Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @TheRaDR Twitter profile

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@TheRaDR

7 years

I'm a rabbi. I believe words have power. I try to choose mine carefully. Fuck you, Trump.

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Do not take deadly pandemic advice from people who don’t care if your children are gunned down in their classrooms.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin wasn't even out of shiva (the initial 7-day mourning period) for his son when he was caught in the Capitol siege. Now, still in shloshim (the initial 30 day mourning period) & he's helping lead impeachment. And some dudes whining about metal detectors.

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There's an idea in Judaism that there are 36 special people in the world at all times who secretly maintain the world. I have begun to suspect that Dolly Parton may be one of them.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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While you're in your Mr. Rogers feels, a few things to remind you about his radical theology. 1/x He was a Presbyterian minister whose life’s work was built almost entirely (if not entirely) around Leviticus 19:18 (Love your neighbor as yourself.) Hence... the neighborhood.

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Hi, rabbi here. Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

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Goldie's Bagels, Columbia, MO.

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4 years

Hi, rabbi here. Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

Joel Pollak

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5 years

Steve Miller is a Jew. An American Jew. A patriot. Not a "white nationalist." I don't believe you should be calling a Jew anything, Ms. Omar.

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2 years

Reminder of what this phrase means.

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2 years

8% more white women voted Republican this time than they did in 2018. After SCOTUS obliterated their right to abortion and is threatening to kill contraception. If you're wondering if "voting against your own interests in order to preserve white supremacy" is still a thing.

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2 years

Knowing when your voice is not needed in a conversation is an important form of discernment.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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3 years

There are no “both sides” to the Holocaust. There are also no “both sides” to American chattel slavery, to systemic racism, to lynchings and land theft and Indigenous genocide. Despite what power has claimed for months, decades, centuries.

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He lost 26 pounds in 23 days. He lost 26 pounds in 23 days. He lost 26 pounds in 23 days. Think about what this means about the conditions and treatment in these camps. What this means for people there for longer. For children who need nutrition to grow.

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5 years

Ok, Internet. Time to learn the difference between concentration camps and death (“extermination”) camps. Germany started with concentration camps in 1933. Death camps started in 1941. Never again is now.

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@marloncmanning

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@TheRaDR Peace Be Unto U Rabbi. While I believe in a immigration referendum, and that camp conditions for migrant are not good. I wouldn't associate U.S. camps to Nazi camps. No mass killing going on, starvation etc...

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5 years

Stages of genocide.

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4 years

The measure of a human life is not how useful they were to capitalism.

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6 years

Joyce Feinberg, 75 Richard Gottfried, 65 Rose Mallinger, 97 Jerry Rabinowitz, 66 Cecil Rosenthal, 59 David Rosenthal, 54 Bernice Simon, 84 Sylvan Simon, 86 Daniel Stein, 71 Melvin Wax, 88 Irving Younger, 69 May their memories push us to create a world that values every life.

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“We have what I would call a concentration camp system... a mass detention of civilians without trial.” 24 people *that we know of* have died under ICE under Trump so far, plus 6 children in other agencies since September. THREAD. Important. 1/x

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border

"Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."

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3 years

This is emotional and financial abuse.

The Hill

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Ohio governor signs bill requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue

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We need diverse representation not only so every kid can see themselves as the hero of the story, but so that every kid can understand that *other* kinds of kids are *also* the heroes of the story.

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Anyone who says things like, "We survived Regan, we survived Nixon, we can survive this," reveals an awful lot about who they think "we" is.

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2 years

Your periodic reminder that there are zero Muslims on the Supreme Court and that the people who overturned Roe were Christians.

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4 years

It is #HolocaustMemorialDay . The Nazis targeted Jews Romani people Disabled people Queer and trans people People with the “wrong” political beliefs Slavs and others. Never again means we all have to stand together when any of us is under attack. Never again is now.

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I’m furious & scared about the new anti-abortion laws too. But those calling them “Christian Sharia law”—it’s Islamophobic & also inaccurate. Millions of American Muslims follow Sharia every day wo imposing it on non-Muslims. Call it Christian theocracy, which it is.

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3 years

An extremely non-comprehensive list of things you should not compare to the Holocaust: - Pregnancy termination - Non-Veganism - Vaccine passports Thank you for your time.

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I keep seeing this narrative here about how the Jews were passive and meek during the Holocaust, didn’t protest, and it makes me furious. It is wrong, it is dangerous, and it is harmful af. 1/x thread

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This may be my new favorite nasty reply.

