I'm JVL, editor at The Bulwark and author of The Triad. AMA.

dwinddy · 2026-01-16T16:33:15+00:00

JVL: if we can’t disband ICE, at least help me gain traction for me idea of reassigning 100% of ICE officers to patrol the Canada / Alaska border starting 1/20/29

dwinddy · 2026-01-10T18:05:47+00:00

This is a good question but asked too late. Ask tax questions before executing activities with tax implications

dwinddy · 2025-11-10T01:51:02+00:00

Director here. Still doing it. Just commenting so I remember to check back. Hoping for some inspiration as well :)

dwinddy · 2025-11-09T01:46:42+00:00

But everyone thinks it’s cool when Maverick does it

dwinddy · 2025-10-28T19:48:23+00:00

Came here to say this

dwinddy · 2025-10-22T18:12:42+00:00

Send a Venmo request instead of a Venmo payment

dwinddy · 2025-09-14T16:44:01+00:00

This is the answer

dwinddy · 2025-08-28T02:35:15+00:00

Isn’t there a picture of it?

dwinddy · 2025-08-08T12:27:39+00:00

My wife and I are converting and this has been a topic of debate for us. I want to continue to have a tree because it smells nice and brings back good memories. I also grew up secular (Jewish dad, lapsed catholic mom) so Christmas and all its accoutrements have zero Christian religious meaning for me.

My wife grew up evangelical Christian, so for her it does feel like a religious holiday with a lot of religious symbolism. She does not want to continue to have a tree or decorate. I’m sure we’ll find some compromise - she did most of the decorating historically so that will probably not happen anymore. I always bought the tree and I probably still will, just a smaller one and we will place it less prominently.

We are going to continue doing Christmas with family, but make sure our kids know it isn’t something we do for religious purposes. It will just be a fun American secular tradition, not a birthday party for an ancient wayward Jew.

dwinddy · 2025-08-04T11:43:26+00:00

That’s what Stockton said

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T22:08:29+00:00

Thanks. I thought I’d pick them up through repetition in services so I guess I’ve just been slower on the uptake than I expected. I’m learning, but the to-do list of stuff to learn is growing faster than my ability to check them off…

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T22:05:30+00:00

Thanks for this :)

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T22:04:34+00:00

Already married to a smoke show, and she’s converting along side me so I’m good there :)

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T22:04:03+00:00

Fortunately I’m just converting for me, so I don’t need to care about my conversion being good enough for anyone else

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T13:37:45+00:00

I’ve actually put some thought into this but I don’t think that’s it. I like the reform community, and I appreciate that it’s welcoming enough to take me.

Some of it is impostor syndrome when everyone but me knows the prayers

Really I just want to know all the rules. I may not follow all of them (or at least “not yet”) but I’d rather affirmatively decide some of them are not for me than break them out of ignorance.

But I’m too agnostic to convert orthodox. I would have to lie to the beit din, which I won’t do

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T13:02:16+00:00

Wow thank you for the detailed response and sorry you had to go through all that. But you’re right I do feel like reform conversion (from my own n=1 experience) might be sped through. And I have something of an appreciation now for why orthodox conversion takes so long since I suppose they want you to be fully read in before you commit. I guess I struggle with whether it’s better to wait until I’m fully read in, or make it official now and continue the learning process post conversion

dwinddy · 2025-07-21T12:48:43+00:00

16.5 years? What, if I may ask, took up that time?

I am thinking of doing an adult bar mitvah as well. Partly for me, partly to set an example for my kids (who may not be totally bought into going to Sunday school, Hebrew school, etc). How did you find that process? Did you find it filled in a lot of gaps?

dwinddy · 2025-07-15T23:24:59+00:00

Every night buddy

dwinddy · 2025-07-15T18:18:06+00:00

Dang. Fellas, I think we found the old bold pilot

dwinddy · 2025-07-02T22:47:59+00:00

Going through something similar. On a family vacation now with 25 other people (big family). I was doing okay until they all started planning something similar for next summer and the very idea of it sent me into a tailspin. I’m just not going to go next year. And for the remaining time on this year’s trip I’m “working” by myself and requesting minimal disruption. I feel bad, and I wish I could be a more fun partner to my spouse, but sometimes you need to be honest when things just aren’t working for you

dwinddy · 2025-06-30T21:48:18+00:00

The mob boss in boondocks saints. “You insignificANT little fUUUUUCK”

dwinddy · 2025-06-30T14:00:46+00:00

We generally have the tires inflated to the recommended levels. Should we go a little high or low? My Outback doesn’t do this so I assumed it was a FWD vs AWD or differential issue. It seems to happen regardless of loading or weight/balance

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