Anxious Pickle

They invented algebra, which last time I checked is important in science . . . but whatever.

Missing my Twitter friend z"l very much tonight, as his whole country hopes. Well, half of it, anyway, I guess that's the problem.

He did this in his first term. In 2024 he and Vance accused Haitians of eating pets in Ohio. Yet people stayed home. Now a million people are dead in Africa from the end of USAID and 100s of thousands of immigrants have been deported to who knows where. Elections are a binary choice.

📍 𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐀, 𝐂𝐎: A 78-year-old priest was carried out of ICE detention by fellow detainees after staff reportedly refused to let him use a wheelchair beyond the gate. After 13 months in custody, he had lost over 30 pounds and could no longer walk independently. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

A bit of a let down being on the 71 (née H) bus after almost a week of this.

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Poor Pyramus.

Hey @septa-social.bsky.social — I don’t think my age is anyones business, least of all my employer’s— why do you have a different chime for 65 and up cards vs regular keycards? You’re exposing us to potential discrimination.

Hillel is apparently paying my kid $150 to attend four sessions on Jewish values and complete related crafts. Since the director of Camp Havaya ruptured her connection to Judaism, I am overjoyed at this prospect.

Jon Ossoff for president. I don't normally think my people should run for president, but . . .

I had a nightmare last night in which the Democrats only mentioned Carter and completely ignored Biden because it was received wisdom that Biden was terrible and I kept trying to talk to people in the dream and it didn’t work and so like real life. Heartbroken for him.

A blond woman in an excessively large Suburban yelled at me in the Trader Joes parking lot and told me I was a bad person.

times I've been mellow: 0 times I've tried: 0

And then the “humanitarians” sat out the election and it Is so much worse now

Hey @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social I'm sorry I disappeared, my uncle died, I'm a little out of sorts, headed to Boston soon, next month will be better.

I'm having one of those moments of simmering rage, where it is so clear to me that this did not have to happen and that people who sat out the election made a deeply immoral choice. I know it's not productive. But it is true.

LISTEN TO THIS

Just -- support @standing-together.bsky.social Ditch the labels. End the occupation. Work for both peoples. Find a way to talk to people about areas of agreement.

Then, having accepted that definition of Zionism, you are deemed antisemitic if you do not support maintaining a Jewish voting majority in the state of Israel above enfranchising everyone equally, so expressing the binationalist politics of someone like Martin Buber gets you labeled antisemitic.

Back at you. It sounds from what you’ve written that we mostly agree, but you gave up. Lose the binary. And read this: rabbisandra.substack.com/p/conviction...

Also true. Lose the binary, Damniel. Actually, just lose the labels-- they're not helpful. And don't screenshot, it's gross.

This. (Although I wouldn't use these labels the way Joel is using them -- people who are pro-Netanyahu are not actually pro-Israel, and Zionist means many things, so I don't think I've made anyone "less Zionist," but I hope some are more pragmatic/less eager to blame Palestinians for their plight)

How long is a jar of red curry paste good for? Because I bought one today and then discovered three in the refrigerator. I suppose I should get myself to H-Mart and start using those wee cans instead.

I grew up admiring a hippie granola aesthetic, and it is challenging for me when my kid facetimes me from her dorm and she’s wearing false eyelashes. I mean, I know Michelle Obama wears them but I still wish my kid wouldn’t. #getoveritmom #notthroughorfromme

I have found my synagogue volunteer niche: greeter for the extrovert holidays, because then I can sit downstairs and greet people and not attend the noisy services.

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Your periodic reminder that President Biden imposed sanctions and a weapons embargo on the settlements, and that in a Harris presidency there would have been more, but some of you couldn't be bothered to vote for her and now there are so many more dead people incl. Palestinians. Bravo, people.

#5 reminds me of the time I was leaving my office and a man jammed himself into the same quarter of the revolving door, but facing me, grinning. So creepy.

I don't do the extrovert holidays: Simchat Torah and Purim. I guess if you're an Orthodox Jewish man in Israel I'd add Lag B'Omer, but that's barely on my radar

I am in Pittsburgh and I am plainly allergic to it.

Oh FFS

_Now_ my smoke detector battery wants to start its death throes? I'm too short to disable it without involving a chair, clogs, and the Columbia Encyclopedia.

How is this better than what got Seth Williams sent to federal prison for five years?

Haverford College, the first year it was coed. The victim left. It was all swept under the rug.

I was very blurty and strident at a dinner tonight and am feeling remorseful, sad, and embarrassed.

Lots of talk about Ocean Parkway Jewish Center at my uncle's funeral yesterday. 💜 BTW, our people have nailed death and burial.

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

Yes. Why did it take two years??

I know better than to come home from Kol Nidre and go on social media, but I did, and an old friend had posted this for us. Now that I’ve read about the shooting in Toronto i thought I should post.

This is painfully familiar (and before there’s a pile-on, my child is Black).

Toward t’shuvah this Yom Kippur: An honest reckoning with our transgressions