Vicki Rosenzweig

Overheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”

Address correction: I will be sitting shiva for my mother, Eve Kugler, tomorrow, Monday, at 6:00 at Havurat Shalom, _113_ College Ave., Somerville, MA. (I typo'ed the street address.) Gathering in the backyard starting at 6, the service will start when we have a minyan.

About my mother: <a href="https://www.het.org.uk/news-and-events/1325-eve-kugler-bem-1931-2025">Eve Kugler BEM 1931 – 2025</a>

Jewish News: <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/she-lit-up-every-room-beloved-holocaust-survivor-eve-kugler-dies-aged-94/">"She lit up every room"</a>

My mother, Eve Kugler, died unexpectedly last week. I got to London in time to see her, in the hospital. The funeral was on Thursday. My brother and I sat shiva Thursday night at Mom's flat, and I will also be sitting shiva Monday at 6:00 at Havurat Shalom, 133 College Ave., Somerville, MA.

Once in a while it's weaponized competence. I heard a story about the Nazis telling a Jew he needed lots of documents for an exit visa. Not very hopefully, he wrote to his home town, where someone did their official job and sent him all the paperwork.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.

While perusing videos of how people are shutting MAGA out of their lives and what reactions they're getting, I came across an interesting theory that explains both why MAGA are so confused that the rest of us are doing this, and why it's so upsetting to them.

They *need* leftists in their lives. 1/

Where ever you are it’s time to walk into the shrink’s office, sing him a bar of Alice’s restaurant and walk out.

I've been an activist and an organizer for almost 20 years.

In that time, I have *never* seen a space, system, or organization weakened or worsened by ensuring the inclusion of disabled folks.

Indeed, Boston Dyke March has been WONDERFULLY enriched by the presence of disabled comrades.

A photo of an ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata), native to the Yucatan. Similar in size and shape to North America's wild turkey, the ocellated turkey is showier and more colorful: blue skin on the head with an orange eye spot and round yellow protuberances called caruncles. The plumage is a geometric tapestry of iridescent greens, coppers, blues, turquoise, silver, and black. The wings are mainly green and copper lined with white-and-black striped feathers. The beginning of the tail is layered with blue and copper, fanning out into finely patterned gray, white, and black feathers.

Turkeys just hit different on the Yucatán Peninsula.

This is the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata): a somewhat showier, strikingly blue-skinned, more obviously iridescent and baubled cousin of the familiar slate-and-copper wild turkey (M. gallopavo)

📷 ryanacandee, Flickr Creative Commons

Thanks for letting me know, we were thinking of buying some stuff there soon, but not if it means crossing a picket line.

That opening line assumes facts not in evidence.

I hope them offering February appointment means they're not worried. My ophthalmologist's office once found me an appointment in two days, but that was for an existing patient. They also suggested the emergency room if I didn't want to wait even that long.

Fight For The First Fight for the First draws on the power of people like you to create a movement against book bans. But what sets Fight for the First apart from all the other petition sites out there? It’s not just...

If they come to your school or public library to ban books in your community, we’ll help you fight back!

Just launch a campaign on fightforthefirst.org

We’ll support your campaign every step of the way!

Blimey! This is quite something. 👣👣👣

WISDOM IS BACK!!!
(If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)

But on a purely pragmatic level, the desire to censor LGBTQ+ content, but *especially* trans content, is *the* current single primary driver of illiberal censorial bullshit internet laws today. Being vocal and adamant about trans rights and dismantling transphobia protects digital civil liberties.

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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Black and white poster on a city pole community can we have a safe route for our kids to walk bike and roll the school city? No driver might get mad. That’s the entirety of the discuss discussion.

Vancouver knows what’s up.
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First “The Discussion” posters spotted.

The 2024 hurricane season was a wacko one. Micheal Mann’s take: “A more disturbing possibility is that the climate system is no longer behaving quite the way it used to, and some of the old rules and relationships no longer apply.” That’s my suspicion as well.

And while we’re at it, let’s revive hither/hence, thither/thence, and whither/whence!

i just want you to know that if you told your trump relatives to fuck off, i’m proud of you

We really need to hold the line that vaccines like clean drinking water and basic sanitation are public health tools that save lives. Telling people not to vaccinated is like saying don't wash your hands before handling food. It works until it doesn't

a free thing you can do when an author is promoting a book they worked hard on, and you don't want to read it, is just not say anything!

I’m looking for people who performed on Broadway in the 70s, particularly ppl worked with Ben Vereen or performed in any of the Black-themed shows so prevalent at that time.

If this is you or others you know, I appreciate any interest you may have in chatting with me.

Thank you!

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

I’m just a girl, contemplating life in a Star Wars universe, asking for us to build a Star Trek universe instead.

text from my mom: It’s a sad day. Alice from Alice’s restaurant died.

Please excuse all your Bostonian friends as we’re mourning a true icon of our culture:

even if it weren’t the case that attacks on trans women hurt others, defending trans women from these attacks would still be the right thing to do

but if that doesn’t motivate you for some reason:

Post by Charlotte Clymer: Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.