Geron Gadd

Advocate for People with Disabilities • Love Theology, Growing Tomatoes, and SEC Football • Tweets Mine Alone

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

Oseola McCarty is a heroine. Her life reminds me that daily choices can have an enormous impact on others. From Hattiesburg, MS, Ms. McCarty left $150K so that those behind her could pursue educational opportunities not available to her. How? Laundry. https://t.co/MRk2jNabR9

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

First current political candidate suggests concentration camps for American Jews.

This should be national news!

National Democratic leaders must call this out immediately

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@molcranenewman @sandibachom @NYCMayorsOffice This is outrageous. This was a person, with a family.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@lyndonbajohnson A lot of great folks on both sides in 90s Plano. I moved there just days before high school, which wasn’t easy, but it was a good experience. Like much of the south, Texas was very different in those years.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@RandyEBarnett They certainly do. I still carry important lessons from your contracts course in 2002.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

One of the things I cherish about creating content on social media is crossing paths with people on their journeys and in some tiny way becoming part of their story. I’ve always liked “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” But that's just a start. It's more than that. Every person is the protagonist of an intricate, heroic, wondrous story you can’t fully grasp. A soul on a journey that only they and Hashem will ever truly know.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@ChaosLensX @Mazelit_ What kind of response is this? Is it impossible to grieve the injury of Palestinians and Israelis? If not, there’s something seriously wrong.

[Simone Rodan-Benzaquen @srodan]

There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently.
When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies.
Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France.
The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it.
Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined.
And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country.
Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews.
Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@BenjaminBadejo I don’t know that this is true anymore, but that’s hardly a reason not to be both as often as possible.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

It’s time to get serious about the casual antisemitism proliferating in public life. Double standards are problematic no matter who employs them.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

Shannon and I used to follow each other. We both care deeply about gun violence. She posted something about the actions of Israel/Bibi being the cause of the astronomical rise in hate crimes against Jews. When I pointed out the obvious victim blaming and that no other group of people is subjected to this kind of standard (my kid’s best friend is from Russia - nobody is harassing him and his family over Putin), I was floored by Shannon’s reply. I invited her to engage in a good faith dialogue, so I could share my perspective. She doubled down and blocked me. My Jewish friends, Shannon Watts is definitely not our ally.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

This is the original video that @harleyf was referencing in his conversation with @JonahPlatt.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@CrazedCapital @BriannaWu So, ad hominem instead of actual argument. You’re really acquitting your side - no matter what side that is.

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@Miriam2626 Does your desire to win justify becoming the thing you purport to fight?

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@CorieWhalen Both are adorable.

[Corie Whalen @CorieWhalen]

My colleagues @smayranderson & @LiselPetis have a great piece out in the wake of @AGPamBondi’s ouster. They analyze this through the lens of what occurs when institutions—particularly ones that should be neutral arbiters—become politicized/corrupt & lose the public’s trust. 🔗⬇️

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

We are absolutely heartbroken that this is how low Britain has sunk. This horrific act truly plumbs new depths.

Hatzola is a volunteer-run ambulance service run by the Jewish community but catering to everyone, Jews and non-Jews alike, working with the NHS to save lives as fast as possible. They provide outstanding medical care at lightning speed every hour of every day, and fundraise to buy ambulances and equipment. They are truly a shining example of the Jewish community coming together to help everyone in the most fundamental of ways by giving the gift of life.

Burning their ambulances in an attempt to put them out of action is a truly repulsive act of antisemitic hatred in a Britain where Jews now have to keep everything from schools to synagogues under constant guard. Our society has become infested with the sickness of antisemitism.

In this case it is not only about catching the perpetrators and restoring the ambulances, but about politicians accepting that by tolerating everything from hate marches to hate preachers, they have created this sickening mess, and time has run out for them to act. The law must change, fast, but so must society.

The people spewing obsessive conspiracy theories about Jews, Zionists and Israelis are not social justice warriors, they are hateful bigots who are feeding this madness and must be stood up to and told as much by ordinary decent people.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

Thank you @yashar for calling attention to this bizarre claim that Jews/Israelis "worship Baal." As a rabbi, I figured this would be a good opportunity for some basic Baal education. No conspiracies, just facts. 🧵1/9

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

This is happening more than people realize.

A woman fighting breast cancer showed up for surgery today…fresh off of chemo, port in place, nothing to eat or drink, mentally preparing for the thing no one can ever truly be ready for.

And then we canceled.

Not because she didn’t need surgery.
Not because it wasn’t medically necessary.
But because the hospital said they won’t get paid without prior authorization.

This is the system we’ve learned to work inside, one that denies and delays care for administrative reasons. A system where responsibility is spread everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Where having insurance doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the care you need. Where paperwork can matter more than a patient sitting in a hospital bed.

Prior authorization reform may be announced, but on the front lines, it’s not what we’re seeing.

Today, a cancer surgery was canceled because the system is designed to protect payment…not people.

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.

So here it is.

I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.

Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.

70% of the time? They didn't need it.

The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.

I got angry enough to build something about it.

I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."

6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.

I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.

But something shifted.

Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.

If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

https://t.co/cDVdY5mcLv

[Geron Gadd @GeronGadd]

@SenFettermanPA @moulder_heather Sadly, I fear oversimplification and group think will be our collective demise. People once committed to principle (even when inconvenient) now simply want to win. While I understand it, I think very few are well-served by it.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Afghanistan’s education minister has announced that women are permanently banned from schools.

UN Women has not said a word.