Ah, I voluntarily stepped down in 2016, so sorry that happened to you.

I have plenty of outrage at antisemites yelling for Jews to go back to Poland. I also have outrage at the continued conflation of those agitators outside the university with the students who have been mostly peacefully protesting. It's important to differentiate these two groups because one assumes guilt for all protesters and the other allows that Columbia can't control what happens off-campus, even if "off-campus" is on an adjacent sidewalk. That's just the other side of the bigotry coin from the Nazi playbook. No shades of grey, blind adherance to some reports (from outside the campus community, aka, news organizations), ignoring what most people on the ground are saying. You don't want all Jews lumped together as the Nazi's did, but you do want all Jews and their allies to lump all Palestinians and Palistinian supporters as terrorists. How is that a liberal position?

I tried at 30 and my female doctor said no.

I knew I didn’t want children when I got pregnant at 17 but was talked into having my son. I love him to pieces but it’s been rough on both of us because I’m not exactly the most maternal person in the world. I knew I definitely didn’t want more kids. Doc refused, saying something akin to, “What if something happens to your son?” I still can’t quite believe she was basically denying my request because I might need to replace my child some day.

Fact, well-established before Oct. 7th, 2023.

Yeah, when I hear "liberals" saying they won't support Biden because of Palestine, I think:

You don't actually give a shit about women's bodily autonomy, you're fine with outlawing abortion and birth control, you're fine with women and doctors being arrested for even talking about abortions and birth control.

You're fine with giving all the oil companies free reign on the National Parks and every polluting industry getting complete immunity to trash our planet with impunity.

You think it's okay for LGBTQ and BIPOC people to live in constant fear of their lives, and to roll back their rights 100 years.

You don't believe Russia is controlling the Republican Party, adn even if they are, you're not bothered by that.

All because Biden hasn't waved a wand and magically brought peace to the MIddle East. You care more about Palestinians than you care about your fellow countrymen. Because there is no way in hell we can be expected to clean up the rest of the world's messes until we get our own house in order. WTAF are they thinking?!

Everyone remembers Adam's rib

and not the earlier passage in Genesis explicitly stating God created men and women, simultaneously, both in God’s image.

The military is, in part, filled with MAGA.

Fox Noise is played on every base in common areas, not to mention the large numbers of poor rural kids who grew up MAGA and joined the military because it seems like a good way out of poverty, or maybe it’s just a family tradition of military service. Whatever. We know and learn of active military involved in J6 and racist attacks. It’s a thing. I’m fairly certain most military leaders are not TSF fans but the Confederate Army was part of the Union Army before the left the Union. It could turn into SSDD.

My seminary had a book on Christian history bound in a Lenape man's skin.

They have also been looking for ways to confront this item and its history with respect, transparency, and in cooperation with Native American leaders (including my professor there, Dr. "Tink" Tinkham, Osage). It's difficult to know what do do with these artifacts in a way that acknowledges the generational trauma done by the settlers.

Here's a link to to the work they did on this in 2022: https://www.iliff.edu/lenape/
Here's a link to a Colorado Public Television program on the book and Iliff's contemporary struggle to acknowledge harm and move forward in good faith cooperation:

"First, do no harm..."

"to zygotes. Women, we can harm them both physically and psychologically by forcing them to carry dead fetuses to term or death. Because even though Jesus never said shit about abortions, he 100% would be down with letting women die because you sit in judgement of them. What's that you say? Those without sin should cast the first stone? Doesn't apply to me and my hypocratic (hipocritical?) oath."

As long as they vote for Joe, who cares if they think he's too old?

It will be his last term regardless.

Also, what is it about his age that bothers them? Is it that he might croak in office and Kamala will take his place? Because I don't see what the problem is. We have a system to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in case of presidential death (which can come at any time, for any president, like, JFK - 46 when killed - or Lincoln, who was 56). People say Biden's too old, but what they really mean, consciously or unconciously, is that they don't believe Kamala (a woman of color) is qualified to lead the nation.

This is a fantastic post.

I think the reason white people aren't mentioned are myriad, including: white people still run things, including determining history curriculum; the unnamed and unremembered masses who worked to uphold the system (and still do); and most importantly, Black History Month was created to by Blacks to celebrate and educate themselves and their children about the amazing contributions of Black folk in spite of the white systemic racism and incredible cruelty. It became institutionalized as a way to force white people to acknowledge that Black History is human history (and US history), Black culture inspires and advances US and global contemporary culture, and to normalize Blackness in white spaces. (This last bit may be skewed by my perspective as a white librarian.)

I would also like to note that the few white people who did work for Civil Rights are also under-represented in history books (which is probably fine by them as they worked to uphold Black lives, and didn't want the work to be about themselves). I'm not talking about the Clintons, whose record is a mixed bag, or any number of other white posturing politicians. I'm talking about white people like Anne and Carl Braden, Howard Zinn, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Mary White Ovington, James Reeb, and Jane Addams. Because white people need role models in how to be helpful and useful allies.