I gave a talk at a senior center last week that was nominally about the current Supreme Court term, but was actually me just yelling about Callais for 45 minutes.

We are disgusted that Boulder SJP chose to celebrate the firebombing attack on a peaceful march. They dress up the language to make murder sound like liberation. The reality is they are celebrating the horrific killing of an 82-year-old woman who came out to march. Nothing excuses this.

Did any of you, after having kids, have this sudden realization that the parents of other babies you see at the mall or wherever are in fact *new* parents, learning as they go just like you are, and not NPCs who've permanently been scripted w/"have-6-month-old" as an essential facet of their being?

I mean, people talk about the "No Bedtime" faction of the progressive movement, but ....

Unfortunately, the legacy Jewish org position is that a one-state solution is only acceptable if the proponent makes absolutely clear it will be an apartheid state.

Find someone to love you with the passion of a Platner supporter making excuses for literally anything he ever did, does, or will do.

No fucking whey www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

We started the school year with Nathaniel getting me sick, and we’re ending the school year with Nathaniel getting me sick. In all earnestness, it’s been a great school year for Nathaniel and us. He’s thriving, and I’m super proud of him! Go bud go!

Amazing that Zohran Mamdani did not want to join a parade with Bezalel Smotrich, soon to be wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

This is right, although I do think it’s worth underscoring that “I just want someone who will challenge the establishment and the status quo” is indeed the same logic that got us Trump, which is a good reason to view it and those who peddle it skeptically.

The banning of Keshet, Italy's LGBTQ Jewish group, from Rome Pride is about one thing, and one thing only: a demand for submission. Rome Pride wanted to see the Jews bend, and if they wouldn't bend, they were happy to see them break.

Bring the float anyway. Force them to physically remove it. Get pictures of them violently dragging the Jews away.

I'm not saying anything new here, but Facebook these days is just a firehose of the worst people imaginable doing everything in their power to enrage you and make you a worse person too.

"Now you've got to ask yourself, pardner. Did I fire six genders - or only five?"

Well, the great David beard experiment ended the way it was always going to end: accidentally overcorrecting while giving myself a trim.

The TX-35 results, where antisemite Maureen Galindo is losing by close to a 2:1 margin in the Dem runoff, is heartening. But we should also recognize that Galindo's antisemitism has a real constituency in progressive politics. Not a majority, not even a large minority, but not utterly trivial.

In case you were worried nobody would be held accountable for the IDF sexually assaulting Palestinian detainees, it looks like that isn’t true. The woman who blew the whistle on the abuse is definitely getting punished.

A very impressive year for Carleton frisbee! CUT was D1 men’s runner-up, and CHOP was D3 men’s runner-up. Syzygy won the D1 women’s championship, and Eclipse made D3 women’s quarterfinals. Now that’s some depth from a school with barely 2000 students!

CVH is the last, best hope for a real 2-state solution that respects the self-determination rights of Jews and Palestinians alike. There are some in my community who don’t want to hear that. But I think there are many more who understand it quite well.

Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.   It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution.

lmao these wreckers can fuck all the way off. posted right after Kim got pepper sprayed on the front lines.

Yes, and also “Tech used to donate mainly to moderate candidates,” pointing directly at a graph showing tech donating mainly to conservative candidates, is just a perfect encapsulation of the media.

The thing is, Ilan Wurman *does* believe in birthright citizenship…for the right sorts. He doesn’t think *his* kids should have to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops or do acts of service to become US citizens. Of course his kids are citizens from birth, having done nothing but be born.

Worst crossover ever: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 99

I have no opinions on vegan cream cheese, but the aneurysm I can imagine being triggered if Zohran started attacking NYC bagel shops makes this almost worth it. Alternatively, defending NYC bagelries from snobby Californians is about as free of a Sista Soulja moment one could possibly ask for.

I am genuinely resentful that, as a Jewish man, I probably can't change my profile bio to read "attractive, busty Jewess".

