Liza Shapiro, PhD

literally what the fuck

Ms. Rachel is a kind & humane teacher whose offense is speaking up against killing children in Gaza. Cynthia Nixon has Jewish kids, and has never said or done one antisemitic thing.

This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵

The amount of time it takes to grade an essay like this, and to justify the score you give it so you can defend yourself later in the dean's office, is insane.

And because you can't know which student will be the one to complain and go public, you have to give the same attention to all of them.

a stray dog stands in a bushy area. the dog is blue with golden eyes. he looks majestic as he stares off into the distance.

a group of 4 dogs rest together in a bushy area. two of the dogs are tan, one is black, and the last is blue with long, scruffy fur.

a blue dog is mid-step as he walks through brush.

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

cnn image showing hitler sitting on a desk with his arms crossed with headline “researchers say they have verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA. a new documentary reveals the findings”

let me be the first to say we should not do a nazi jurassic park

Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Well apparently I‘m not insane to think Mufasa‘s fur used to be a different color

Just noting that Alabama is one of the most biodiverse places in the country and its freshwater biodiversity is some of the highest in THE WORLD, comparable to THE LITERAL AMAZON, but they want to build water-guzzling data centers for AI here b/c land is cheap.

Congress Enjoys Ultraluxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours Congress has ensured its members receive ultraluxe health care as Republican keep the government closed over stripping it from Americans.

Must-read from Alexis Coe at Rolling Stone.

"They are flown out by helicopter while their constituents die waiting for treatment. Every republic leaves a record of what it chose to save first. Ours saved the politicians."

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

i know it sounds woke or whatever but i have a kind of a radical leftist view that says if you sexually abuse someone you don’t deserve to hold public office ever.

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.

It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Transphobia has no middle position.

Restrictions on access to life-saving healthcare for trans kids and adults results in an increase in suicide attempts.

This will mean more dead children.

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Newsmax commentator Benj Irby, in a segment about Mamdani: "The promise of free stuff makes Jews forget he's an extremist."

The perceived threat of someone promising of free stuff seems to make news commentators forget to not say racist and antisemitic comments out loud

It wasn’t so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. “We’re going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation’s name “AH-ee-tee” — near-perfect Creole elocution. “When I heard him say that, I smiled,” recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani’s former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. “That’s straight out of the lessons from the Haitian Revolution that we teach in Africana studies,” said Dr. Purnell, who is now the chair of the Africana studies department at Mr. Mamdani’s alma mater. “I will claim that,” he added with a laugh.

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

Every single time this argument comes up it is Mizrahi erasure. Worse -- it's not just forgetting Mizrahi and other MENA Jews exist, it's insisting their very identity is a form of theft. They must choose: they can be Jews, or Middle Eastern, but not both.

To me this ties to a notion that in my opinion explains much — Jews all over the world are considered objects, property of the majority society.
Hence when talking about MENA Jews we see the notion that that "zionists" "stole" "our" Jews. The sheer idea of agency of Jews simply does not arise.

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Because we can fund right wing education in the guise of “patriotism” but not qualified teachers who are actually trained to support children with different learning needs. See next op-ed article about how not enough children are being born.