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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 2h

I needed this belly laugh today!

I suppose that "Truth is blinding" is a clever enough advertising tagline for the Oedipus production newly arriving on Broadway, but "A motherfucking great play" is, come on, sitting right there. Do I have to do everything?

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe it’s because I’m older and my vision isn’t what I’d like, but I’d certainly do a double take and might even (gasp!) be confused.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

It is truly bizarre that Trump says things that make it sound like he might be having a stroke every day and “does the president have dementia?” isn’t a major ongoing story. What was the MRI for?

Steve Schmidt @steve.czmyt.com · 1d

This Greg Sargent interview of Meredith Shiner goes way beyond what's captured by the article headline. Greg's interviews for the New Republic are always great. This one, covering the media's ignoring of trump's mental deterioration, among other things, maybe a little more important than most.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

This is the person.

And yet all some of my colleagues’ energy these days goes into fighting a Brown Muslim who hangs out with Jews and wants to increase the NYC hate crime budget by 800%.

📣 WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE REAL ENEMY

📣 SOLIDARITY IS THE ONLY WAY HOME

💥COLLECTIVE LIBERATION OR BUST 💥

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 2d

Just a little pre-Thanksgiving cleanout of Mom’s vintage spice collection.

Spice bottle of Ehler’s St. Vincent arrowroot of unknown vintage.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 5d

This week has drained me so profoundly and you know what? Kudos for not letting up! Good work on the follow-through! Congrats on the consistency!

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5d

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6d

Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 6d

First? Fiddler original Broadway cast. The soundtrack of my childhood. Ubiquitous in every 60s suburban NY Jewish household. Second, on my own? I listened to Threepenny Opera with Raul Julia day and night.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7d

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 8d

I did. And no.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 8d

I had to check this out. It's a 44(e) registration. So no specimen provided. Bona fide intent to use? Or bona fide intent to enforce? Hmm ...

Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 9d

Fun fact: I used to see Dan Wilson at the Gymboree in Seattle where I took our eldest. Otherwise? Guess the ghosts of 1995 and 2001 will remain with me.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 9d

Is this the non-furloughed and thus essential employees who are working without pay? Sure, Jan.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 11d

Or at least this suave gentleman.

a man in a suit and white gloves holds a string of pearls

Alt: Lupin, a man in a suit and white gloves holding a string of pearls.

media.tenor.com

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 12d

Just rolled down the car window and screamed GO FUCK YOURSELVES at the top of my lungs to the people protesting the Planned Parenthood around the corner.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 12d

And I made my TV debut at 4 or 5 on the Burlington, VT version of Romper Room!

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 12d

Try Mama Kim or Spice Trade on Orchard on the other side of the freeway … and you missed great matzo ball soup at my house just past those!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 14d

The head of the ADL is a literal Nazi apologist.

Jonathan Greenblatt ®
@JGreenblattADL
X.com
What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @RepMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 14d

Did I just buy two of these? Oh I sure did. #livingthedream

kottke.org @kottke.org · 14d

POP Phone: a USB-C handset that you plug into your phone for when you’re missing the warm analog embrace of Ma Bell. The hours I spent as a youth wrapping and unwrapping that coiled phone cord around my fingers! [nativeunion.com]

POP Phone

Thoughtfully designed for more meaningful conversations, the POP phone helps you disconnect from distractions and reconnect with people. Its USB-C connection works effortlessly with your smartphone, laptop or tablet. High-quality microphone and speaker No charging, no pairing, just plug and talk

www.nativeunion.com

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 14d

Very excited to see this as husband has been noodging me about getting a new dictionary (talk about love languages 😜) and I wasn’t sure what to recommend.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 15d

So, chik’n has fevvers?

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 25d

Unscheduled at sea day photo roundup: Don’t Pooh-pooh this brand?

Shelves of beauty products bearing the Christophe Robin trademark.

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Jessica Stone Levy @beautymarks.bsky.social · 25d

Unscheduled at sea day photo roundup: Dope in Cagliari. I guess IYKYK . . . But I don’t know.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29d

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

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