Rebecca Kling

Is it tough to say goodbye to a new setup when you have to leave it with/for the client?

= Forward JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Support Us A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell. And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone. He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness. His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up. That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

My memory is that every few chapters (maybe just in book two?) there’s a big awful digression into how a man can only achieve greatness if he is supported by a personality-devoid object of a woman who will unquestioningly support him in his every endeavor

Massive oily asphalt spill in Chicago canal leaves environmental threat months later Almost a half million gallons of liquid asphalt poured into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal earlier this year. EPA is overseeing the cleanup of the mess.

It never occurred to me that Chicago could HAVE an oil spill, let alone that it wouldn’t get widely reported on or that the company responsible wouldn’t be punished www.wbez.org/environment/...

My GF has covid and we’re looking for updated isolation guidance. Everything these days is like “most people are infectious 5-10 days after a positive test, but sometimes it’s more and sometimes it’s less and it may (or may not!) be connected to whether you’re still testing positive, good luck!”

I’m a paying subscriber to @wired.com cuz of their reporting on the Trump admin, but I’m disappointed in the “AI issue,” which seems mostly to be unquestioning hope of how AI *could* help in therapy or education or whatever, without deeper examination of why that’s just not gonna happen

If I had a nickel for every person I’ve spoken to over the years who was convinced that there are already explicit federal protections for trans people…

two frames: - first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?" - second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.

I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."

No.

ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Thanks! I’ve never read the original short story

Obstruction ahead, obviously

wait, it was all a prank???

Some more Calvinball shit coming from the feds

Even if this were true (and it’s so amazingly not true!!!) I’m not sure we should consider slaughtering and displacing Indigenous populations and kidnapping/relocating enslaved people to be a big upgrade.

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

“Look, the Nazgûl are conducting legal immigration enforcement measures and they have to stay masked for their safety and the safety of their families.”

Soooo how far back are we going to identify the start of US decline? Invasion of Iraq? First Gulf War? Vietnam? Korea? Spanish-American War? Maybe it would be easier to identify US involvement in wars that *weren’t* unnecessary?

To misquote Ron Swanson, everything these women do is the attitude of an award winner, because they’ve won an award!

Happy Halloween indeed!

Do you guys not remember the scenes in LOTR of Boromir and Faramir riding around in an unmarked van abducting hobbits from the Shire?

Next thing you know we’re gonna have the SAURON’S EYE Act: ‘Saving America Under Republican Oversight and Nurturing Surveillance to Escape Your Enemies’

Bunch of fascist tech bro assholes who think, surely, *they* would be able to resist the ring of power…

100%. not only should SNAP just be money but SSI and SSDI should actually be a fucking useful amount

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

And it’s not that complicated! It’s just a noun that plays professionally, in contrast to an amateurnoun.

Democrats have this idea that you can carve out razor-thin positions on the ideological spectrum and that will come through to voters. No!

The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.

there are going to be a lot of stories in the next couple weeks about the generosity of ordinary people in helping their fellow Americans and all of them will be wonderful and none of them should be necessary

we don’t have to have a government this cruel and capricious

"Every time you repost this capy a transphobic state legislator dies." Baby capybara on a trans flag colored background.

Always repostin'

I hope New York Jews understand that the dual loyalty trope is used against them, too. If Cuomo feels comfortable attacking Mamdani in this way, what’s to stop him from turning on NY’s Jewish pop when it stops being politically advantageous for him to support?