how exciting!!
I will always, always love The West Wing. But lord, Aaron, really?
I am not immunocompromised. I don't need to be immunocompromised to know that mask bans are cruel and do not make me safer. I don't need to be to care about immunocompromised people continuing to have access to public life. If you're Jewish, take a look: www.jewsformaskrights.com
Thank you everyone! These are fantastic! (Google is just very overwhelming and I always prefer personal recs)
Ok folks— does bluesky work like twitter(z'l) used to? Like can I say "who has recommendations for hotels in Rome and Florence?" and a bunch of lovely strangers will point me in good directions? I hope so! (And I really will take those hotel recs!)
First post in months. Also officially off Substack now. "To be willing to be in conversation does not necessarily, mean having your mind changed. But it means that— yes— you might not be the same person with the same beliefs afterwards." morethanfourquestions.beehiiv.com/p/question-1...
On letting our foundations be rocked
FWIW there actually are people who identify as Zionists who are out there protesting the war, because Zionist really does mean a *lot* of different things to different people. I wrote about it here: www.heyalma.com/what-we-lose...
Are you a Zionist or an anti-Zionist? Depending on who’s asking and your answer, you could find yourself embraced or cast out, trusted or scorned. Zionists and anti-Zionists might hear that they’re Na...
Just a periodic reminder that anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jews are Jews. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring centuries of global Jewish engagement. Characterizing all Zionists as "Evil" is a problem bc Zionist means a million things. So is characterizing all non/anti-Zionists as not Jewish.
Why would the NYPD ever let protests remain peaceful when turning them into a warzone can make everyone so much money? gothamist.com/news/nypd-ha...
Police officers have racked up hundreds of thousands of hours of overtime, according to NYPD officials.