Not an important person. Writer, Psychologist, Mother. Now at Harvard. Opinions my own & I might change them. You defend terrorism=I block you #IStandWithIsrael
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Link to full @chq talk in @HabitsFreeMind post below. Here’s a preview. 😉
How can insights about happy marriages help us repair our democracy? @PamelaParesky’s Chautauqua Lecture is no longer exclusively for Chautauquans. You can watch the talk — and play the curiosity game that the audience played live.
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This would be funny except that if you think about it, the likelihood of furniture being stolen from an airport is extremely low. So that’s probably not why it’s bolted down. The truth might be much darker.
The furniture is bolted down in the San Francisco airport. 🇺🇸
I’ll be speaking at Berkeley tomorrow with @RobSchneider and @andrewdoyle_com!
A New Treatment for Childhood Anxiety that works more quickly and as effectively as CBT! Read about psychologist @DrCamiloOrtiz’s Independence Therapy in @PsychToday
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“According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), among U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 17 surveyed between 2021 and 2023, 20% reported symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks, and 18% reported symptoms of depression.” Now @DrCamiloOrtiz has created a treatment that works! 🧵
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"Their list of demands is just Jews. It's just Israel. Their obsession is real and insane."
@BenShapiro perfectly sums up the DSA's newly leaked demands for Zohran Mamdani, proving it was never about NYC in the first place.
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Antisemitism has been on the rise in the United States and around the world, especially since the October 7th attack on Israel and the ensuing war on Gaza. I talked about antisemitism (and how to combat it) with CNN anchor @biannagolodryga and Israeli journalist @LeviYonit. It's the subject of their new fiction book for middle schoolers, "Don't Feed the Lion."
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"the partnership [Israel-U.S.] delivers an estimated $48 billion in annual benefits to the United States—nearly 15 times the value of the roughly $3.3 billion in U.S. security assistance has appropriated for Israel each year." @FederalNewswire r/t @moymiz thefederalnewswire.com/stori…
Amen
On August 1, 2014, two hours after Hamas and Israel agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire, Hamas terrorists murdered 23-year-old Lt. Hadar Goldin and took his body hostage.
For 4,118 days, Hadar's parents have fought to bring their son home. Finally, over 11 years later, Hadar will be buried in the land he died defending.
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You are absolutely entitled to hold the view that Israel has no right to exist.
Understand, though, that 85% of both Jews and non-Jews believe that that makes you an antisemite.
The data doesn't lie. Denying Israel's right to exist is antisemitic.
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Dave Portnoy says “there’s a definitive shift,” a significant increase in antisemitism he has faced in recent months. “It’s every day now.”
A long journey finally concluding. May his memory be a blessing and may @TzurGoldin and the rest of the family be comforted amongst the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
So much of our speech is indirect and we don’t even realize it. When we don’t share the same implicit meanings, it can cause hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and worse.
Indirect speech is cultural. It differs across regions and even families. I remember overhearing a a friend (same background as me) and his father on the phone. When he hung up, he turned to me and said, “Wow. He’s really mad.” I was mystified. He didn’t sound at all mad to me.
"So what innuendo, euphemism, and indirect speech acts do is prevent the proposition from becoming common knowledge. That is, let’s say he said, “Do you want to come up for Netflix and chill?” She says no. She’s a grown-up; she knows this was a sexual invitation. And he’s a grown-up; he knows it too. But does he know that she knows that he knows it? He can still think, “Well, maybe she thinks I’m dense. Maybe she thinks I don’t know that she knowingly turned down a sexual invitation.” And as far as she’s concerned, he might think she just didn’t want to stay out late. And she could think, “Well, maybe he thinks I’m naïve. Maybe he thinks I just didn’t want to be out late, and he might think I’m just turning down an invitation for Netflix.”
Without the common knowledge—the “he knows that I know that he knows that I know”—they can maintain the fiction of a purely platonic friendship without sacrificing their claim to rationality and sanity. If it had been blurted out, “Hey, do you want to have sex?” and she were to say no, then they couldn’t maintain the fiction of a purely platonic friendship, or of colleagues at work, or, even more dangerously, a supervisor and supervisee. And so we use indirect speech, I argue, to keep things out of common knowledge—out of relationship-threatening common knowledge."
Clip on innuendo and common knowledge, the topic of my new book, from an interview with Robert Contofalsky (@CR_Scholar) of R-Academy.
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life: bit.ly/3SMQ11N
Wow. @KTaylorRobson will be a fantastic governor — one who will protect Jews & other minorities AND free speech!
The blatant antisemitism and praise for Hamas from some University of Arizona faculty are horrific but not surprising. Higher education has been infiltrated by too many radical Marxists who are indoctrinating our kids.
When I’m Governor, there will be zero tolerance for behavior that foments hatred and violence. We must reform higher education, promote civil discourse, protect Jewish students, and hold professors accountable.
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