The irony of ICE leading to worse ice on DMV roadways and sidewalks www.wusa9.com/article/news...

At the beginning of the holocaust, I had 25 grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents living under Nazi occupation. 16 were killed, only 9 survived. Including 3 grandparents I grew up with. In their memories, on this #HolocaustRemembranceDay: NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!

Family of tourists at DC’s Union Station in matching navy blue beanies. Thought it was a kinda cute coordinated winter accessory before the DC area gets blanketed in snow over the weekend. Got closer and realized they were the forced-birth activists in March for Life hats 😵‍💫

On this day in 1958, the Lumbees drove the Klan from their land at The Battle of Hayes Pond 🪶 ✊ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Wonderful conversation with my fellow Dan, Dan Kahn! And great shout outs to my other delicious colleagues Michael Winograd, Ira Temple, and the @radiantothers.bsky.social podcast 😁

Daniel Kahn spoke with me about his new record Umru and why he sings in Yiddish. Read @derspekter.bsky.social and subscribe to their newsletter 📨 www.derspekter.org/daniel-kahn-...

The synchronized swimming segment in The Great Muppet Caper is just another reason the muppets are one of the best things to happen in the history of show business

#booksky My year in books read (42 of them) with a cover collage from @thestorygraph.com

#booksky December wrap up on @thestorygraph.com

Still thinking about the Brazilian Klezmer Carnival medley @ Yiddish New York 🎺 🪗 🎻 🎤

They're chipping away at voting rights-- this time, by going after people who procrastinate when voting by mail.

The rewind from @wmata.com knows me too well, I sure am the Headliner 🎺 🚊 🚍 #BeardedTrumpetPlayer #MetroRewind metrorewind.com/rewind/

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

may their memories be for a blessing

My November wrap up from @thestorygraph.com #booksky

Groups like @bendthearc.bsky.social are investing in the real work of building solidarity and combatting the toxicity of smokescreen antisemitism. Join me and add your name!

On this day November 2 in 1979, Assata Shakur was liberated from Clinton Women’s Prison

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us. (Can this please become a meme? Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

I don't think it is possible to understate the impact Reb Arthur zt"l and his vision of prophetic justice had on me and generations of Jewish activists. May the memory of the righteous be a blessing.

The bassist at the Bossa session said I made it feel like 1960s Brazil and that’s probably one of the nicest complements I could have gotten #BeardedTrumpetPlayer 🎺

A library has burned. May his memory and music be a blessing.

These two headline sentences next to each other are a great encapsulation of the cognitive dissonance of this moment.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

New year, new me, I’m altering my DNA by getting vaccinated for Covid & Flu during Rosh Hashanah אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר!! 🐏🍯🍎💉

“If you want to make the world a better place just f*cking do it man” -All American Rejects🤘 www.npr.org/2025/08/29/g...

“Food insecurity is skyrocketing: we have the highest rate of food insecurity among seniors. Tens of thousands of residents are waiting for housing vouchers, some for over 20 years. Health outcomes vary widely by income and race. These are all man-made problems & they all have solutions.”

“Community-based solutions to public safety and continued investment by those in power will continue to move the needle. Not by a police occupation. Not by marginalization. Not by disappearing our neighbors.” @breadforthecity.bsky.social breadforthecity.org/blog/stateme...

July 2025 wrap up #BookSky

Sensing that any number of US elected officials & bureaucrats think they’re Schindler, making the tough choices to save who can be saved. If that’s you, please complete this brief checklist. 1. Are you providing citizenship documents to people who would otherwise be kidnapped by ICE? 1/x

The atrocities the Israeli gov is committing in Gaza have created an audience for US politicians denouncing it. If orgs like the ADL were not so shortsighted, they would prefer that role to be filled by someone like Mamdani, who speaks out against antisemitism, than someone like MTG, who does not.

I'm not a Christian and have no personal stake here, but this is a model answer for a form of religious identity that avoids the twin poles of literalism and complete certitude on one side and culturally Christian-based irreligion and atheism on the other, in which we seem trapped right now.

It’s not our main reason, but this is another good reason for boycotting the airlines:

Was walking out of the Klezmatics concert first night of YidStock at Yiddish Book Center. Got compliments from elders on my singing voice and another on my posture while dancing 🥹

Seems like this will set a bad precedent, though the most charitable interpretation is that this will just allow houses of worship to be more open about what a lot of them are essentially doing already.

This is so fucking good. Bonus: learn some useful Yiddish.

Framed.

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

Andrew Cuomo won’t see your mean tweets about him, but your friend who sexually harassed thirteen women and covered up nursing home deaths will and you need better friends.

@jeffcmays.bsky.social : That Cuomo said Zohran Mamdani “won” before the ranked-choice voting totals are tabulated is stunning. Trip Yang, a Democratic strategist, called it potentially the “biggest upset in modern history” if the numbers hold.

Is it weird if I reply on my friend’s random Venmo transactions for Starbucks to make sure they also support @sbworkersunited.org ?

saying that someone “no longer has any legal interests” because they’re dead is the sort of claim you might wanna run by a lawyer before publishing in The Atlantic

Thunderclap in DC just rolled like timpani remarkably tuned to C# before the flash flood warning just blared from my phone

Huh?? www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

The DC Bar said it loud and said it clear: MAGA is not welcome here. Pam Bondi's brother loses his attempt to take over the DC Bar by EIGHTY percentage points.

Falling asleep to the original NPR Star Wars Radio Drama

PRIDE IS AN ACRONYM Personal RIghts through Defense & Education (It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...) ❤️‍🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical. ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social

My monthly reading wrap up for May from @thestorygraph.com #booksky

I love skill shares and master classes like this

Make it make sense.

"Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco" is a Sesame Street song originally recorded for the Grammy nominated 1979 Sesame Disco! album. It’s a masterclass in string and horn arranging including Mel Davis & Joe Shepley holding it down in the trumpet section 🎺 🎻 🎷 🎵 muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Me_Lost...