Rebecca Fishbein

Former Israeli military head on NPR just now defended IDF actions by comparing them to U.S. actions in the Iraq War...not helping your case, my guy

Ok so they’re going to blow up the moon I guess

I’ve kept this to myself for years but David Mamet’s dialogue is bad and every English teacher who tried to convince me that it’s good is also bad.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Also this is nonsense, YA is like one of the last profitable genres

I’m also not convinced that books, which have existed for centuries, will go away but I do think the upcoming generations will have a lot of trouble with reading comprehension and critical thinking, and that’s quite bad.

Reading was one of my greatest childhood pleasures (and still is!) and the idea of it going extinct is just devastating to me

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

there is one (1) thing that stops the GOP from doing this, and that is a viable threat of retaliation. that’s it. that’s the only way you stop them.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

Me neither

Something that bums me out is that today’s kids will never experience the Saturday afternoon movie on PIX11

Most of the available media was based around men hating their frigid wives or slutty women getting what they deserved lol

I was punished for kicking a classmate in the balls for tickling me while I screamed stop

What a lovely era, definitely deserves fond nostalgia

Again, I love men, I’m marrying a man, I want the best for men, and yet I can’t help but remember all the 2000-2003 middle school boys grading the girls on their bodies and faces and so my sympathy for men not getting laid remains limited.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

Everything about this story is horrific:

1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

Sir, men AND women want to get laid. The difference between the sexes is that women are socialized to deal with rejection better and so they don’t get angry when men don’t want to fuck them. Men are socialized to believe they are entitled to sex, and when they don’t get it, it’s the fault of women.

Never forget what these people are stealing from us

well, however worried about this you were this morning, you should be considerably more worried now

the thing is I love men and care deeply about their feelings and I would like for there to be a better world for them in which they can express themselves and be free in who they are. but men can’t be liberated without women being liberated too because it is the same liberation.

My advice to men who are upset about not getting laid? Download The Sims.

As a straight woman who was not a particularly hot commodity among menfolk until after college, I find this narrative tiresome.

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

More than a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.

🚨 Breaking: A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of mounting an unconstitutional pressure campaign against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Pretty sure “purse tuna” is not ok in any situation

CNN points out that June turned out to be the weakest month of jobs growth since December 2020 -- the last full month of Trump's first term

Oh, they know

I am a relatively fit person and I still have nightmares about this test.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

It’s me, hi, I’m the post-Covid autoimmune disease-haver, it’s me