Thank you Benito

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

NEW: NY State Attorney General Letitia James reached a settlement with far-right Zionist group Betar US, which will result in the group disbanding. The AG's office investigated Betar for "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists."

In the ruins of Shifa hospital and despite the genocidal war on Gaza 168 Palestinian medical doctors graduated yesterday as board specialists in different medical fields.

Podcasting has suffered a series of blows the last few years—but this year’s standout programs reminded us that the listening experience isn’t going anywhere. Ben Cannon shares the best podcasts of 2025: theatlantic.com/culture/2025…

Jewish parents are “shocked,” “confused,” and “upset” by their children’s radical politics. They wondered if they should have parented differently. Did their children get enough Jewish education? Were they brainwashed by their elite private schools? Where did they go wrong? “Maybe I failed in the sense that the kids didn’t go to Israel enough,” a 63-year-old physician in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, told me. He said his daughter, a civil rights attorney, holds anti-Zionist views and refused to vote for former New York governor Andrew Cuomo due to his alleged sexual harassment. “It would’ve been better if they went more, just to see the lies they’re being told.” Read the full piece by @Olivia_Reingold here: thefp.com/p/the-jewish-paren…

WE’VE SURVIVED ANTISEMITIC LEADERS BEFORE. WE’LL SURVIVE MAMDANI NOW. AM YISRAEL CHAI

Scott Jennings sums up Mamdani perfectly. But if this is what the people of NYC want than so be it. Thank god I don’t live there anymore.

CNN's Van Jones was not a fan of Zohran Mamdani's angry, far-left, rage-filled victory speech: "I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not? Is he going to include me? Is he going -- is he -- is he going to be more of a class warrior even in office? I think he missed a chance tonight to to open up and bring more people into the tent. I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that's not the Mamdani that we've seen on Tiktok and the great interviews and stuff like that." "So, I felt like it was a little bit of a character switch here, where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight. And there were some some other voice on stage. That said, he's very young. And he just pulled off something very, very difficult. And I wouldn't write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight. And I think that that will probably cost him going forward."