L'shana tovah tiketevu. See you all in 5786.

OK I am *not* dealing with what just happened, I have a New Year to celebrate.

Apparently we need to go over this again.

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance. And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

A note to those who like to Make Mean Sweeping Comments About the Jews that many said Jews will be offline from tonight until Wednesday night and will be unavailable to explain how you're being antisemitic. Please plan to take a break from scapegoating us until Thursday. Kind regards.

I will never celebrate a murder, least of all of a young father. But I do not consent to deify a moderately popular podcaster who said Black women "do not have the brain processing power" of white men, who said "Jewish dollars" fund "cultural Marxism," into a great man of history. I dissent.

I don't think this is intended to go over well with those of us who are not Christian. I think it's intended to signify to us that we can at best be provisionally tolerated, but will never truly belong.

We could have actual effective regulation to shut down fraud, United States. Instead of an executive branch that is actively promoting and enabling numerous scams.

This. Listening to the people implicated by the language should not depend on whether we think the Others would use it or if we think it would be "useful."

"Containment" is so bad on this site. The number of complete strangers who somehow stumble upon random posts of mine and feel like they are entitled to comment like they know me is an order of magnitude worse than Twitter ever was.

It just took, I swear to god, two hours to write a single sentence I needed for a work document.

I get very depressed if I think too much about the Epstein shit because personally I believe that survivors deserve more than just the promise of maybe being a pawn in someone else’s political game after publicly retraumatizing themselves

The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

Donald Trump wants the United States to fail.

I will have an explanation of what the fuck this shit means for public health law and the regulation of the practice of pharmacy. (I went to law school, so why the fuck should you need to try to figure that out on your own...)

Accurate.

Defend Public Health’s Press Release on RFK Jr.’s ACIP. “I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”. -Me

Speaker making the connection between Christian monotheism and our cultures' monotheistic obsession with "singular scientific truth" and this is an interesting connection I hadn't thought of before. But our obsession with asking folks if they BELIEVE in science sorta clicks in this view.

Retsef Levi does not understand public health. He is pushing for a prescription to be required for EVERY COVID19 vaccine. He says everyone has a doctor because how else can they get a prescription for antibiotics? This is so logically incorrect that it is an offense to scientific reason.

Like, forty years ago, when I was born, we'd just then identified HIV as the virus that causes AIDS. Now, at 39, I can prick my fingers and know in under a minute if I have it. Can we just pause for a minute and think about how marvelous that is???

I was reminded today of the logo for ESA's Planetary Defence Office. I think it wins over the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office and JAXA Planetary Defense logos.

*also taps sign*

It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all. This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.

by the way, 15 hours ago, someone form Indivisible posted a reel in response to concerns like mine stating outright that you don't need to RSVP to any protest to attend the protest. Which is all I was saying. I appreciate that they recognized concerns and addressed them.

Get ready for this across the country, as workers essential in fields like agriculture and home repairs are rounded up at work sites and put concentration camps. This country has chosen to sacrifice our economy on the altar of genocide

I think two things can be true at once: 1) the Trump/Miller plan of a splashy military invasion was foiled, expertly 2) they are using their ICE Gestapo to extract terroristic revenge

Lot of people who claim to care about public health out here pushing their substacks Y'all, nazism is a public health problem

All these nazis ever wanted was to make the rest of us take them seriously and treat them with respect. Nothing rattles and throws them off their game more than being laughed at. THAT is what the Kirk censorship is about, especially the attack on Kimmel.

To be clear, when I said the ACIP votes were a goat rodeo, I refer to the fact that the committee failed to even word the propositions they were voting on in a comprehensible manner. They did not even understand what their votes would mean. I wish I were joking.

"Hey guys, what if we take one of the greatest achievements in human history and just kinda ignore it completely"

future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them “oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?” yes

About the combined MMR and varicella vaccine (MMRV), ACIP has just voted to *not* recommend MMRV before the age of 4 years. This will not change access to MMR and varicella separately.

My rabbi just told me about this - there's a Elul Helpline for rabbis to call! I have no idea if it's any good in execution, but I think the concept is genius. Check it out, clergy friends (of whatever generation, the headline is weird). forward.com/news/769861/...

Awesome meme.

"in order to change an antisemite's mind we need to use their antisemitic language" is not as great a strategy as you think it is. It's just "antisemitism is bad unless it's useful to me".

CHRISTIAN: This person is bad, a Pharisee! JEW: Pharisees were Jews, can you stop using "Jew" as an insult? CHRISTIAN: I have to use this term; it's the only word my audience will understand JEW: There are many insults CHRISTIAN: But none so insulting as "Pharisee!" JEW: So you're the audience

And frankly, none of these dudes seem as sympathetic and/or savvy as George Russell! /s?

It just irks me that we VERY RECENTLY saw a prime example of Trump backing down when getting pushback — Chicago! — and everyone has forgotten that because a CEO is craven.

Folks, when I say the regime is desperate, I do not mean that it is defanged or beaten. I mean that the means of its dismantling are exposed, and they know it, and fear it. We still have to be courageous enough to do that dismantling, and it only happens if we summon that courage and do that work.

I doubt anyone who follows me would do this, but: If you are offered a part in a High Holy Day service, this is one of those times when it is seriously an honor just to be asked. Don't be pissy if you don't get the part you want or if there are no parts available in your preferred service.

Pretty princess doggie at the lake.

Let’s break down what this meme gets wrong about Jesus. 1) he was not non-violent. See: smiting of a fig tree, the temple tantrum, and killing (then bribing back) another kid in the infancy gospels.

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

This is extortion

I want to be really clear about something: this is not only about the COVID vaccine — we are witnessing an attack on vaccines generally. And, this week, I expect ACIP may take action agains the Hep B and the MMRV vaccines as well.

The 🇺🇸 President deciding which comedians are allowed to tell jokes is the sort of thing that normies care about in a way that will resonate. The corporate news media has failed. But you can tell the people in your life who don't follow the news about what's happening:

Finally some proper monsoon rainfall!