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Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Violence has no place in politics. Left, right, doesnt matter.
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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50 hostages.
680 days.

How many more Shabbats must pass without them?

The media may stay silent, but we never will. Don’t let the world forget.
August 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. cnn.it/4mcSD5N
July 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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RIP Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained-mathematician-turned-satirist whose silly songs used to poke fun at our sensibilities and brighten our days when we were younger. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Due to dangerous heat wave, NYC is opening 500 cooling centers all over the five boroughs. Will be open today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.

See locations & hours here: maps.nyc.gov/cooling-center/

Please check in on vulnerable neighbors.
June 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Whatever you’re doing today, please stop and take a moment to remember what today is for.

All gave some; some gave all.
May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi era comes at a pivotal time for Germans. The last of the survivors, liberators and perpetrators are dying, as the far right is becoming more established.

"Have people learned nothing?” said Mario Candotto, 98, who survived the Dachau concentration camp.
80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember
The anniversary of the end of the Nazi era comes at a pivotal time for Germans. The last of the survivors, liberators and perpetrators are dying, as the far right is becoming more established.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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If you don’t know what this is about, you should. If you know and you haven’t said anything condemning Hamas today, you should.
February 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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"The terrorists didn't shoot them, they murdered them with their hands."

This sentence, and the horrifying images it evokes, will be burned into my brain forever.

Such inconceivable cruelty.
February 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A terrorist opened fire on a bus in the West Bank this morning, injuring 8 civilians.

I am hoping for their speedy recovery, and for a day soon when this senseless violence will end ❤️‍🩹
November 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM