, like Waldo.
Image of text messages leaked from Young Republicans, showing a staggering assortment of racist and antisemitic slurs, which reminds me of the antisemitic imagery in the quoted post.
Photograph of a honey cake in a tube pan, risen almost to the top edge of the pan, on a striped cloth.
Picture of two stuffed Gritty mascots, a "shaggy orange Wookie-esque grotesquerie," each with a black yarmulke on its head.
Richard Scarry illustration of "essentials for a successful dinner party": candlestick with a red candle, a platter with an enormous pickle on it, a soup tureen, soup spoon, ladle, tablespoon, bowl, glass, pitcher, cup, saucer, and bread basket.
Picture taken from inside car, Amish buggy just ahead, double yellow no-passing line on the road.
Broadside stapled to telephone booth stating "Zionism is the highest form of white supremacy" but edited in red to swap in "Jews" everywhere it says "Zionists." Long litany of offenses, many conspiratorial, when they could just condemn Israeli government policy and genocide.
Cartoon of two dogs, one in a chair and the other behind a desk, holding a script, who says, "If you introduce a stick in act one, somebody needs to throw it."
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, in which Calvin is looking for a shoebox to make a diorama that is already due.
Two pocket golems made by @sheydgarden, carrying scrolls.
Aerial photograph of protest in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu, thousands of people.
Soft boiled egg sitting in an egg cup designed to make it look like the egg is reading the newspaper.
Announcement of discussion including Gabriel Winant, whose response to the slaughter of 1200 Israeli civilians was that it was wrong to mourn them.
Photograph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at Trump's inauguration, her face a mask of anger, grief and fear.