As COVID tore across the US and killed over a million Americans, The Atlantic conflated reasonable debate during a novel viral pandemic with gratuitous ego-driven contrarianism, and now the doctors they platformed and normalized are dismantling the best parts of American healthcare.

writing CROATOAN everywhere i go just in case i gotta drop off the grid and go on the run real sudden like

I giggled imagining her and her advisors deciding exactly how to word it and whether to go with “shit” or “crap” and I’m delighted.

If we redesign schooling for the kids that struggle with conventional schooling the most, everyone will win.

I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.

The Times just wrote a whole thing about a crisis of childhood and schooling and here’s the actual problem and solution in one post:

Super belated update (sorry, faster on hellsite than here): 1 person was definitely detained (prompting alert) but ICE apparently dipped out immediately after. Adjusting from ‘raid’ to ‘suspected targeted arrest.’ Neighbors & vendors all moved extremely fast, though.

Honestly any time anyone our family needs me to fix something that isn't under my direct control I just sigh and they've started to feel pity for me

Kids are definitely alright

I wonder how many people learned about Trump’s rhetoric today from campaign spam and not journalists

I like how stopping him from having access to students was the last step and not the first step. In no reality are the adults at Harvard the brightest minds in America.

Ok this is brilliant

Of course the elite completely lost their minds when young nonwhite people knew their worth and enough young white peers agreed with them

I assume this is about Epstein but it really goes for any kind of traumatic content. I don’t need to see or share Holocaust or Gaza footage to know where I stand or how to advocate effectively.

I’m feeling ever so slightly bullish on there being free and fair (enough) elections in our future - but I’m cynical that Dems will be able to take the steps needed to hold MAGA accountable and shore up institutions in a way that truly course corrects. Replacing the leadership of the party is huge.

I’d believe this is a reasonable hypothesis holding constant for so many variables it hardly has any real world applications

You had your bear set to pedophile

Dem Project 2029 (or whatever) should fund researching connections to slavery in every commercial and nonprofit institution that can trace its existence back far enough. There doesn’t even need to be a next step per se - but everyone should know.

The most honest and accurate coverage of last spring’s Pro-Palestine protests was in college newspapers. The Columbia Spectator should have been everyone’s primary source.

It’s weird when people make I/P their entire personality. Especially non-Palestinian gentiles. Like, what are you doing Katie and Christopher? You don’t even go here. Like, if you think about I/P more than Israelis and Palestinians, seek help.

The white, affluent learning loss people pretended to care about the impact of closed school buildings on Black and brown children but in fact demanding they reopen before the virus was being managed was in many cases sentencing them and their families to contracting a deadly virus.

I dunno man, if a talking duck was a returning customer I would probably just stock some fucking grapes?!

It did fall in January and lots of people were freaking out about but not enough of the correct people so here we are - and still trusting the voices who didn’t freak out.

Listen at least he endorsed Mamdani. But any Dem who says anything nice about her but hasn’t fallen over supporting Mamdani can definitely fuck off.

If she’s really sorry she won’t care if no one forgives her

As a parent leader for 10 years in NYC public schools who had the privilege of interacting with so many thoughtful children and young adults who are now finally becoming voting age, this does not surprise me one bit.

Anyone who can’t see the problem with this has been captured by fascism and should be treated accordingly

The operative part is that people with abhorrent behaviors in their past redeem themselves which seems to be a step many mostly white men seem eager to gloss over.

Also … we do get that Epstein was basically running a cult The Love bombing The making people feel special Collection of high status people The collection of KOMPROMAT The demonstration of what happens to disobedience Thats a cult

I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

🧵[NOTE: THIS ISN'T RE: MEGYN KELLY ABOUT WHOM I KNOW NOTHING] When women parse the age difference between survivors, recall that many women were raped, assaulted, or abused in their teens & it's an important piece of their own survival mechanism to call what someone did to them by a different name.

Look, say what you will about Ken Star, but the man was decades ahead of his time in his belief only Democrats should be held accountable for scandal.

The New York Times saw Claudine Gay as someone to hold accountable and Jeffrey Epstein as a source to nurture and protect. What a disgusting newspaper.

She wouldn’t even let a Palestinian American Democrat have a shitty speaking slot at the DNC.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

“But her emails” can now refer to Hillary or Ghislaine

You’re not allowed to have an opinion about Israel/Palestine if you don’t know about Sde Teiman and that there were riots demanding IDF rapists be freed: their defenders believe that halacha requires that IDF soldiers be permitted to rape detainees because humiliating your enemies is good

When I was a Zionist it was always necessary to establish whether someone critical of Israel believed in its right to exist because if they couldn’t answer a simple yes then you could ignore anything they said and not think critically about Israel or Zionism…

what the formulation "israel has a right to exist" is meant to stand for is "the nation of israel has a right to define its electorate such that particular people are represented and others are not," which is something so plainly ridiculous that it cannot be stated outright.

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

This can’t happen because Dem leaders are constitutionally incapable of being transparent about strategy or lack of strategy

This Jewish child of a rabbi is going to start college with a story for all of her new friends - many who may have never even thought about Israel or Zionism - about of how her “homeland” has banned her for 10 years because she stood up to Israeli settlers and helped Palestinians pick olives.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Learn nothing from our past mistakes and keep marching forward with the same flawed strategies and leadership. Sounds like a winning formula to beat back armed fascism.

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

the Biden debate was something of a radicalizing moment for me as I watched the entire establishment pivot to an all out assault on Biden while also watching those same people refuse to put that effort into Gaza

This is how Zionism turns Jewish values upside down. It’s ok to ethnically cleanse Palestinians born last week because Arab countries did it to Jews 70 years ago.

My primal scream

Spend your time sorting out Zionists who think defending the idea of a country is more important than the destruction of Palestinian people and encouraging generations of young Israeli Jews to commit brutal crimes against humanity with impunity.