fabigail.bsky.social
Lawyer. Nerd. Lesbian. Jew. Cat servant. Reading lots of books. Standing up for immigrants. Resisting tyranny. Cooking lots of vegan food.
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We also can't forget state courts and state constitutions. We've been here before. The state court strategy ultimately brought us marriage equality.
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Ignorance of the behind the scenes antisemitism sure is blissful, I guess.
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You're making an awful lot of assumptions about me and what I believe, based on very little information.
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Bruh, the bar is melting from the heat of the Earth's core.
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Not my job to explain/justify the behavior of other Jews. You'd have to ask Bibi.
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No, but it is antisemitic to make every discussion of Judaism into an opportunity to call out Israel. It's also antisemitic to expect every random Jew you encounter to explain the Israeli government's behavior.
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Sorry? I'm not a man.
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You know he is. He's just waiting for an opportunity.
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But my mom probably counts as elite-ish.
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I dunno. When I was a kid my mom told me Adlai Stevenson wasn't elected president because "he was an intellectual and Ike was a war hero." She said Americans didn't want a president who was too smart. There's a long history of at least *believing* that Americans are anti-intellectual.
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I hate this so much. I personally would like a president who knows more about American history than I do. Yet here we are. Why do Americans hate and fear smart people? It's not a new thing, either -- it's just become more extreme.
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Antisemitic much? I'm an American.
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He means Souter.
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I don't know about Catholics, but we Jews have a little verse that goes "Do not oppress the stranger, for you know the soul of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt." So that's a 100% sincerely held religious belief.
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There are a bunch of plaintiffs. Some are Muslim and some are different flavors of Christianity.
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Right? How about making your case without lying, for a change?
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Uncle Bobby tells her it will not. He and his fiancé proceed to take Chloe to the beach, the ballet, and a camping trip. By the day of the wedding, Chloe is happy and excited. It's a book about an issue that is common with young children -- the same story could be written about a hetero couple.
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Reading the dissent now. Alito says the book is "coy" about Chloe's objection to the wedding (could it be her sincerely held religious belief?) but Sotomayor quotes the text, which is explicit: Chloe is used to spending a lot of time with Uncle Bobby and is afraid this will change.
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This is so goofy. "When grownup people love each other this much, sometimes they get married" is a fact. It may make Justice Alito want to fly the flag upside down, but it is a fact nonetheless.
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What do you think of the NYPD response to protests last year? I haven't seen much about CUNY. Most of the coverage I've seen has been about Columbia/Barnard.
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Interesting. It consists of one guy, and he has counterparts in other countries. This is the most recent info I found.
nypost.com/2024/10/05/w...
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I had no idea there was an NYPD office in Israel! Off to google.
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But what is the mayor's role? For example, when those Barnard girls disrupted the history class I thought they were out of line. I also thought the punishment was excessive. But none of that is the mayor's business. Mamdani is going to have to make some clear statements defining his role.
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Absolutely. The protestors are going to need to show some discipline and watch out for agitators. That is, if they care about Mamdani. And even I, who would defend to the death the kids' right to say stupid misguided shit, think the protestors crossed the line a few times in the past.
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Thank you for explaining this. People talk about it like he wants to replace Trader Joe's with a Soviet-style breadline, but as a response to food deserts it makes sense.
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It would be a huge messy distraction that could make it impossible to do the things Mamdani says he wants to do. And Mamdani may not be thinking about it at all. Supporting BDS in the abstract is very different from trying to implement it. But if people believe it's his goal that's a problem.
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Some of those folks might support BDS. Plenty of Israeli expats live here because they can't stand the Netanyahu government. But most people with strong ties to Israel are not going to support BDS. And a lot of people think it's antisemitic, and it scares and/or angers them.
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I don't know what an attempt to have NYC boycott and divest from Israel would look like, but I do know the backlash would be huge. NY has a substantial Israeli expat community, and a substantial number of people who have friends and relatives in Israel and/or visit Israel regularly.
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As for #2, he's not stupid enough to campaign on this issue, but given his past statements I'm sure some of his supporters are hoping for action on BDS once he's in office.
I do not believe BDS is antisemitic. It's a nonviolent way to pressure a government that has been unresponsive to diplomacy.
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2. He might try to get the city government to boycott and/or divest from Israel.
I think we can set #1 aside, as he's had a lot to say about fighting antisemitism and keeping people safe.
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It seems to me there are two rational or somewhat rational bases for Jewish New Yorkers to be concerned about a potential Mamdani administration:
1. Actual attacks on Jews (by which I mean physical violence or property destruction) are on the rise, and his response might be insufficient.
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I had no idea who this lady was, so I looked her up this morning. I was left asking myself why anyone should be listening to her. She's a random Jew who for reasons best known to herself is still on Twitter.
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I know there's research out there that says peer pressure to vote has a real impact.
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They have this fantasy that they will find a way to win over Republicans, when the real opportunity lies with the people who stay home. Convince those people that you will actually do something to make their lives better, and they will become voters.
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The hand-wringing about "unchecked migration" goes back to when my people started to show up in the 1880s. We were dirty and smelly and talked funny and didn't have American values. And three generations later we produced Steven Miller, he should grow like an onion.
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I thought of you when I saw this. Nadler's endorsement says a lot.
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This particular statement was moronic because *the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an armed struggle.* Trying to reassure people by telling us the Holocaust Museum uses the word intifada to describe an armed struggle is just stupid.
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And here I was just telling my spouse I didn't think jokes about the President's dick size were helpful.
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Indivisible is disavowing this. The next planned nationwide Indivisible action will be on July 17, the anniversary of John Lewis's death. But I still think a No Kings contingent in our little local July 4 parade would be cool.
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I loved that movie with this dog and Claudette Colbert.
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I thought that was the whole point of the ad -- maybe because I had just seen how chill he was when he was getting arrested by ICE. Nothing phases this guy.
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I adore "sex pest." Thanks, UK.