loraineenlow 🟦

Doctoral student in medieval biblical interpretation at @JTSVoice; Admissions officer at @YaleISM.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

The thing about leopards is eventually they will eat you too.

Your favorite local restaurant closing because the nice family who owns it getting deported. You thought they were some of the “good ones.” The price of produce skyrocketing even before the camps are built as immigrants flee. Your daughter dying of sepsis because the lawyers feel it’s too risky to perform that D&C.

No more FAFSA for your kids college because you didn’t know that was part of the Department of Education. Veterans having their benefits cut because they rolled back the PACT Act as too expensive. That factory in town that was going to build chips and employ your kids never breaking ground because of the repeal of the CHIPs act. The bridge that was going to cut your commute in half being canceled because of the repeal of the Infrastructure Act.

That sweet government job that you’ve loved because you can work 8 hours a day and fish on the weekends has been slated for a MAGA Schedule F slot because it controls funding for contracts that will go to Republican donors, so you’re fired without cause or any union protections.

You’ll blame Biden or the local Democrats probably. But it will be fine because Elon promised it would be uncomfortable at first but it will get better. You were just so sure it would be uncomfortable for…you know…”those people.” Not you.

But that’s leopards for you. They eat whatever is available.

[Rabbi Shai Held @HeldShai]

Friends,
Let's grieve all we need. Grieve for this country and what we thought it stood for; grieve for humanity and how easily seduced we are by bigotry, xenophobia, and a hunger to hurt; grieve for God, in whose very Name so many have embraced depravity.
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[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@laRealMaquina @AdinHaykin1 @CanfieldKenny Underrated comment!

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@graphemeist @tatmia1 @VeryBadLlama If you're in the New England region, I have a free treadle machine that was completely serviced by a great local guy last year. (I've gotten a second one since and can let it go to a good home- just not to anyone planning to junk it for the case!)

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

And they have their claws out.

[Max Weiss @maxthegirl]

I want to make something clear. When you suggest that childless people have no "stakes" in the future of this country, you are telling on yourself. Some people have the ability to care about things that don't affect them directly. I know this a hard concept for some on the right.

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@moregreyham I thought I was the last dinosaur! I know how to use Zotero but it's just not how I work... I keep going back and forth about making the switch.

[Thijs Porck @thijsporck]

Very excited to announce the discovery of Old English fragments inside a series of book bindings! They come from an 11th-c. Latin psalter with Old English glosses and this psalter comes with a fascinating potential backstory involving a refugee English princess! 🧵

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@megan_stolz @mattjwarner Gen X, and this so much. On the phone, it’s easy to single space. At a keyboard, forget it 😭

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

::swoon::

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

Thrilled to be joining the amazing team ⁦@yaleism⁩! https://t.co/7Z6mzoKMDY

[Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies @OCHJSnews]

Another fascinating article on 'The Bookshelf' today: this one, 'In a Money Lender’s Shop in Late Medieval Poland', written by our President, Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger! https://t.co/kM0HV8f9dT #JudeoPolish #RareJewishLanguages #JewishLanguages #OSRJL #JewishStudies

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@AdamCSharp It’s all just Stalin for time…

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Roses are redde
Elegant are manatees
To ymagine a bettir and more just future
We neede the arts and humanityes

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@gbosslet I prefer my middle name. Every time we moved I’d introduce myself by it and it worked for a few weeks until parent conferences, when my parents would say “no, she’s Loraine, not Elizabeth” and I’d be trapped. I’ve always used any name a child tells me in class without question!

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@DactF Thanks! Good stuff!

[loraineenlow 🟦 @loraineenlow]

@InnocentOP @IMC_Leeds @brunellus @CarmeliteSpirit @RoFrie11 Can’t wait, Fr! See you soon!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We need to get over this idea that the highest good is endless economic growth and maximizing profit for shareholders. Some things are worth doing, worth preserving, because they’re beautiful and good. “Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”