@jewishreader
Educator, Ph.D. in Religious Studies. Politics, pop culture, sports. Hoosier by birth, living in the SF Bay Area. Formerly RosenJ415/FirstLineHockey on The Bad Place. Netanyahu and all his cronies belong in the Hague.
I think it's um rather interesting how desperate people are to believe that America can't possibly be invading a country that its conservatives have talked about invading every single year for the past forty six years except if a nefarious foreign force bribed it to.
OK, fine, I'm thinking through it now and what he might mean is that the tiny towns send kids to a bigger regional private school? But again, pool the resources and build a regional public school?
This is far from the most important point, but no, the town is not "too small to have a public high school." That is a logical absurdity given the town *has a private high school.* Just close that one nd then everyone gets a free education.
Every time I see Kyle Chandler in things, my initial thought is how great it is that Coach Taylor is having success as an actor.
this has never been more true:
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence.
Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.
The Dept of War just asked Congress for an additional 50 billion dollars. And at the same time, the state is policing what kinds of food SNAP recipients can purchase.
fREeDOM!!!
Tilli’s on landscaping duty for Aardvark Week! 🐾
When it comes to digging, our aardvark has the ultimate built-in rototiller. With powerful claws and a nose for adventure, Tilli can turn over soil in no time while searching for tasty insects. 🐜
📹: Animal care staff Erica
The entire MAGA project is not just to nuke Obama's legacy from orbit (perhaps literally at this point), but also to destroy anything that led it to be possible, beginning with the Civil Rights Movement. Pretending none of it happened is an important aspect of all this.
It’s been oddly surreal to hear the news framing the news around regime change in Iran and Cuba as the culmination of decades of shared agreement when Obama did significantly change US policy towards both in pretty recent memory.
Dominic republic team including Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, and Manny Machado
Calling all bluesky baseball sickos!! The WBC is here! (All times PT)
*Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 v Colombia 🇨🇴 3 PM on FS1
*Nicaragua 🇳🇮 v Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 at 4 PM on FS2
*USA 🇺🇸 v. Brazil 🇧🇷 at 5 pm on Fox and Fox Deportes
*Taiwan 🇹🇼 v. Czechia🇨🇿 ar 7 pm on FS2
Come chat! open.substack.com/chat/posts/8...
I would like to thank folks for drawing out the Platner fans so I can block them.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 239: "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood."
re: Talarico getting attacked for "God is nonbinary"; wait till they hear about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
Not all the Paralympics news is fun, here's my report on Iran not making it to Milan-Cortina. paralympicsportsnews.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/i...
this is exactly right
the majority of the working class in the US is female
a disproportionate percentage of the working class in the US are people of color and/or immigrants to the US
these pundits and consultants just want a Tough White Daddy
A narrow but important win in Indiana. Cracks in abortion bans start small, then they grow.
Another reminder that billionaires are not billionaires because they are smart.
They are rich because they are broken in a way that allows them to completely ignore morality in order to gather more wealth in a doomed attempt to fill the unfillable hole inside them.
this is not incidental!
to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.
this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.
we are at this point because local transit agencies critically underserve caltrain stations with slow and unreliable busses (and trains, looking at the T-third). i would happily take transit all the way to work if it didn't mean adding 40 minutes to my commute
sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/04/a...
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
WHY DO PERSIAN JEWS LIVE IN LA
WHAT HAPPENED TO IRAN'S JEWS THAT THEYRE SUCH A SMALL PART OF IRAN'S POPULATION
Not that I can afford the French Laundry, but now I certainly don't feel bad about that. Jerk.
No one is writing more lucidly on this topic than Joel. Follow, read, etc.
"I sowed ONLY the wind; to receive a whirlwind in response is illegitimate."
I am old enough to remember how under Bush, “elite” was “anyone who lived in a coastal state and had ever ordered anything at Starbucks” and “the working class” was hereditary landowners in Montana whose vote counts for 4x a California voter’s.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
Never forget that this is happening because the stupidest and worst people in America were bored.
Christians stop pretending your version of the Bible is the only version challenge.
