Saralegal

@saralegal

Sara, 30+. AuDHD, queer, Jewish diasporist. Public sector paralegal by day, nerd by night.

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Saralegal@saralegal· Jul 13

On second thought, he's going up for adoption.

Text log.

Son: How come I've given you alive checks but I get no alive checks for any of the important people in the house.
Son: Like Thundercloud
Me: Hey, I sent you a photo of Thundercloud! That was her alive check!
Me: I haven't gotten any photos of you as proof of life
Son: That photo could have been taken 5 years ago for all I know
Me: She wasn't born five years ago
Me: Checkmate
Me: Everyone in the house is still alive, I will go take another photo of Thundercloud

Text log, continued.

Me: Thundercloud is yelling at me now
Son: Dude I said I want the important people in the photos why does one have you in it?

Saralegal@saralegal· Jul 9

The Destiel news announcement meme popular on Tumblr.

Top: Castiel from Supernatural says, "I love you."

Bottom: Dean from Supernatural says, "Graham Platner has dropped out of the Maine Senate race."

Saralegal@saralegal· Jul 8

(To the tune of “Cruella de Vil”)

They're blaming The Jews.
They're blaming The Jews.
No matter if right wing
Or left in their views,
If something they don't like is in the news—
Whenever, whatever—
It must be someone's fault, and they know whose:
It's always, it's always The Jews!

On every side of every social issue,
No matter how deep-rooted or complex,
You’ll always hear the claim
A single foe’s to blame:
Some wealthy Jewish villain writing checks!

No matter what cause
They have in their sights—
Police, immigration,
Or transgender rights—
There’s never any doubt who they’ll accuse:
It's always, it's always The Jews!

Saralegal@saralegal· Jul 8

It sneaked past me on my first dozen viewings, too:

Saralegal@saralegal· Jun 30

As someone who has been on Tumblr since 2012:

A screencap from the film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," showing James Franco with a noose around his neck smiling wryly and asking the man on the gallows next to him, "First time?"

Saralegal@saralegal· Jun 28

Again: here is the correct, dictionary usage of the word antisemitism. It has *never* historically been used in any other way, in the same way that the word anti-abortion has only ever meant opposition to one of the several possible definitions of the word abortion.

anti-Semitism
noun
an·ti-Sem·i·tism ˌan-tē-ˈse-mə-ˌti-zəm ˌan-ˌtī-
variants or less commonly antisemitism
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

Saralegal@saralegal· Jun 28

Quick question, when someone says they're anti-abortion, do you think they're campaigning against people with visible physical disabilities, or are you only pretending not to understand how language works? My money is on the latter.

abortion
noun
abor·tion ə-ˈbȯr-shən
Synonyms of abortion
1
: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: such as
a
: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation compare miscarriage
b
: induced expulsion of a human fetus
c
: expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy compare contagious abortion
2
a
: a misshapen thing or person : monstrosity

Saralegal@saralegal· Jun 15

It's a very rare thing to have both a life story worthy of an autobiography and a compelling enough narrative voice to write one well. I really need to track down a copy of this.

A snippet of Nancy Wake's Wikipedia page:

On 29–30 April 1944,as part of the three-person "Freelance" team headed by John Hind Farmer (code name "Hubert"), Wake parachuted into Auvergne province, France. Resistance leader Henri Tardivat discovered Wake tangled in a tree. He remarked, "I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year," to which she replied, "Cut out that bullshit and get me out of this tree."

A snippet of Nancy Wake's Wikipedia page:

She sold her medals to fund herself, saying, "There was no point in keeping them, I'll probably go to hell and they'd melt anyway."

Saralegal@saralegal· May 23

I'm saving this as a reaction image, I think

A greyed-out chart of where various Christian denominations fall in terms of liturgical traditionalism and social traditionalism, with the phrase "your taste lives outside this map" stamped across it in red

Saralegal@saralegal· May 23

I am losing my shit that all my Jewish mutuals are getting assigned Churchsonas and I somehow got hit with "too Jewish to rate":

Saralegal@saralegal· May 6

I had to go digging for this one, but it's one of my favorite Hark! a Vagrant deep cuts:

A three panel comic from Hark! a Vagrant by Kate Beaton rigging on the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The comic is titled "Either the Wallpaper Goes or I Do."

