Laura Tanenbaum

For the record, Leading Jewish Group JFREJ is very much in favor of Mayor Mamdani hosting Mahmoud Khalil and his family for Iftar.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

wasn't he also the guy who made a big splash by "confessing" he found women in their 40s fuckable?

yes I think it's definitely a continuum where it's possible to both overstate continuity and overstate rupture and so I think the debates outside specific contexts are most often unhelpful

Advocates ask Mamdani to add NYC student detained by ICE to list of immigration cases sent to Trump Dylan Lopez Contreras was the first New York City public school student detained by ICE during President Donald Trump’s second-term immigration crackdown.

NYC public school student Dylan Lopez Contreras has been detained by ICE in Pennsylvania for the past 10 months. TY @mayor.nyc.gov for demanding the release of Columbia student activists — now let's keep it up and #BringDylanHome! gothamist.com/news/advocat...

Israel has not “dragged the United Stares into war.”
An elite faction of the United States that identifies intensely with the interests of Israel has, with the complaisance of other factions, launched an aggressive war.
Israel figures heavily into Washington’s motives but the difference matters.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Absolutely shameful. If you can't denounce this immoral institutionalized mass murder, please dissolve yourself immediately.

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a lot of people who seem dumb are also really evil. becoming more and more religious about this

on one level erasure of a heroic Black woman and so not surprising. But also I think it's somewhat memory holed that in some instances there *was* more dem opposition to wars.

I felt the same way about Oedipus which I also saw too late to recommend

say what you will about callow stupid and overreaching incarnations of trauma discourse but apparently actual adults still believe that you can just do genocides, decimate populations, murder at scale abroad etc without that having any material or libidinal consequences whatsover

This is what I kept thinking about during the genocide in Gaza, which is not over. yes, too many Americans are propagandized but at root this is a part of the democracy crisis.

my HS had a post-prom tradition of running into the lake and running out polar bear plunge style *in May* that's how cold it is!

This is amazing. As a native Chicagoan, going into the lake at all in February is a huge feat of will, let alone treading water holding a stroller over your head

and now being extended to - if we go to war with Iran it is only because Israel is making us

our 14 yo loved it too. hoping it will be the rare movie 14 yo and 8 yo can agree on; given martian is one of the few others I'm hopeful.

thank you for reading!

In a very different register, I remember Mary Gordon writing about how the women of her mother's generation were all in love with priests because sexism and all they were the only men who would have serious conversations with women and believe they had inner lives

great read thanks. while the cases are very different, one similarity to my long engagement with Roth's work was that unlike so many of his peers he at least seemed *interested* in women

thanks! not sure how I missed this . .

Philip Roth (1933–2018) Philip Roth's work could only have been written by someone who came of age during the peak of postwar liberalism.

jacobin.com/2018/05/phil.... i didn't really go into it here, but Vivian Gornick's critique that post-war Jewish men acted out their feelings about class and assimilation via women seems . .. relevant, shall we say

I wrote an obit of Roth no one read, lol. I was pretty generous to him but when I was on a panel because of it I still got cast as the feminist scold 🤷my fellow panelist had written an obit where he pretended to be PR talking from beyond the grave

someone still needs to write the big woody allen piece about this, I think

interesting. I think they feed into each other as culturally specific misogyny is enforced by homo-social networks. like the specific misogyny of the Italian mobsters was not about Italianness or Catholocism but those identities shaped how it was formed and reproduced

agree 100% and also I think that's what Klion is saying? a little surprised at the vitriol against him from some but maybe I shouldn't be