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Reform Jew. Husband. Father. Arizona native. Figuring out how to create a just and equitable community. He/Him.
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I am Jewish. I have spent literally my entire life on university campuses. I was the child of two Jewish professors. Since kindergarten I have spent exactly one year as neither a student nor a professor. I have, on occasion, experienced antisemitism. But never on a university campus.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

This is a smart LinkedIn post from leading Phila trial lawyer Shanin Specter on all the ways Paul, Weiss botched their negotiations with Trump. "5. You can't make a good deal with a bad person, as Warren Buffett said." www.linkedin.com/posts/shanin...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 8 days ago • 320 comments

I didn’t knock on doors for you to take Sinema’s senate seat just so you could become her.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

so many examples of this; I would argue that a similar dynamic (and not one that occurs completely online) arises when assumption of the 'public intellectual' role incentivizes (legitimately competent) academic specialists to opine (less competently) outside their primary area of expertise

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

submitted 57 days ago • 210 comments

All the doom and gloom surrounding Trump’s second inauguration sets the wrong tone for opposition. Laughter and ridicule are disempowering. It’s the reason Tim Walz’s “weirdo” label was so effective.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

submitted 75 days ago • 49 comments

Regular citizens are the ones best suited to strengthen our democracy, especially at the local level. Quinn Raymond shares some concrete ways to help you make a difference. Read and share: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

submitted 85 days ago • 24 comments

Two themes of this article that I’ve seen elsewhere are the narrow nature of Trump’s win and the extent to which his win owed to dissatisfaction with the status quo. Neither are marks of a strong victory or stable coalition. Why some are obeying and/or assisting in advance is beyond me.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 88 days ago • 205 comments

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

submitted 104 days ago • 299 comments

As the transgender community faces increasingly harmful rhetoric and policies premised on the fallacious idea that they do not exist, it’s worth remembering that Jewish authorities have long recognized the existence of non-binary people.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Adeel Mangi could have been the first Muslim to serve on a federal appellate court. Bigotry and cowardice conspired alto deny him that opportunity. His letter to Biden is only four pages, but it’s well worth reading.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

submitted 108 days ago • 413 comments

This article reminds me of Richard Hofstadter’s observation that John Calhoun was “Marx of the master class.” Calhoun argued social status was the animating focus of human nature, and that a permanent underclass was necessary for a “wealthy and civilized society.”

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Krysten Sinema not showing up for weeks and only showing up just to block Biden's National Labor Relations Board nominee is so on brand.

submitted 111 days ago • 29 comments

When I got into weightlifting, my gym buddy and I often talked about our favorite MST3K episodes between sets.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t look down on and talk down to voters. Working people know their own lives. Stop telling them how to be and listen to them, you condescending out-of-touch elites. OR The ignorant masses, they know not what they do. We must protect them from the consequences of their voting choices. PICK ONE

submitted 126 days ago • 23 comments

Around 1500yrs ago, the Talmud my students study addressed the topic of incels and experts demanding redistribution of sex. Somehow this source went viral on twitter when I first posted it.

submitted 162 days ago • 41 comments

I’ve reluctantly returned to social media after several years of self imposed exile. I mainly use this account to listen and learn from others. For now, I don’t have much to say.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments