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For the gazillionth time: any argument consisting of “the other side isn’t real” has zero chance of resulting in peace and only exists justify bad treatment and fuel extremist positions.
Yes, this applies to everyone.
Yes, this applies to everyone.
I always thought this was just obvious, but have learned that it is actually my most Jewish POV.
Agreed, I can’t see into anyone’s heart but I can see their actions and that’s how I judge them.
October 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I always thought this was just obvious, but have learned that it is actually my most Jewish POV.
Everyone is talking about how it’s been 32 years since the Blue Jays won on the World Series. As someone who was at the final game in ‘93, it’s like everyone’s telling me I’m old.
October 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Everyone is talking about how it’s been 32 years since the Blue Jays won on the World Series. As someone who was at the final game in ‘93, it’s like everyone’s telling me I’m old.
Anyone able to update on what it’s actually like in DC now?
Question for those in the U.S: My husband is supposed to run a marathon, on a team raising $ for cancer research, in Washington DC in 3 weeks. We are Canadian, and would be flying in for the weekend. Is it safe to do so now?
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Anyone able to update on what it’s actually like in DC now?
Reminds me of how Friday night dinners at my house and Sat. lunches at our neighbour work. Weekly rituals create space for us to be together with time pressure, standard easy yet yummy dishes reduce the effort.
Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread. n.pr/4ohCwFc
How chef Samin Nosrat keeps up a casual weekly dinner with friends
Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reminds me of how Friday night dinners at my house and Sat. lunches at our neighbour work. Weekly rituals create space for us to be together with time pressure, standard easy yet yummy dishes reduce the effort.
FINALLY - although I won’t feel relieved until Sunday. It’s been far too long.
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
FINALLY - although I won’t feel relieved until Sunday. It’s been far too long.
I’ve learned not to get my hopes up in the past 2 years, but maybeeee Qatar supporting the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza will do the trick?Yes, horrible people making agreements, but if it stops the war and allows rebuilding…..
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Qatari PM hopes ‘momentum’ now to end Israel’s Gaza war; Hamas deliberates
‘The main focus is how to protect the people in Gaza,’ stressed the Qatari PM in an interview with Al Jazeera.
www.aljazeera.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’ve learned not to get my hopes up in the past 2 years, but maybeeee Qatar supporting the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza will do the trick?Yes, horrible people making agreements, but if it stops the war and allows rebuilding…..
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
My laptop’s superpower is that it knows when I’m in court or have a crucial meeting or deadline, and very deliberately chooses those moments to slow down, disconnect from WiFi and/or spontaneously update.
September 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My laptop’s superpower is that it knows when I’m in court or have a crucial meeting or deadline, and very deliberately chooses those moments to slow down, disconnect from WiFi and/or spontaneously update.
Question for those in the U.S: My husband is supposed to run a marathon, on a team raising $ for cancer research, in Washington DC in 3 weeks. We are Canadian, and would be flying in for the weekend. Is it safe to do so now?
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Question for those in the U.S: My husband is supposed to run a marathon, on a team raising $ for cancer research, in Washington DC in 3 weeks. We are Canadian, and would be flying in for the weekend. Is it safe to do so now?
There certainly was discrimination against Mizrahim and the experience of living in tents in giant transit camps. As a talking point though ignores actual Mizrahi Jews today, who slightly outnumber Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and who are far less likely to have diaspora citizenship.
It is true that for most of Jewish history, Jewish peoplehood was not taken to imply a Jewish majoritarian nation-state in Palestine. The connection between peoplehood and statehood is worth interrogating. And there is plenty to say about the relationship of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in early Zionism.
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There certainly was discrimination against Mizrahim and the experience of living in tents in giant transit camps. As a talking point though ignores actual Mizrahi Jews today, who slightly outnumber Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and who are far less likely to have diaspora citizenship.
This article feels so heartfelt and necessary today. Her talk of shame and blame, of ascribing powers to less and Mozart, echoes what I have experienced with my pregnancy loss. Also thinking about how we treat moms of kids with autism.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
The Blogs: Spoiler: It isn’t Tylenol and we did nothing wrong
Is your neurotypical child hitting all of the milestones? Here's what I need from you. (And no, it is emphatically not pity.)
blogs.timesofisrael.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This article feels so heartfelt and necessary today. Her talk of shame and blame, of ascribing powers to less and Mozart, echoes what I have experienced with my pregnancy loss. Also thinking about how we treat moms of kids with autism.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
blogs.timesofisrael.com/spoiler-it-i...
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1. It would be bad if I were killed
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
1. It would be bad if I were killed
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
I read The Blessings of a Skinned Knee when my kids were young, and boy do I think its lessons are even more relevant today. Feel like I’m surrounded by parents in full anxiety meltdowns, micromanaging their kids and unable to cope with their child having any moment of discomfort. 1/
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I read The Blessings of a Skinned Knee when my kids were young, and boy do I think its lessons are even more relevant today. Feel like I’m surrounded by parents in full anxiety meltdowns, micromanaging their kids and unable to cope with their child having any moment of discomfort. 1/
Racism comes most strongly not from those who know they are great, but from those terrified of being treated as though they are not.
The difficulty of arguing with white nationalists about the facts of history is that the "white pride" project is rooted in deep personal insecurities, and fake history is the baby blanket that sooths them. It props up egos and gives them a sense of worth. They have trouble regulating without it.
