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@JoshuaCypess
Feb 13, 2022 • 33 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
83.01/ Week eighty-three, February 12-18, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 82 below.
83.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. Tonight, Police Squad! In color! @policeincolor

Specifically, 3 of the 6 episodes, my favorites:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Substan…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butle…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvou…
[Video below is part of the show intro, that of Alan North]
83.03/ For #PurimKatan I've introduced a new custom: I give out mini ("fun size") candy bars for half-mishloach manot. This year I tested it out with my kids and wouldn't you know it, they approved. Next year, the world!
83.04/ #ShushanPurimKatan is also, IMO, Tu B'shvat Sheni. The two month countdown starts today for... um... OK, I won't mention it. But you know what I mean.
83.05/ I have an AB in anthropology from Princeton - the department that Geertz built - and his shameful & brutal history never came up in my classes. His reputation as a teacher was poor, yet I regret not knowing these facts when I was a student.
83.06/ The libertarian "lone wolf" mythology is not only nonsense - it can't be done, humans are social animals - a proper heroic goal is to be a leader. Leaders unite, coordinate, communicate; care about each individual & the group.
scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-…
83.07/ This is an incredibly valuable thread by Dr. Kay detailing the how-to and why-for about recording harassment & abuse.
83.08/ My kids said they have a school trip to the Poconos & the commercial from Mt. Airy Lodge immediately jumped into my head. My 1970s #LGM game watching kid brain thanks Adpocalypse on YouTube for this 1977-1979 WOR ad! youtube.com/channel/UC64rV…
83.09/ Just finished this online survey from Nishma about dating in the Jewish community. As a social scientist, I feel a duty to help others with their data sets. This survey will close Sunday, March 13, at 10:00 pm Eastern Time.
bit.ly/Nishma-Ortho-C…
83.10/ There's a meraglim joke somewhere to be found with this news #WorldRecordStrawberry

timesofisrael.com/israeli-strawb…
83.11/ These threads, @BeijingPalmer & his link to @owillis, corroborate what I've seen as well. And it's an old US phenomenon. Prohibition was fueled by an anti-urban animus (which itself is a mask for anti-immigrant/ethnic/Black hatred)
83.12a/ The @USFL is coming back & my kids were asking who we root for. My family moved a lot when I was a kid so I have haphazard sports allegiances. I'm a Steelers fan b/c I was born in Pittsburgh. But I spent many years in NY, so all other teams are NY: Mets, Rangers, Knicks.
83.12b/ My fan formula is: support a NY team even over Pitt (except NFL). If neither, then another place I lived. So @XFL2023 had NY & @TheAAF it's Memphis (where I went to HS) [NB: My youth USFL Generals died when Trump (ym'sh) killed the whole league in an early #ETTD instance]
83.12c/ Here are the @USFL teams/uniforms:
North:




South:



83.13/ #KiTisa record:
19 Feb 2022 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
6 Mar 2021 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
14 Mar 2020 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
23 Feb 2019 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
3 Mar 2018 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
18 Mar 2017 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
27 Feb 2016 hebcal.com/sedrot/ki-tisa…
83.14/ #ChochmatNashim/OLP for #KiTisa (not many b/c Purim bumps the parsha in many years)

5779 Hadassah Levy blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-women-did-…
5780 Dena Rock blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-moment-the…
5782 Tanya White blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-golde…

No JOFA

Bonus: Dr. Ziegler jewishlink.news/divrei-torah/4…
83.15/ Just reminded of this great thread by @Stonekettle and this crucial point: the fascists think of themselves as victims and thus their actions are "justified self-defense."

Starts:
Ends:
83.16/ @KevinMKruse's skill at this is uncanny.
83.17/ I had a generally positive view of Tafoya as a woman who succeeded in the toxic male world so I'm dumbstruck at her setting her reputation on fire like this. Seriously: who looks at Aaron Rogers' face-heel-turn and says "I should do that too!"
83.18/ I endorse this thread and especially this point about cryptomoola. Basing a worldview on unfalsifiable myth that allows you to destroy the world & hurt others is pretty wicked. The cryptoids are that and also buffoonish.
83.19/ I share this vibe.
83.20/ I need, nay must, remember this for the relevant parshiyot (#Shelach etc). #TorahHumor
83.21/ This is brilliant! #KiTisa
83.22/ Wonderful thread with much Charlie Brown ("Peanuts") appreciation
83.23/ A fellow traveler.
83.24/ I learned a lot from this thread about the way the 5th Amendment works out in civil vs. criminal trials (re: the Trump (ym'sh) NY case). Especially these 2 points:

83.25/ Wait a minute. The leader of the brownshirt truck brigade in Canada is named "Lich"? As in "evil undead wizard-cleric boss bad-guy" Lich? Come. On.

83.26/ This is a great thread about the history of a popular art - pulp fiction covers - and I especially love this cover. The artist specialized in "wild animals attack a dude" and the Rabid Turtle Swarm just pings my brain the right way.
83.27/ Yup. Money like power reveals character.
83.28/ Re: the thread I posted in 83.18, here are two sharp comments about the pretend apocalypse that the accelerationists are trying to cause.

Why they want it:

And another reason why it's daft:
83.29/ I was just going over the menu for our Shabbas meals and - as recited aloud by my wife - made for one of the best extemporaneous poems I've ever heard. The exact text doesn't matter, I recommend reciting your own menu and I promise it will achieve the level of art.
83.30/ As an Orthodox rabbi I'm adding my voice to agree with @PosenIzzy & condemn this abusive practice. It's making children living orphans! The Torah describes the cries of orphans as especially evocative of Divine compassion. And justice.
83.31/ Recognizing that the anti-mask & anti-vax people are running after the modern day Eigel ha-Zahav - and what I can learn about them, then & now - I will say #ShabbatShalom everyone. Stay safe. Be good.

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Week 212 below.
213.02/ Henceforth, I am calling the Times "USA Today for Rich People" and when asked why, I will cite @wychstreet and this decision.

213.03/ Resending this #ChochmatNashim for #TishaBeAv (and #Devarim) for this year.
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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.]
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211.01/ Week two-hundred and eleven, July 27-August 2, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 210 below.
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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazakah
211.03/ Knowing full well that this is based on a purposeful hoax, I accept this nickname for Vance.
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210.01/ Week two-hundred and ten, July 20-26, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 209 below.
210.02/ 1. Thank you Pres. Biden for your incredible job as president. I'm sorry you're not running again

2. I support VP Harris with all my might to be president in 2024. And I hope all freedom loving Americans will do the same.
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.
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Week 208 below.
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.
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Week 207 below.
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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.
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