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.
196.03/ #NachasAlert: My son has a big article (pages 4-6) in this week's Torah journal from his high school #Metzora-#HaGadol. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1uNKU5O…
195.02/ Happy #Eclipse2024 Day for all who celebrate. Here's an interesting article about the halakhic implications of an eclipse by Rabbi Dov Linzer: blogs.timesofisrael.com/solar-eclipse-…
195.03/ #Eclipse2024 My extended family went to a place of 100% totality and took this picture a few minutes ago. For me its 90% and can't be photographed (which is one reason I said shehechiyanu). Not paskening for anyone else, but for me this is a religious experience.
194.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Shemini 5784.
@ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. #Shmini #HaChodesh drive.google.com/file/d/1bFHTfW…
193.03/ #NachasAlert: Final (so far) tally of times my son leyned Megillah seven times; 3 last night, four times today. Including once for a home-bound Shoah survivor. So proud.
192.02/ So today is #ZayinAdar and Saint Patrick's Day during Ramadan. What could go wrong?
192.03/ There's a resonance in having a fast that commemorates a community sacrifice for soldiers fighting a defensive war against raging antisemites. #TaanitEsther
191.02/ Last #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of the season. How to top last week, and with a movie my youngest hasn't seen yet? "Fletch (1985)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(f…
191.03/ I agree with Prof. Simkovich, re: the Oscar guy.
Also, I see people wrestling to make sense of his convoluted phrasing, but I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a declaration that inherently refuses to give others the same benefit.