Because Gd forbid our agents have empathy or a sense of justice.

I was born on an island but grew up way inland and the train through CT is always startling to me, the flatness and the water.

Was sitting on the wrong side of the train to see the Trenton bridge.

Kat Abugazaleh's name makes me chuckle every time, like this Palestinian-American is being summoned by her loving Ashkenazi bubbe. Me. I'm the bubbe in this story.

If only he hadn't ushered this in. I was paying attention in 2016. I've been paying attention since I was a child. He wasn't. And yet I am rooting for him now, despite almost blinding rage.

That I am terrified about James Comey's karmic comeuppance is too much

I was at a dinner on Monday night, erev Rosh Hashanah, where people were invited to light candles for people they were remembering. I was sitting next to a Unitarian friend of the hosts.

So . . . I _cancelled_ Hulu the day they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Within an HOUR of the news. Now I have an email telling me my monthly charges, WHICH I DON'T HAVE, have been reduced unless I cancel. Which I did. Mistake, Hulu. I might have come back, but not with this nonsense.

Just about all the time I have in my head, to the tune of "Camptown Races," "Justice Roberts is a shit." I say the F bomb a lot, but almost never that one. Shana tovah.

Not that this will be news to anyone but I overthink things. To a year with sweetness and peace.

I am a more than proficient baker, but I don't know the answer to this: Please tell me that the thumping of two heavy mixing bowls falling over in a sink less than two feet from the oven, in which a cake with separated eggs JUST started baking, won't make it fall. (Egg whites stiff, + soda +bp.)

So -- is it safe for my kid to take a Greyhound from Baltimore to Pittsburgh? I'm not kidding. She doesn't have a passport. She has a state-issued license. She's Black. She isn't the savviest person on the planet-- she's like a goofy Bart/Lisa/Olive Oyl mashup. Worried.

Rabin hated AIPAC, which was working hard to tank Oslo. So Carter was a little off here, depending on the year.

Shabbat shalom! Here she is! @rokhl.bsky.social and her blog to get an idea of what you'll get a taste of exploreashkenaziculture.blogspot.com

Again. Wharton and Oprah have much to atone for.

I wish there were a way of getting people to understand that they can choose Palestinian justice without "leaving Zionism," or that they could choose it in post-Zionism -- I wish there were a way for people to talk but just writing this on here feels risky. Conduct, not labels. Justice and peace.

IN ADDITION TO HAVING ENOUGH RAGE LEFT TO BE FURIOUS ABOUT THE TREES AND THE ROSE GARDEN WHY ARE THEY SO TACKY, ALL OF THEM?? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE THAT ONE FAMILY COULD BE SO UTTERLY REPULSIVE WHAT ARE THE ODDS??

I don't want to leave, I want to fight. And I am really afraid that I am going to be trapped here, that my Black child needs to get out, that the time to get out is now, and I can't leave because I won't leave my dad. Intergenerational trauma, much?

I just took a class with her, "Elul is a Place," my second one (my first one was on Ashkenazi magic) -- I wasn't sure what to expect but it turned out to be a class on the sounds and smells and bustle of Elul in Eastern Europe and was powerful and moving.

I realize I am late to this but the Statue of Liberty is Lisa Simpson as an adult

Jimmy Kimmel has a LOT of powerful Hollywood friends and is very well liked in the industry. Here's a test for all of them. Will they stand up for Jimmy and finally speak out against Trump and MAGA's fascist march? Or will they both sides it? Lets see.

This isn't a joke, people. If you can boycott the Haifa Film Festival, which is frankly performative nonsense aimed at people who AGREE with you about the occupation, you can do this. It's more important. Oh wait, but it's YOUR PAYCHECK . . .

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

I just reported an ad on Facebook for terrorism. It was a post from "Garden and Gun." We don't do guns in my family. Report those people. They ruined this country.

and people think social media is bad

I can't believe I still have room to be enraged about cutting down a tree when they're scooping people up and abducting them, but I am ENRAGED that he can just tear up the Rose Garden and cut down trees and IT IS OUR FUCKING HOUSE NOT HIS HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE IT

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

If these people would just condemn the conduct of the Israeli government instead of blathering on rank hateful nonsense, I would help them condemn the Israeli government! We might have been in coalition. We might not have had Trump. So much might have been different. I would have sleep.

Judith Butler is a self-hating trash academic who tied themself into knots to make queer discourse anti-"Zionist" while they live in N. California, which I'm pretty sure is colonized land. AND they have a right to their opinion, free of federal investigation, and their employer should protect them.

I want to talk about #legalwriting I was a TA for legal writing in law school, and -- I'm a good writer. I'm advising a board and had to read briefs from one of the parties, represented by a big law firm, and this thing, written by a Penn grad, was the most churned up, overwrought piece of garbage

My kid called yesterday morning and said she was homesick -- that other kids go home for the weekend. I texted a childhood friend who lives 5 miles from campus. She and her husband showed up at 6:30 today with their dogs, hung out, met her friend, and invited her to shabbat dinner next Friday. ❤️🥹

“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”

If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.

Gritty is a Jew.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

This 👇

I took out the garbage and a bag of recycling please clap my kid is in college it is all on me now

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Well. No need to investigate. Also, Trump et al are ALSO antisemites.

This.

You know how sometimes therapy makes you feel worse for a couple of days? That

I wish people would not post videos I've made a point of not watching snuff movies Whether it's people in a boat or Charlie Kirk or dozens of people murdered by the police, I don't want to see it. I am already a good person. Don't kill people. Even bad people. (There's only one in the list above)

Maybe, maybe there is one good Republican. Will there be ten?

Someone I know barely from college wrote on my FB page that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Christian and boy is she sorry now she came to the wrong store @jsx.bsky.social

Reposting because this account is in the running for best name. Or handle. I forget which is which. Brava.

Why does it feel like Friday? I have to go to work tomorrow.

My law school classmate wrote a devastating post about his childhood experience of divorce, connecting it to the ICE abductions and the Court's callousness, and it was such a simple way of explaining why this is terrible to people lacking basic empathy.

When your kid is in college and you are flattened by vax side effects (NOT A REASON NOT TO GET VACCINATED), you can have store-brand mac and cheese for dinner and not worry there's no vegetable.