A baby hippo named Brötchen, Elon Musk on China’s AI ambitions, the strange power of holding hands, Trump’s Lebanon fantasy, and a British lawyer investigated for picking up trash.
Ten things you should know happened, or are happening.
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A Palestinian Rachel Dolezal, a mask-mandatory lesbian bar, and Macklemore, still at it.
This week in review:
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One can keep on believing that birth rates aren’t important, or that the explanation for this phenomenon is because the Jews are demons or whatever — but for everyone else, some facts:
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While Canada worried about Islamophobia, Islamist networks were embedding themselves in its schools, government, charities, and electoral politics.
The Muslim Brotherhood understood the game: Change the country from within.
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התפרסם כעת מאמר קצר שלי ב-@tabletmag על הייחודיות המופלאה של הדמוגרפיה הישראלית. זה הרבה מעבר ל"ישראלים עושים הרבה ילדים": הילודה בישראל נותרת גבוהה כבר כמה עשורים, בעוד שבכל העולם המערבי היא עמוק מתחת לשיעור התחלופה.
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The Hotel Chelsea survived Warhol, Dylan, Sid and Nancy, and decades of drugs, death, and general kookiness.
Now it has $30 cocktails, Gen Z arrivistes, and an eviction fight with one of its last living artists.
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Across the developed world, people have stopped having children. Israel is the only clear exception.
Even secular Israeli Jews have more children than their counterparts anywhere else in the West. Why?
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“The Coltrane quartet entered a state of grace by 1963. Intellect and passion were now indivisible in the leader’s conception and execution. The music strikes the ear as pure expression.”
@Mark_Stryker on the revelatory recordings of John Coltrane:
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"So, my answer to the question how shall we respond—is to stay and fight. New York is worth fighting for. America is worth fighting for. American Jewry is worth fighting for. This is our country too! This is our city too!"
—@AmmiHirsch
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Please enjoy! Tarik Saleh is a truly great film maker. | This Thriller Is Not a Joke tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
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Banned from Egypt since 2015, Tarik Saleh has spent a decade making films about the country’s corruption, surveillance, and authoritarian rule.
His latest, Eagles of the Republic, takes aim at an Egypt where reality has made satire almost obsolete.
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Campaign to Islamize Canada | @tabletmag @charlesISGAP tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
"Guess what? It’s working."
"Responses require addressing the interdependence of narrative, institutional, financial, regulatory, and legal domains with consistency"
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In yesterday's Scroll:
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Before dating apps became a joyless swipe machine, there was OkCupid: slow, weird, anonymous, and full of possibility.
@default_friend remembers growing up on the dating site built for an internet that was still supposed to connect people.
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Media update: Park MacDougald, senior writer for @tabletmag’s daily newsletter The Scroll, has picked up the MKNE story—one of the first established outlets to do so. Tablet’s readers remain ahead of the curve.
.@ryanmauro
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Canada has never formally investigated Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks.
A new report traces how Islamist groups have embedded themselves in Canadian institutions, from schools and charities to the federal bureaucracy and electoral politics.
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New from me for @tabletmag -- before teenagers were downloading Tinder, teenagers met adult men on OkCupid.
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Great fun talking about the three stories that explain the world with @wrmead at @HudsonInstitute for a live taping of What Really Matters @tabletmag. Thanks to all the listeners who came out.
Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=PAqCdAGn…
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