antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"

The most profound allegory for depression:

Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

Sometimes I forget that the old twitter is gone and I want to go check on my friends and then I remember that they're not there anymore and it makes me very sad.

This parasocial relationship with @mrbrettgoldstein.bsky.social = the highlight of my week. (parasocial = me literally writing a poetry chapbook titled And Please, Now More Than Ever, Be Excellent to Each Other 🫣)

Walked past this all semester and did not notice it until today, the day before Pearl Harbor remembrance.

Hi I'm here because in some weird Pavlovian way my brain reminds me to log on to social media when I'm dysregulated af, ask me anything.

Spotify confirmed I'm a top 1% @mrbrettgoldstein.bsky.social fan, it's a fucking honor.

I've thought about this all week and I came to the conclusion that minus all the wanton executions, Don Corleone is just an admor running a chassidishe hoif, iykyk.

One of the things about being in college with people who are more than a decade younger than you is that when they talk about something being of its time, or of a different era, that era may very well be the premodern year of our lord 2008.

Finally trying to watch The Godfather and I need someone to explain it to me like I'm five? Because I must be missing something?

The first memory I have of hearing a dramatic story is in preschool when my teacher told the story of Hillel sleeping on the roof in the snow, and niche reference but if I'm being perfectly honest that is the moment that turned me anticapitalist.

Listening to nusach high as a kite at two thirty in the morning, ama.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Hi I'm here because in some weird Pavlovian way my brain reminds me to log on to social media when I'm dysregulated af, ask me anything.

What do you do in a world where the people who taught you kindness and empathy and compassion and to never look away when you witness injustices are, at best, indifferent to irrefutable evidence of a genocide perpetrated in their name and, at worst, openly justifying it? Where do you go then?

אויף דעם זאגט מען אויך - אזא שיינע מחלוקות, א שאד ס'איז אזא קליינע חסידות.

This is true.

Sure the two synagogues on an island joke is funny the first time you hear it but "איר פארגינט נישט פאר א איד נאך א יאר אין די לאגער" never gets old and I'm sorry, I don't know how to translate it.

Recently got back into writing poetry and have been getting feedback about the absence of formal structure "possibly due to the poet's lack of formal training" (duh 🙄) so I googled what the most difficult form of poetry is and because I hate myself I'm now writing a sestina, stay tuned I guess.

Purely anecdotal, but everyone I know who became exceedingly uncomfortable with illiberalism on the left falls into two categories:

This fucking broke me open. (starting around 22:07)

Going down a Bob Dylan rabbit hole and in the 1965 documentary Don’t Look Back, when asked if he's religious Dylan says "religious, what does that mean? Does it mean you bow down to idols?" And I need to know if outside of the frum conception of goyish religion, was this a regular thing people said?

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

For absolutely no discernable reason, today I watched clips of Jonathan Groff in Hamilton over and over and over.

Ok but 25% is way too fucking high.

Another reason is that I'm so thoroughly disgusted by the Discourse Of The Day™️ cycle. I used to think that there's merit to parsing out complex issues together, even if some of us sometimes offered absurd takes in the process. I don't anymore. I'd much rather negotiate reality with people who share

In part, I stopped saying almost anything on social media because it's hard to try to reconcile my conscience in public and stay honest with myself. Like if I help at a food distribution in Brooklyn, of course I think about starving people in Gaza being shot as they wait for food. But I also don't

Lowkey my favorite song in the world rn.

Maybe it's beacuse where I grew up, the words mutual aid mean nothing but tomchei shabbos delivers food discreetly, in unmarked boxes, late at night - people who deliver it never even see the recipients - but the fact that elsewhere people are made to line up on the street is incomprehensible to me.

If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it

Your privileged ass will be fine, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods aren't going away. But ffs let impoverished people have an opportunity to obtain food with dignity.

I mostly don't talk about mutual aid work I do. Breaking my own rule to say that this afternoon, in South Brooklyn, I witnessed dozens of people line up for a plastic bag containing a potato, an onion, an orange, two apples, a tomato, two bananas, a bag of rice, and a small plate of cooked chicken.

With a straight face, people catastrophize about Mamdani's proposed city run grocery stores because "Americans shouldn't have to line up for food rations". Every day, thousands of people in NYC *already* have to line up for food. Are they any less American than you or I? How fucking dare you.

Days and days of national media tripping out over the most trivial bullshit ever, meanwhile actual New Yorkers are 👇

Apropos.

In case you need me to spell it out, this is why we're here. Because millions of people are about to lose access to healthcare and the immediate response is not "how will we organize to mitigate harm", it is "this is going to be good for Democrats in the midterm election".

I got seven emails in two hours with some variation of "this is how we're going to defeat Republicans who cut Medicaid" in the subject line and a "send us money" link in the email. I have yet to receive a single email that says "here's what we're going to do to help people who will lose Medicaid".

But like I’m sorry I’m not gonna shut up about this. I’m gonna stand up for the Muslim community and my community and against our shared enemies because no one will be free until we are all free.

שווער צו זיין א איד, iykyk.

The large coalition of Jewish progressives who were impervious to the fear mongering proved, tonight, that the movement away from mainstream zionist views is not insubstantial, especially among younger people. And as they move into leadership positions, they will bring institutions with them.

NYC, a small boulder the size of a large boulder.

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

I really miss what we had on twitter BUT glad not to be knee deep in 2021/2017 precinct level data for Boro Park/Williamsburg to see if my theory about how chasidim came back to Coumo checks out. You win some you lose some. 🤷‍♀️ (Theory is that everyone still mad at him is now registered Republican.)

I think it’s especially important to remember that a Muslim American immigrant who co-founded a Pro-Palestinian group as a schoolboy and a liberal Zionist Jew cross-endorsed one another and campaigned together

I've been shouting into the void for forever that people hate divisive campaigns and if primary opponents lift each other up instead of tearing each other apart voters reward both of them + you don't need so much goddamn repair work ahead of the general. Anyway here's proof of concept, I was right.

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