121.04/ M*sk turning blue-checks into NFTs is the most accurate encapsulation of his broken ideology/psychology I could have devised. Perfect, no notes.
121.05/ Blue-checks made this place reliable, informative, and important. Dumping them for ephemeral status symbols undermines the purpose of Twitter!
I'm on here to learn from people, while M*usk & his klan are here to claw out acclaim or torment people they envy.
121.08/ Little known fact about me: my favorite grammatical tense in Hebrew is the hufal. In English it's the pluperfect.
Not because of grammar at all - I have no idea what those terms denote - but I just think those two words are funny.
121.09/ I hate having the US go through 1862 again. This midterm election has that "mid-Civil-War" tenor, but if we still allowed the South to vote and "legally" continue their armed insurrection.
121.10/ I want to thank all those who worked hard to give the Democrats a fighting chance this election day. Please God, we may be able to pull it off: keep the house, expand the Senate, maybe even pick up some Governors. Pay the brutes back for Dobbs & other assaults on liberty.
121.11/ I'm a news-junkie so today's the type of day that will roast my emotions over a slow fire if I keep my standard habits. There's a guaranteed #RedMirage tonight. I need to keep repeating that, remember '18/20, and avoid MSM news until an all-clear from @tbonier & @SimonWDC
121.12/ Speaking of @SimonWDC, this thread and especially this post are crucial:
121.14/ One reason I write these threads is to have a type of diary so I can see what I was thinking & experiencing over these years of #TrumpCrisis. Election night 2020 was just a culmination of a terrifying year filled with a drumbeat of calamity and catastrophe.
121.15/ Per my brother @acypess: "These election nights feel kinda like Avraham wondering what will happen to Sedom the next morning"
Perfect metaphor
121.16/ Alert! There's something that the Satmar Rebbe and I agree about. Alert! This is not a drill!
121.18/ It stinks that @staceyabrams lost the governor's race. Now's the time to get her in the Biden-Harris cabinet, if she so desires. Get her a national profile; she deserves it after 2020 alone.
121.19/ This is an underrated point. It's hard to see the absence of consequence, of prevention of problems. (I've heard the same about Beto and Abrams: they've made machines in their states. And one look at FL will show you how crucial that is!)
121.20/ A good letter to the editor by a local academic and rebbetzin, Prof. Rebecca L. Cypess. It's in response to some of the anti-immigrant (pro-Sedom?) rhetoric in our local Jewish paper: jewishlink.news/letters/54765-…
121.21/ You better believe it, baby! We've got the facts, the ethics, and the combination of hearts & smarts. Plus we're actually what's best for society.
121.22/ When I heard M*sk was going to buy Twitter, I thought it would become a treacherous battleground of trolls and bots. I honestly didn't expect that he'd be so clownishly incompetent that he'd actually destroy the site. This is too important a site to lose, it's just tragic
121.23/ [Me, going page to page, frantically saving each of my favorite Twitter posters to archive.org] "There's got to be a better way!" [Continues saving]
121.24/ #NachasAlert: both my daughter and son were anchors of the Torah Bowl teams. It's so much fun to see them quizzing each other all week, the older one - with years of experience - coaching the younger.
121.26/ Since this app may implode into a myriad pixels soon, I can use the end-times to admit something about me and this week's parsha #Vayera: I've never read Sören Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling." I've been faking it the whole time to burnish my Torah U-Madda cred.
121.34/ I do not condone political violence. So I must assume Cruz asked for the beer and forgot that he asked to catch it with his face. An honest misunderstanding.
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.