For everyone who celebrates, Happy Rosh Hashanah. May we all have a sweet, peaceful New Year. Shana Tovah!

Gift Link "None of the 18 commercial musicals that opened on Broadway last season have made a profit yet. Some still could, but several have been spectacular flameouts." “Tammy Faye,” “Boop!” and “Smash” each closed less than four months after opening. "Cabaret" and "Gypsy" have also closed.

The whatnow?

Well, that wasn't subtle. At all. Carlson has a very long history of blaming Jews for a wide range of events and issues, using blatant antisemitic tropes. We're a cornerstone of his "great replacement conspiracy".

Behind the Scenes mini-clip from Alien:Earth. www.instagram.com/reel/DO1Hv1O... New Sambas mascot just hatched.

Yesterday, I posted these links to a reddit discussion about the 2000 Camp David peace summit between Ehud Barak, Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton. They're a back and forth in the NY Review of Books between Benny Morris and Ehud Barak on one side, and Robert Malley and Hussein Agha on the other. +

Man this dismissal of Trump’s NYT lawsuit is quite the read: “…a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Michael Savage is a transphobic, homophobic bigot. But he ain't wrong about this:

Hell no. The FBI are COPS. ACAB

Researchers have spent decades trying to determine how best to fight cancers. That hard-earned knowledge, paired with new technological advances, has allowed lives to be extended and saved. It's been transformative. Abandoning that progress now will have tragic consequences.

Gift link He's being pulled off the air "indefinitely." Unbelievable.

As the father of two Jewish teens who've experienced antisemitism in school and online, I'm all for increasing education about anti-Jewish bigotry. But not at the expense of teaching the history of Black America, including slavery and civil rights. Or fighting transphobia. Or Islamophobia.

Gift link: "In 2021, Ben & Jerry’s said it would end sales in the Israeli-occupied territories, saying it was “inconsistent” with the company’s values... In May, Mr. Cohen... protest[ed] Congress’s funding for Israel’s military as it wages war against Hamas in Gaza."

Pick up my kids from school. With no access to the outside world during the school day, they immediately turn their phones on and start browsing. Halfway home and: My daughter yells: "OH NO! TUNA'S DEAD?!" Scaring me half to death. "WTF. WHO'S TUNA?" "A ferret I follow on instagram." 😖 +

In the car yesterday afternoon, my daughter undid her braids and then this happened: My son: "Whoa. Hey, you know Guy Gardner from the Superman movie?" Me: "Oh G-d." My daughter: "You're gonna wanna watch your next words very carefully." Reader, he did not. +

A few days before Kirk was killed, @ezraklein.bsky.social interviewed Ben Shapiro. I honestly loathe Shapiro and it's frustrating that Klein doesn't push back against his blatantly misleading talking points and re-writing of history. But I found the interview interesting. Here's a gift link:

I'm rolling out some brand new moderation lists. Open to suggestions for refinements/members. This one is for people who say "All religion is the same!" by which they mean "All religion is the same [as the one I happen to know already, which nine times out of ten is evangelical Christianity]."

An Erasure musical titled "Oh L'amour" is now officially in development.

More on the soybean situation: (gift link)

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Today on Bluesky: Various antisemitic conspiracy theories about Israel and/or Jews killing Charlie Kirk. Also, a guy who declared that American Jews are doing just fine because, I shit you not, of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Christian Zionists and media promotion of male circumcision.

If I had a sign that said, "Days Bluesky has gone without batshit unhinged antisemitism" it would always read "Zero."

Does anyone know if there's a decent bluesky android app that supports drafts?

This makes no sense. Holocaust Museums all contain exhibitions to non-Jewish groups that were killed by the Nazis. Many have large exhibitions devoted to the murdered Romani and Sinti peoples. They also contain exhibitions devoted to other genocides. Prevention through education is the mission.

Corrected headline: 'The President of the United States just declared "WAR" against an American city on social media.'

This happened yesterday. +

My quiet, introverted daughter gets in the car. She is blushing very hard. "What happened?" "I may have yelled at someone in English." "What? Who?" "[Student] said he thinks Trump is amazing. I lost it. 'YOU MEAN THE ORANGE MISOGYNIST WHO WAS INDICTED OVER 30 TIMES?!' and the whole class went 😯" +

A summary and link to the study are here, for anyone wanting citations. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Countdown to a massive lawsuit by Tylenol in 3... 2...

Basically every public-facing trans person (or even cis folks who are serious allies for trans folks) I know fears this. You're some diligent professional doing your thing, and then all of the sudden these fuckschnitzels shine a spotlight on you to ruin your life.

This is Caleb Ragland. He's President of the American Soybean Association. Voted for Trump three times. Even after Trump's last trade war. He knew what he was voting for. China's now getting its soybeans from Brazil and Argentina. They don't need ours. And RFK Jr.'s declared a war on soybean oil.

🧵 Gift link. No great revelations in this thread. I'm just trying to get some thoughts written down.

This is a lovely article. Continuing traditions by transplanting a synagogue and developing a community.

A few people had questions of some of the states on my map such as NY/CA/IL moving up in risk for trans youth. If a state has moved up in risk, it's because of clinic closures at major clinics. I cannot in good faith keep a state low risk if state laws are not being enforced to keep clinics open.

Our kids' school sent out a note about Texas SB10, requiring the display of The Ten Commandments. Schools don't have to use public funds to purchase posters, but if they're donated they have to display them.

There's a post-credits scene in this week's Strange New Worlds. 🖖 Also, don't skip the opening credits.

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Tonight's movie:

Blog platform Typepad is shutting down as of September 30. They had stopped allowing new accounts to be created during the pandemic. Typepad was founded in '03 by Six Apart, which also used to own LiveJournal and Vox.

Gift link. Dozens of antisemitic incidents in Australia over the past year include an arson attack on a day care center, as well as vandalism and swastika graffiti. All targeting the Jewish community, including places of worship, businesses, etc.

Also, DHL and Australia Post.

Weirdly, this is one where it is super complicated, with differing traditions. Facing east, towards Jerusalem, and towards the ark, are all valid interpretations of halachah. (though Jerusalem is the most common)

@shammaiintl.bsky.social is correct. Jews of every sect pray facing Jerusalem. Synagogue sanctuaries face Jerusalem. Google is free, folks.

Post on Instagram says this poster was found at a rest stop on Route 26 in Bethel, ME.

Crumbl is Mormon. Jubilee is Christian. Indeed is Japanese And this person's an antisemite.