Author of Lift @Skyhorsepub — “Must Read Book" @NextBigIdeaClub. Former publisher @Forbes Professor @ASU Beach bum philosopher.
Boston
- Tweets 88,600
- Following 6,007
- Followers 5,728
- Likes 48,342
Pinned Tweet
The five takeaways from Lift:
1. Nobody is self-made.
2. Look for the person who sees your strength.
3. Build a small circle that tells you the truth.
4. Learn the rules of the room before you follow them.
5. One honest voice.
1
3
5
771
This is 100% true. The WSJ has turned into a blog.
What has happened to the WSJ?
I’ve subscribed for years.
But the financial information is largely gone - and a concentration on markets, investing and economics has given way to Politico style blogging.
The Bureau Chief is a former Washington Post lefty who has hired former Politico and Huffington Post activists to cover economics.
It’s not working.
They have reporters now who don’t understand finance.
You open the app in the morning and all you see is political commentary and partisan attacks.
It’s become a paid Politico style publication and everyone knows it.
It’s fallen - and needs to go back to its roots of economic reporting. There are too many left wing political commentary outlets already.
2
22
Bright ray of hope. People comforting people.
In the room were the leaders of Hamas’s political wing, among them Khalil al Hayya, alongside intelligence chiefs from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey. @SteveWitkoff knew that al Hayya, like him, had lost a son.
“I said, ‘Sir, we’re both members of that terrible club who have buried children,’” Witkoff said. “‘In that club, it doesn’t matter what was the cause of your child’s death. The death is a death.’” He told al Hayya he hoped al Hayya could find his son’s spirit with him every day, “as I do with mine,” he said of his son Andrew Witkoff, who died from an OxyContin overdose in 2011.
A Jewish man from New York and a Hamas leader, two fathers who had buried sons. Al Hayya hugged him.
The Hamas delegation asked for a few minutes and left. Ten minutes later, they came back, shook hands with Witkoff and Kushner, and said: “We have a deal.”
washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
24
Additionally the rest of the world stood by without lifting a finger to help release the hostages. Egypt shut the Raffah Crossing which would have allowed Gazans to escape. Biden rebuked Israel which gave Sinwar and Hamas confidence to hold out. Israel is 10% of the tragedy; Hamas and other nations 90%.
Today we remember the victims of the October 7 massacre – the killing of innocent Israeli people, the torture, mutilation, rape and kidnapping, parading of the dead, the wanton cruelty and the depraved celebrations of murder, the gleeful delight in brutality, the degeneracy of its perpetrators and supporters. It is a day that stands out for its unparalleled sadism and nihilism.
The scale of the killing of people of all sorts, all races, Jewish and Arab and others, is unequalled in a single day in modern times.
It was the greatest murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Its cruelty and barbarism seem to belong to cruel times long ago – this was a lurch back to the raids and slaughters of the Mongols or the Huns - but it is unique too in its 21stcentury hi-tech modernity: it was filmed live by its perpetrators and other cameras and so unlike any other atrocity in all of human history, its details are beyond question.
It is the most documented butchery and sadism ever perpetrated – and therefore the reactions to it are simply the clearest and most unequalled test of humanity available to us, reactions that will be remembered in the future.
It was also a crime against peace: its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for Palestinians and the innocent people across the whole region who perished in the wars it unleashed.
More than that, it was an atrocity against humanity itself - and the humanist values that mark all decent people, the values of liberal, free, kind societies and communities everywhere.
Its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for the Palestinians and the rest of the region.
Today we remember those who died, those who were wounded, those who were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed in the tunnels of Gaza, those who lost friends and compatriots.
It was a crime of annihilation to launch the liquidation of an entire people and nation, to kill and torture Israelis and Jews.
Am Yisrael Chai.
1
3
105
RT @ConservativeTht: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaz…
638
2
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
Publicists for proscribed terrorists groups should be deported.