First panel: a bedridden woman surrounded by loudly patterned wallpaper says, "Doctor, there's a woman in the wallpaper."

Second panel: the doctor, a man in a suit and spectacles, responds, "That woman has a feminist agenda."

Third panel: the doctor, now in close-up, adds, "Tell her to get in the wallpaper that's in the kitchen."

Saralegal@saralegal· Apr 23

Meanwhile, the actual position of Chabad on whether a Jew can cease to be a Jew by violating halakha: www.chabad.org/library/arti...

And here’s perhaps the greatest mystery of Jewishness: Once in, there’s no way out. You can join the team, you can fumble the ball, but you can’t quit. No one can throw you out—not even G‑d.

So that even if a Jew professes to opt out of the covenant of Abraham, walks away from his people, sinks to the lowest depths and commits every transgression in the book and more, he or she remains intimately bonded with the G‑d of Abraham. The responsibilities and obligations remain, and G‑d awaits the moment this precious soul will return.

When that soul does return, no restatement or conversion is necessary.17 On the contrary, for G‑d and for all Israel it is the greatest celebration, a lost child returning back home.

Saralegal@saralegal· Apr 23

Update: we're now up to the "let them see each other" stage.

A gray tabby cat looks out through a glass sliding door at a smaller orange/brown tabby in a fenced in outdoor cat enclosure. The orange/brown tabby, who looks like someone grafted a cat's head onto a marten's body, stares off into the middle distance with a haunted expression.

Saralegal@saralegal· Apr 19

No photos of son's cat yet because she only ventures out of his closet after dark, but here are our other two waiting to meet her. (The one with only 0.5 total ears was my daughter's pick.)

Saralegal@saralegal· Apr 13

Leo is WEAK on crime!

A screen cap of the character Leo Wyatt from the TV show Charmed.

Saralegal@saralegal· Apr 5

This guy: I just don't understand why people think I'm being antisemitic??? This guy responding to Jews:

A skeet from @copolitics.bsky.social: Hand me a pick axe! I'll dig to hell and let you know how your ancestors are doing

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 19

Hey buddy, this you?

A skeet from @piercepreston.bsky.social, 3/18/26: "What's happening is that for the first time in history humanity is able to accurately communicate with itself and we believed so many lies, like Jews never poisoned wells."

Also included in the skeet: a cropped screenshot of a Wikipedia article about "Operation Cast Thy Bread" with a woodcut of medieval Jews superimposed on it, captioned "Jews adding minerals and nutrients to European Wells 14th century."

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 15

Here's a sampler (for context, Stew Peters is a genuine, self-avowed neo-Nazi):

Susan Abulhawa tweet (has to be recent from context, but precise date not shown)

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 15

First off, you misspelled her name. Second, you may want to read through her recent Twitter account before jumping to her defense. It's pretty damning. (Not pictured: Susan Abulhawa responding to neo-Nazi Stew Peters to tell him he'd previously been "brainwashed by Hollywood and the zio media.")

A tweet from Susan Abulhawa one month ago, commenting on a headline about the Epstein files fueling antisemitic conspiracy theories: "The goyim noticed too much. It's time to gaslight, play victim, and deflect. When is the next Holocaust movie?"

A quote tweet by Susan Abulhawa, responding to an antisemitic "news" account called "The Noticer" reporting that an Australian man was sentenced to jail time for giving a speech saying "Jews are the greatest enemy to this nation." Her comment reads: "The judge who sent him to jail was magistrate Sharon Fruend. And yes, she is."

A quote tweet by Susan Abulhawa from less than two weeks ago, responding to a conspiracy theory claim that cities in Ukraine are becoming "Jews only" areas "right after all the Ukrainian men were sent off to die in war." Her response reads: "What's really happening in Ukraine?"

A quote tweet by Susan Abulhawa of a tweet saying that missile defense systems were moved from South Korea to Israel, which ends with the antisemitic dogwhistle "They found out they are just goyim." Her response repeats that same phrase: "South Korea paid a heavy price in their relationship with China to have those THAADs. Now the US just took them away, and Koreans realize they're just goyim."