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But the entirety of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood can be summed up as: Cultivate empathy. Be curious. It’s ok to have hard feelings. And most of all, love your neighbor as yourself. I think this is all a theological stance. About who we are, and who God is.

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A REMINDER! We need diverse representation not *only* so every kid can see themselves as the hero of the story, but also so that every kid can understand that *other* kinds of kids are *also* the heroes of the story.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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4 years

An indigenous Hawaiian just took Tulsi Gabbard’s seat in the Hawaii congressional primary:

Kahele wins Hawaii Democratic primary for Gabbard's seat

Ron Curtis has won the Republican primary for Hawaii's First Congressional Seat. He will take on Democratic incumbent Ed Case, who was not challenged in the primary.

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Sotomayor: “the issue of when life begins has been hotly debated by philosophers, and it’s still debated by religions. That’s a religions issue, isn’t it?” DING DING DING In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as part of the pregnant person’s body until birth. This is a 1A issue.

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People love to quote Mr. Rogers saying during a crisis, look for the helpers. But he was talking to children. The implication is that we, the grownups with any capacity, need to *be* the helpers. That’s going to look different in this crisis, but look for ways to help.

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I'm just gonna do this thing for a while where I post screenshots of some of the antisemitism I get on this site on a regular basis. Not because I don't usually just block and move on with my day, but bc I want to surface what I think a lot of people don't realize is happening.

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5 years

This is the perfect encapsulation of a thing. Antisemitism as the fine print of white supremacy.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

5 years

Well that escalated quickly.

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2 years

Don’t you dare make Islamophobic analogies to the Roe news. This SCOTUS draft is homegrown Christian nationalism, with all the markings of American history at its worst. Look at the people in that majority. Grapple with that. Thread with more below.

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TRANS KIDS: You are loved. You are valid. You are wonderful. PARENTS OF TRANS KIDS: You are not alone. We are with you. We're going to fight this shit.

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“Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is Islamophobic b) elides Christian oppression & murder of Jews over more than 1000 years & c) ignores Jewish civilization worldwide & facts of key Jewish developments in Middle East & N Africa.

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5 years

OK NOW CAN WE CALL THEM CONCENTRATION CAMPS

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4 years

Stop 👏 blaming 👏 systemic 👏 failures 👏 on 👏 individuals 👏 trapped 👏 in 👏 that 👏 system. 👏 Fight for people to have better choices.

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If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah, and maasar if not taxes meant to create a safety net for those in need? 1/

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Hey, white friends: Remember when you imagined who you’d be in Nazi Germany or during Civil Rights? How you never envisioned yourself as frightened, complicit, allowing power to harm people trying to be free? Guess what. Who you are now is your role in history. Show up.

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Sesame Street made the decision to do this because they realized some children might take the “nobody believes me that I have a friend named Snuffleupagus” narrative to mean that adults wouldn’t believe them if they shared that they’d been sexually abused.

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4 years

Less talk about forgiveness talk More talk about accountability and what’s required in the work of sincere repentance

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6 years

As the word “hookers” reenters the news cycle, a reminder: Sex workers are human beings who earn their rent a certain way. Maybe you don’t want their jobs, but that doesn’t make them any less created in God’s image. No matter how men in power talk about them—you can do better.

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THREAD: Judaism and abortion Or: why abortion access is not only a right according to the 14th amendment (privacy) but also the 1st (prohibiting free exercise of religion.) Come and learn. 1/x

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As swimming pool integration became a major issue, he washed his and François Clemmons/Officer Clemmons' feet together in a kiddie pool. Presumably the good Rev. Rogers was fully holding the Christian meaning of footwashing in his choices.

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That looked like this: “To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now." Rev. Fred Rogers

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Do not take deadly pandemic advice from people who don’t care if your children are gunned down in their classrooms.

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3 years

The death penalty is barbaric. Its application is deeply racist. The state should not have this power.

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I’m sorry that I don’t have capacity to write this all out as alt text, but it’s worth reading the whole thing if you’re able. On ballet. And trans kids.

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4 years

Oh my God. No. This is very very dangerous white nationalist bullshizz. My nationality is that I’m American.

NYT Politics

@nytpolitics

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President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses

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Rev. Rogers has been quoted as saying, “Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive.” Bisexual icon? Just a believer in radical truth? I don't know.

