“In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” — Aeschylus
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No way they're actually bragging about it
Holy smokes from NYT: "In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.....The plan worked."
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#BREAKING: ICE is conducting one of the biggest spy operations on left-wing activists in history.
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I’m a defamation attorney and I read the complaint. Actual malice is well-pleaded here. Damages are not. It’s pretty hard to believe that Hasan has any damages. D.C. case law is not entirely clear but presumed damages probably aren’t available here either. In the alternate to defamation, the complaint asserts a claim for false light invasion of privacy (which allows emotional damages to stand in for real damage to reputation), probably because Meier Watkins knows there are no reputational damages. But Hasan is a caustic media figure who intentionally courts public controversy, so it’s hard to believe he has any real emotional damages either—and those are poorly pleaded here, too. (Plus false light invasion of privacy requires a publication about private matters, or at least about someone who is not a public figure. It’s in the name.) I doubt Meier Watkins took this case on contingency. But again, actual malice is well pleaded here. I can’t stand Hasan Piker but it does look like Scott Jennings lied about him.
Hasan Piker Hits Scott Jennings with $72.5 Million Lawsuit trib.al/v6b3ICP
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Rubio’s accomplishments are growing: - securing the Arctic region while honoring Allies’ sovereignty to get a two-for (NATO strength) - pulling Panama from CCP grip - Venezuela (big one) - Cuba (it’s happening) - resolving Hezbollah/Israel insanity in MOU - yeeting the Dmitriev 28 pt plan
The crowd of Texas Patriots roars for the greatest Secretary of State in history, @SecRubio: "Marco! Marco! Marco!" 🇺🇸
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Democrat voters on a regular normal day:
Replying to @Bleek_Groyper
Dont get it twisted im not voting dem bc trump is hitler im voting dem because he isnt like hitler ENOUGH Shouldve kept his promises🤷‍♂️
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I don't know why it is surprising when anti-police groups are full of literal criminals but it is funny regardles.
BREAKING: Hassan Bennett, the chair of the Philadelphia Citizens Police Oversight Commission and a bail navigator with the public defender’s office, was arrested on bribery-related charges, sources say. audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news…
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Abdul El-Sayed's campaign is just economic incoherence wrapped up in anti-Semitism.
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The irony is that the entire causal center of Emanuel’s speech rests on the accusation that Netanyahu instrumentalized the U.S.-Israel alliance for domestic political survival: he took American support for granted, pursued reckless policies because he faced no cost, and leveraged the relationship to entrench himself in power. And Emanuel delivered this indictment by flying to Tel Aviv to stage a presidential campaign event, using the U.S.-Israel relationship as the set piece for his own domestic positioning. And, of course, the DSA is doing the same thing from the other direction — using Israel as a progressive credentialing mechanism, a litmus test whose function is entirely internal to Democratic coalition politics. The relationship is being instrumentalized up and down the Democratic Party, by every faction, for domestic purposes, but only Netanyahu is predatory.
When you are endorsing candidates with covered-up Nazi tattoos because you cannot afford to be outflanked on the left, you clearly are not setting the terms of debate. All of this is happening inside the ecosystem that Emanuel and his generation of Democratic operatives built, staffed, and funded, and he cannot even talk about it because that would require him to indict his own coalition, which would end the presidential campaign before it begins. So instead, the entire causal architecture of the speech is organized around Netanyahu as the independent variable: remove Bibi, restore the managerial relationship, and the problem resolves. Netanyahu is the scapegoat — and in fairness to Emanuel, what is politics if not the supreme art of finding the proper scapegoat? It is time for Bibi to go anyway. Khalas, enough is enough — but the problem is not Netanyahu, and scapegoating him for the deterioration of the U.S.-Israel relationship, or for the rise of antisemitism inside all the institutions that the Dems control, is a maneuver that is just too much for any person who wants to remain sane. Let us consider a counterfactual. Had Netanyahu been replaced in 2021 by a Labor-Meretz coalition that froze settlements, pursued negotiations, and conducted the Gaza operation with maximal concern for proportionality (whatever that would mean in practice against a lunatic group of terrorists embedded in civilian infrastructure), would the DSA wing have moderated? Would Mamdani — Mandani? — have recognized Israel as a Jewish state? Would the Columbia encampments not have happened at all? No professor would have justified the murder of Israelis because, you know, decolonization? Would BDS not have become the litmus test in Democratic primaries? The answer to every one of these questions is obviously no, because the ideological framework that drives the anti-Israel position inside the Democratic Party is indifferent to Israeli behavior and responds to the category of Israel as such, as a settler-colonial ethnostate whose existence is the offense. “From the river to the sea” is not a critique of settlements or of Netanyahu; it is a demand for elimination. Emanuel quotes the phrase in the speech and says he will fight it, but he cannot fight it because the people chanting it are the voters his party needs, and the machinery that trained them to chant it — the universities, the activist organizations, the identitarian epistemology that underwrites “Palestine as colonized people” — is machinery his political generation built, imported from the Third World, funded, and deployed as the operating system of the Democratic coalition. link to rest of article below
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This guy took time away from LARPing having a state, from within a failed state, to advise another country on how it should run its affairs.