It would be nice if Western media gave a damn about the Israelis killed *by Israel* on October 7th. They may not - but we here at Zeteo do. Watch @mehdirhasan take you through that day, explaining the secretive 'Hannibal Directive' and how it was deployed by the Israeli military
3
8
22
809
Over 75 senior retired 🇺🇸U.S. generals, admirals, and military lawyers have signed a new open letter rejecting claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
The signatories include those who have commanded U.S. armed forces in combat, applying the laws of armed conflict.
Their conclusion: based on the facts and applicable legal standard, the conduct of Israel’s war against Hamas does not constitute genocide.
As the letter states, “Civilian deaths occurring during combat, however tragic, are insufficient, by themselves, to support a finding of genocidal intent.”
The standards used to judge military conduct matter precisely because war is tragic and imperfect.
“The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide.”
This is not an argument for minimizing the suffering of civilians. It is an argument for applying the law faithfully and maintaining the distinctions that matter: between the tragic consequences of war, violations of the laws of armed conflict, and the specific crime of genocide.
Read the full open letter here: jinsa.org/open-letter-from-m…
51
523
1,399
115,005
You won't believe your eyes when you see what the @haverfordedu professor wrote.
1
2
300
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
This story is both shocking and not shocking at all.
BREAKING: 🧵The Haverford College professor arrested and charged for antisemitic online harassment is alleged to have used anonymous X accounts to repeatedly harass an unnamed victim from October 2025 to May 2026.
The details from the federal indictment are truly vile:
2
12
111
3,445
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
🚨 Professor Guangtian Ha is from China.
He’s been a professor in Haverford College’s Department of Religion since 2018.
Today, Professor Guangtian Ha was arrested and charged with online harassment and intimidation.
The FBI says “identifiable individuals” were targeted.
Haverford College confirms the attacks were antisemitic in nature.
Professor Ha graduated from Peking University in Beijing before attending Columbia University for graduate studies.
He has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric targeting Jews, Zionists, and Israel.
“The state of Israel must be dismantled and their society ‘de-Nazified.’ We must attack Zionism on all fronts. Zionism is racism. Anyone who says, ‘What about Hamas?’ can go f*ck themselves.”
Haverford President Wendy Raymond calls his conduct “heinous,” but this isn’t her first rodeo.
After a two-year legal battle, Haverford was forced into a settlement this summer after Jewish students sued them over a hostile campus environment.
Students faced threats not only from pro-Hamas student activists, but from professors and administrators.
When Jewish students approached President Wendy about Professor Ha openly expressing support for terrorism, she told them that “support could be perceived in many ways.”
Under GOP House scrutiny, this genius had to bring note cards to remind her to breathe, sit up straight, and not publicly hate Israel.
This idiot's salary is $788,529.
Our Department of Education is silent as Haverford College turns into a tentacle for Hamas.
@EDSecMcMahon
@FBIDirectorKash
@StephenM
H/T @EYakoby
BREAKING: A Haverford College professor has been arrested after allegedly threatening Jewish students, with the FBI involved.
Students go to college for an education. They shouldn’t need federal agents to protect them from their professors.
Enough.
59
378
827
14,762
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
My initial reaction to the report Israel’s consul general invited Mamdani to view the 47 minute film of Oct 7, which of course he’ll just ignore, is it’s a brilliant move.
But on reflection, and despite serious reservations, I think it’s too little and too late.
Seeing exactly what happened on Oct 7 is essential in understanding Israel’s response—not in terms of revenge but Israel’s legal and moral obligation to its citizens to destroy Hamas as a military and political force, promising to repeat Oct 7 “again and again.”
Instead, the world has judged Israel’s conduct of the war, and its consequences for Gaza and its citizens without knowing and seeing the full truth of what Israel is fighting against.
To the contrary, while the full graphic record of Oct 7 has not been released, Hamas propaganda has flourished, promoted by malign media and international organizations.
Again, this is not about justifying revenge. Israel has not acted in revenge. It’s about explaining Israel’s existential imperative to end the ongoing threat and understanding the resulting unavoidable death and destruction in Gaza that Hamas sought and welcomed.
The war has been public relations disaster for Israel and the the Jewish people; but perhaps even more so it has been a moral disaster for the world.
