Simon Birenbaum

Raw milk is way more likely to cause health problems for kids than hormones or puberty blockers prescribed by a doctor.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

This is why so many of us should have been listening to Black voices and learning far more about the history of racism in America.

All of that led us here. Fascism was already here for many others. And now it’s coming for the rest. If we had fought for others harder, we’d have prevented it.

Progressives (rightly) point out how against Mamdani the NYT is, but Kamala recognized how they criticized even her no matter what and refused to do an interview with them. They prefer the rightmost candidate in every race! Kamala's mistake was not running against the media loudly and explicitly.

You might think that anecdotal impressions might not match statistical reality, but it hasn't been true in my experience.

Democratic Leadership gerontocracy wishing for a way to drive youth turnout.

Instructions for your car as it goes through the car wash, including "must be straight".

Can't believe the car wash place is pulling this shit during Pride month!

It's wild that the administration's position is "Haiti is safe, but the nyc subway is not."

SI for Kids. On the back was Steffi Graf, Mario Lemieux, Bret Saberhagen, and a surfer named Mike Parsons.

The sole criteria I will be voting on in the 2028 primary is which candidate credibly promises to put the largest number of Trump officials in prison. I do not care about any of their other policies.

The NYT hounded Claudine Gay out of Harvard for much much less.

JP wants all the contrarian rationalism of atheism with all the rigid hegemony and supremacy of Christianity.

It's also a crime that everyone in the country understands and abhors. You might not care about emissions, but even the most far-right person doesn't want someone cheating them on their car's value.

The difference, of course, is that Michelle Obama pushed for the government to do more: increase funding and raise standards. The GOP ghouls, in contrast, say this to justify the government doing less: if kids are sick, it's their fault, not ours, and we shouldn't be funding their health care.

Kids' voices matter. This is great.

Think long and hard about who can "prove" that every ancestor going back to the 1860s was a "legal" citizen and thus "deserves" citizenship today, and think also about who will even be ASKED for that proof.

If birthright citizenship is dismantled, there is no limit to a fascist government's ability to declare who is a "real" citizen deserving of rights and who can be questioned, harassed, deported, or enslaved.

Damn, almost like maybe it's better if we all get our insurance into one big group of everyone in the whole country, so that anyone can go to any doctor and share the costs among the widest possible pool with pockets as deep as the federal government?

Here are some ways Dr. Oz's government could support patriotism to get people as healthy as they can be: Medicare 4 All, vaccinations, sick leave, SNAP, WIC, subsidies for groceries in food deserts, cancer research, food inspections, cracking down on quack medical claims, air pollution reduction...

There is no moral response besides a full-throated and unambiguously complete defense of trans people and their rights, and it's embarrassing for a party to think it might be anything else.

[Humans invent barns]

Barn owls: nice

RETVRN

RIP Skechers

I can't hear this song without hearing the exact same chords as Len's Steal My Sunshine

Left unchecked, this man has the potential to be an accessory to and root cause of your child's unnecessary death. He's worse than the worst drunk driver ever.

Ditto traffic enforcement

This is true AND ALSO even if it weren't, these attacks would be worth fighting because of the inherent humanity of immigrants and trans people (as I'm sure Tim would agree with).