Wendy Gordon
@wendytgordon.bsky.social
Researcher, Professor, Michigan Fan
Let this serve as a reminder to my husband.
Feeling very vindicated as someone who thinks cozy socks are an excellent gift! "I'll go further than that: Socks are a borderline ideal gift. Practical. Affordable. Easily reflective of the recipient's personality. As of today, this is a pro-sock and a pro-sock-as-gift newsletter."
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Let this serve as a reminder to my husband.
Were there no turkeys at the Capitol Building during the Jan. 6th attack?
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Were there no turkeys at the Capitol Building during the Jan. 6th attack?
Hear me out. Trump Gelt. Yellow tin foil wrapping with a cheap, tasteless chocolate coin inside. White chocolate, not milk chocolate, for obvious reasons. Perfect for the Jewish kid who, let's be honest, isn't your favorite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hear me out. Trump Gelt. Yellow tin foil wrapping with a cheap, tasteless chocolate coin inside. White chocolate, not milk chocolate, for obvious reasons. Perfect for the Jewish kid who, let's be honest, isn't your favorite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
This is stunning.
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is stunning.
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Study presidential communication they said...
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Study presidential communication they said...
I appreciate this man's efforts to promote my job security.
It has become staggeringly clear that we need to make statistics required education
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I appreciate this man's efforts to promote my job security.
Mothers of young children: I hope I didn't do something wrong taking this totally safe otc medicine while pregnant.
Mothers of adolescents: They're just lucky I haven't killed them with my bare hands.
Mothers of adolescents: They're just lucky I haven't killed them with my bare hands.
September 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Mothers of young children: I hope I didn't do something wrong taking this totally safe otc medicine while pregnant.
Mothers of adolescents: They're just lucky I haven't killed them with my bare hands.
Mothers of adolescents: They're just lucky I haven't killed them with my bare hands.
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A perfect farewell for one of the greats.
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A perfect farewell for one of the greats.
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An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
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C’mon brain worm, your time to shine!
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
C’mon brain worm, your time to shine!
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🧵GAZA
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
Jews for Food Aid for Gaza
Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza
www.foodaidforgaza.org
June 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🧵GAZA
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
I desperately worry that the growing grumblings I hear from American Jewish instiutions will be too little too late. Maybe they already are.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
(My thoughts in the Forward about why anyone who cares about Israel or the Jewish people should be speaking out on Gaza)
(My thoughts in the Forward about why anyone who cares about Israel or the Jewish people should be speaking out on Gaza)
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I desperately worry that the growing grumblings I hear from American Jewish instiutions will be too little too late. Maybe they already are.
Has she even ever been inside an opera house?
July 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Has she even ever been inside an opera house?
How does this work? If I put up a pride flag, does another one of Trump's artieries get blocked? Asking for a friend.
July 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
How does this work? If I put up a pride flag, does another one of Trump's artieries get blocked? Asking for a friend.
My husband and I watched this about a week ago, and every day since the line "that sex could have been an email" has popped into my mind and made me laugh.
My husband has not been appreciative of this little factoid, but I do recommend Josh Gondelman's comedy special.
My husband has not been appreciative of this little factoid, but I do recommend Josh Gondelman's comedy special.
My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My husband and I watched this about a week ago, and every day since the line "that sex could have been an email" has popped into my mind and made me laugh.
My husband has not been appreciative of this little factoid, but I do recommend Josh Gondelman's comedy special.
My husband has not been appreciative of this little factoid, but I do recommend Josh Gondelman's comedy special.
Last week, I was worried about what AI was doing to my students' education. This week, I am worried what the department of defense is going to do with AI that wants my people externminated.
"That escalated quickly" doesn't begin to cover it.
"That escalated quickly" doesn't begin to cover it.
The U.S. Department of Defense will begin using Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk’s start-up xAI that came under fire just last week after launching into an antisemitic rant and invoking Adolf Hitler.
Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk’s controversial AI Model
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up said its models are now available to federal agencies.
wapo.st
July 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Last week, I was worried about what AI was doing to my students' education. This week, I am worried what the department of defense is going to do with AI that wants my people externminated.
"That escalated quickly" doesn't begin to cover it.
"That escalated quickly" doesn't begin to cover it.
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Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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This is one of those examples where, if the flood hadn’t happened and a camp director was telling you about this story it would be a perfect example of red tape, bureaucracy, the hassle of regulation etc. And yet.
apnews.com/article/texa...
apnews.com/article/texa...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...
apnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is one of those examples where, if the flood hadn’t happened and a camp director was telling you about this story it would be a perfect example of red tape, bureaucracy, the hassle of regulation etc. And yet.
apnews.com/article/texa...
apnews.com/article/texa...
He is fascinated by the word "groceries," but "shylock" he uses with ease although also claims to be ignorant that it is antisemitic. There is a lot to unpack here.
Bullshit.
His age, growing up in NY, he knew.
President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.
apnews.com/article/trum...
His age, growing up in NY, he knew.
President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he didn't know an offensive term he used in a speech is considered antisemitic
President Donald Trump says he didn’t know that the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.
apnews.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
He is fascinated by the word "groceries," but "shylock" he uses with ease although also claims to be ignorant that it is antisemitic. There is a lot to unpack here.
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i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
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June 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello
theonion.com/yo-yo-m...
theonion.com/yo-yo-m...
June 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello
theonion.com/yo-yo-m...
theonion.com/yo-yo-m...
AI, create an image of what my therapist pictures as I talk about my childhood traumas.
June 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
AI, create an image of what my therapist pictures as I talk about my childhood traumas.