Socialize

I socialized, with strangers, for eight hours today. I know! Gold stars! Confetti! Ticker tape! 

I met complete strangers at a restaurant, had brunch, went to the Capital Jewish Museum, listened to a concert, looked at an exhibit on Washington, DC LGBTQ Jewish history. I saw four people I knew in the exhibit. It was a little rough to see your history in a museum, not the Jewish part, but I was here for a lot of this. I enjoyed everyone in the group. They all knew each other. Then we had dinner at the home of the man who put it all together. He’d invited people on Facebook to join the group which is how I came to be there. 

This is the museum where a terrorist murdered a young Jewish couple last weekend after yelling, “Free Palestine.” They were attending an event by the American Jewish Committee aimed at bridge-building in the Middle East and North Africa. 

While we were talking at the man’s house, we learned of another terrorist attack, today, in Boulder Colorado. Run for Their Lives is an organization that raises awareness for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. They have weekly walks and carry flags of the home countries of the remaining hostages. Six victims. It sounded like two were very seriously injured. The terrorist also yelled, “Free Palestine.” 

“Ukraine says it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia on Sunday, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called "Spider's Web" operation by the SBU security service, striking "34% of [Russia's] strategic cruise missile carriers".”


“The SBU estimated the damage to Russia's strategic aviation was worth about $7bn (£5bn), promising to unveil more details soon.
The Ukrainian claims have not been independently verified.
Sources in the SBU earlier on Sunday told the BBC in a statement that four Russian airbases - two of which are thousands of miles from Ukraine - were hit:
Belaya in Irkutsk oblast (region), Siberia
Olenya in Murmansk oblast, Russia's extreme north-west
Dyagilevo in central Ryazan oblast
Ivanovo in central Ivanovo oblast”

There is supposedly a female resistance movement called Zla Mavka (Angry Mavka) in occupied cities in Ukraine. This is, of course, wildly dangerous and thus wildly brave.  They “document life under occupation and acts like placing Ukrainian symbols or leaflets in public places "to remind other Ukrainians that they are not alone", as well as even riskier practices.” An example was to put laxatives in brownies for Russian occupiers.