Extremely scary Halloween costumes for this year!
Last-minute ideas for a spooky scary good time!
An Instagram comments section under a post of an Israeli flag.
An Instagram comments section under a post of a Palestinian flag.
An Instagram comments section under a post of a hostage toddler.
An Instagram comments section under a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.
An Instagram comments section under a post that uses the word “apartheid,” “colonizers,” “occupiers,” “stolen land,” or “concentration camp.”
An Instagram comments section under a post of vandalism in Montauk the day after the media blackout in Gaza.
A comedian two credits short of a liberal arts education who posted a link to a fundraiser calling the events of 10/7 “breaking out of the cage.”
The girl whose defining perspective on the Middle East was her Birthright trip who posted raw footage of dead bodies followed by a post about her daughter’s Princess Elsa-themed birthday party.
A text from your second-cousin that says, “YOUR COUSIN ELI IS HOSTAGE." Followed by a text ten minutes later that says, “IGNORE HE REPLIED HIS PHONE WAS OFF.”
A text from your cousin Eli that detailed what happened when he was in a bomb shelter.
An Evangelical senator watching this with glee and fundraising like a motherfucker.
The term “White Adjacent.”
Transactional allyship.
Me explaining a solution to this after three glasses of wine and no dinner.
I just want to be one more normal comment in the comments section saying: this white liberal Christian pastor thinks you are an incredible voice for this moment. We need to laugh, or we'll go mad or check out. But we also need to feel it all--especially those least impacted by what is unfolding. Thank you for doing both, Bess. Your stan till the end! (my teenagers would cringe if they heard me use "stan," but that's what therapy is for)
Yikes! These costumes are too scary!! 😭 tell cousin Eli to leave his phone on. KFC.