My grandfather.

Yikes! If this accurately reports all of the facts then firing this teacher is a bad decision. I suppose it matters a bit what course it was and whether the students are - e.g. - 9th graders or 12th graders. But if she had no notice that the admin disapproved of the materials, this is not OK. /1

Randolph and Mortimer Duke, co-principals of Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers, have endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The Ann Arbor weather shields are in full effect.

One of my dresser drawers has been broken for *years* and I finally decided to try to fix it and discovered it required merely replacing one little screw and now I haven’t stopped talking about “that time I fixed the dresser myself instead of calling a handyman.”

🎶 A celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with meeeeeeeee! 🎶

Given the combination of the success of the No Kings protests and the failure of the President’s $45 million birthday thingy, I fear for what horrors he will unleash this week to soothe his ego.

Update to this: UofM is "terminating all contracts with external vendors to provide plainclothes security on campus," per an email that just went out from our interim President.

This is really gross. Concerns about protestors breaking campus rules and committing low-level offenses don’t justify this level of surveillance and, frankly, harassment - from a money or campus culture perspective.

Amendment: All this AND Phinease & Ferb returns AND @richardprimus.bsky.social's new book drops? It's a good week.

All this AND Phineas & Ferb returns? Oh happy day!

Don’t let Rubio off the hook here either.

This essay is an excellent rejoinder to the views that Deborah Lipstadt expressed in that Chotiner interview.

Go Blue! (I assume that Kyle's victory was due in part to the legal writing skills he learned in my class, right? RIGHT?) www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Make no mistake: antisemitic hate inevitably leads to antisemitic violence. Anyone who claims to believe in the dignity & rights of all people has an obligation to name this shooting for what it is — vile & violent antisemitic terror — and to speak out against this increasingly-normalized bigotry.

I've been looking for an excuse to give up exercising and I think I just found it.

The law firm is Butler Snow, which is widely known among law geeks primarily for its clever annual holiday cards. Until now.

I think we learned the answer to this question when Nancy Pelosi's husband was brutally assaulted.

Argus makes the NYT! This is a great local institution with a great concept. I'm so glad to see it getting national attention. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...

How does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? When a community garden requires its members to pledge that theyre anti-Zionist in order to join. Seriously, this is ridiculous. gothamist.com/news/a-queen...

Worth reading the full concurrence for a thoughtful explanation from this judge about why he disapproves of (cleaned up).

This reminds me of the time a SCOTUS atty, while waiting to argue the 2nd case of the morning, heard one of the Justices read part of a majority op from the bench, realized it could be helpful to his case, read the full op. during the 1st arg., and cited the case as precedent during his arg. /1

Hummus. (Using the Zahav recipe that starts with dried beans.)

Tahini. It easily works with both sweet and savory dishes.

We should all start agreeing that it's a great idea to tariff VHS tapes coming in to the US, and he'll probably say "yeah, that's what I meant."

Hey, anyone know what Mary Sue Coleman is up to these days? Asking for no reason at all.

He should show tomorrow at USCIS and tell them he's there to finish his curtailed citizenship interview.

20 years ago, Lipstadt opposed an Austrian prison sentence for David Irving, a known Holocaust denier, saying she was uncomfortable with the idea of imprisoning someone for their speech.

That standard line about how I may not agree w/ what you have to say but I will stand up and fight for your right to say it? Every day, I grow more disillusioned with how many people, when actually tested on it, fail.

Everything about the Isaac Chotiner interview w/ Deborah Lipstadt is disappointing, but this part most of all. /1

My hot (and irritated) take: In 2025, it should be illegal to send forms by email that the recipient needs to print out, fill in by hand, scan, save, and email back.

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO STOP WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AND WATCH THIS CLIP.

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

If it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it's our job to STOP IT - Children - What's that sound? - Everybody look - What's going down

My favorite thing about the lead-up to Passover is the way my group texts explode with details about where we have all spotted different kinds of horseradish all over town.

If you truly can't get an innocent man back from the foreign torture prison you sent him to, then that is yet another reason not to outsource your "deportation" program to a foreign torture prison. (It's not actually a deportation program. It's a torture program.)

LFG

From vidui to paraphrasing Pirkei Avot!

Cory Booker doing vidui was not on my Bingo card.

Love Shack by the B-52's. Makes me want to stab a fork in my ear just to make the noise stop.

I see people are trying to say this is anti-Zionist not antisemitic and as a Jew who is also Serbian and Croatian I would ask you to explain why Zionism — aka Jewish ethnonationalism — is a bigger geopolitical fuck up than Croatian or Serbia ethnonationalism without doing an antisemitism

It’s actually wild to see how antisemitic people will just openly be without realizing it

IYKYK

Me when I'm sure I've finished cleaning for Pesach, just before I discover that a hidden bag of cheerios exploded all over the pantry floor.

I'm thinking about the courage it must take for these Gazans to protest against a terrorist group that regularly tortures and murders Palestinians. And I can't help but contrast that w/ the cowardice of those capitulating to Trump over far lesser threats.

New use of the exonerative tense just dropped.

The one upside of this is that it might (*might*) convince administrators at other universities on Trump's target list that it is not in their interest to capitulate.

Deported. Deported. Deported.

It should be obvious that the “they” in this sentence will just keep changing & broadening