StatsJew
@statsjew.bsky.social
Progressive Masorti/Conservative Jew. Statistician and US policy wonk. Married aroace with 3 kids.
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They even call it a Yamaclaus
Thanks! I hate it!
Thanks! I hate it!
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They even call it a Yamaclaus
Thanks! I hate it!
Thanks! I hate it!
Candles are burning low
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Candles are burning low
I am trying to think when one would wear this. Not to shul, surely. At a Christmas party, you would just wear a Santa hat over your kippah, right? When and who is this for?
I like to think I’m pretty chill and accepting of interfaith families and celebrations but man I haaaaate this
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am trying to think when one would wear this. Not to shul, surely. At a Christmas party, you would just wear a Santa hat over your kippah, right? When and who is this for?
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Professor's pro-tip for anyone with college-age kids: Tell your kids go to class. It's really that simple. If you show up, you'll do okay. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be there. Maybe stay off your phones for 50 minutes. Just listen. You'll absorb something. I have data to prove it.
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Professor's pro-tip for anyone with college-age kids: Tell your kids go to class. It's really that simple. If you show up, you'll do okay. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be there. Maybe stay off your phones for 50 minutes. Just listen. You'll absorb something. I have data to prove it.
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My inclination is that we basically need a candidate committed to a project 2029 type blitz. Come in ready to do the whole package of democracy reforms in week one. This means whoever wins the primary needs to have already run on that - we can’t afford a ditherer who will get cold feet in office.
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My inclination is that we basically need a candidate committed to a project 2029 type blitz. Come in ready to do the whole package of democracy reforms in week one. This means whoever wins the primary needs to have already run on that - we can’t afford a ditherer who will get cold feet in office.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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Folks had this image of a society without virtue, where corruption is rampant, as a sort of gleeful carnival of exciting, appealingly wicked people being erudite and charismatic, not "a daily psychic onslaught of unfairness and horrendous cruelty by grinning, stupid bullies."
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Folks had this image of a society without virtue, where corruption is rampant, as a sort of gleeful carnival of exciting, appealingly wicked people being erudite and charismatic, not "a daily psychic onslaught of unfairness and horrendous cruelty by grinning, stupid bullies."
It's girl scout cookie season and it's great that my daughter is learning to do a sales pitch and all but... it really feels like an MLM. Teaching the girls to milk their parents' social connections for sales.
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's girl scout cookie season and it's great that my daughter is learning to do a sales pitch and all but... it really feels like an MLM. Teaching the girls to milk their parents' social connections for sales.
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I lit the Hanukkah candles yesterday even though I'm not feeling it this year bc some things are bigger than me, and some responsibilities cannot be shaken even when I am completely secular and don't believe in God.
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I lit the Hanukkah candles yesterday even though I'm not feeling it this year bc some things are bigger than me, and some responsibilities cannot be shaken even when I am completely secular and don't believe in God.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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I found this piece to be DEEPLY misguided in its angle (more on that next post), but it's remarkable reporting
Greg/TNR got Stephen Miller's relatives to provide a PDF of a family history his Jewish grandmother (Ruth Glosser) wrote, which is available at a link in the second graf:
archive.is/xnmWU
Greg/TNR got Stephen Miller's relatives to provide a PDF of a family history his Jewish grandmother (Ruth Glosser) wrote, which is available at a link in the second graf:
archive.is/xnmWU
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I found this piece to be DEEPLY misguided in its angle (more on that next post), but it's remarkable reporting
Greg/TNR got Stephen Miller's relatives to provide a PDF of a family history his Jewish grandmother (Ruth Glosser) wrote, which is available at a link in the second graf:
archive.is/xnmWU
Greg/TNR got Stephen Miller's relatives to provide a PDF of a family history his Jewish grandmother (Ruth Glosser) wrote, which is available at a link in the second graf:
archive.is/xnmWU
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Jews have no unique duty or tendency to be good people. Our duties and tendencies are the same as every other demographic's. To call Miller a hypocrite for not being a better person due to his Jewish heritage is to TOTALLY miss the point and dip into outright antisemitism
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Jews have no unique duty or tendency to be good people. Our duties and tendencies are the same as every other demographic's. To call Miller a hypocrite for not being a better person due to his Jewish heritage is to TOTALLY miss the point and dip into outright antisemitism
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Never let them live it down. Mass murder by the richest man in the world and Trump.
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Never let them live it down. Mass murder by the richest man in the world and Trump.
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The library board wouldn’t remove a picture book about a trans boy so they dissolved the whole board.
“The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools”
archive.is/2025.12.14-1...
“The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools”
archive.is/2025.12.14-1...
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The library board wouldn’t remove a picture book about a trans boy so they dissolved the whole board.
“The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools”
archive.is/2025.12.14-1...
“The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools”
archive.is/2025.12.14-1...
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I know we are hurting. But we cannot hide. We must stand tall and proud of who we are. We hold their memories as blessings. And we light the candles anyway. They want us to hide but we stand proud. Find as much joy as you can this first night of #Hanukkah
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know we are hurting. But we cannot hide. We must stand tall and proud of who we are. We hold their memories as blessings. And we light the candles anyway. They want us to hide but we stand proud. Find as much joy as you can this first night of #Hanukkah
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
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Chag Hanukkah sameach. I’m hoping for a year of so much light that no one—no one—has to be resilient.
December 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Chag Hanukkah sameach. I’m hoping for a year of so much light that no one—no one—has to be resilient.
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"But there's so much to learn," Milo said, with a thoughtful frown.
"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."
"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"But there's so much to learn," Milo said, with a thoughtful frown.
"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."
"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."
The phrase from Jewish texts is that "all {am} Israel is a guarantor for one another". As in, we are all Co-signers in a covenant.
NOW, in fact many of us Jews *do* feel great shame about the actions of the Israeli government because we *do* feel that the entire Jewish community is responsible for one another, because that's a Jewish value. Gentiles however do not play a part in this conversation.
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The phrase from Jewish texts is that "all {am} Israel is a guarantor for one another". As in, we are all Co-signers in a covenant.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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Shocked to learn that despite 1,000 op-eds about how they are now a workers' party, Republicans are doing what they always do when they're in power
We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN.
Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.
Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Shocked to learn that despite 1,000 op-eds about how they are now a workers' party, Republicans are doing what they always do when they're in power