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 15

I feel fairly certain that she did mean it as a dogwhistle, given her recent track record:

A tweet by Susan Abulhawa quote retweeting an openly antisemitic "news" account called "The Noticer."

The retweeted post says "BREAKING: Sydney father Brandon Koschel has been jailed for one year, with a non-parole period of nine months, for a 40 second Australia Day speech where he says 'Jews are the greatest enemy to this nation'."

Susan Abulhawa's quote tweet says: "The judge who sent him to jail was magistrate Sharon Fruend.

And yes, she is."

A tweet by Susan Abulhawa quote retweeting an antisemitic conspiracy post by Ben Wehrman.

The retweeted post says "Why are so many cities in Ukraine becoming 'Jews only' areas?

Right after all the Ukrainian men were sent off to die in war too, that's some crazy timing."

Susan Abulhawa's quote tweet says: "What's really happening in Ukraine?"

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 13

Bluesky truly does have the juice:

A series of three Bluesky posts.

Top, from @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social: "You have to accept that you're in a global holy war now. Borders, like we always said, are imaginary. If you want to wear the mantle, then you have to carry the baggage of the world of the weight of it. It sucks all around, but you seem to be identifying with your "identity" more than your biology."

Middle, from @saralegal.bsky.social: no text, only the "Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?" meme

Bottom, from @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social: "Enjoy the future. When the time comes, know that i'm sorry that you had to learn the hardest way, but you damned so many others to that fate that i cannot feel sorry for you. But thanks for showing how an entire society can turn completely nazi. Your teachings are invaluable."

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 13

The character Walter White from Breaking Bad, a bald, middle-aged white man with glasses and a goatee, stares across a restaurant booth at Jesse Pinkman, a younger man with his back to the camera, with an expression of complete, openly judgmental bewilderment. In just a moment, Walter will deliver the immortal line, "Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"

Saralegal@saralegal· Mar 3

A screenshot of the mischegaas I was responding to, for posterity:

A Bluesky post from @joocifer.bsky.social:

This is utterly false.

Israel has US Senators, and has it's grips on the current US presidency.

The best thing for the diaspora to do - and the stakes here are extremely high for them -

---> denounce Netanyahu/Liked/AIPAC loudly and at every opportunity

[cropped link to another post by the same user]

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 27

More highlights from Mr. "You Just Call Anyone You Don't Like a Nazi":

Two Bluesky posts from user Lou Cipher (@nemo141.bsky.social).

Top post, from 6 months ago: "I believe this is the same interview where Greenblat [sic] declares that no gentile is worthy of marrying a jew."

Bottom post, from 6 months ago (tagged by Bluesky as "Intolerance," and quoting a blocked post): "Remember, if a guy looks at a Jew, it's a hate crime. If a Jew rapes a goy child, it's not a crime. If you object to, or even notice, this disparity, you are an antisemite."

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 27

How merciful of you to only spotlight *one* example!

Three Bluesky posts from user Lou Cipher (@nemo141.bsky.social).

Top post, from 8 months ago: "Wikipedia Early Life section wins again."

Middle post, from 11 months ago: "Early life section of Wikipedia, it never misses."

Bottom post, from 6 months ago: "Early life section of Wikipedia wins again here."

All three posts are in response to posts about U.S. politicians saying things Lou disapproves of.

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 19

I left off a few important ones, actually:

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (1968)

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 19

I can't even bear to narrow it down to just four, to be honest:

The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander and George Herzog (1947)

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1959)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (1924, reissued with edits in 1943)

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 19

Name a book from more than 50 years ago that made you love reading as a kid.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (1964)

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Dubois (1947)

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 17

I don't usually screenshot content from other social media sites, but this Tumblr post about antisemitism deserves a broader audience. (The hyperlinks are included in replies.) Original here: www.tumblr.com/therealsaint...

