Emil Kerenji
@emilkerenji
Washington-based historian, writer, translator. Yugoslav antifascist. Jew. Ajvar, travel, געשיכטע. Views mine.
That moment when "JDATE" and "FASHION" start looking like good candidates for the purple group, because they start with "JD" and "fash"
Meanwhile in Belgrade, a government minister says that if she had been Slobodan Milošević, she "would have cleansed Kosovo ethnically in 1998."
Also, a depressingly high number of smart 🇺🇸 treating this as if it's a matter of the malevolently given red card. I've been watching football for 50 years, and I think it was a just call. But it's irrelevant what I think. This is about whether we agree to moving the goalposts (by DeffingT!) or not.
A friend sent this and I had to check that it is not fake. I was hoping it was, but it is not. Hillary Clinton has been pretty awful for most of her political career, but she may be reaching the new low a decade after its tailspin embarrassing and inevitable end.
McDuffie conceded this morning, so @janeese4dc.bsky.social wins the mayoral primary in DC! In Ward 1, where I live, @aparnafordc.bsky.social has a commanding lead. Two democratic socialists lead the unmistakable progressive turhopefully. local DC political scene. We're disenfranchised, but hopeful.
Just snapped at 16th and Euclid NW, the northwestern corner of Malcolm X park in Washington. At the bottom of 16th St, the white house, the gaudy-colored gladiator coliseum right behind, and the Washington monument to the left. And fireworks for the downfall of empire.
Posting a screenshot because there is no way to share without also sharing the video. There is no bottom.
That's the only thing we Jews want, to get under a humongous flag of a rougue state committing genocide with impunity, thank god the New York Times understands.
Happy International Workers' Day, a global holiday brought to you by activism and organizing of American workers, today totally ignored in this country. May the people making lives from their labor prosper and remove the obstacles to their freedom.
This somehow seems apt as the only piece of information necessary for the understanding of the current Hormuz horizons of meaning, politics, and possibility. (Excuse the multiple alliterations.)
Some of you unhappy folks that use AI, am I wrong in thinking that the prompt here was likely, "Create an image of a big bad steel ship with a red cross and an American flag, but like it was painted by Adolf Hitler"?
From today's Jews against 🧊 protest in front of 🧊's HQ in Washington.
Four bangers I was fortunate to read this year (out of about 70 that I read in 2025): Kaveh Akbar, Olga Tokarczuk, Ibtisam Azem, Katie Kitamura.
A staged photo from 1932 vs. an AI printout from 2025. It is not incidental that the represented human interaction in the obviously staged photo looks *human*, while the AI-ed tech bros (and an occasional sis) are in an infinite loop of interacting with nobody, faces frozen in grimaced isolation.
In honor of Friendship Month, a statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands, currently on display in front of @busboysandpoets.bsky.social at 14th and V streets in NW DC.
Novi Sad, November 1, 2025. One year of impunity of the lying, violent, authoritarian, ghoulish regime. Руке су вам крваве 🩸🩸🩸
Serbian authoritarian playbook: trains not running, busses being demolished by masked thugs, the entire Novi Sad metropolitan area's (up to 400,000 people) water cut off, all because the ghoul-in-chief is angry because Serbia has gathered in Novi Sad today to show him that the fear of him is no more
Residents of Novi Sad welcoming tens of thousands of people arriving in their city for tomorrow's commemoration of the anniversary.
Beds made for students in the town of Inđija, about halfway between Belgrade and Novi Sad. Thousands of students are walking from Belgrade to tomorrow's commemoration ceremony in Novi Sad. They are spending the night in Inđija, where the local criminal town leaders are 🚫 any public accommodation.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the collapse of the freshly renovated Novi Sad train station canopy in 2024, which killed 16 people, exposing the corruption and ghoulishness at core of the kleptocratic and criminal Serbian regime. Wish I was in Novi Sad tomorrow. Руке су вам крваве 🩸🩸🩸