In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

My breakdown of the Myers decision re. legal fees claimed in the Robinson Huron Treaty litigation. anishinabeknews.ca/2025/11/just...

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

She was then, as she is now, on the front line of the final defence of the American Republic. Maybe it's time to have some humility and fucking fall in behind her? 2018 ⬇️

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Become ungovernable

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

you don't get to only fight the fights you know you'll win

"We're losing because there are always moments when we lose" is a lesson that Ta-Nahisi Coates understands intuitively, and that Ezra Klein has never had to, and that difference speaks volumes about American history.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. Not email. Not social media. WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and MAIL IT. Yeah, they'll think you're old(er). They'll also think you have 1) money and 2) maybe children, more likely grandkids. And […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

McLachlan and fellow artists canceled their Disney premiere performance after Kimmel’s suspension, denouncing censorship. Stars from Pedro Pascal to Jean Smart joined calls to boycott Disney, exposing Trump’s hand in silencing dissenting voices.

Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

I've said this before, but IMO we need to spend less time OBSERVING that Trump is engaged in authoritarian corruption and more trying to use language to build pressure to stop it. Same with Tom Homan's bribe. Yes, it was a bribe. Who can we embarrass politically for letting it happen.

Getting Jimmy Kimmel fired didn’t lower the price of my coffee…

Meanwhile in Canada: "New Prime Minister suspends environmental protections, individual rights, and (checks notes) TREATIES" #BillC5

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

🚨 Last night it was Jimmy Kimmel. This summer, Colbert. Authoritarians start by silencing comedians and critics. I am introducing a resolution condemning Trump’s attacks on free speech. This isn’t partisan: I urge Republicans & Democrats to cosponsor this urgent appeal.

THIS. 1000 times THIS ⬇️ "People operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating over their mistakes" Listen to critiques from your LEFT, not your right, and even then only from people who have their sleeves rolled up.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

My university’s Office of Teaching and Learning is offering a workshop on how to “leverage” Generative AI to develop lecture content. The thought of it makes me ill and I am tired of being quiet on social media about how this insidious, environmentally-destructive cult is being so blindly embraced.

Opinion writers @nytimes.com are choosing up teams for the perilous fight.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again

Fashion goals: not *this,* but not *not* this:

True Story. 👇

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Once again I am reminded of Ta-Nehisi Coates' insight: "Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others" Always loved never forgotten: #pulsenightclub #youngsasianmassage #topsgrocery

fuck Donald Trump, obvs but emphatically, profoundly, utterly FUCK BILL CLINTON

If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways

A long, long time ago, way far in the past, certain things happened that were a lot like things now, & they made people hungry and sad. How do you feel when you’re hungry? Doesn’t feel good, does it? So, maybe we should avoid doing those things that caused people to feel that way, don’t you think?