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Baby Boy Monaghan

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Arts editor for MPR as Max Sparber. Award-winning cultural critic & Jewish Studies writer. 3X illegitimate. He/him.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 14h

Me: (screaming at a clerk) REBATE ME, BRO

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 14h

They did not, and they spoke Judeo-Arabic

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

I swear to god I saw something in this image that I was mistaken about

William in Nevada @william-in-nv.bsky.social · 15h

If you're looking for a costume for No Kings Day on October 14th, might I recommend...

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The famous frog costume from Portland Oregon. Guaranteed to strike fear in the heart of cowardly ICE agents.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

They even sell a baby onesie:

russanddaughters.goldbelly.com/chubs-baby-o...

CHUBS Baby Onesie

Russ & Daughters' smallest and newest (and cutest) fans can wear a bit of history with Russ & Daughters Baby Onesies. These onesie feature the famous lightbox shelf sign for CHUBS -- just like the on...

russanddaughters.goldbelly.com

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve learned a lot about these guys opinions about various ethnicities in the past 30 minutes

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

Not everybody behind you on the bus sitting behind you are the worst people on earth, but if you can hear them screaming politics over you earbuds, they always are

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a vase!

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

It‘s not scientific but I find it charming

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

The rabbis seem to think there is a dome (maybe ice?) over the earth with pinpricks through it, and light shines through from the other side.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Bialys are superior. Bagels are too much bread.

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Here's more:

judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/68...

What Was The Source Of The Primordial Light On The First Day Of Creation

It says on the first day of creation in Genesis that there was light. On the fourth day of creation, the sun was created. So what was the source of the primordial light on the first day of creation?

judaism.stackexchange.com

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Do you know that there is supposed to be a secret light of creation that God hid away from us and will break out when the Messiah comes!

Why? Who knows? He just does things like that!

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

What are they, bialys?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Me: (To the Buddha) Can you make me one with light shmear?

Buddha: The joke is one with everything.

Me: With my stomach?

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I'm going to watch Airport 1979 but have found the previous 1,978 films in the series to be so-so

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I'll never find naming a monkey Link unfunny

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Mediocre colognes fail at one or the other

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

The weird thing about good cologne is that you can still smell it 12 hours later and still like it

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I'm getting the sense that New York Jews are bagel cautious

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I eat my bagels like I put on my pants, confused and in a deli

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I refuse to call someone Bad Bunny.

-- Baby Boy Monaghan

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Since Sinai

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Oh man the Yellowstone woman

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

I'll tell you, argumentative, trolling social media for antisemites, maybe don't believe in God?

You're pretty much there, the rest is commentary

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Abby: I am a man (58) with a dog (10); I worry about our age difference and also that he might bite me.

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