Rachel L

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Public interest lawyer, mom, wife, and proud Jew. Views are my own.

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It's nice that when Trump showed up to the emergency room bleeding, he didn't have to wait until he went septic to get care.

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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground

"Veterinary prices have soared more than 60% over the past decade, according to federal stats. Private equity firms and large corps have bought 100s of facilities around the country, an acquisition spree reminiscent of the corporate roll-ups of doctors’ offices." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/h...

Why You’re Paying Your Veterinarian So Muchwww.nytimes.com People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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Please read this story about the clinic where I spend my Saturday mornings defending and escorting. www.thecut.com/article/an-a...

78 Patients and 10 Hours at a Southern Abortion Clinicwww.thecut.com “There’s a zombie-apocalypse mind-set in this building: We are going to survive.”

It's pretty rich for McConnell to complain about "unfit nominations to the federal bench.” The ABA rated Judge Kasubhai well qualified. Unlike, for example, the parade of unqualified Judges he pushed through under TFG. #hypocrite thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Schumer forced to pull vote on judicial nomineethehill.com Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday pulled a planned vote on Mustafa Kasubhai’s nomination to be a district court judge in Oregon. Republicans had lined up in opposition t…

Bloody fucking hell, will this guy ever face consequences? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Judge in Trump's hush money case raises questions about social media post claiming to preview jury verdictwww.nbcnews.com Judge Juan Merchan asked prosecutors and Trump's defense team about a Facebook post that appeared to preview the outcome of the former president's hush money trial.

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AP investigative report on the civilian death toll in Gaza.

Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis findsapnews.com The trend is significant because the death rate for women and children is the best available proxy for civilian casualties.

Apparently there is a growing community of American ex-pats living in Russia, spreading disinformation and Russian propaganda. And MAGAs like MTG are repeating them. People need to know to be on the lookout for this stuff. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Russian disinformation sites linked to former Florida deputy sheriff, research findswww.nbcnews.com A new report from a media watchdog connects John Mark Dougan, who now lives in Russia, to scores of fake news sites.

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Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

Today justice won

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The Drexel encampment has gone full antisemite by demanding political tests for Jewish groups on campus.

I'm a little offended that the protesters brought bagels with them as snacks... www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/u...

Protesters Take Over the Institute of Politics at University of Chicagowww.nytimes.com They confronted the institute’s director, the former senator Heidi Heitkamp. At the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrators also tried to occupy a building.

OK I know this wouldn't happen, but could House Dems make a motion to vacate the chair, pass the motion, and elect Hakeem Jeffries before these yahoos get back? 'Cause that would be awesome. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/n...

Republicans Flock to Trump’s Trial, Risking Control of the House Floorwww.nytimes.com On Thursday, an entourage of about 20 accompanied the former president to court. Among them were many lawmakers.

Oh @podsaveamerica.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social Saying aipac owns Congress is antisemitic. It's using a classic antisemitic trope. It's not what we should want in PSA meetings. I say this as a proud friend of the pod and donor.

In the spirit of you’ve got to call out antisemitism when it comes from your side too…this is antisemetic AF.

I kind of think this is the perfect tone for everyone involved. Like someone said in the comments to it, I'm a little confused by the reasonableness.

Between reports of Trump in court and the "Floor Acton Response Team" the news is filled with a lot more fart jokes than usual.

I love the part of the day when dinner is cooking in the instant pot, so I can sit and relax but I'm still being productive.

Why do news outlets keep breathlessly reporting that "not a single juror was chosen" yesterday as if that's some big deal? It's not like they all got excused, it's just a slow process, especially with a high profile defendant

Can we call him Sleepy Don?

I'll raise you:

Guess they gave Trump some downers so he could sit quietly www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04...

Update from Maggie Habermanwww.nytimes.com

This is one of the best explanations of how campus antisemitism is treated differently on so many college campuses, from a non Jewish UC Regent. It helped me process a lot. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘The Antisemitism Is Absolutely Disproportionate’www.politico.com “The students overstepped the line,” says UC Regent John Pérez.

Professor Schraub articulates some important points about this incident, including the absolute chutzpah of a law student lecturing Erwin Chemerinsky on the 1st amendment.

Some assorted thoughts on the Chemerinsky incident at Berkeley. As a Jewish con law professor who writes on antisemitism, has liberal but not anti-Zionist views on Israel, and loves to host students at my house for celebratory dinners, this incident obviously hits close to home.

Assorted Thoughts on the Chemerinsky Incidentdsadevil.blogspot.com If you

1 100% support people's right to protest Israeli or US policy re Gaza. Every major city has an Israeli consulate- protest there so the government hears you. Go to your Congress member's office to protest foreign aid to Israel./1

Wow. I make a light-hearted joke to deflect the horror of this person's antisemitism and boy do they up the ante by calling me subhuman. Nobody is subhuman, and this person should know better and be ashamed. Very sad they had to use this rhetoric. Wow.

Does this count as one box or 3 on my antisemitism bingo card?

Chem was my con law prof in law school. It breaks my heart to see this good-hearted, brilliant, progressive leader targeted. And to what end? He has no power over the Israeli gvmt. They targeted him with an antisemitic trope for no reason other than he is Jewish. www.law.berkeley.edu/article/stat...

Statement from Dean Erwin Chemerinskywww.law.berkeley.edu April 10, 2024 I write this with profound sadness. Since I became a dean, my wife and I have invited the first-year students to our home for dinner. We were asked this year by the presidents of the th...

1. Inflation Reduction Act, the greatest climate funding in history. www.epi.org/blog/the-inf... 2. Complete revamping of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which prior to the Biden administration had approved only 7000 applications; now more than 871,000 www.cnbc.com/2024/03/21/p...

The Inflation Reduction Act finally gave the U.S. a real climate change policywww.epi.org The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. It is widely seen as the crown jewel of the “industrial policy” agenda of the Biden administration. While no piece of legisl...

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There’s so much pain in the world now. But let’s hold on to this for some light: This is the first time EVER that it is Purim, Ramadan & Palm Sunday all at the same time. 🌙 Ramadan Kareem, 🌴 Palm Sunday blessings, & 🎉 Purim Sameach, all. ♥️ Thx to erev rav Talia Kaplan for pointing this out.

Thank you Rabbi Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social for your excellent piece "A Defense of Delilah" www.lifeisasacredtext.com/delilah/ I taught the story of Samson to our shul's teens tonight and we read the article and they were all fascinated. Really great read. Highly recommend

A Defense of Delilahwww.lifeisasacredtext.com Let's take a closer look at things from her perspective, shall we?

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I’ve become more convinced that a reason people become demented around Jews and our relationship to Israel is that they think Jews in America completely control American support for Israel, and thus we deserve extra pressure and scrutiny. It’s a combo of dual loyalty and controlling govt tropes.

According to Bluesky I am both a genocidal zionist monster as well as an anti-zionist self-hating fake Jew and I think this both highlights how difficult it is to be Jewish and also how unserious people on the internet are.

The fact that these two posts were together in my feed entertained me greatly