currently reading a book from the 90s on the Black Sea and having an amazing time.

I get it! Keep doing it! I suppose! I'm still uncomfortable! I know that that part of the American project is very hard to wrestle with! I know this is just mostly in-group reinforcing against fascism and there is no need to project self-criticism constantly! But--man, that stuff happened!

something to be said about American politics that the lies used to fearmonger about Obama (he's a Muslim! he was born in Africa!) are literally true about Mamdani and just simply ALSO did not work to persuade the electorate, any more than they did for Obama.

it's giving that "Barack Hussein Obama" energy but instead of the emphasized middle name dogwhistling Islam (Obama is a secret Muslim), the emphasized middle name is dogwhistling Mamdani's African-ness (not a secret...).

Sorry, bad phrasing there: run by Israel apologists. willing to negotiate meaning of what a Zionist is. lol.

Israel-the-nation-state as the Golden Calf of our times is something I often discuss with my friends. it's just evil that we haven't set our children up to have the option to study Torah and practice religion without having to study hasbara at the same time.

unfortunately YIVO is also run by zionist sympathizers top to bottom, or at least was.

I need a new prescription but I won't go for an appointment, I really don't want to see how much I have declined. Like, at some point it should plateau, right????

baby levels (-9 and -10 over here). but congrats on SEEING

20% of women in the US have been raped. over 80% report "sexual harassment or assault". 1 in 5 or 6 men have been sexually assaulted. the elite conspiracy of trafficking is held up by the much bigger, visible but quiet, basic assumption of omnipresent sexual violence at all levels of society.

I love writing to prompts and contests because I can get anywhere from cheeky to insufferable about it. is my insufferableness worth $10 to inflict on an editor?