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Racism comes most strongly not from those who know they are great, but from those terrified of being treated as though they are not.
When I saw some of the bile spewed at Canadian Jews in The Maple, I worried that it was going to get someone killed.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
September 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
When I saw some of the bile spewed at Canadian Jews in The Maple, I worried that it was going to get someone killed.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
This is a screenshot from the Facebook page of the guy arrested for stabbing a Jewish woman in Ottawa last week. He is following The Maple.
I follow Mother Jones and appreciate their reporting, but this article made me do a double-take. The full article mentions a ton of Christian Nationalists participating in a conference. The headline and illustration, though, make it all about Israel. Why? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Make America Israel Again?
If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week's National Conservatism summit.
www.motherjones.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I follow Mother Jones and appreciate their reporting, but this article made me do a double-take. The full article mentions a ton of Christian Nationalists participating in a conference. The headline and illustration, though, make it all about Israel. Why? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Ditto for voice memos, which I will never listen to.
I -hate- having to sit through a video for something I could just read. Ugh. There are tik-tokers out there whose whole thing is just reading articles into a camera, and it makes me sad. How pathetic that is. EVERYONE needs to read more!
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ditto for voice memos, which I will never listen to.
Just found out this happened to a friend’s sister in Ottawa. Earlier today, my mom’s friend mentioned attacks on Jews in Montreal. Hard to convey just how angry the community is about all the hate. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Police charge 71-year-old man in hate-motivated stabbing of Jewish woman in Ottawa
Victim was treated in hospital and later released after being attacked at a grocery store that has been a target of protests
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Just found out this happened to a friend’s sister in Ottawa. Earlier today, my mom’s friend mentioned attacks on Jews in Montreal. Hard to convey just how angry the community is about all the hate. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Girl1 got married, Girl2 and The Boy are back at university, and it’s just us and The Dog. Miss having everyone around, the kids grew into cool people to talk to.
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Girl1 got married, Girl2 and The Boy are back at university, and it’s just us and The Dog. Miss having everyone around, the kids grew into cool people to talk to.
Essential listening on the reasons to fight against “fetal protection” laws.
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
Punished For Their Pregnancies | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
YouTube video by Slate
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Essential listening on the reasons to fight against “fetal protection” laws.
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
youtu.be/DFdB5Bg3WPw?...
Definitely. My Canadian public high school, which had hippie teachers, suddenly forced a week of sex ed every morning where they would tell us what diseases would kill us. Hippie teacher refused to do it, conservative vice-principal stepped in. School board also forbid us from saying gay.
I do think the AIDS crisis was used by conservatives to inflict sexual puritanism on GenX (even though AIDS hit Boomers much harder overall, concerns about it were a part of older GenX life) mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/08/27/f...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Let Republicans Hold the Executive Branch for Twelve Straight Years
Over the weekend, this graphic summarizing one of the findings of the most recent NYT/Siena poll made the rounds: While the NYT, which is flogging the ‘young men in crisis’ crapola*, fo…
mikethemadbiologist.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Definitely. My Canadian public high school, which had hippie teachers, suddenly forced a week of sex ed every morning where they would tell us what diseases would kill us. Hippie teacher refused to do it, conservative vice-principal stepped in. School board also forbid us from saying gay.
I was considering starting a Substack but folks keep saying it supports Nazis. What is a good platform to allow me to post articles and put links to them here, that won’t cost me anything? My idea is that some things are better as articles than multi-part threads. I don’t have a newsletter.
August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was considering starting a Substack but folks keep saying it supports Nazis. What is a good platform to allow me to post articles and put links to them here, that won’t cost me anything? My idea is that some things are better as articles than multi-part threads. I don’t have a newsletter.
Anyone interested in the late Toronto left-wing artist Bill Stapleton? He and my grandfather served together in WWII and became lifelong friends, and my dad was just clearing out a storage locker and gave me a bunch of paintings, sketches and correspondence by him. Not sure what to do with it.
August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Anyone interested in the late Toronto left-wing artist Bill Stapleton? He and my grandfather served together in WWII and became lifelong friends, and my dad was just clearing out a storage locker and gave me a bunch of paintings, sketches and correspondence by him. Not sure what to do with it.
Started listening to Season 2 of The Retrievals podcast from Serial, and it is reminding me of how my last c-section traumatized me enough to say no more babies. The spinal anesthesia paralyzed my diaphragm so I was gasping for breath. The nurse checking my incision screamed I was still bleeding.
August 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Started listening to Season 2 of The Retrievals podcast from Serial, and it is reminding me of how my last c-section traumatized me enough to say no more babies. The spinal anesthesia paralyzed my diaphragm so I was gasping for breath. The nurse checking my incision screamed I was still bleeding.
Slightly diminish a band: Duran
Slightly diminish a band: They're Probably Not Giants
Slightly diminish a band: Die Müde Hosen
August 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Duran
Ventriloquism Fallacy: Saying “on behalf of group A, you should/shouldn’t do X” when you aren’t part of group A, and most of group A actually supports the opposite and would tell you to STFU.
August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ventriloquism Fallacy: Saying “on behalf of group A, you should/shouldn’t do X” when you aren’t part of group A, and most of group A actually supports the opposite and would tell you to STFU.