Well well well look who wants a tenured professor of Yiddish after all

The condescending "may I finish?" tells me that she's already working on her Free Press op-ed about how she was silenced by the woke and/or Luddite mob.

If I had access to the Gilded Age costume designers and showed up to the Met Gala looking like this, I would not expect to ever be invited to leave the house again.

Ongoing crisis at Boston Symphony Orchestra: The Boston Globe's editorial board weighs in again in today's Sunday @bostonglobe.com BSO board can’t get out of its own way even as fund-raising falls www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/03/o...

Now that I've seen this, I'm totally fine with AI destroying the economy and using up all the water

A truly delightful thread:

JD Vance Still Waiting For Secret Service To Retrieve Him From Secure Hiding Area

Among the many reasons why I do not consider emigration to Israel to be a possibility if things get too bad in the US, it is very apparent to me that I would have much less freedom to practice my Judaism there than I do here. www.jta.org/2026/04/24/i...

Yesterday I scrolled past a post about some soulless ghoul using AI to generate bedtime stories for their kids and it turns out it's my fucking congressman.

If this guy ever finds out about Salem, MA his heart will simply give out.

Netflix had the entire James Bond series recently, and I realized I'd never seen any of the Sean Connery ones, so I watched Dr. No. I'm actually a little annoyed that a 50 year long gazillion dollar franchise got started with a movie that bad.

There are two progressives running to unseat my bag-of-wet-leaves congressman in the upcoming MA-4 primary. I don't know too much about them yet, but if either of them is willing to bring this kind of energy they will have my support.

I hit my ten year streak last month, and unfortunately it only reinforced the idea that I will simply have to keep it going until I die.

I don’t think a musical based on Thelma and Louise is something I would have necessarily asked for, but I can’t imagine a better choice for music and lyrics than Neko Case.

I know it’s springtime because the students are playing hacky sack in front of the building

GOT ME A MOVIE I WANT YOU TO KNOW

Not the most important part of this whole thing by far, but is the Pope still a US citizen now that he’s a foreign head of state? Can a person be both?

Is this what the "birds aren't real" people were trying to warn us about?

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" A Le Carré-style thriller about Garak's days in the Obsidian Order.

It's a three pancake morning.

Waiting for @rokhl.bsky.social’s review

I want to send a note to the store, but the last time I corrected someone selling a product with Bad Yiddish, it led to an article in the Forward, so I should tread carefully.

Yidishistn: I found this on the website of a vintage store in NYC. It's a piece of set dressing from the movie Marty Supreme, and as far as I can tell it's utter gibberish. Does this actually say something?

Saw this one today:

this is, unfortunately, already well established law. these lawyers aren’t saying anything surprising. the supreme court has been pretty clear on this one.

Ah, I was wondering about this. I guess “Disney is trying to screw artists” is always a good default first guess.

This website is hilarious. A total stranger got mad at me for saying it's better for a gang of armed psychopaths to be riding the escalators all day than to be roaming the streets committing crimes, because apparently that means I approve of them being in the airports in the first place.

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Another Boston classical music shakeup. Reading between the lines, it's pretty clear that shutting down the BPO/BPYO is a choice which could have been avoided if Benjamin Zander had been able to handle the idea of someone else conducting *his* orchestra. bostonclassicalreview.com/2026/03/bost...

Rorschach’s journal. October 12th, 1985:

So weird that this is still happening when we've put so much effort into pretending that it doesn't exist! Maybe if we ignore the problem even harder, it'll go away.

I’ve said this before but one of the things that freaks out a LOT of Jews is this: there is no amount of money or activism we, as private citizens, can do to dissuade, for example, a gunman who has decided that the best way to advocate for Palestinians is to shoot up a synagogue.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Always great to be reminded that people in my town will happily sacrifice the safety of cyclists & pedestrians to protect their own property values.

Hyping myself up before spending another afternoon combing through spreadsheets

Ten! Year! Streak!!

The 10 year journey home after the Trojan War is relatable for anyone who's been stuck on 93 during rush hour.

I found this on the Borscht Beat page while browsing Bandcamp yesterday, and it may be the greatest klezmer band name I've ever heard: The Yene Velt Yiddish String Ensemble and Burial Society borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/yene-v...

these were called 'record stores'

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I'm not generally a huge fan of my congressman (an inevitable letdown after being represented by Ayanna Pressley), but you do on occasion gotta hand it to him.

Hey quick question, what happened the last time the US picked a leader in Iran?

Flawless caption in this email from the MFA

Looks like some sort of pro-war rally in front of the BPL. Lots of pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, along with US & Israel

The fact that the Union for Reform Judaism feels the need to support this illegal war just because the Israeli government supports it - even though the Israeli government openly disdains Reform Jews in return - is part of why institutional American Judaism is in crisis.

Yesterday I bought a ticket for a concert at Fenway this summer, and had to use the Red Sox ticketing website to do it, so I am now on *multiple* MLB mailing lists. How is it possible that I know more about email segmentation than a $4 billion sports franchise?

I need someone like this to primary Jake Auchincloss if it's not too much trouble, tyvm.

Ben Eidelson on not conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism: "The idea that we can conclusively presume, if [student protesters] are saying anti-Zionist stuff it's because they hate Jews, is just factually implausible. It's not how we would treat any other civil rights question."

Just spotted a @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Get Loew hat in the wild

A) It is 2026, why are we still making tv shows where FBI agents are the good guys? B) In Kash Patel's FBI, conspiracy theorists are the ones in charge, they don't get sent down to the basement to be forgotten.