The great thing about Swiss Air is they can be rude and incompetent in 4 languages

Looking forward to this! 🗃️

Not me yelling "please god no more fucking emails today" at the cats just now

Friday

It’s not like they said democracy dying in darkness was a bad thing

Happening this afternoon!

And it will last 1000 years!

It’s all so exhausting

L’etat c’est moi

Breaking news: Himmler is an antisemite www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

How long till they start busing school children to see Melania

Feline Riesling

I had forgotten Carl Schorske’s point that Schönerer and the Austrian antisemites looked to the US Chinese Exclusion Act as a model. Seems relevant

Hell of a day to be teaching City without Jews

"we promise never again to go down the darkest path" and yet we're literally fucking doing it

Omg love this for him 👇👇

Latest podcast just out podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

While Minneapolis burns

Hoping for home grown baba ghanoush by spring!

It was only a matter of time before they started in on "double earners" and trying to push women out of the workplace.

Thinking these days about Manzanar and Japanese interment for just random reasons

#skystorians, please help circulate this CfP for an upcoming volume on Asian-Pacific-Jewish histories networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Stop calling it an “immigration crackdown!”

Wut

Happy MLK Jr. Day 2026! Here is an interesting piece about MLK's connection to Germany in 1964: time.com/5504826/mart...

On the plus side, it wouldn’t be the first time we invaded the wrong country

On a lighter note, I just tripped, stepped into & overturned a litter box, knocking litter into the laundry and all over the floor. How’s your day going

Me reading the news these days

Gestapo’s role in keeping Reich safe is questioned www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

I'm so old I remember when Trump gave an autoworker the middle finger earlier this week

tell me you have absolutely no understanding of how health care or insurance works without...

Lots of Jimmy Carter telling Americans to turn the thermostat down to 65 energy here

Let's do this!

They won’t find me here

What do you mean by new semester

I will never get used to LA demonstrations where it’s about getting drivers to honk

“Beth Israel is not just a building. It is a witness [to] Jewish persistence in a place where Jews have lived as a tiny minority for generations, carving out space for faith & community … in the Deep South. To see it burned is to feel a familiar Jewish nausea.” forward.com/opinion/7962...

The fugitive green parrots are back!

Getting ready to get out there

I've been saying to anyone who will listen that we need to go back to Theweleit's "Männerphantasien" to understand the current moment

The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country. Am I the only one seeing the irony here? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...

I know there are lots of more important things to talk about right now but I’m traveling and thus constantly reminded of how shitty this country’s infrastructure is. StL Airport: I’m looking at you

Nothing says you're back in your home town like running into your oldest friend (from age 4) in a supermarket parking lot

I’m begging people to please stop it with the “Donroe Doctrine” bs. We don’t need a cutesy term for these violations of intnl law & decency www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...

Anständiges Café in der Heimatstadt

Sky harbor/PHX

So much for 2026 being better

Excited to be bringing in Dr. Jessica Brier, for a talk about her wonderful book "Typophoto: New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography" on modernist graphic design and photography in Weimar Germany. Next month at the Max Kade Institute at USC #academicsky #skystorians

#Wanttoread this book about a book: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

So if we attack Greenland does that mean we have to go to war against ourselves because of our NATO obligations?