This is the thing. We just saw a bevy of prominent Republicans get smashed for the crime of crossing Trump. One of them happened to be anti-Israel. The rest weren’t. To extrapolate from his defeat that we’re ZOG is obvious antisemitism. The common variable isn’t Israel, it’s Trump.

Given the odds they’ll use ChatGPT to sort these applications, I feel like one could pretty easily write some slop that would move you to the top of the pile.

On our society-wide tendency to pick pop culture figures to hate for the sin of making people happy.

Congrats to my @lclarklaw.bsky.social colleague Jo Perini-Abbott for winning a seat on our county court, and congrats to her opponent for also being a good guy and giving me the decadent pleasure of getting to vote in an election that ISN'T "Norma Reasonabola vs. Dixie McRapist in a nail-biter!"

This is how you deal with trash

When someone attacks a synagogue, a certain segment of people go searching for something that synagogue has said or done in support of Israel, to prove why the attack is actually justified. This article is the Islamophobic equivalent, and it's equally horrific and racist. nypost.com/2026/05/18/u...

Can’t wait for the press release: “We’ve taken everything you hate about today’s Google search, and made it more expansive, obtrusive, and inescapable!”

I’M NEVER GONNA STAY OFFLINE

I'm not one to pore over public statements of outrage and condemnation to see if they use certain specific "magic words" (and blast them as insincere if they don't). But if you are that sort, note those statements which condemn the San Diego shooting but don't say "Muslim" or "Islamophobic".

I mean, I agree that candidates who don’t support J Street’s policies or otherwise think it’s a bad influence shouldn’t take money from J Street. That’s how it works!

We mourn with the San Diego Muslim community after a deadly shooting at the Islamic Center today. Our hearts break for the loved ones of the victims and at the images of children being led to safety. We must confront Islamophobia clearly, urgently and without hesitation.

TRADE ALERT: Democrats have acquired Bill Kristol from the GOP in exchange for Alan Dershowitz.

As someone who majored in Aquiracx, I’m glad that my hitherto obscure discipline is finally getting the attention it deserves.

That feeling when you expected something big to come off your plate today, and instead something big came onto your plate today. 😡😡😡

"But Dobbs returned abortion to the states!" Hey Alito, you know how far you have to travel in US Reporter before encountering a Justice on the Dobbs majority asserting federal authority over abortion? About one page, to when Justice Thomas claims the federal Comstock Act bans mailing mifepristone.

One big advantage academic publishing has over other venues fighting AI slop is that most of the publishing incentives for academic articles only accrue if some real person is ID'd as author. Unlike spam sites, which are wholly fungible, here bad actors can actually be targeted with punishments.

This is the flipside of the Middlebury Hillel story I wrote about the other day, and it goes to show the squeeze play afflicting Jews on campus right now. Terrible look from Sarah Lawrence.

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

Weird controversy brewing at Middlebury, where the campus Hillel chapter wants to disaffiliate from Hillel Int'l over the partnership guidelines, and HI seems to want to both (a) forbid the chapter from leaving but also (b) punish the chapter for violating the guidelines. What's the end game here?

It's important to emphasize that, on top of everything else, the current Supreme Court lies brazenly and repeatedly. When they purport to say "this decision doesn't disturb such-and-such precedent", well, to quote a deceased member of the Court: "Do not believe it."

Parenting changes you, and for me, it's unlocked an overwhelming, almost crippling sense of empathy for all other parents who I know care as much for their baby as I care for mine, and who would be as devastated if something happened to their baby as I would if something happened to mine.

This was already a contender, and then Brooklyn 99 locked it down.

On the subject of Mother’s Day superlatives (“best mom in the world!”), has anyone figured out how to handle having both your own mom and your wife/mother of your child? I actually find this legitimately stressful.

Yonatan Zeigen, son of Oct 7 victim: “It’s not that we don’t want peace because it’s complicated. Peace is complicated bc we don’t want it.” MK Na’ama Lazimi: "Security will be achieved when both peoples who call this land home have personal security, live with dignity, & have hope for the future.”