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My great uncle was briefly stationed on Greenland while in the US Air Force in the 60s, so there has been at least one other Jew there in the past

I volunteered for her first Senate campaign when I was five years old! (My next door neighbor and babysitter was chair of the county Democratic party and had us help stuff envelopes)

Yeah, he's lucky it wasn't my usual sandwich order of banh mi with extra jalapenos (haven't eaten at Subway since I got food poisoning there in high school)

I got chicken pox as a child the year before the vaccine became widely available and I'm so mad about it.

Everything, untoasted if very fresh, toasted otherwise, whitefish salad, tomato, capers, pickle on the side

"Blessed is the True Judge" would be wonderfully passive aggressive, but only Jews would get it

Ooh, I've been looking for a nice desk organizer for my office!

As a library cataloger, I know from professional listservs that the LC is currently migrating to a new library system software (which has been planned for a long time). It doesn't seem like that should affect this part of the website, but there are a lot of updates happening this week.

Rice also works, if you have the right climate and irrigation

My great-grandfather literally came in under a forged identity to avoid racist laws keeping Turks out (he was Lithuanian, not Turkish, but he was a sailor who somehow ended up with a Turkish passport)

My parents are much less wealthy than Mamdani's (probably about a quarter of their income, though I also grew up in a then much less expensive area and my dad's job with the state government had great benefits)

I've always been grateful that I grew up never having to truly worry about food or housing or healthcare, but still having to consider budgets and learning delayed gratification, and not being insulated from those less well-off

Turning dumpsters into swimming pools

Wow, yes. I was kind of a sheltered kid, and seeing the invasion of Iraq go ahead when I was 14, despite the very obvious lies leading up to it, was my first real visceral understanding that people do not generally make rational decisions

I'm terrified and sobbing intermittently and I don't know exactly what to do, but you know what? Three and four generations ago, my ancestors survived pogroms and famine and brutal repression and my existence is testament to their survival: I'm going to live, and I'm going to keep others alive.

Sure

There are lots of theist Quakers too! Quakerism is much less about what you believe than how you worship and the principles you live by (was raised Quaker, not really active now but still like it)

I was just there last month and I can confirm

We haven't even hit post-work voting yet!

A tweet and response: Tweet: Can anyone explain to this confused Italian living in the US what is up with Philadelphia and Gritty?? Is he their daimon? Response: I believe he's the manifestation of their city as a god, like Roma. At the bottom is a picture of Gritty laying on the ice. looking at the camera.

Seems like a good omen

Yeah

Huh. I got a mailer from a Zionist group supporting Harris, and I just assumed they knew I was Jewish and made some very bad assumptions, but now I wonder

Have a Malke

(Pedantic self-correction: Guido Cavalcanti, son of Cavalcante, was the poet, a one-time friend of Dante, Cavalcante was a philosopher who shows up in the Inferno in the city of the heretics)

It wasn't just Galileo! There was a medieval Florentine poet named Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, it seems to have been a Tuscan thing

Took a quick walk around Center City on my lunch break and about 50% of people were wearing I Voted stickers

A photo from the web version of _Le Monde_, showing two women playing violin and a person in a Gritty mask playing a drum. Caption reads "Des musiciens, dont l'un porte le masque de Gritty, la mascotte de l'équipe de hockey des Flyers de Philadelphie, devant le centre de comptage des votes à Philadelphie, en Pennsylvanie, le 6 novembre. MARK MAKELA/REUTERS"

Four years ago tomorrow, I was playing klezmer music in front of the Philly convention center to entertain the crowds camped out in front of the doors to make sure no one messed with the vote count going on inside (I'm the one in the middle)

Or judicial races, the bane of my existence

But the ballot is extremely short, so it doesn't take much time per voter (there are only about five races)