There’s a reason why we treat threats of violence as antisocial behavior, even if they’re not carried out. If someone threatens to kill me, that can do harm even if they never pull a weapon. And the same goes for the man who threatened genocide this morning. Impeach and remove him now.

Here is my illustration for Keshet's Passover card, "Through the Narrow Place." -- If you like my work, consider supporting me on Patreon, which is where this illustration appeared early! patreon.com/emilyk

Every party, our shul gives away houseplants. 3 Purims ago, I took a 4 inch tall etrog plant. Today I noticed a flower bud. Maybe I will get a fruit this year?

Anyway, we actually know what led to Jewish survival during the Holocaust: A robust and far-flung diaspora.

This is fair, although there's a certain quality to all of this that feels especially alarming Put it like this: I don't like being a passenger in a car with a drunk driver. I especially don't like it when he starts alternating between weepy and angry, and threatens to wrap the car around a tree

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Remember that your alternate propaganda source either literally believes that America and Israel are run by literal baby-eaters who worship Baal, or wants the world to believe it. Most people in Iran should not suffer for this but lies are still lies and liars are still liars.

Also 4: remember that the IRI, LIKE Trump, are liars. You will not see unvarnished truth just because there's someone with a camera performing Populist Uprising.

A few years ago, I conducted a survey where I asked North American Jews what it meant to them when someone identifies as a Zionist. A lot of them defined Zionism this way. It's doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, where one side gets everything and the other gets ethnically cleansed.

Please miss me with "Netanyahu talked him into it," even if you have in-depth reporting showing that Bibi worked *hard* to make it happen. DJT is the single most powerful human on earth. He's a grown man with agency. To the extent that he was sold a bill of goods—HE & HIS ENABLERS WANTED TO BUY IT.

Ways to get there: - 25A (by far hardest, useless) - Straight impeachment (H. majority + 2/3 S.) - Fund nothing until he's gone (fewest votes needed, just a willing majority in either house, but takes the longest) - Congress declares him 14AS3 disqualified (simple majorities) - uhh... [redacted]

I wish more people would realize this. Impeachment articles that will go nowhere aren't some grand gesture that will rally the base. They are an even more ineffective "strongly worded letter". We know because several resolutions have been tabled and most of these people never even knew about them.

the world never screeches to a halt for anything, it never has, this is both tragic and hopeful, you still have to get up and put on your pants and go live everyday, and that’s been the case since your pants were handmade from deerskin

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

We’re all pretty dazed at this point by the DDOS attack of bad news

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It's important to remember that Iran has a population of 92 million people. Actual human beings who have lives, who have dreams, who want to live.

Even if nothing happens at deadline, today already saw Israel bombing railroads and the US bombing Kharg Islands and Iran responding in kind, but the big story will be how nothing ever happens and Trump TACO'd while the conflict escalated another notch.

I also want to acknowledge that it is to the credit of Mahmoud Khalil that he gave an interview to a Jewish publication that is not known for being especially far left.

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

No idea if this is true but it feels like finding out that beavers were categorized as fish for the purposes of Lent

Democrats are proposing new tax plans that would layer more complication on an already complicated system. This is not the answer. They should work to convince the public that paying taxes is patriotic - and make them simpler. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...

It's especially obvious when people make, shall we say, appeals to communal sovereignty - "this sort of thing is particularly liked by those who feel powerless and downtrodden." No, you don't know that. You have not polled the powerless and downtrodden.

For his entire life, this is what the “Art of the Deal” president understood a “deal” to be: threaten others until they give you what they want. He has no grasp of actual negotiation or dealmaking - only shakedowns. Combine that with a war he’s desperate to end and you get genocidal threats.

I feel like a schizophrenic. “Dang. I hope my mad king doesn’t follow through with his threat to commit a genocide he posted on social media. Can’t wait for Pokémon Champions to drop tonight!”

The Hebrew names for the five books of the Torah are great: In the Beginning Names And He Will Read In the Desert Stuff

this seems like a good time to remind everyone of rule #1 of dealing with a chaos gorilla presidency: you don’t know if they mean it because THEY don’t know if they mean it, they just say stuff and see what happens because they benefit from chaos and uncertainty and also they’re betting on this shit

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

the disintegration of the base level of newsgathering is very bad. remember when the internet was supposed to replace this with 'citizen journalism' and the suchlike? seems absurdly naive now.

1) we will write down the Law 2) all of the Law 3) we will follow the Law 4) the Law is kind of ambiguous on this point 5) fuck. 6) *long sigh* the fucking mod, man 7) the concept of technical debt will not be invented for millenia but we got it, buddy 8) doodling in margins

all of this is true but also tonally it's substantially the dril tweet about the Greatest Thread in Forum History

I made this for my weaver partner

I love the Talmud

It’s normal and totally cool that communities evolve their rituals and holidays and their meaning. Traditions need to work for living people.

Insofar as any pre-Christian European traditions exist, they were preserved by Christian successors. Irish Christians didn’t appropriate Irish pagan traditions—they just kept doing their own traditions. I am no fan of Christianity, but people adapting their own practices is not appropriation.

I'm just going to say: if you instinctively think of the Talmud as some kind of evil Necromonicon-like book of dark arts then you have absorbed, without questioning, centuries' worth of antisemitism, and are just two or three steps away from "Throw the Jew down the well so my country can be free"

I've said that "Saying Easter is named after Eostre is like saying March Madness is dedicated to the god of war."

Annual reminder that virtually every 'Easter was a pagan festival' claim online is bullshit. historyforatheists.com/2017/04/east...

19th century is when 90% of things we consider "traditional" emerged from

at earliest, 19th century

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Even though I was laid off, I am still in our synagogue chat for federal employees. Apparently an agency sent out an *extremely* religious Easter message to employees. Something that would be inappropriate at any workplace that isn't a church, much less a government agency.

Purple Line: Real?!

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Last night, an Iranian missile hit a residential building in Haifa, killing four people from the same family. They were trapped as their building collapsed. In a single moment, an entire family was taken. (1/3)

So I would say that there should be a path back to redemption for *everyone* because if there isn’t then we might as well kill these people but “a path back to redemption” need not be easy, automatic, or restore them to their previous position of power.

Foreign students *subsidize* domestic students. Without them college will be *more* expensive and there will be *fewer* spots.

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day. Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate. Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"