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Know that you are loved. Now go out there and do something that shows how loving your neighbor as yourself can manifest.

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The greatest predictor of mass shooters is a history of abuse towards women. The greatest predictor of mass shooters is a history of abuse towards women. The greatest predictor of mass shooters is a history of abuse towards women. . . . What if we took abuse seriously?

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Hey, guys? If a woman tells you about a man that's known to be a sexual abuser/harasser, she's offering you a gift of significant trust. She's including you in the whisper network, & assuming that you'll respond as one of the good ones. It's a responsibility not to take lightly.

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Your periodic loving reminder not to get tattoos in languages you, yourself, cannot personally read.

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“I was just following orders.”

Newsweek

@Newsweek

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ICE agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they're only enforcing the laws

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Reminder that refugees’ lives matter and are critical— even if their children never grow up to be Steve Jobs. Even if they are just regular people, having lives, caring for their families, trying to stay safe and whole. Every single human being deserves that.

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Did you know executive functioning is diminished by stress? In case you were wondering why, two years into a global pandemic, as so many other very, very real things are and have been happening simultaneously, you are not remembering things as well or as organized.

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It is International #HolocaustMemorialDay . The Nazis targeted Jews Romani people Disabled people Queer and trans people People with the “wrong” political beliefs Slavs and others. Never again means we all have to stand together when any of us is under attack. Always.

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WOW OK Judaism permits and even sometimes requires abortions* and speaking as a rabbi DO NOT use the genocide of my people to justify your horrific attack on women’s bodies. *Receipts

Michelle Goldberg

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From the text of the new Alabama abortion law

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WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN WHERE ARE THE WOMEN

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Cool great no problems here

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YOUR LIBERATION WILL NOT COME AT THE EXPENSE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S LIBERATION. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY. You may get temporary power or domination, but it will always be insecure, fragile. It will not be liberation--not until your work & freedom is intertwined with everyone's.

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"What does assassination mean?" after the murder of RFK in 1968. Again, naming true things and simply holding space to let children deal with them--rather than trying to hide or minimize or gaslight because it seems too hard.

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One of my dearest friends is a trauma therapist. I recently asked her for some resources that I could share out broadly for people dealing with trauma. Because these are traumatic times. So a few things. 1/x thread.

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In Judaism, you’re not required to forgive someone who hasn’t done sincere, meaningful work of repentance & repair. And then, it’s complicated at best. But the literature is clear that if the harm caused was irreparable, you’re never required to forgive, even if they repent.

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Hey, @Twitter , Jewish law teaches that apologizing without doing anything to make amends or prevent similar harm is basically worthless. So ban Nazis already.

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"We need to show up because they might come for us next" is never the correct logic. Ever. We need to show up because they are coming for anyone.

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This is some serious 1984 stuff. "It would be traumatizing to return children to their parents after we have forcibly separated them and shipped them off to strangers, because we are so concerned about not causing trauma to them." The gaslighting is breathtaking.

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US wants to avoid pulling what may be thousands of migrant children from 'sponsor' homes to rejoin parents, saying it "could be traumatic to the children."

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“Fight transphobia because they won’t stop there” isn’t it. Fight transphobia because it harms trans people. It harms people. “There was no one left to speak for me.” is not a moral argument. They are coming for anyone. We must speak out because they are coming for anyone.

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Reminder that if you mean Christmas it’s ok to say Christmas. You didn’t add “holiday colors,” you added Christmas colors. That’s ok. Say that. Inclusiveness means considering other peoples’s holidays, not pretending yours are everyone’s. Your specific one is coming up! Enjoy!

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Time for your regular reminder that A) Judaism doesn’t consider a fetus to have personhood and B) that the principle of saving a life as paramount applies to the *pregnant adult*, not the fetus. Yes, we, careful readers of the Bible. Thread in next tweet.

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Ohio lawmakers have introduced legislation that would jail doctors for “abortion murder” unless they reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus

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The measure of a human life is not how useful they were to capitalism.

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I believe Fred Rogers tried to love each and every one of us the way he believed God loves each and every one of us. I believe he saw his job as looking with a loving, empathetic eye at another and saying, as God did to Adam in the garden, "Ayeka?" Where are you?

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Demonizing trans people is a worldwide movement now. Fascism requires scapegoats. We must all, together say: no. We all must fight for everyone’s safety, everyone’s freedom. To paraphrase the greats: Nobody’s free until everyone’s free.

