Abe 🌻🔥

Instead of Elmo going to Grouchland, he is sent away from the grownups and friends he trusts. I hate this timeline.
I can't believe right wing freaks are still trying to score political points making fun of Sesame Street characters

Blue, red and purple lighting on the stage at DC9, a nightclub in Washington DC. A tambourine, trumpet, flugelhorn, plunger mute and Harmon mute are on the floor next to a glockenspiel. In the background is a piano keyboard, guitar and a drumset.

#beardedtrumpetplayer
tonight’s office @ DC9, such a great band w/ Nadie Nadia & great staff at this venue

I meant what I said.

Everyday I speak with patients whose lives were already hanging together by a thread. DC Council’s drastic cuts to safety net programs is like using a sledgehammer to solve the District’s medical coverage crisis, when what they needed was a needle and some empathy.

Anyways continue supporting @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

How ice - and ICE - are impacting a Virginia snow removal company An Arlington-based company says workers called out due to exhaustion and concerns over immigration enforcement.

The irony of ICE leading to worse ice on DMV roadways and sidewalks www.wusa9.com/article/news...

At the beginning of the holocaust, I had 25 grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents living under Nazi occupation.

16 were killed, only 9 survived. Including 3 grandparents I grew up with.

In their memories, on this #HolocaustRemembranceDay:

NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!

Family of tourists at DC’s Union Station in matching navy blue beanies. Thought it was a kinda cute coordinated winter accessory before the DC area gets blanketed in snow over the weekend.

Got closer and realized they were the forced-birth activists in March for Life hats 😵‍💫

Battle of Hayes Pond - Wikipedia

On this day in 1958, the Lumbees drove the Klan from their land at The Battle of Hayes Pond 🪶 ✊ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Wonderful conversation with my fellow Dan, Dan Kahn! And great shout outs to my other delicious colleagues Michael Winograd, Ira Temple, and the @radiantothers.bsky.social podcast 😁

Me: You mentioned that this isn't like interwar Poland.

Daniel Kahn: It's interwar everywhere.

Me: It's interwar everywhere.

Daniel Kahn on Radical Yiddish Autonomy, Bundism, and Productive Provocation The singer-songwriter sits down with us at Yiddish New York to talk about his new album and what it means to sing in Yiddish today.

Daniel Kahn spoke with me about his new record Umru and why he sings in Yiddish. Read @derspekter.bsky.social and subscribe to their newsletter 📨

www.derspekter.org/daniel-kahn-...

miss piggy from the muppets is swimming underwater in a pool . Alt: miss piggy from the muppets is swimming underwater in a pool

The synchronized swimming segment in The Great Muppet Caper is just another reason the muppets are one of the best things to happen in the history of show business

My summary statistics from StoryGraph summarizing my 2025 year in books read. It’s a fun data visualization tool to use StoryGraph to track what you’re reading.

My 2025 summary statistics from @thestorygraph.com #booksky

A collage of 42 book covers including a variety of fiction and nonfiction. The collage was generated by StoryGraph.

#booksky My year in books read (42 of them) with a cover collage from @thestorygraph.com

Graphic generated by StoryGraph highlighting books read by me in December.

#booksky December wrap up on @thestorygraph.com

Still thinking about the Brazilian Klezmer Carnival medley @ Yiddish New York

🎺 🪗 🎻 🎤

They're chipping away at voting rights-- this time, by going after people who procrastinate when voting by mail.

Moishe the cat shows a toothy grin while sitting on a laptop keyboard with a paw blocking the webcam.

Moishe is the sweetest silliest little guy

Screenshot from DC’s WMATA Metro Rewind campaign. It shows a panda playing guitar as the “Headliner” archetype because of frequent public transit use to and from music hotspots around DC area. Top station was Shaw-Howard. Top bus line was D4X.

The rewind from @wmata.com knows me too well, I sure am the Headliner 🎺 🚊 🚍
#BeardedTrumpetPlayer #MetroRewind

metrorewind.com/rewind/

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

may their memories be for a blessing

Graphic from StoryGraph indicating books read during November 2025. Covers of books include Mood Machine, Psalm for the Wild-Built and Jew in the Lotus

My November wrap up from @thestorygraph.com #booksky

🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”

Add your name: American Jews reject the ADL’s racist “Mamdani Monitor” If the ADL wants to keep Jews isolated from our allies and neighbors, their time as Jewish leaders is over.

Groups like @bendthearc.bsky.social are investing in the real work of building solidarity and combatting the toxicity of smokescreen antisemitism.

Join me and add your name!

On this day November 2 in 1979, Assata Shakur was liberated from Clinton Women’s Prison

Thank you very much and fuck AI

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us.

(Can this please become a meme?

Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

I don't think it is possible to understate the impact Reb Arthur zt"l and his vision of prophetic justice had on me and generations of Jewish activists.

May the memory of the righteous be a blessing.

A silver plated trumpet stands on a candlelit table inside the music club Bossa Bistro in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington DC. An exposed brick wall is in the background.

The bassist at the Bossa session said I made it feel like 1960s Brazil and that’s probably one of the nicest complements I could have gotten #BeardedTrumpetPlayer 🎺

A library has burned.
May his memory and music be a blessing.

These two headline sentences next to each other are a great encapsulation of the cognitive dissonance of this moment.