@bendthearc.bsky.social Sometimes the courts work. Reason to celebrate. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/u...

I've looked up lots of news sites, and I'm sure this isn't comprehensive but I count 65 different cities in MI that held No Kings protests. Many in red hot areas. Have I missed any? Please let me know.

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

The visitors were most taken with the wreck of the submarine, and the records they found still preserved there. The submarine was so vast it had at one time held all of humanity, it seemed, submerged there upon the ocean floor. www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steve Biko

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it." (2:21) Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers). Organize.

"When the grace of love is revealed, be a mirror to reflect it." - Rumi

Super special experience this weekend - I saw the threatened Kirkland Snake in the wild. This isn't my picture though. I took a video, but my finger covered the camera. Oh well. Doesn't matter I got a really good look and am positive that's what I saw. Folks at the ranger station were jazzed.

Insomnia thought: hope is acknowledging what you want, it sparks one's imagination celebrating life and change. Expectation is anticipating people and circumstances will bend to your unspoken will. While one can't live without expectations, the world craves imagination these days. Cultivate hope.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May the heartburn after your every meal be strong enough to heat the Tsar’s Palace. Modern: May your security protocols grow as complex as an M.C. Asher drawing.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May a skunk open a shop in your nose and prosper. Modern: May every time you and yours break the Golden Rule, you and yours flatulate and sneeze simultaneously, while on a live feed.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May they find thousands of new cures for you each year. Modern: May every tear from every child you’ve separated from their families enter your bladder and scorch you each time you pee. Ideally, this would happen while you’re prepping for a colonoscopy.

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I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May your mouth never close and your arse never open. Modern course: May generative AI cast moral consciousness onto your executive orders and they edit themselves to death.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May your blood turn to whiskey, so that a hundred thousand bedbugs get drunk on it and dance the mazurka in your bellybutton. Modern curse: May all your & your staff's devices continuously update for at least the next 4 years.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May the weigh of your thumb you press on the scale press down on your heart while you sleep, you exploiter! Modern curse: May your malignant insecurity grow so large, it hides your tumors from medical imaging, you putz!

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May your eyes cross so far that when you cry the tears run in your arse. Modern curse: May every cent you steal give you a papercut and your blood won’t clot so well.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May the whole Atlantic become your enema. Modern curse: May water always flow blisteringly cold or scaldingly hot from your gold Floridian faucets.

Absolute Cinema!

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old Yiddish curse: May God answer all your prayers - then mistake your worst enemy for you. Modern curse: May each data breech you condone splash a little stomach bile into your windpipe.

Well, there it is folks. The official ADL position is support for Trump secret police to illegally detain and deport green card holders if they are part of pro-Palestine protests. If and when DHS starts doing this to citizens, count on the ADL to continue its support. This is who they are.

My kid’s favorite teacher is leaving mid-year for a higher paying teaching job closer to home. She’s crushed. Ann Arbor housing is too expensive for most teachers, & the district is one of the lowest paying in the region. This is a systemic failure disguised as a career move. #a2council #a2achools

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Levity for balance.

“Fighting hate should be fun. It’s being a hater that sucks.” ― Loretta J. Ross

Some of us in Dec. 2023. Lots of feelings today. Lots of questions.

I love how easy it is to block people/bots on this platform!

This is a long, important read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you are cis ("not transgender") I need to explain this to you. Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. [Tao Te Ching chapter 17]

“A conservative faction in the shul thought they could host this event with Yoav Gallant, but the internal pushback was so intense that just wasn’t possible.” From @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social in @forward.bsky.social

Real quote from my child, "What if there was a depression powered car?" Image created by ChatGPT prompt, "create an image of a car powered by depression."