Whether too late or not, and with great reluctance, I think the 47 minute video should be widely distributed.
Anyone willing to put odds on how fast Zohran Mamdani will reject this offer?
BTW, I've seen this film. It's horrific, and it will live in my nightmares for the rest of my life. In the first reply, I've posted the link to my Substack essay about the lessons I learned (no details about the horrors).
2
8
13
1,057
It's the question we asked after the George Floyd 2020 riots -- the costliest civil disorder in U.S. insurance history -- and the student riots now going on in France: how do ordinary people, together, do what none of them would ever try alone?
76
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
I knew this had the mass psychosis formation of a moral panic when I first saw Asian coeds on Columbia sporting kaffiyahs.
Only the overvalued ideas of ideological capture could break the orbit of their Tiger Mom’s pull
“Professor” Ha
1
1
1
13
From Quaker college to antisemite harassment
BREAKING: A Haverford College professor has been arrested after allegedly threatening Jewish students, with the FBI involved.
Students go to college for an education. They shouldn’t need federal agents to protect them from their professors.
Enough.
1
5
110
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
What if there were calls for widespread protests in support of the 9/11 hijackers, three years after 3,000 Americans were murdered? What if tens of thousands rallied for the Nazis on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz?
No one would need to be told how obscene that was.
Yet here is a flyer for a "citywide protest" at New York's City Hall on October 7, three years to the day after the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. It promises "glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance."
And there are dozens of rallies planned across America and European cities and campuses.
Pick that date, put a masked figure at the center of the poster, and promise victory to "the resistance," and you've told everyone whose side you are on.
What they are celebrating is not hard to reconstruct.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists went house to house in the kibbutzim. They broke into safe rooms and set homes on fire to drive families out. Infants, children, and people in their 80s and 90s were killed in their beds and in their safe rooms. At the Nova festival, they hunted people across open fields for hours, shot those hiding in bomb shelters and under vehicles, raped and mutilated, and took captives.
After 9/11, America said you are either with us or against us. The line seemed clear. You stood for the West and what it represents, or you stood with a nihilistic religious extremism that wanted to replace it with a medieval theocracy.
That line has been blurred by a generation raised on an oppressor/oppressed script, by Gulf money flowing into our universities, and by a media and political class that has decided criticizing the killers, the extremists, the Islamists, is somehow intolerant.
So tomorrow, neighbors, our students, people we work beside, will rally to honor the mass murder of that day.
I'm sorry if this sounds grim. For those of us commemorating the memory of the victims, it is a disgraceful inversion of fact and history.
31
113
322
5,078
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
Read this, by a man who was in the room with PM Netanyahu on 7th October and every day since.
Netanyahu to Macron: “Hamas is ISIS. If it is not dismantled in Gaza, you will meet it in Paris.”
wsj.com/opinion/what-i-saw-o…
A story about Israel's wartime leadership and Greatest Generation
30
445
2,421
152,483
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
A quiz: You are a college co-ed who has been raped at a frat house. Your response is:
A: Immediately file a criminal report with the local police department and get a rape test.
B: Urge your fellow victims of the patriarchy to avoid the frat house at all costs if they want to avoid a similar fate.
C: Angle an invitation to the frat house’s annual Halloween party and then, when disinvited, throw a mini-tantrum.
"Jane Doe" chose option three. Either she is too cognitively challenged to understand the risks of returning to a hotbed of rape, and thus does not belong in college, or the frat house rape did not happen. The campus rape complex has a third explanation: Doe was so traumatized by her rape that she was incapable of acting in her own self-interest. You decide.
From my appearance on the @MegynKellyShow ⬇️
79
418
2,603
107,137
Jeff Cunningham retweeted
Hey, American Jewish Democrats, how are you feeling tonight? 🫂
Looking forward to being in Detroit on 10/24 to campaign for @JocelynBenson, @AbdulElSayed, and Democrats up and down the ballot in Michigan.
Join us: mobilize.us/teammichigan/eve…
393
889
5,683
196,306