Yesss more of this 🤘🏻🎸

Who Said It: Donald Trump or Martin Luther King Jr.? 1. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” 2. “Why would Kim Jong ...

“I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

A group of clay figures of various sizes

Wait!! It’s dangerous out there! Take one of these:

Post a famous bathroom scene

White men are 30% of the population.

They are also:

- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress

Forever oppressed.

Harold and the purple rain

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PRINCE ROGERS NELSON

CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE

AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR

BECAUSE OF THE BOOK

HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON

(this has been verified)

which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you

(PS that is not a white child, fight me)

in the pit

This entire weekend

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*Rebbe Nachman punk band in which I play bass and sing backup and giggle at the end of songs!

Side hustle update! We *finally* have a (live) song on the Yudi and the 50 Gates* website. 🤘🏻🎸🔥

It’s a song called “The Monster” about golems and anxiety and what keeps us safe and it rocks pretty hard.

Listen here: 50gates.com/home

Delightful responses abound!

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I mean, we’re working on it…?

not where you were going with this, but @aaron-nathans.bsky.social wrote a whole song about that and it’s kind of a bop: ftp.broadjam.com/songs/aaronn...

Everything is burning down but we still need music???

My Rebbe Nachman-inspired punk band is playing a backyard sukkah show next Thursday night, 10/9.

DM me for deets.

Tom Clancy’s Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

I’d vote for this ticket.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

The 4 psychological markers of ideological extremism What do Coke bottles, thrill-seeking, and a shrunken prefrontal cortex have in common? They all help explain extremist ideologies.

so you know how I'm frequently like "hey, [THING] is not a binary, it's multivalent and complex and nuanced, please stop treating it as a binary"

as it turns out, cognitive rigidity/binary thinking is a primary predictor for extremism:

bigthink.com/mini-philoso...

from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

GOP Congressman Thomas Massie says he has the votes to block Trump’s big bad bill in the House.

❗Call a Republican rep!

May every single human being on this planet be safe.

May every single person be protected from harm.

May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment.

In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

You have a home here always.

And the walls caved in on the beit midrash.

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

Sunday 10am PT/1pm ET Resilience isn't a solo project: Interdependence lessons from ruth danya ruttenberg 24 hour festival of jewish learning May 31-June 1 Shavuot live 2025 Judaism unbound photo of R danya ruttenberg

Come hang out with me and the @judaismunbound.bsky.social crew this year erev Shavuot --

I'll be on midday Sunday talking about what the Book of Ruth can teach us about community care in times of suffering.

Join us!

bit.ly/2025shavuot

Happy to welcome Sunlight and Simcha to the family! Thx, PAWS Chicago 😻

Squeeee!! 🤗🤗🤗

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

omg omg omg