Andrea Lemon

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Finally a use for my French major!

What idiot called it ‘Storm Benjamin’ and not ‘It’s Raining Ben’?

Pantsers unite! 👖😊

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

YouTube video by Graham Steel Librarians Remake Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' Video, Win Internet

And then there's this classic:
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YouTube video by Rabbi Emily Cohen Reckoning Within: A New Ashamnu for Our Times

I'm sharing my full Kol Nidre drash. I dive hard into Gaza. I've had sermons that were more difficult to write than this one but I've never had one that was this difficult to deliver. Thank you to @theradr.bsky.social and so many other colleagues for giving me the courage.

Wordle. My office, now.

Until I looked it up, the only meaning I could remember for that word was a 20th-century ethnic slur

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

Good morning! I'm not fine! So why am I smiling! The small, brave act of feeling what you feel

What are *your* thoughts on a slow, painful death?
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Omfg! Here’s hoping he recovers ❤️‍🩹

(I always wear a helmet while biking, in part to warn Dutch people that I am a clueless foreigner who might do something stupid.)

Slightly diminish a book

Charlie and the Carob Factory

Ikea Paradox play table and chair

Great way to present the railway map of the Netherlands. With Utrecht in the centre as the important railway hub it is

So. I saw an interview with a photojournalist who’s been documenting ICE detentions as they happen at a New York immigration court. He talked about how-in addition to being devastating for those detained and their families-these detentions are affecting the ICE officers. 🧵

Greetings/hugs from another weird friend 👋🏻

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

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Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza.

But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

How on earth do you build a pluriversal movement when people are battling for the one rightest, hottest take?

To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show

Two varieties of SpongeBob SquarePants. In the first, he's gentle and round and has long eyelashes, to illustrate "Democrats fighting Donald Trump." In the second, he's got enormous pectoral muscles ripping open his shirt, eyes radiating death rays, and some broken teeth, to illustrate "Democrats fighting Zohrnam Mamdani."

🧽 SpongeDems 🧽

This, 100%. I’ve seen the same irrational fear response in otherwise-liberal family members, and I understand it, since I too have generational trauma and learned about WW2 way too young.

But no amount of therapy will help if you don’t actually want to get over it (something else I’ve seen).

I call them “scarecases”

Deferred stress is definitely a thing 😢