Arabs in Israel should have the right to live, not to vote. Giving democracy to the wrong people will destroy your nation. It happened in Lebanon. Beware.
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There is no reason for any politician at any state or local level to even have a position on Israel, and there is no reason to focus on Israel at a below-federal level except for the bad reason.
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The future of the Democrat Party
Amer Zahr, a Dearborn school board who's said he "stands with" Hamas and Hezbollah, released this endorsement of his good friend @AbdulElSayed the other day. He starts by criticizing El-Sayed for campaigning with Kamala and Obama and for stating "Khameini was a terrible person." (some in Dearborn are upset at El-Sayed for "moderating" on Israel). And then some other interesting statements from Zahr: “But at this point, it’s bigger than Abdul. The goal of enshrining a pro-Palestinian American foreign policy is bigger than any of us." “The real truth is that without the blood of the children of Gaza, there would be no Abdul for Senate.” "Ultimately, Abdul is a politician. Yeah, he’s one of us, but he’s also just a politician "And politicians are tools to get things done for our communities and our causes. They are not heroes or saviors or celebrities. They will usually hedge and equivocate and pander.” "Do we want American policy towards Palestine to be a red-line issue in the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries? I know we do, and that happens much more easily when Abdul wins, when we continuously prove that pro-Palestine politics is winning politics even with imperfect candidates.”
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Local news > National news
Patriots in Lubbock were in awe as Air Force One touched down at their airport — and even the local news reporter was excited: "I'm getting emotional — there's just so many people out here. The excitement is contagious!" 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Amazing military definition of lawfare. This is a big step forward.
“Make no mistake about the nature of our enemy. Transnational cartels are violent extremist organizations. They operate as the al Qaeda and ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. Having lost parity on the physical battlefield, these cartels have opened an asymmetric line of effort -- lawfare. In military doctrine, lawfare is not a legitimate legal discourse. It is the calculated weaponization of legal systems to achieve kinetic and operational effects. The cartels understand they cannot outgun our combined surface action groups or outmaneuver our air interdiction assets. So instead, they attempt to paralyze our decision cycle.” — Mr. Eric Geressy, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of War for Strategy, addressing defense and public security leaders from 19 Western Hemisphere nations at today’s Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) forum in Dominican Republic. @DeptofWar @SecWar @EmbajadaUSAenRD @MDefensaRD @WHAAsstSecty
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How would American Democrat leaders act any differently from Lula, and what will become of our dear country when they make their move?
Infobae afirma que Flavio Bolsonaro habría huido de Brasil a través de un paso fronterizo con Argentina, y que en Misiones tomó un avión privado con rumbo a EEUU. El derrotado ex candidato enfrenta un proceso judicial por lavado de dinero y tenía prohibición de salir de su país. Si esto se confirma, es un escándalo de consecuencias enormes.
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For my latest, I quoted El-Sayed's exact statements that match the 'grocery' ad that everyone agrees is anti-Semitic. Just to be clear that you cannot find one acceptable and the other beyond the pale: commentary.org/seth-mandel/t…
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And? Let's assume this is true -- is that the moral yardstick?
Reminder that if Ben-Gvir was an Arab, he would be considered at most a very moderate politician.
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FALSE: He is NOT a U.S. citizen. @ICEgov arrested Felibi Biladi Siagha-Coke on January 5.  He is an illegal alien from Jamaica with previous convictions of assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, and insurance fraud. Siagha-Coke was previously issued a U.S. Passport based on a FRAUDULENT birth certificate that was revoked following an investigation, and his applications for a citizenship certificate have been denied multiple times. An immigration judge ordered Siagha-Coke removed from the United States on April 14 — he will remain in ICE custody pending removal and will continue to receive due process. Under @POTUS Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences.
Since January, ICE has detained and sought to deport a man to Jamaica. But an AP investigation has found documents that support claims by his lawyers that he's a U.S. citizen. apnews.com/article/ice-immig…
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Abdul El-Sayed says the exact same things that are in the ad all the time, just a little more smoothly. I’m sure you’ll mention that to him
This is a divisive stunt that trades on age-old themes of antisemitism. It blames Israel for all the ills in America. Serious people, who want to win in Michigan, are focused on lowering costs and ending President Trump's corruption.
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Oh, that's what he's doing...huh...who knew all of his antics and empty chest puffing were aimed at protecting Israel 🙄
What @EylonALevy is doing for you here is identifying (correctly) that Ben Gvir is the single greatest threat to an Arab takeover of Israel. Our enemies are literally telling us who they fear the most.
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Ra'am voter?
מצביע שלא יכול כבר לחכות לתורו בקלפי, הבוקר במדרשת בן גוריון
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