Harriet Brown

What I've learned so far from writing this Substack It's not what I expected. But then nothing ever is.

Please give this a read--it would mean a lot to me. And let me know what you think. hnbrown.substack.com/p/what-ive-l...

Brilliant. I will immediately adopt.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel Can we get beyond the toddler's view of history?

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For a story I'm working on, I'd love to know what you're doing to get through these times. Have you started a new routine or practice that's helping you? Are you volunteering, ramping up your activism, taking up a new hobby? How are you lighting a path through the awful right now?
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Democracy has literally failed us. The fact that our elected representatives can cravenly vote for legislation that hurts so many people so badly, and benefits a privileged few--that right there is no longer democracy. Shame on all of you who voted for this bill. Special shame on Donald Trump.

And here I was thinking the Senate would do better than the House. I should know better.

What I've Been Thinking About There's a lot to process in the current news cycle. Especially when it comes to Jews.

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What We Can't Talk About Right Now Jewish women in Palestine circa 1915.

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There Is No Moral High Ground Here Just more rage, more killing, more unimaginable loss

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Campus Culture Wars, Redux What's a liberal American Jew supposed to do in moments like this?

What's a liberal American Jew to do? open.substack.com/pub/hnbrown/...

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

Truly unbelievable that this comes from our leaders. They're nothing but 6th-grade bullies with a lot more power.

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

And you made billions of dollars along the way.

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

One of the most disturbing stories I've read recently. And that's saying something. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Thank you!

We need your voice these days!

Karma's a bitch

Columbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

Wow. This is maybe not surprising news but it is horribly disheartening. Columbia University, like white-shoe law firms, caves to the Trump administration's obscene demands., including making it illegal to wear a mask on the Columbia campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

This is an absolutely terrible headline for a story about a president who is deliberately tanking the economy. You make it sound like his "plan" is reasonable; if only he explained it better! Shame on you.

I Tried to Get Off Ativan And learned some dark things in the process.

Seems like a good time to resurface this story from 2018. www.vice.com/en/article/i...

Please come block people on my Substack LOL. It's become my new hobby.

No one ever said they were creative.

When the pushback against anti-Semitism goes way too far Not in my name

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A Glass of Tea and Community My first iftar, the meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, did not disappoint

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Privitization

Liars. They set the whole thing up.

What does it mean to be Jewish? A personal response to the haters online.

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I think a lot of us with bullying parents in our past are feeling triggered right now!

Good grief. We shouldn't even have to say this. So much for Republicans being defenders of tradition--more like smashers, especially when it comes to the Fourth Estate. I will never trust a Republican again.