Rebecca Stanfel
@rstanfel.bsky.social
Montana Jewish Project’s executive director. Essayist in WaPo, Tablet, HuffPost. One of the world’s best guys is my husband. The other is my son. Clearly, all views here are mine personally, even when I believe them to be facts.
Tarnished is not the word I would use. I can’t think of anyone who did better work on the pandemic (contrast with, say, Leana Wen) and then went on to publish two best-selling science books.
July 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Tarnished is not the word I would use. I can’t think of anyone who did better work on the pandemic (contrast with, say, Leana Wen) and then went on to publish two best-selling science books.
I don’t subscribe to them anymore. But @edyong209.bsky.social did heroic reporting on Covid for them.
July 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I don’t subscribe to them anymore. But @edyong209.bsky.social did heroic reporting on Covid for them.
If you read his statements about infectious diseases, he’s sounding like 1920s and 1930s American eugenicists. There’s a reason the Nazis co-opted the language of Americans as they defined the purity of the Volk.
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
If you read his statements about infectious diseases, he’s sounding like 1920s and 1930s American eugenicists. There’s a reason the Nazis co-opted the language of Americans as they defined the purity of the Volk.
“No healthy child should die from measles.” Why should any child die from measles? Do you, Mr. Kennedy, get to decide which kids get to live and which die?
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“No healthy child should die from measles.” Why should any child die from measles? Do you, Mr. Kennedy, get to decide which kids get to live and which die?
Yes, racism in itself does not explain the US also doubling down on supporting the Saudis, UAE, and other highly problematic regimes. (Hint—oil and more weapon sales). She is brave and well-spoken. We live in an era of 40 second clips. You cannot speak to the complexity of any issue in 40 seconds
June 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yes, racism in itself does not explain the US also doubling down on supporting the Saudis, UAE, and other highly problematic regimes. (Hint—oil and more weapon sales). She is brave and well-spoken. We live in an era of 40 second clips. You cannot speak to the complexity of any issue in 40 seconds
Best of luck getting people to care. At this point, 99 percent of the doctors I need to see simply shrug at Covid. It’s so demoralizing.
June 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Best of luck getting people to care. At this point, 99 percent of the doctors I need to see simply shrug at Covid. It’s so demoralizing.
Is this really about how many republicans are or aren’t on BlueSky? Or actually about how to monetize it? Even if a billion new voices come to BlueSky, if they aren’t selling ads, how does that matter? Not saying I want ads. Is there a different and viable model for social media apps?
June 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Is this really about how many republicans are or aren’t on BlueSky? Or actually about how to monetize it? Even if a billion new voices come to BlueSky, if they aren’t selling ads, how does that matter? Not saying I want ads. Is there a different and viable model for social media apps?
Wildfire smoke in the form of PM 2.5 and Covid can also cause permanent lung damage. One N-95 keeps you safe from both!
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wildfire smoke in the form of PM 2.5 and Covid can also cause permanent lung damage. One N-95 keeps you safe from both!
Thank you for continuing to speak up on the continuing pandemic. Thank you
June 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thank you for continuing to speak up on the continuing pandemic. Thank you
It’s also an absurd argument for great swaths of this country. My kid was out of school for 8 weeks. Not saying those 8 weeks weren’t challenging—and much more challenging for front line workers. But it’s collective amnesia to say the entire country was languishing under lockdowns
June 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It’s also an absurd argument for great swaths of this country. My kid was out of school for 8 weeks. Not saying those 8 weeks weren’t challenging—and much more challenging for front line workers. But it’s collective amnesia to say the entire country was languishing under lockdowns
Nice! Hamilton is beautiful
June 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Nice! Hamilton is beautiful
But there was a run up to the Holocaust. Germany didn’t go from zero to 1,000 mph in one year. It was the rapid erosion of the Weimar Republic’s democracy. In 1930s Germany. So we are both right 🤗🌻
May 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
But there was a run up to the Holocaust. Germany didn’t go from zero to 1,000 mph in one year. It was the rapid erosion of the Weimar Republic’s democracy. In 1930s Germany. So we are both right 🤗🌻
I don’t mean to sound pedantic or obnoxious. Keep up the good work please!
May 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t mean to sound pedantic or obnoxious. Keep up the good work please!
I could make a good case that’s what happening in Texas is much more like 1930s Texas than Germany. American Midnight by Adam Hotshchild is a disturbing and excellent book about exactly these kinds of issues in the US in the 1920s-1930s
May 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I could make a good case that’s what happening in Texas is much more like 1930s Texas than Germany. American Midnight by Adam Hotshchild is a disturbing and excellent book about exactly these kinds of issues in the US in the 1920s-1930s
Good points. I’d still argue that until they are rounding up women who seek any information about abortion and imprison/mass murder them, you are minimizing 1930s Germany and potentially creating a false equivalence between terrible things and a specific historical events
May 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Good points. I’d still argue that until they are rounding up women who seek any information about abortion and imprison/mass murder them, you are minimizing 1930s Germany and potentially creating a false equivalence between terrible things and a specific historical events
What’s happening in TX as reported in this article is *not* 1930s Germany. I’m not saying TX isn’t horrifying. But comparing everything to 1930s Germany implies that this is an aberration in the US (see genocide, slavery, and 1930s America) & that only a world war can fix this.
May 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
What’s happening in TX as reported in this article is *not* 1930s Germany. I’m not saying TX isn’t horrifying. But comparing everything to 1930s Germany implies that this is an aberration in the US (see genocide, slavery, and 1930s America) & that only a world war can fix this.
Also not a doctor. And someone who spikes fevers after vaccines. I don’t pre medicate and I hang on for as long as I can before taking Tylenol. I figure better to be vaxxed and take 2 Tylenol 4 hours later than not be vaxxed. Feel better!
May 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Also not a doctor. And someone who spikes fevers after vaccines. I don’t pre medicate and I hang on for as long as I can before taking Tylenol. I figure better to be vaxxed and take 2 Tylenol 4 hours later than not be vaxxed. Feel better!
I wish he wasn’t so annoyingly whiny on top of being extraordinarily evil.
May 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I wish he wasn’t so annoyingly whiny on top of being extraordinarily evil.
No way the real estate agents paid her ginormous speaking fee, right?
March 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
No way the real estate agents paid her ginormous speaking fee, right?
Yes yes yes! The best it can offer is garbled and boggy corporate-speak. There’s a reason we writers *think* as we rework drafts. Producing words isn’t the goal. We’re aiming for compelling ideas told in compelling ways
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Yes yes yes! The best it can offer is garbled and boggy corporate-speak. There’s a reason we writers *think* as we rework drafts. Producing words isn’t the goal. We’re aiming for compelling ideas told in compelling ways
Not sure if you can convince the “we won’t swing at all the pitches” team, but be the opposition. There are some great ideas in this thread (walking out one at a time). We are past the need for careful civility. Dems need to give the rest of us a sense that you are fighting with and for us.
February 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not sure if you can convince the “we won’t swing at all the pitches” team, but be the opposition. There are some great ideas in this thread (walking out one at a time). We are past the need for careful civility. Dems need to give the rest of us a sense that you are fighting with and for us.