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JodiJacobson 🇺🇦 🩸🦷 @jljacobson@mastodon.social Profile picture
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Aug 22, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Oath of Disloyalty, by Irwin Keller, 2019

I am a disloyal Jew.
I am not loyal to a political party.
Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings.
I am not loyal to walls or cages.
I am not loyal to taunts or tweets.
I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings of white supremacy.

I am a disloyal Jew.
I am not loyal to any foreign power.
Nor to abuse of power at home.
I am not loyal to a legacy of conquest, erasure and exploitation.
I am not loyal to stories that tell me who I should hate.

I am a loyal Jew.
I am loyal to the inconveniences of kindness.
I am loyal to the dream of justice.
I am loyal to this suffering Earth
And to all life.

I am not loyal to any founding fathers.
But I am loyal to the children who will come
And to the quality of world we leave them.
I am not loyal to what America has become.
But I am loyal to what America could be.
I am loyal to Emma Lazarus. To huddled masses.
To freedom and welcome,
Holiness, hope and love.

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JodiJacobson 🇺🇦 🩸🦷 @jljacobson@mastodon.social Profile picture
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In response to many fair critiques, people continue to ask: But what did you want Biden to do?

Here are some things: Stop fetishizing bipartisanship w/ a group of fascists complicit in growing harm to the country and the planet. Stop negotiating with/making excuses for racists.
Start your presidency off with *the* single most important thing--voting rights--and campaign from DAY ONE like our lives depend on protecting those rights, because they do.
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Imagine if @POTUS has started his speeches and pressure campaign on voting rights last February. Imagine if he'd relentlessly called on Manchin, Sinema, and every silent Dem for the moral courage to do what was right; called on their constituents to understand what is at stake?
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In 25 years of policy & advocacy work on reproductive/ sexual health and rights, and ten running an online publication on same, I have learned several things.

1) Elected Dems never *really* fought for repro or sexual rights. The majority could barely say "abortion" w/o cringing.
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4) Movement leaders sometimes signed off on bad shit to presumably get good shit later that never materialized.
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@SenatorBennet helped facilitate Neil Gorsuch, because, you know, he's a standup white guy from the same law school circles.
.@ChrisCoons went to bat for Brett Kavanaugh, because he didn't want poor Brett to actually suffer the inconvenience of an actual investigation. And because Chris Coons is part of The Family, so he wants to ban abortion anyway.
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I grew up in a political environment in which you focused on your state, whether it was your Senator, your House member, your governor, city council... you get it.
Now, every election in every state is national: When the GA GOP passes voting rights restrictions, they export those to Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin. When the Mississippi or the Missouri legislature passes abortion restrictions, they export those to other states.
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The policy pipelines are local-->state-->national or national--local--state.
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