39.05/ This thread explains why FoxNews can lose advertisers and blithely keep on churning out hate-filled toxic propaganda: because of cable packages. I first learned this from @slpng_giants
39.07/ Evidently the brutes are pushing back on the idea that US roadways are designed in a racist manner. Um, look: how would they NOT be? Given the way our country has done everything, the default assumption needs to be 'made to preserve white supremacy' npr.org/transcripts/52…
39.08/ The thing about Chua is that the moment she wrote a book that ranked human cultures & races, she should've been shunned. Her book was textbook racist & intellectually vapid
39.11/ Rosh Chodesh Iyar is the yahrzeit of my beloved teacher, Rav Ahron #Lichtenstein z'l. He was both a genius & a saint, and possibly the only gadol b'dor who had an PhD in art (Literature from Harvard).
39.12/ This, this this this, this is why I follow this account. To see the progress of headlines in the NYTimes, especially to whitewash an act of cowardly murder by the police. The NYT act too often as enablers & propagandists.
39.13/ I yeeted GG yrs ago b/c he was vituperatively anti-Israel.
For me, Israel is an easy litmus test, b/c while you can oppose Israel's policies w/o being antisemitic, you've joined forces w/evil people, which shows you're fine w/the underlying hatred.
39.13b/ Noah responded to the above tweet, so I will include his response & my reply. My bottom line: opposition isn't a problem, it's how you oppose. GG's behavior now, to me, is consistent with his anti-Israel stance of before.
39.15/ A thread about how people have been conditioned to accept police violence as normal, which means we've created a culture of intangibly enabling brutality.
39.17/ Really great thread with solid work showing the dangers of non-rigorous historical recreation. This is especially problematic when it comes to images (see 39.15 for how video has an oversized effect on how we ingest knowledge)
39.18/ I added a new entry to my thread of Torah U-Madda leaders who perished in 2020. This is of Prof. Mark Steiner z'l who died April 6, 2020 from COVID19.
39.19/ Talking to my kids about the history of African-American vote suppression and I described the Civil War as never ending; basically we entered a 150 year Cold War that culminated in the election of Trump (ym'sh). 1865-2015.
39.20/ Just found out about this account, twitter.com/HeadlinerClip, which will add automatic captions to any twitter video. Technology in the service of people in need makes a good morning.
39.21/ The truth behind the cliché is that 'conservatives' are often solipsistic, lack empathy, and thus only think something is a problem when it affects them directly. This is the core of my focus on #Literalist thinkers.
39.23/ About time we gave reparations to those we deeply wronged. I have a selfish view on this: I am not a thief, I don't use stolen objects, and it's a lasting immorality to keep enjoying America while not righting this wrong.
39.24/ Edgy edgelord humor about the freakin' Titanic over 100 years ago. I must be missing some context because I have no idea what US culture before WW1 must have been really like
32.25/ A odd little thread I wrote about how much NY Gov. and abusive creep Cuomo hates Sukkot, the famous Jewish Holiday Chart, and the interpretation of Lag BaOmer as a possible 'tree' holiday
32.26/ First off, ew. Second, I didn't know this chair was still existed. And third: has the chair become the center of some America-based occult action adventure that uses Abraham Lincoln's blood as a magic item? Because otherwise that needs to be done.
32.27/ Prof. Haselby's point has real heft when you've lived through the Rambo era. First movie? About abuse of PTSD veterans. Second movie? Insane toxic-masculinity power fantasy about rescuing MIAs.
32.31/ Anyone reluctant to get the vaccine because of potential side-effects clearly doesn't understand how dangerous COVID is to *them* (see also: the anti-mask depravity)
When I demand they mask/vaccinate, it's because I care more about their lives than they do about mine!
32.33/ My allergies are stupid. Why? Because I caught COVID a year ago. No effect.
But pollen? Dog hair? Book dust? Agony
One is a deadly disease & my nose just let it waltz in. The other group are 'man's best friend,' my best friend (books) & freakin' trees & FLOWERS. My nose:
32.34/ Gotta finish cooking for Shabbas, so #ShabbatShalom y'all. See you on the other side.
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.
208.02/ Demographically, I should be part of the "elite" but the past two weeks showed me that I'm a solid true-blue member of the Democratic "base" because I'm standing by Biden-Harris & have a white-hot rage against the media (& the cowards in my party) trying to take us down.
208.03/ People ask "Why haven't the media learned their lesson from 'But Her Emails?' in 2016"?! But the answer is QED - they did learn their lesson: that with relentless bad-faith attacks they can knock out the Democrat & elect a cash-cow tabloid buffoon. They know & want this.