notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Man, Catholics just have really high highs and really low lows. (This is obviously the former.)

I think the “women can always get a man” talk is another reason we don’t hear about female loneliness. It’s not just that women’s feelings aren’t valued, it’s that it’s shameful to even admit loneliness when it’s essentially an admission of profound undesirability to the point of social deviancy.

We really should talk about this more. Any discussion of the value (or lack thereof) of a supplement should always foreground the fact that, in the US, anything classified as a supplement (as in neither a food or a drug) is essentially unregulated. Not only is nobody checking on things like lead

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Worth mentioning that he also name-searches himself constantly and attacks gentiles that stand up for Jews. He went after Lindsay Ellis over her video on Ms. Rachel, as well as Sarah Z for daring to have an intelligent conversation with her on Bluesky. He's bad news.

Chaverim. Beloveds. Don't interact with Bad Empanada He was banned from Twitter years ago after he called for the murder of Israeli children. He regularly denies that antisemitism exists. This is not someone you debate, this is not someone you platform to your followers. This is someone you block.

I went here and everyone knew Garak

Middle schoolers walked out www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Imagine trying to explain the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the deadliest antisemitic violence in US history, but being prohibited from discussing anti-immigrant bigotry and xenophobia. “The shooter hated Jews because he thought we were importing… never mind.”

At my own college, we’ve been told we cannot do trainings for incoming students on other kinds of bigotries, but we can train students on antisemitism. But separating antisemitism from other forms of bigotry is ultimately an incoherent way of understanding antisemitism.

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

In the past two years especially I see so many people who are more focused on getting people to call themselves anti-Zionist than uniting a broad coalition of people to get behind Palestinian safety and self-determination and it’s just maddening

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IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I would honestly love it if people could just shut up about Ezra Klein for 5 minutes. I’m pretty disgusted with some of his recent choices myself but a lot of folks are just…really obsessed with him in an uncomfortable way.

If you’re Jewish, this isn’t surprising. If you’re not Jewish *and* find it surprising, try listening to Jews.

I have no high-minded contribution to The Discourse atm, but I can’t be the only one who has noticed this eerie resemblance, right?

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

Killed by a memelord then immediately forgotten by the man he built it all for. Died as he lived: pointlessly.

Honestly not at all surprised it’s a groyper. I figured it was going to be someone who was a slightly different flavor of far right than Kirk. It’s important to remember that just because they hate all of us doesn’t mean they don’t also hate each other.

Bro, stop resting your hand on the casket while those guys are trying to schlep it, you’re getting in the way. You ever hauled a large, heavy object with other people? (No.) What you are doing actually makes it a lot harder.

The horrific saga of Charlie Kirk's life and death is only valuable insofar as it's a cautionary tale against assassinations. They aggrandize the victim.

Kirk paid to bus people to J6, man. He was not invested in a peaceful path to winning democracy through debate, he was happy to have the appearance of playing within the rules of constitutional liberalism while actively working to overthrow it. www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

One of the major problems of our age is that Ezra Klein ascribes to Charlie Kirk a shared commitment to a free exchange of ideas which Charlie Kirk manifestly and expressly did not hold.

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

I wish. That would be way more entertaining than all these boring-ass boilerplate condemnations of political violence.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Look, I’m all for critiquing the whole pop feminist “Everything a woman does is feminist as long as she CHOOSES it” thing but I’m increasingly seeing supposed critiques of Choice Feminism that are actually just “being a judgy busybody about choices I’m not interested in understanding.”

Might not be missing much tbh because the MAHA brain worms are making this dude worse at cooking. Tallow on a sandwich? Instead of garlic butter? This is NOT an upgrade! Tallow has its culinary uses but “sandwich topping” is not one of them. That, in fact, sounds like a great way to ruin a sandwich.

More reminders: - what’s happening in Palestine is unacceptably awful and if you’re afraid to say that, this is a good season to do some soul searching - it is easy to engage in antisemitism while speaking up for Palestine but it is also easy not to if you can please just be a little less lazy

Is that the distinction? Because I admit I fully do not understand the Abundance Discourse and it seems like doing so would involve a lot of homework. Some things that are apparently “Abundance” are very good and some are very bad and the whole thing makes me feel very stupid and out of the loop.

Don’t feel great about the fact that the villain from this book is now the HHS Secretary (IYKYK).

I don’t think Kamala Harris would have pushed for the U.S. to literally annex Gaza and build a resort town on the rubble

Yes, yes, some of us have this stuff around because we are little piggies who love to cook a decadent meal, not because we think the seed oils are Transing The Children or whatever! These dinguses had to go and make it weird!

Being trolled with pictures of bacon by mush-brained edgelord bigots who think they’re oh so clever is one of those shared experiences that are a major reason why Muslims and Jews in the US are mostly 🤝

If the Taylor be Swift, it’s a real gift If the Taylor be Lorenz, get better friends

The gentrification discourse is in a sad state. We’re at a point where any new, desirable thing in a neighborhood is portrayed as the cause of gentrification, as if residents being priced out is an inevitable consequence, rather than a result of policy choices. We could make different choices!

Israel blocked Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley from joining Jordanian airdrops over Gaza. Congress has sent Israel $26 billion this year—yet U.S. lawmakers are forbidden from seeing the destruction they fund.

Okay, I surrender, what did Elizabeth Gilbert do?