Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only. (There is no image here because @matociquala.bsky.social beat me to it)

I love @blairbraverman.bsky.social’s writing, especially when it is about her dogs. This essay is a beautif and heart-aching meditation on how to be present and how to say goodbye

Rename everything named after Cesar Chavez for Dolores Huerta.

Your Jewish friends and neighbors are tired. Sometimes we just want you to understand why our community and our synagogues being repeatedly attacked is frightening, without explaining it away because of the Mideast or comparing it to other forms of hate.

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is delightful. (Except for the last line - you can take the girl out of the PNW…)

This article rings so true to my experience in Minneapolis.

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

Filled with immense gratitude to the organizers who created this convening and to my fellow participants who brought it to life. I have fallen more than a little in love with you, Minneapolis. Hoping and praying you are soon blessed with warmer days.

Yes. Yes we are.

Yesterday, the bus full of singing clergy dropped us off on Lake Street. At the Somali mall my clergy buddy and I met L, a Somali restaurant owner who recognized immediately that we were there as observers and protectors. 1/3 #ICEOUT

So, so proud of my friends and colleagues

This whole thread is the Torah we need in this moment

Thinking about this midrash I learned with @sararonis.bsky.social The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2

זכרונו לברכה

I wanted to tell a joke about Rachel, but someone said I had to tell one about Leah first

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News you can use (if you are in the Tennessee 7th)

May their memories be for a blessing. And a revolution

Paging @theradr.bsky.social!!! This needs to be somebody’s YK mincha sermon or a bonus chapter in the next edition of your book

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

I’ve been in transit all afternoon and was fried enough that for this last bit I somehow thought it was a good idea to get in a cab in midtown during rush hour on a weekday. Clearly, I’ve been in the Midwest for too long.

Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace

This brings me joy

We celebrate the ceasefire and impending end to the war and call on all parties to uphold their agreements. There is a long path ahead to achieve true justice for Palestinians and Israelis, and we remain committed to seeking a just, negotiated political solution.

פתקא טבא! The idea of Hoshana Rabbah as the day where we slide our last little post-its of supplication through the gates before they close feels particularly resonant this year.

Sequim. Also Puyallup.

I think this is exactly the thread I needed as I get ready to head out the door for Kol Nidre (especially as someone who does not fast)

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The Jewish calendar is full of opportunities to begin again. This Rosh Hashanah, may we find the compassion, inner strength, and hope we need to choose the path of repentance and pursue justice in 5786. Shanah tovah from all of us at T'ruah.

The arc of the covenant.

There are two teenagers in in my kitchen, making Shabbat dinner and listening to their music. I am grateful to have entered this new life stage, but also would very much like to know what these musicians have against the concept of a melody

So much fun to visit the LiST House of Study! Thanks @theradr.bsky.social for the invitation

@titonka.bsky.social is, as always, so freaking smart

Age verification? I remember when Sleater-Kinney was just a street

There is nothing quite like the feeling of having just refilled 3 months worth of insulin and diabetes tech supplies. If the zombie apocalypse came now, I’d have a cushion. And everyone with #T1D should have access to this feeling. #insulinforall

Fascinating theory. Great thread

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much. But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax: "if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

This isn’t a thread about the Talmud, except for how it totally is

What @amyspitalnick.bsky.social said

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

*taps the sign*