Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.
He finally gave us the promised Infrastructure Week, in the form of bulldozing the East Wing, and we are such ungrateful wretches that we don’t even thank him for it. What? You thought Infrastructure Week meant something else? That’s on you, man.
Jonathan Cohn(1) Will Trump ever fall below 30%? (2) Clearly, the American people just don't understand that the White House renovation should be their top priority too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I know the word you’re going for, but I can’t help but think “American.”
Joel S.If only there were a word to describe a legal system that treats two groups of people differently under the law based on their identities. www.timesofisrael.com/katz-boasts-...
Tanakhic prophecy is easiest to understand as a statement of God’s intentions, with the explicit understanding that God’s mind can be changed by subsequent events. If everything proceeds as expected, the prophet has predicted the future; if the people mend their ways, the prophet has still succeeded
ShammaiTelling the future is something prophets can do. The "prophet test" in Deuteronomy 18:22 specifically lays out that you can recognize a false prophet if they predict something, and it doesn't come true. But, what about Jonah?
The ER is also where you go when you’re uninsured and only interact with the medical system under duress. This isn’t just part of their antivax crusade, it’s part of their ethnic cleansing regime.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhDThe Regime is ordering at least 100 hospitals to share fully identifiable health records from ER visits with a contractor by the end of the year, with plans to scale up. One thing they are specifically looking for is “poisoning by vaccines”.
There is a priceless parenting axiom in, I think, The Explosive Child: no child *wants* to be in trouble. If they keep doing things that get them in trouble, that usually means for one reason or another they can’t help it. One might presume this holds true of adults as well, but there are exceptions
AlexIt's difficult to legislate against obvious psychopathy because people rightly assume no one would ever be that dumb or self destructive for nothing in return except for the satisfaction that they let people die
This would be a less destructive version of the basic “Trump Starts, Loses Iran War; Oil Prices Soar and So Do Renewable Energy Projects Worldwide” story. I think everyone agrees that a FIFA-less World Cup would be awesome, but that doesn’t make the decisionmaking that gets us there any better.
Nadine Batchelor-HuntInfantino, as things stand, has destroyed the World Cup and FIFA I doubt this sell off plan will happen now, but if investors are mad enough to still invest he’s destroyed the best prize in sport single handedly Doubt it would be long before UEFA set up its own, but what a legacy
All but the first of these articles is about authorizing and mandating vaccines to protect kids and teachers. The US Department of Education is posting antivaxxer memes.
Seth CotlarWhat “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?
Hate me if you like, but I’m broadly supportive of the movement’s stance on this.
StatsJewOK, JewSky is too unified. Time to argue about the new Conservative movement statement on inter marriage.
100%. I’m the only one in ny family unit who still masks, and then quite rarely, but I instantly feel warmth and fellow feeling for anyone wearing a mask in public because they’re still My People who Care About Others, and this is just as much a trauma response as snarling at them instead.
babs ✨as someone who still masks in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, i can absolutely confirm this is the truth; there's nothin like seeing a reminder of That Time™️ (my mask) to make trauma bubble up into someones behavior. it looks different for everyone—from kindness to cruelty—but it's there.