38.03/ The wisdom/motivation of changing the name associated with your group depends on who gave the name in the first place.
If the majority imposed the original name: understandable way to reframe stigma
If you chose the original name: you're not fooling anybody prunes
38.04/ My kids tell me that the vaccine is called a "Fauci Ouchie" and I love that.
I bless you all to receive your Fauci-Ouchie soon, in good health.
38.05/ I really want this to be true
How it can be: I was gifted a t-shirt from China & was told it said "People of the Book." Later, my friend told me the shirt actually just said "Book" (BTW, his holding back laughter was gold). IMO, the OP is plausible
38.06/ Nice. This 7th inning is revenge by the #Mets for last night's error laden meltdown that ruined yet another scintillating DeGrom start
38.07/ Two very good articles from Magdi Semrau from Alternet, which I receive from my subscription to the Stoehr "Editorial Board" - one of my favorite reads of the week. I highly recommend Stoehr's work, and Semrau's stoehr.substack.com alternet.org/author/magdise…
38.08/ I will endeavor, when I reprimand/scold/chide/whatever someone on their use of a bigoted term/concept/trope, to quickly provide them with a easily usable alternative.
I will thus also need to quickly devise a set of actually useful alternatives ASAP.
38.09/ Read this last night and said "This is profound and I need to spend time thinking about it" and that holds even more given today is #YomHaShoah
38.10/ I enjoy Twitter and read it for news & all forms of education. But the fact that people are afraid to post about #YomHaShoah because they'll get dogpiled by enthusiastic & cruel N*zis demonstrates that the website is built on flawed principles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_o…
38.11/ Brilliant line and important thread about fascist propaganda and the assault on voting rights: "disinformation offers permission, not persuasion"
38.12/ New book from my sister-in-law @LeahCypess!
"Thornwood, is told from the point of view of Sleeping Beauty’s little sister, and is going to kick off a series of retellings, called Sisters Ever After, about “the sisters the fairy tales left out.”" tor.com/2021/04/07/fai…
38.13/ Today begins the modern Jewish history week, between #YomHaShoah and #YomHaAtzmaut, which is when I recommend reading "Faith & Destiny" by Rav J.B. Soloveitchik.
(It's #5 in my list of books every Jew should read, see thread below:)
38.14/ This is a good entry in the most recent Twitter Humor Template.
(I wonder if there's a record of this somewhere because certain jokes travel through the meme-stream, live like mayflies and then become passé in just a few days)
38.15/ Wrote this last year. It still holds. We've played 3.5 games and we've left about ten thousand guys on base in scoring position. Did we back the team bus over a witch's bicycle or something?
38.18/ Strong agree. The fight still goes on, the brutes are fighting hard to regain power, but we won this round and we can enjoy the ability to right the wrongs
38.19/ An excellent distillation of the proper attitude in fighting the dangerous kooks: don't out argue them (which is your paradigm), out power them (which is the paradigm they understand)
38.22/ Time to pull up the rug on this week. I had a successful second trip to the Meadowlands, thanks to @sthorntonflute!, and that took some time away.
217.02/ Due to a combination of having a maddening schedule over the past few weeks and having Twitter owned and run horribly by the Divorced Incel King, it's been very hard to write anything.
217.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTetze 5783 (last year)
@ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the weekly parsha and other topics of the day. 15 Pages. No time to do a new one this year before Shabbas. drive.google.com/file/d/1NucT9p…
212.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Devarim and #TishaBeAv 5783 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim
Downloadable pdf with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. 22 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/1TH6ApN…
212.03/ This is an excellent, spot-on, thread. I've said a lot of this stuff for years.
[I'm a life-long Democrat born in Pittsburgh & raised in small towns (Binghamton), rural areas (Ithaca), and the South (Memphis). Walz is a familiar archetype to me.]
211.02/ It would behoove this law prof. to learn about the Jewish law concept of "chazakah" - the legal presumption for what a person means/intends. So, um, Trump (ym'sh) fomented an armed insurrection. He wants to end Democracy.
210.03/ I had too many sleepless nights over the last three weeks because of the drumbeat against Biden b/c there was too much smoke for there not to be fire. What kept me steady was my trust of his judgement. So if he thinks this is wise, then I logically have to support it.
209.02/ Following the assassination attempt on TFG yesterday - an act I condemn; ballots not bullets - the reaction by news agencies has been unhinged. But I'm singling out The Daily Beast and Politico who are lionizing TFG using very disturbing rhetoric. I've had to unfollow.
209.03/ I'm furious that so many in Congress are playing this dangerous game but I'm reminding myself that (1) the MSM has been fabricating stories & amplifying mythological pro-GOP nonsense for a while now & (2) I trust Biden's abilities to handle this like he did NATO.