They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Specifically Trump is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical guy. Not Sondheim.

A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release. This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...

I’m a week past getting my gallbladder removed and I haven’t had to cook myself a meal this whole time. My community is feeding me, and they’re feeding me well - generous portions of delicious homemade food that fits my temporary dietary needs. It’s genuinely an incredible thing to receive.

Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:

Mood

“Referred pain” is such a terrible problem and I am so so exhausted. Three more workdays to gallbladder removal and hopefully the end of this incredible weird shoulder pain that isn’t touched by pain meds.

If I have to vote against Andrew Cuomo a THIRD TIME

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains

i'll tell you what, i'm enjoying this night of making my haters my waiters at the table of success

I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could

I’m so ready for my second Andrew Cuomo concession speech of 2025

I'd love to see someone compile a list of New Yorkers who insisted they'll move out of NYC if Mamdani wins so if he does, y'all can follow up with them tomorrow and see if they need help packing.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

It’s intermission at And Then We Were No More at @lamamaetc.bsky.social and I have no idea where this fascinatingly strange play about ideas of justice is going to go from here. I can’t remember the last time I saw a piece of theater and was this unsure of what Act 2 would do.

This @bradlander.bsky.social quote gave me some real “oh fuck thats it” feelings. Of course it’s about our collective wounds and traumas, we’re Jews. Thanks for articulating the thing, Brad! Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today I got to see my grandma for the first time since she had a stroke six weeks ago. She’s 90, close to 91. She’s doing better than you can possibly imagine for a 90 year old woman who had a stroke! And yet: visiting her just made me so sad, because she’s so bought in to American individualism.

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Skipping tonight’s mayoral debate in favor of taking myself out for a nice dinner and a show (SLAM FRANK, a real musical). I can read the @hellgatenyc.com coverage later instead.

Reading WHEN WE’RE IN CHARGE by @amandalitman.bsky.social (finally? It’s been sitting on my kindle for months) and smiling at every mention of bright red lipstick as part of her formula for self-presentation. On Yom Kippur, a friend said she didn’t recognize me at first without my red lipstick.

Gentiles Stop Telling Jews How to Be Jews Challenge 5786

Some people cut back on caffeine in the week leading up to Yom Kippur. I drink an extra cup of coffee about four hours before Kol Nidre so that the caffeine withdrawal headache hits at the same time as the dehydration headache, during Neilah.

Why did girls at my Jewish sleepaway camp wear this shirt?? All of us were Jewish!

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

This was a fascinating read. I think Ezra Klein has a hard time recognizing the difference between a pundit and an organizer. Klein thinks Charlie Kirk was a pundit and therefore should be treated like he would want to be treated. Coates sees that Kirk was an organizer - and knows he isn’t.

It's not just an acknowledgement but a legitimation of a (the?) core asymmetry of US politics: Democratic voters hate Republican politicians, but Republican voters hate Democratic *voters*. So Klein's "solution" is that all Dem voters must act like politicians.

I think I’m becoming ever more myself these days, by which I mean like my grandmas. Today that offering my shabbas lunch guests leftover apple pie from Rosh Hashanah and then playing mahjong at a friend’s place until the end of shabbas.

“We’re going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.” At least there are some good politicians left?

The "surge in young conservatives running for office" is a half dozen people... @runforsomething.net has had nearly 50 people sign up *today* and it's just past 10am on the east coast. rollcall.com/2025/09/17/g...

This whole thread makes me want to watch the doc but also tell my Eminem story. When I was 9 years old, my dad took me with him on a business trip to Detroit. This was the last season at Tiger Stadium - 1999, and he was taking me to a game. It was also just a couple months after Slim Shady came out.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this story and the abuses of wealth and power involved all day. I don’t know if there’s any set of regulations in existence that would protect a surrogate from this particular intended parent’s behavior but there has to be something better than this.

Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

Went to Yankee stadium for the first time tonight. Spotted maybe six other people in Nats gear the whole time. Had the whole section turn to look at me when I reacted to CJ Abrams’s RBI single in the top of the third. An experience, I guess? It’s a perfectly fine ballpark.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

Does this mean we’re all going to get private offices? Or am I just going to spend every day that I go to the office listening to everyone else talk at their computer in the open office?

Last and only solo night of vacation. Seattle. Went to a wine bar and hung out with the owner because I was the only customer on a Tuesday night. Headed back to the hotel where I’m contemplating room service dessert and preparing the in-room jacuzzi. I love a really bougie vacation night.

Well that was wild.

I’m not surprised and I’m barely even disappointed to see neither of the NY senators on this list (re: the sanders arm transfer reso) Never mind that NY has the most Jews of any place outside of Israel and that creating famine goes against everything in Torah Fucking exhausting

14-16 depending on how I count some of the ones that I visited when I was young enough to have only vague memories? But I’m adding two more next week!

Kind of weirded out by all of these non-Jewish politicians claiming to speak on behalf of the Jews, I have to say.

I took myself to see a show tonight and it sounded like it would be really stupid. And it was. And I loved it. GINGER TWINSIES is deeply referential in the best way, gives Meredith Blake an “am I really the villain” monologue, and was the best kind of stupid theater for a random Wednesday night.

This!! I am pushing myself to do some door knocking during general election cycle here in NYC because I know that it’s effective even if it scares me (and because @jfrejnyc.bsky.social will help me get a canvassing buddy for Jews for Zohran).

I wore a white shirt and packed a lunch that included beets AND pesto, and I didn’t stain my shirt while eating. This is worth celebrating.

This is incredible and the fact that it’s a non-union gig only makes it funnier.