Naomi Kaufman Price

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@ThymeToBeBorn He’s 11. What does he enjoy? Encourage social skills, things that are fun for him. If he’s bored in school, ask for enhancements.

My son, 11, just scored in the 97th percentile in math for 12th graders and maxed out the language arts portion. What do I do about this? I have a lot of little kids, can't focus on anything with him, live in the middle of nowhere, and can't leave the house.

@PardonMyMess @lydiakauppi Yeah, co-worker died of colon cancer. She needed to lose weight anyway.

There seems to be an implication here that doctors are being judgmental or showing callous disregard when overweight people present with certain symptoms and the doctors dismiss them or wave them off. I'm guessing the truth is that statistically, those symptoms are most often associated with being overweight, and the doctors are responding to statistics.

I lost 75lbs on Zepbound, and it’s true people really don’t talk about the side effects. For instance, now when I bring up a health concern, my doctor orders tests

Nobody disputes that Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen is a skilled and seasoned prosecutor. So it shocked the local Jewish community — even in this era of appalling antizionist bigotry — when Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul effectively decided Thursday that Rosen’s Jewish identity precluded him from fairly prosecuting people who spray-painted “Death to Israel” on a university wall. Paul, shamefully, removed Rosen from the case. In doing so, she applied a racist double standard neither she nor any other judge in the United States would have dared apply to any minority group but the Jewish people. Read the AO7 article here: open.substack.com/pub/kevindeuts…

@DecodingFoxNews Lord save us.

I rebuke these!! REBUKE!!!!

New: Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. propub.li/42PRfyl

“What has shocked me most is not that antisemitism exists...It is that many who can identify almost every other form of racialised hatred become hesitant, evasive or indifferent when it’s directed at Jews.” Human rights lawyer George Newhouse nails today’s warped NGO industry. @amnesty @hrw @MSF theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@skywaker9 Thanks.

@writeo Supposedly police.

Photo of the car inside the Multnomah Athletic Club. Clearly and thankfully most of the propane tanks didn't explode.

Yeah, the total Trump flunky who sucked up to Justice “sources” & just wrote what they said when he “reported” from Portland in 2020. As an @ap vet, I’m ashamed. cc @Tazerface16

US nonprofit hospitals spent $7.8 billion on management consultants from 2009 to 2023, but contracts were not associated with meaningful changes in finance, operations, or quality of care. 🧵 ja.ma/4d46zfq

Is there a correlation between being anti-Jewish and being anti-Israeli? Kaplan & Small (2024) - Oxford Academic / JEEA: The most rigorous causal study to date. Using daily variation across locations, the analysis shows that negative tweets about Jews are highly correlated with negative tweets about Israel. They went beyond correlation by using English Premier League matches against Tottenham (a club historically associated with Jewish fans) as an instrumental variable. Using negative tweets about Tottenham as an instrument for negative chatter about Jews, the IV analysis shows that negative tweets about Jews increase negative expressions about Israel. In a placebo IV analysis, there is no effect of negative tweets about Jews on negative tweets about China. They also analyzed the German General Social Survey and found that adding more and more controls strengthens the estimated effect of antisemitic views on anti-Israel sentiments, which supports a causal interpretation of the findings. ADL Center for Antisemitism Research (2024): A large US national survey found a substantive correlation (0.38) between belief in anti-Jewish tropes and anti-Israel sentiment across all respondents. Older adults have a much higher correlation (0.43) than is found in younger adults (0.28). On specific items: the correlations between the questions about secret manipulation of US policy and Israel's control of the media are 0.49 and 0.45, respectively. Staetsky (2017) - Institute for Jewish Policy Research, UK: For the British case, the correlation between the antisemitic and the anti-Israel index is statistically significant: the Pearson correlation (r) is 0.48; and 23% of variation in the anti-Israel index is explained by variation in the antisemitism index. The same chapter reports in the Norwegian survey, the Pearson correlation of the anti-Israel index and the prejudice against Jews index is smaller (r= 0.31) than in the British study. Cohen, Jussim, Harber & Bhasin (2009) - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: The classic experimental study. Study 1 showed that mortality salience led to greater levels of anti-Semitism and lowered support for Israel. This effect occurred only in a bogus pipeline condition, indicating that social desirability masks hostility toward Jews and Israel. Study 3 showed that mortality salience increased punitiveness toward Israel's human rights violations more than it increased hostility toward the identical human rights violations committed by Russia or India (i.e., the same conduct was judged more harshly when Israel did it.) The correlation is consistently positive and statistically significant across countries depending on which items are used to measure each construct.

On the almost total liquidation of millennia-old Jewish communities across the Arab world: “There is no UN agency for these refugees, no annual day of mourning recognized by the UN General Assembly, no special rapporteur, no international fund, no permanent refugee population maintained across generations as a political instrument.” futureofjewish.com/p/the-ethnic-c…

This has gone off charts viral. It’s a transcript I made of the 60 Minutes interview that shows the exact cuts made by CBS. It’s free for anyone to read - No Paywall. @decodingfoxnews/note/c-250725174?r=1nd17&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@decodingfoxne…

@realEstateTrent Hope she has at least a weighted 4.0. It’s not as competitive as UCB or UCLA, but those kids work hard, too.

Just got off the phone with a friend who’s on a college tour with his daughter. One of the stops: The University of California, Santa Barbara. I will just say this: When I was a student at Santa Clara University, we used to sometimes drive down there. In all my travels since - including Vegas/Thailand/Greece - I have never witnessed anything like what I saw at UCSB. It’s been a while, but I’d never seen that level of partying before, or since. Those Isla Vista kids are just next level.

You’d be surprised how many people can’t figure out compound modifiers, though. One word means no one has to think about them. Healthcare spending. Spending on healthcare. Health-care spending. Spending on health care.

@MegKeene Oh, there’s plenty of kosher junk food, too.

I love that a lot of antisemitic conspiracy theories boils down to, “Jews care about themselves and each other and it’s NOT FAIR.” Also, just buy the kosher food, you bigot.

NEW: An @ij review of media reports has identified at least 14 recent cases of police officers allegedly using Flock and other automated license plate reader systems to stalk wives, girlfriends, exes, and even strangers who caught their eye in public.

@gothburz I do appreciate that you chose an Oregon Pinot. Incredibly tacky behavior by the attendees

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

@RyanJones @DoktorZoidberg1 Wrong. Families board zone 2. Sky priority is 3. On a @delta flight as I type.

@DoktorZoidberg1 when I got on, they were boarding zone 4. Sky Priority. That's before main cabin still.

First world problem: I’m boarding my @Delta flight. Family with kids boarded ahead of me. They’re sitting in the back. I’m 1A. They put 3 bags in the first class overhead. I say excuse me I’m in 1A can you leave me room for my bags and take yours to your seat please? Flight attendant yelled at me and made me put my bag in the middle of the plane. I know it’s petty but If you’re in first class that should be your space.