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My friends, a plea. 1/x Thread. Please remember that people in the repro space have been aware that this day was likely to be coming for a long time--a year, at least--and preparing for it.

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Special shout-out to nonbinary parents who don’t get a day in our culture.

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Don't say "Western civilization" if you mean Calvinism. Don't say "the West" if you mean America. Don't say "Religion" if you mean Christianity.

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May we all be inscribed for good. May we all be inscribed for joy. May we all be inscribed for justice. May we all be inscribed for liberation. May we all be inscribed for inspiration. May we all be inscribed for love. May we all be inscribed for hope. ❤️ Shana tova.

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HIRE 👏 TRANS 👏 WRITERS 👏 TO 👏 WRITE 👏 ON 👏 TRANS 👏 ISSUES 👏

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Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Have a nice day.

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Do not take advice about a deadly pandemic from people who don’t care if your children are gunned down in their classrooms.

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What if you didn’t need to do any work to be worthy of love? ❤️ Shabbat Shalom.

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Every trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming person who exists, persists and shines out in a world that tells them not to is performing an essential kind of magic. ✨

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"Deep down, we know what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and again." From the commencement speech. Really: Listen.

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Actual improvements to this website that I would like to see: -Ban Nazis -Quote-tweet with a gif -Mute conversation actually works -Ability to mute someone in your TL but not mentions or vice-versa -When someone QT you it shows up in "mentions" not just "all" -Ban Nazis

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If people are still talking about Lizzo and the flute, you can read this and be even more impressed.

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21st c. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory kinda stuff here

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“Traczyk-Stawska was 12 when the German army invaded Poland. She joined the resistance & went on to carry out sabotage under the pseudonym of "Doughnut". W/the Warsaw Uprising in ‘44, she was one of 50k fighters to revolt against the Nazis & rare girl w/machine gun” AUNTIE FA

AFP News Agency

@AFP

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Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered "Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard" at a member of a far-right group

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I AM SICK OF CHRISTIANS ARGUING WITH ME ABOUT WHAT DOES AND DOES NOT PERPETUATE ANTISEMITISM Listen to impacted people when they tell you they are being harmed. LISTEN TO IMPACTED PEOPLE WHEN THEY TELL YOU THEY ARE BEING HARMED.

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I see this as a gesture of love and trying to protect Clemmons and his livelihood, and role on the show. And of course that came with a price. But he didn't ask Clemmons to deny his gayness, just not to get "caught" publicly, as that ruined many a career (outside kids' TV!) then.

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Instead of using slang for people who passed the law in Texas that refers to Muslim fundamentalists,this implying that extremism is somehow Islamic, foreign, “other,” (stoking Islamophobia!) reckon with the fact that these are Christians. 1/x

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He sounds just like he does on the TV show, right? No major difference in how he is speaking to adults and children, as a TV star or honored keynoter. Because he was fully integrated, the same guy everywhere he was. There are no sides. There is just him. Heneini. Here I am.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@TheRaDR

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It should also be noted that Francois Clemmons was gay. Rev. Rogers told him to stay away from gay bars at the time (late 60s/early 70s) because he knew that if that got out, he wouldn't be able to stay on a children's TV show. It seems homophobic now but times were different.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Stop talking about “electability” and start talking about organizing. Hillary Clinton had 537 field offices. Obama—considered way less electable than McCain!!—had 947 field offices in 2008, and 789 in 2012. It’s about having an impeccable ground game. That’s the work.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@TheRaDR

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I get the strong desire to return to normal life now. I, too, want so badly to go out and do something fun & normal. But every spiritual tradition teaches about mastering desire for a reason. What you want & what you need—or others need of you—aren’t always the same thing. 1/x

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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"You shall not hold the payment of a worker overnight until the morning." Leviticus 19:13. "On his day [of work] you should give his wages, the sun should not set on it, because he is a poor man and his life depends on it…" Deuteronomy 24:15 #EndTheShutdown

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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THEY ONLY TOOK THESE CHILDREN TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE LAWYERS MADE THEM HOW MANY OTHER CHILDREN HAVE THERE BEEN AND WHAT HAPPENED IN CASES WHEN LAWYERS DIDN’T COME

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@TheRaDR

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The implications of Rev. Rogers teachings on our society are truly radical. The things he offered to children--to people--were radical for our society. Radical activism looks like a lot of things. Find your way to make the world more whole and more just. And say: Heneni.

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