Throwing away books is usually fine.

It pisses me off that I recently learned his name and realized there's an extremely good chance we're related (my great-grandma was an Evnen from Nebraska)

I was kind of hoping he'd throw his hat in the ring for PA-03, but oh well, the race is already pretty packed

I'd absolutely love to be proven wrong, and I'll vote for him for whatever he runs for next

I voted Kenyatta in the primary, and damn but I wish PA was a state he could win

Fucking hell. IU is known for a world-class music program

Really, I think the best for an actual musician is a rebuilt older model. Sister has a gorgeous old Mason& Hamlin from the 1920s

My sister used to be the sales rep for most of the non-Steinway high end piano brands in DC, and has very strong opinions about how Steinway has been enshittified and is not worth the money anymore

My great uncle was briefly stationed on Greenland while in the US Air Force in the 60s, so there has been at least one other Jew there in the past

I volunteered for her first Senate campaign when I was five years old! (My next door neighbor and babysitter was chair of the county Democratic party and had us help stuff envelopes)

Yeah, he's lucky it wasn't my usual sandwich order of banh mi with extra jalapenos (haven't eaten at Subway since I got food poisoning there in high school)

I got chicken pox as a child the year before the vaccine became widely available and I'm so mad about it.

Everything, untoasted if very fresh, toasted otherwise, whitefish salad, tomato, capers, pickle on the side

"Blessed is the True Judge" would be wonderfully passive aggressive, but only Jews would get it

Ooh, I've been looking for a nice desk organizer for my office!

As a library cataloger, I know from professional listservs that the LC is currently migrating to a new library system software (which has been planned for a long time). It doesn't seem like that should affect this part of the website, but there are a lot of updates happening this week.

Rice also works, if you have the right climate and irrigation

My great-grandfather literally came in under a forged identity to avoid racist laws keeping Turks out (he was Lithuanian, not Turkish, but he was a sailor who somehow ended up with a Turkish passport)

My parents are much less wealthy than Mamdani's (probably about a quarter of their income, though I also grew up in a then much less expensive area and my dad's job with the state government had great benefits)

I've always been grateful that I grew up never having to truly worry about food or housing or healthcare, but still having to consider budgets and learning delayed gratification, and not being insulated from those less well-off

Turning dumpsters into swimming pools

Wow, yes. I was kind of a sheltered kid, and seeing the invasion of Iraq go ahead when I was 14, despite the very obvious lies leading up to it, was my first real visceral understanding that people do not generally make rational decisions

I'm terrified and sobbing intermittently and I don't know exactly what to do, but you know what? Three and four generations ago, my ancestors survived pogroms and famine and brutal repression and my existence is testament to their survival: I'm going to live, and I'm going to keep others alive.

Sure

There are lots of theist Quakers too! Quakerism is much less about what you believe than how you worship and the principles you live by (was raised Quaker, not really active now but still like it)

I was just there last month and I can confirm

We haven't even hit post-work voting yet!

A tweet and response: Tweet: Can anyone explain to this confused Italian living in the US what is up with Philadelphia and Gritty?? Is he their daimon? Response: I believe he's the manifestation of their city as a god, like Roma. At the bottom is a picture of Gritty laying on the ice. looking at the camera.

Seems like a good omen

Yeah