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✡️Tribe, gather 'round for a #Jwitter (z''l) / #Jewsky Aggadah concerning Spanish Frogs 🐸: A certain man Yirmeyahu asked, "What's the name for frogs in Shemot?" Raz answered and said, "They're different," referring to Spaniards (ספרדים) and frogs (צפרדעים). For Yirmeyahu said, "They are the same."

submitted 108 days ago • 14 comments

That’s annoying. I forgot that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

i love that they put the cats feed so high up on the new explore page bc it ensures new users will continue to see some furry porn within their first 20 minutes on the app

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Ok. Other than Wilford Brimley and Al Molinaro. Is there a LIVING PERSON whose face is well-known that is hangdog?

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

I love Aaron's nightly parenting haikus

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

They just had a naturalization ceremony on the pitch before tonight’s @newmexicoutd.bsky.social game. Me, a grown ass man, weeping in the stands in happiness for the people who still want to become a part of this country. Shouted the “all enemies, foreign and domestic” part of the oath with them.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

There’s a naturalization ceremony before this @newmexicoutd.bsky.social match. I’m sobbing. Welcometo my fellow Americans, and may this country live up to its better angels.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924 (Smith College Museum of Art collection)

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

they should invent a redo of saturday that is productive

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

tucking my baby in for bed

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

papa was a rodeo, mama was a rock and roll band

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Bribed my kids with sushi and Waymo rides to come with me to the socialist rally 👊

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm exhausted just contemplating the coming fight over the meaning of "facilitate." DOJ has previously argued that in immigration law, "facilitating" "does not require [the US to take] any affirmative steps." By DOJ's reading, it means *permitting* the person to return, not enabling it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

Is Maggie watching a) tennis or b) me eat raspberries (It's b)

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

years ago, pre-pandemic, someone in my office slack channel was like “can tesla owners slow down in the parking garage, it’s harder to hear you coming” and someone else was like “doesn’t this apply to any electric vehicle” and OP responded “I’ve only ever been almost run over by teslas”

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

imagine being this beautiful and still getting caught for a photo mid-snack

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

free mahmoud, free kilmar, free us, it’s time to get free

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 15 hours ago • 420 comments