A tumblr post by user therealsaintscully:

why do they always keep to themselves in the jewish quarter, in the ghetto, in the haret el-yahood, in the mellah, in the pale of settlement, why are they so separate, why are they hiding, they should assimilate, they can’t just stand apart like that, we have to mark them so we know who they are

they’re everywhere now, they don’t even look different anymore, how are we supposed to tell, they’re blending in, they’re infiltrating, they used to stay in their own streets, at least that was honest

we can’t lend money, that’s usury, that’s forbidden, let them do it, it’s our money anyway, they’re just holding it for us, why are they so good at it, why are all bankers jews, it’s suspicious how successful they are at the only thing we allowed them to do

they must convert, that’s the only way to belong, take our names, our faith, our god (what do you mean our god was jewish), our customs, become like us or else, those new christians aren’t real christians, they’re secretly practicing, their blood is still jewish you can't change blood, they’re hiding something, we need an inquisition to see what’s in their hearts

entertainment isn’t serious work, it isn’t respectable, it isn’t properly christian, it’s nonsense, let them make their silly films, why are they controlling what we watch, why is every agent jewish, i don't like them but they make me good money so what the hell, i don't understand that funny language with the shtick and the plotz, walt disney was right

they’re poor, they crowd the cities, they’re a burden, and they’re rich, they run the banks, they’re sickly and weak and parasitic, they’re powerful and dangerous, don't mix with any of them

they’re not loyal to anyone but themselves, they’re not patriotic, they’re not doing their share, they want to what? serve in the army? can we trust them, whose side are they really on

she can't be she's blonde, he can't be he's black, they're privileged whites, they're not white, every people has the right to self-determine their identity but theirs is fake, they’re impostors, they’re khazars, so what if they're atheists they're still jewish, they're godless people, they're too religious

we cannot let them publish, they cannot print, they cannot study in our universities, their books are dangerous, what is this language, we must burn their texts, they want what, emancipation, fine they should teach they’re cheap labour, why are they teaching our children, why are they in the sciences, why are they winning all the prizes, they’re uncultured, why do they own so much art, we must confiscate it, it’s our art not theirs, felix mendelssohn? pissarro? really? emma lazarus? Oh, kafka?? You don’t say, he doesn’t read like a jew

they’re the ones really behind socialism, behind marxism, marx was a jew by the way did you know that, he hated jews he knew what’s right, they want a world without bloodlines because their bloodline is rotten, they want a world where it’s ok to be a jew, where being born different doesn’t mark you forever, they’re behind the revolution, they’re dismantling society, they’re enemies of the state, they’re destroying tradition, they’re taking control of our government

expel them (keep their money, though), purify the kingdom, sanctify the soil, they're vermin, let them scatter, they’re nomadic, they don’t belong anywhere, what is with The Wandering Jew and their Fiddlers on the Roof and their super-heroes, nobody wants them, there must be a reason nobody wants them, they had it coming didn’t they, i heard they make their strange bread from children’s blood, why are they coming here, what do they expect, charity, where's all that money they had, they made them leave it behind when the expelled them, good, they probably stole it anyway

fine, they can stay, but it will cost them, temporary permits, refugee certificates, protection for a fee, they’re useful, they have cousins in america, they have family friends in paris, maybe they can hook me up, no i don’t know any, i met one at work once, we don’t have many of (((them))) here, it’s not that kind of place

no, this isn’t a good time, close the gates, we’re good christians of course but they’re not, what even are they with their weird little hats, why are they praying like that, give us your tired, your poor, your huddles masses, we must accept refugees, a society that doesn't is a sick society, except for the jews, we don't want more jews, revoke the charters, we're over-crowded

we’re better than them, they think we owe them something because of the holocaust, it's been decades get over it, they’re obligated to be better than all of us, what do you mean they think they’re better than us, what is this word “goyim”, what did you call me, they should go back where they came from, i don't know where, whatever, it's not my problem, i'm only asking questions man, i just notice these things

(anne frank!!)

why won’t they fight back, they’re so weak, so pathetic, why are they angry, they shouldn't celebrate their fake christmas publicly on a beach if they don't want to get hurt, what did i say, i only think they should keep to themselves, it'll be safer for them in a jewish quarter......

Saralegal@saralegal· Feb 10

Programming my phone to send me this image periodically when I've been on social media too long