Kaye

Molly Steinsapir Foundation founder. The Obliterated Place podcast. Transforming Pain Into Purpose on Substack. FB, Threads & IG: @kayesteinsapir #TEAMMOLLY

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

It’s good to be at our home away from home on the Big Island, sharing it with friends. Molly is never far from my thoughts. The time we spent in Hawaii throughout her childhood. How she loved the beach. And hated coconut. How she pulled away when I smothered her in a thick layer of sunscreen. The time I’m thinking about was less than a month before she died. We saw green sea turtles that day. I bobbed in the waves with my 3 babies. I revisit that moment when I close my eyes at night - when we were whole and had no idea how little time we all had together.

When I’m in the ocean and everything goes silent, my grief roars. I’m afraid I’ll sob into my snorkel mask and won’t stop. I consider how easy it would be to slip away into the sea. Would I see my girl on the other side? Is she that close, just outside my reach? I’d never act on these fleeting thoughts. I don’t know a grieving parent who doesn’t have them. It’s the new normal after your child dies. We straddle this world and the next.

Cancer brutalized me but I survived. Some of my dear friends did not. They were mothers who desperately wanted to live. Who did everything they could and then some. I often think about Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay. How she saw her babies’ faces on the backs of her eyelids. I see Molly that way. How I hunger for her. Julie Yip-Williams, who wrote “The Unwinding Of The Miracle,” before dying of cancer at 42 (read this book!). Julie sucked the marrow out of her life, savoring every last drop. Cristina Ulbrich, who crossed over just last week. She was 48, a year younger than me, with 3 children. The list is far too long.

I will not go gently into that good night. I will live, love (and yes, fucking rage) against the dying of the light. #TEAMMOLLY

[Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky]

Let's repeat it for the media in the back: the *real* Democratic base are Black women and they are generally not here for your leftist shit.

[Doug Stewart @dstewart414]

Tony Evers is low key the Nancy Pelosi of Wisconsin politics. Fucking legend.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

I’ve done the same stories for 16 years, but this is the first election I’ve been accused of working for Mossad or being and Israeli agent

[Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash]

Bringing this back to the timeline.

[Tony Evers @Tony4WI]

Tonight's all about @DavidCCrowley. He's earned this win and the accolades.

I am so proud of David—he's the future of our Party, and I can't wait for him to be our next governor.

For now, we polka. Tomorrow, we're back at work to win.

@TomTiffanyWI, we'll see you in November.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

@Tony4WI knows what’s on “the Twitter” is not real life nor reflective of regular people’s concerns. Hats off to you, sir 🫡 ! Congratulations, @DavidCrowleyWI!!

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

"She was talking about Thanksgiving ... c'mon."

Gov. Tony Evers (who endorsed David Crowley) on if he thinks Francesca Hong can beat Tom Tiffany if she wins the primary Tue: "I think she's in a tough place. She has spent her entire campaign dealing with...what's on Twitter."

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

@BillKristol @ckkoch3 More of this please.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Lessons from David Crowley in Wisconsin and Luke Bronin in Connecticut.

"So it turns out you can be a centrist and for change. You can be a moderate and a fighter. You can be competent and combative. Not a bad model for other Democrats."

https://t.co/cBjqWwCOE4

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

An amazing letter

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

Feeling schadenfreude over Mike the Pillow Man’s humiliating defeat so I had to revisit this epic @SpeakerPelosi moment 😅.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

I am SO here for this 😂😂😂. Thanks for making my Friday, @SpeakerPelosi. I am never going to tire of watching it.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

This is how insane this AIPAC money attack is. AIPAC did not spend in this race!

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

This guy was Hong’s biggest surrogate. As I have said, campaigning with Piker is a death trap - possibly in a primary but certainly in the general election.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

@jacksonsprhero @JTessandor56099 Happy 12th birthday, Jackson! Hope you have an awesome year!

[Todd Richman @toddrichman]

A total hit piece on @Israel and NYC’s Israeli restaurant scene. It’s shocking how far @NYMag has fallen.

@madelesq’s article is so one-sided that it barely resembles journalism. Israeli restaurants and their owners are portrayed through the narrowest possible lens, while “genocide” is repeated again and again without meaningful context.

Meanwhile, some important facts get little or no attention: Gaza’s population has grown substantially since 2005; recent UN data show significant improvements in food security and child nutrition; and Israel, working with international partners, helped facilitate vaccination campaigns that reached roughly 603,000 Gazan children with polio vaccine.

And let’s talk about the food: NYC’s Israeli restaurant scene is extraordinary and arguably second only to @TelAviv itself.

@NYMag should be celebrating the diversity, creativity and success of this scene, not turning it into a political hit job.

Words matter. Journalism matters. And when Jewish and Israeli people are repeatedly portrayed through such a one-sided lens, it has real-world consequences in a city already struggling with rising antisemitism.

Celebrate all Middle Eastern restaurants, celebrate our City’s unique diversity, but don’t make it an unsafe place for Jews and Israelis. Do better, @NYMag.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

@cwebbonline @CatherineM0yim Thank you.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Like it or not, and clearly many don’t, Black voters and Jewish voters are two of the most consistent and loyal voting blocs in the Democratic Party.

Yet somehow, both are constant targets of the far left and even moderates trying to play to the right.

That’s pretty damn shitty.

[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

@tbonier @Kathlee71013772 Amen!

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

It��s weird how the primary polls are massively skewed one way: to the left.

Why is that?

[Mary Peltola @MaryPeltola]

We are going to win.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971- a real one this time- was brought to an end by an Indian army led by a Jewish commanding general.