rachelpowers.bsky.social
~writer mom teacher ✡️~
How I vote:
‘88 Dukakis | ‘92 Clinton | ‘96 Clinton | ‘00 Gore | ‘04 Kerry | ‘08 Obama | ‘12 Obama | ‘16 Clinton | ‘20 Biden | ‘24 Harris
2,329 posts
2,307 followers
1,589 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
I think it’s incredibly important that we never forget how *pleasurable* racism, bigotry and bullying are to Americans today.
comment in response to
post
9 times out of 10, when you hear a dog barking behind a fence it’s barking because it’s frustrated, lonely, and desperate for some interaction. They just don’t feel good unless the pack is together.
comment in response to
post
That shit makes me crazy.
Dogs are den animals and they’re meant to be in a pile with other mammals at the end of the day.
comment in response to
post
trans women are at a severe disadvantage in this conversation bc we have so much cissexist ignorance to deal with. bigots can make unsubstantiated claims that *seem* intuitive to most ppl and no one has the guts or rigor to demand actual evidence for the claims bc well, they seem obvious
comment in response to
post
My uterus doesn’t build stuff. Then again, neither does my husband’s penis.
I assemble all IKEA furniture in my household.
This woman is annoying.
comment in response to
post
Oh no oh no oh no….
Where???
comment in response to
post
Man oh man
comment in response to
post
I certainly have feelings about my children’s patrilineal status, and I voice them. (My feelings are: I accept that the rules are the rules, but they cause a lot of unnecessary pain and I think they may weaken Judaism). I accept *my* status.
Other than that, I just listen.
comment in response to
post
Yeah, this. I’ve been a member of a Jewish family for 27 years, I’ve been raising Jewish kids for 19 years, but I only converted myself 7 years ago, so I consider myself very much an outsider/learner in the Identity/Israel debate. Even *I* keep my mouth shut and observe (for the most part).
comment in response to
post
This will piss me off forever
comment in response to
post
I thought my MIL was bad for eating chocolate bagels and putting ketchup on hot dogs
comment in response to
post
How is it that a woman hasn’t killed him yet?
comment in response to
post
Shot would have been awesome
comment in response to
post
Did you think that Trump was going to do something that was actually beneficial for the greater economy?
comment in response to
post
Wow.
comment in response to
post
We watch “Prince of Egypt” every year; The Millers watch “Birth of a Nation”
comment in response to
post
😂 thank you for the hashtag because my husband and I are Gen X and we are gobsmacked.
How can he bring himself to show his face?!?!?
comment in response to
post
I have no idea. I can try to find out…
comment in response to
post
confused as to why anyone would want to find out, which I don’t understand.
comment in response to
post
What family trees we’ve managed to reconstruct all come from JewishGen, and no one seems to have died in the camps. From the dates it’s anyone’s guess: They were almost certainly killed by shooting squads, either German, Russian or local/partisan. But the family won’t speak of it. They claim to be
comment in response to
post
discouraged. As a result, almost no information or family lore has survived. Everyone came over before the war to escape pogroms, and no one wanted to talk about *anything* from Ukraine or Russia. There are zero photos from that time. And those who stayed didn’t survive, nor are they spoke of.
comment in response to
post
but then we began to suspect that it might have been Breslov. No one ever seemed curious enough to write anything down, pull out a map, or ask searching questions. There is a strange amnesia/unwillingness to discuss these things in my husbands family and questions are waved away and heavily
comment in response to
post
I’m reading all of this to my husband who is finding this fascinating. He had no idea that Zalman and Shlomo were related.
His family is—best as we can tell—from the Uman region. But we’ve heard different things from family members: For ages we were told that the family shtetl was Brest-Litovsk,
comment in response to
post
It’s not even “technically” my family (I mean, of course it IS, we’ve been married for 27 years), but I still can’t get enough of this stuff.
Just wonderful.
My favorite name in the family tree thus far: Fishel Yukelson. (Not much variation among the women: Mostly Chana and Leah)
comment in response to
post
I had assumed that it was “Son of Jacob” but it was a rabbi who suggested that it might have been meant in the patriarchal sense (a very young rabbi, who probably does not have your specific cultural knowledge.)
comment in response to
post
Excellent!!! Thank you so much for clearing that up for me!!!
comment in response to
post
My husband’s family went from Yukelson to Kelson.
(Yukelson is supposedly a derivation of “Yaakov’s Son,” which could have meant literally “Yaakov’s kid” or “Of the sons of Jacob,” ie, a Jew)
comment in response to
post
Yes, it most certainly is.
comment in response to
post
I remember my grandfather telling me about a toy he’d make during the depression when there was no money for toys and it was literally just 2 ft of string and a button.
comment in response to
post
Brooks would tell you in an instant that whatever ideals might have motivated the Soviet communists, the actual results of their experiment should totally discredit their ideology forever. When does the American conservative movement reach that point? Does it ever? What's it going to take?
comment in response to
post
The party is part of the problem.
But let’s be crystal clear: The voters ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY are a HUGE problem.
comment in response to
post
Who said the party is perfect???
comment in response to
post
Are you insane? Do you think we’re any different?
comment in response to
post
the traditional Dem platform? Under those circumstances, *of course* the Dems are going to try to hold on to the middle, just to stay alive.
comment in response to
post
You hate them, you slam them at EVERY OPPORTUNITY, you guys are so good at destroying them virally that the GOP funds leftists media projects. Why on earth would the Dems see you as their natural constituents and supporters? You terrify them? And again, you don’t give a shit about huge planks of
comment in response to
post
you don’t volunteer, that you are easily peeled off, that you provide *more negative rhetoric than the GOP*, and that you absolutely are not “their voters” anymore that people with yacht club memberships are their voters. You openly despise them.
comment in response to
post
You aren’t listening to me. My point is that, for the past 25 to 30 years, you’ve made a point of showing them that you aren’t their constituents. That you like them less than you like the GOP. That you, in fact, hate them, and are not reliable voters, that you don’t respect the party platform, that