👇🎯 Your regular reminder that we can either be a full democracy, with equal rights for all, or we can be a white Christian theocracy. There is no compromise or middle ground between these things.

"What stage of grief is that?" -My daughter, upon learning that Turning Points USA made a selfie booth out of the tent its founder was murdered in.

4a. Just want to emphasize this: You cannot say that you're just anti-Zionist and not antisemitic, and then go spread hate about the Talmud. That's basically the same as saying "I'm not racist, I just think we need to defend the white race against [insert racist slurs here]"

Eight!

the vice president is a klansman

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to work with this administration on deporting college students right about now.

I know I am generally a good teacher, but I really need to figure out what I did wrong that I got not one, not two, but 4 pairs of novelty Hanukkah socks as gifts from my students this year.

Crowdsourcing: I’m looking for books in any genre about families in which at least one kid and at least one parent have the same disability. Ideally good books, but I’m interested in anything. #booksky

Six! And, in a moment, Shabbat shalom!

I have a lot of thoughts about a lot of things going on in the world today but also winter break just started 2 hours ago and it's candle lighting in 20 minutes and now I'm on vacation so I think I'm gonna pour a drink, get the candles ready, grab a book, and turn off all my thoughts for a while.

Five!

remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.

Next week on CBS with Bari: Women. Are they the problem?

Remember that this is an extremist ideology that goes against all the best science about what's good for kids. We need to be ready to push back hard.

I don't wanna sound picky, but I really think that a table runner made to go under your menorah shouldn't be so flammable.

@morahsarah.bsky.social it's been 4 nights and I have yet to see a front stoop pic on any platform

Four!

I can't watch this video right now, but I continue to find it bizarre that the rabbis of the Talmud insulting Jesus is portrayed as this shocking revelation, whereas the Christian Bible insults the rabbis nonstop. For being hypocritical, no less. Wild stuff.

It's almost the holidays! Except in Congress. Today, a bill that would jail doctors for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors is scheduled for a House vote. It's not expected to become law, but it's still a big deal. Catch up here:

It is possible Fani Willis might break contain on here tomorrow. So here is important reminder from all your friends down in Atlanta, Georgia: Fani Willis super sucks and is bad at her job and her ethical lapses were integral in letting our criminal President beat crimes that were recoded on tape.

This will not make Jews safer.

Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him: “We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.” newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Three!

If you're gonna say the Chabad rabbi deserved it because he was "grooming kids for the IDF" you are not just an antisemitic bigot, but an extremely ignorant one at that. Learn the first thing about the subjects of your bigotry before opening your mouth so you don't embarrass yourself like that!

the suggestion that every israeli or jew has a relationship to mossad because they have a relationship to israel is antisemitic on its face as it perpetuates the harmful stereotype of jews as being disloyal to their home countries and part of a conspiracy to hoodwink non-jews

Y'all, it's show Rugrats Chanukah to my students day! I have a strong belief in teaching the classics. I am a very good teacher and my students are very lucky to have me.

A modern Hanukkah question from a 7th grader on publicizing the miracle: If someone has thousands of followers on social media, wouldn't it be better to light the menorah on social media and post about it than to just put it in your window where only a few will probably see it?

Two!

I'd like to ask Republicans who are mad at Trump's vulgar comments: What is like to wake up every day with no memory at all of anything that has ever happened?

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Chag sameach, y'all. Happy Hanukkah! חנוכה שמח!

Reminder, Jew friends: the menorah in the window should look correct for YOU, not the outside folk. You're the one lighting it, they just get to see it.

Using a horrific antisemitic attack to spread vile, hateful Islamophobia, harms Muslims while doing nothing to help Jews. Especially given that the hero who disarmed a shooter, Ahmed al Ahmed, is a Muslim immigrant to Australia.

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.

After my big accident/TBI I started (and have been on) TRT and while, yes, it's absolutely made me feel better, the process for me to start on it? Embarrassingly easy. Like, barely a blink of an eye and I was approved - and at no cost to me. It's absurd how easy it was for me, in comparison.

Weird how this reads like an invitation for him to do so

tbh I hadn't even heard of this place until 2 days ago

This is amazing, and you really do need to watch it until the very, very end

But he hasn't even donated any money to the fundraising? Huh

Today with my 8th grade class: How Hanukkah, Christmas, Saturnalia, and Yalda are basically all the same holiday, just in different fonts and dialects.

well this is fucking disgusting and abhorrent

Cold and dreary Fridays means it's a fireside Shabbat. Stack up the wood high just before candlelighting and let it slowly burn for the rest of the evening and everyone is cozy and happy. Shabbat shalom, y'all!

@dadsanddaddiespod.bsky.social so, yeah. Thanks.

A lot of publications and accounts framing the results of last night's special elections in Atlanta in terms of establishment vs. progressive. That posture is so, so reductive. The media wants every election to have a narrative, but crafting one in a low turnout special is particularly foolhardy

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. did not officially commemorate World AIDS Day. At the same time, the Trump admin is degrading America’s most basic HIV protections and unraveling decades of progress. The consequences will be grave if things are not turned around. Read more from my story here

I bought more classroom hanukkah decorations and while the pack looked promising, here are some of my favorite, nonsensical pieces. I love the festive yahrtzeit/memorial candles, and the shofar is a nice, generically Jewish touch. Also, that Hanukkah is "about" peace never makes me not laugh.