Kfir may not even be alive, we don’t know. Mohammad is very much alive, because Israel does not execute convicted terrorists.
No words.

a tiny teeny green baby lumpfish on top of a finger

Have you never seen a baby Lumpfish? Well, today is your lucky day!

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ, מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה.

On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:

I can accept this take. Thanks.

I sure do hope so.

The confusion thickens

watching people saying "thank you, joe! 💙" is making me feel like I'm losing my mind.

this is absolute horseshit.

instantly when Hezbollah started in, and the other Iran proxies after that), putting up Gaza as the only ‘allowable’ target for hostilities.

The US does influence Israel. But not to the extent that it would have prevented war at all. 3/ end. My armchair 2cents

If Biden had been hands off, would Israeli retaliation been to Gaza? Or would they have gone direct to Iran instead with better outcomes for everyone? I don’t know. But it seems possible given Biden’s public statements to reduce regional spread of the conflict (which was actually regional 2/

Trump hostage deal, Biden hostage deal blah blah

Look. Netanyahu had bad blood with Biden since before Obama’s first term. Good reasons and awful reasons both. For at least 16yrs, Biden has been pro-Iran to Netanyahu’s thinking. His noncooperation with Biden for that reason alone was near given 1/

It is not even performative? Who is he convincing with this? Proponents know he is full of shit, other dems don’t care, and republicans will what? Be fooled? Baited into aggressiveness?

I don’t see /trust that there is any strategy here, and performance at least always comes with optics strategy.

אני בכתי
בלאגן זה הרס אותי
אין מוות, שורש

היקו עברית

I feel so gaslit.

Then why wasn’t it published?
What was all that noise that the legal scholars were against it?

Where was this in November? August?

FFS.

And that is cruelty, because water change while transformative is vicious in its slowness. That while the water wears down rock, cutting away at the unnatural dam, others drown bitter, choking and slow.
Strange fruit. Stagnant water.

3/end
Excuse me while I hurl.

People use a lot of metaphors for social change: crush the opposition like a hammer to rocks, burn it all down with wrath, blow it down with words.

But this one thing? I think it must be water. Water carving rock. Water soaking cloth. Water on ground that feeds plants like rain and river.
2/

At the end of the day, for racism reasons, the US resists Human Rights— and Human duties, virtues, integrity, and responsibility and honor — and doesn’t want to look in the mirror.

1/

It is not normal in Chabad.
I hope the synagogue tonight is better

#JewSky
Welp!

I think I'm finding somewhere to go to shul tonight

This is your Shabbat reminder:

DO NOT pet the Black Jews when we come to shul.

If some touches my hair again I'm gonna lose my shit

Tell A Friend!
Shabbat Shalom!

😬🚫🙆🏾‍♀️

It is very sad that our society decides that equality must mean equally bad for everyone rather than equally good.

I don’t move in philosophy circles, so I had only ever Arendt in passing, and only with disgust. So when I saw the obvious good moral content I was confused and looked her up.

And there it was. She wasn’t bad afterall, just Jewish and trash talked.

Thanks for educating me.

And punishment will come from trying. And I just don’t know what to think because there is nothing left to take from me.

It is a truism that not everyone who is nice is your friend, and of course it is true here.

I know he is in a different world: different city, work culture, and work site. And while it is easy for me to talk through those things, I have reason to believe people from his former company cannot 3/

Hand, the new boss decided to give me double lowest without even talking to me about it, knowing it would be out of left field. I just don’t know what to do with the contradiction, because that was real harm that was easy to avoid and he chose not to. 2/

I am still processing my bad performance review from work.

I think I am a few weeks off from really understanding how I feel.

It is bizarre to be so thrilled with the feedback, and finally be offered permission and room to perform. Those sorts of things build my trust high.

But on the other 1/

Full cup of coffee on a coffee shop table.

Rallying

Delusional

Fish don’t fly. It isn’t their role, scope, job, purpose, niche whatever your preferred word is.

Zealots never find fault in themselves by definition.

Human society is an ecosystem that requires both stiff and soft personalities. Connectors and integrators are just as valuable as nodes.

Criticism of enablement dynamics is valid, but the viciousness of it is a personality based bigotry.