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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Here's a very helpful flowchart I nabbed from a recent book of essays, "Judeophobia and the New Testament." I hope it helps.

Today is also an excellent day to make a cash donation to your local food bank. As great as giving food items is, cash donations go further. And the need is about to become great.

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

And everyone else?

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

The endless uncritical stanning of Gavin Newsome and calling anyone who critiques him as a problem is such a damn microcosm of my problems with institutional politics.

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My message to liberals and lefties on education fascism is that the fascists don't just want to control what your child learns, they also want to control who your child's classmates are. So not just no "CRT" but also (de facto) segregated classrooms.

As a number of cowardly providers abandon trans youth, not only should we target them for protests, petitions, statements, and anger—but we should also show support and appreciation for the institutions that are refusing to comply and have reaffirmed their commitment to providing care.

honestly don't know what's dumber: 1) polling ppl on how they think fictional characters would have voted in the 2024 US election, 2) the fact ppl in that poll thought Indiana Jones (who we all saw repeatedly punch Nazis) would have voted for Trump, 3) the fact that I bothered to pen this response

The New York Times goes both-sides with El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, raising doubts about whether he’s really an autocrat even though Bukele has described himself as the world’s “coolest dictator.” I think it’s clear that NYT is neutral on the question of democracy vs. dictatorship, even in the U.S.

MAJOR breaking news: The District of New Jersey is moving forward with the challenge to Alina Habba’s appointment. The judge has ordered supplemental briefing on the so called “merits issue” - whether Habba’s status as “acting” United States attorney contravenes statutory and/or constitutional law.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

🚨 Breaking: A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of mounting an unconstitutional pressure campaign against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.

Legionnaires’ disease does not spread person to person, and comes from contaminated water in things like plumbing and water appliances (ice/water dispensers, spas, etc), air conditioning systems & even bad ventilation. Without public health there would be no way to identify and treat these outbreaks

Actually no deportations have to happen. They're not laws of physics. There's no deportation rule akin to gravity or dark energy. Hope this helps.

Lotta things contributing to this but one factor is surely national elites signaling that NYC potentially opening five public grocery stores represents a greater threat to the status quo than the decimation of the NIH

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will follow.

Sooo I was at a coffee shop and the girl in line behind me decided to ask if I’d heard about Jesus. In the United States. In 2025. “I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Yet another excellent piece today.

252. Gesturing towards "struggling with God" as a response to difficult parts of Judaism is a thought-terminating cliche that should be avoided. The idea that Jews are meant to struggle with God is valuable, and it isn't meant as a way to say "Yes this is problematic, but just ignore that."

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

This is important. Medicaid, which was just extensively gutted, is currently the primary payer for addiction services in this country, which are underfunded as it is. A lot of unhoused people meet eligibility for Medicaid, and it is most often one of their only lifelines even if they don’t use drugs

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

Institutionalization is terrible and always has been. Full stop. Fuck the latest EO and fuck the people who cave to it.

Holy shit. Check this out: Lander finished the ranked-choice process with 151,463 votes, and he ranked second on 308,683 Mamdani ballots. That adds up to a minimum of 460,146 votes cast for Lander in the primary. Andrew Cuomo's final round tally was 443,229, nearly seventeen thousand less.

Take the money you would spend on this and give it to homeless people. Just give it to them. Directly.

Both Yale and Connecticut Children's will be closing their gender clinics or limiting new prescriptions. That leaves Connecticut without a gender clinic to provide care to trans youth despite having a robust shield law.

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

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Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”

If you’re a moderate Democrat already worried about the specter of leftists refusing to vote for Gavin Newsom I do have a solution for you: do not nominate that fucker

if one more person calls me or anyone else — including zionists — a “zio” for literally any reason, i am going to actually scream. that is not an academic term or a shorthand safe to use. it is literally nazi slang popularized by white supremacists. please do not use that language. anywhere.

He has REPEATEDLY condemned antisemitism. REPEATEDLYYYYY He ran hand in hand with a Jewish man!! He had a HUGE amount of support from Jewish New Yorkers!!! JEWS ARE NOT A TOOL FOR YOU TO USE TO HIDE YOUR ANTI-MUSLIM BELIEFS BEHIND

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth