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A lot of people at sitting at the peak of mount stupid right now. Let me add some minimally politicized complexity so that you can join me in the valley of despair, or maybe even the slope of enlightenment.
Judaism is ancient. Let's start way back to the story of Abraham /1
Judaism is ancient. Let's start way back to the story of Abraham /1
The story is of course full of mythology, but in the story famine caused Abraham, the patriarch of the Jews, to leave Israel for Egypt. The Jews remain in Egypt for hundreds of years until Moses and the Exodus, which was just celebrated with the Passover holiday. /2
Hundreds more years pass and we move toward more historicity. ~3000 years ago, King Solomon built the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem. ~400 years pass and the Babylonians (Iraq) conquer the Kingdom of Israel and destroy the temple during the Jewish-Babylonian war. /3
1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation.
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks:
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.
To everyone who’s still not quite sure what is happening in 🇬🇪 right now, and why the events unfolding on the ground are truly unprecedented, or why the struggles of the Georgian people should even matter to those in Western capitals, here’s a (belated) not-so-short recap 🧵
In early April, Georgia’s ruling party, the Georgian Dream (GD), announced their plans to adopt a highly controversial, Kremlin-inspired bill on “transparency of foreign influence.”
If adopted, the bill would require all media outlets, CSOs, & NGOs receiving more than 20% of their funding from foreign [read Western] sources to register as agents of foreign influence. FYI, 🇷🇺 adopted similar law in 2012. Look how great it turned out for its civil society!
BREAKING NEWS! THIS WHOLE PROTEST AND ENCAMPMENT WAS PLANNED LATE 2023!! HERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE COLLEGES THAT WERE GOING TO BE ACTIVATED!!! SOME INTERNATION SCHOOLS AS WELL. DONT KNOW HOW LONG THIS WILL BE UP BEFORE THEY TAKE IT DOWN. POSTING EVERYTHING I HAVE INCLUDING SOURCE
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Unlike her husband who, as King, held power and was the legitimate object of the grievances of the people, Marie Antoinette was NOT provided with the comfort of a nonjuring confessor to prepare for her (egregious and unjustified) murder.
The king and queen were many things: catastrophic, clueless, coddled... yes... but also (devoutly) Catholic. This was the final bite from the hydra of the terror. Having subjected Marie Antoinette to countless calumnies and public ridicule reaching its pinnacle in...
the outrageous accusations--and the forced false testimony of her son--that she sexually abused him, the Committee of Public Safety sent her a juring priest for last rites. She refused to participate in this sham sacrament, which she believed would be invalid and schismatic.
🇺🇸MAX BLUMENTHAL:
"If these students were protesting for the climate or something officially approved—something that could advance the imperatives of billionaires cashing in on renewable energy—there wouldn't have been this kind of police response.
They would have let them just camp out until the end of the semester, and then they would have mostly gone home.
But that's not the case.
We are kind of living in Netanyahu's America.
Just look at New York Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD and their relationship with the Israeli government.
If you don't believe there is an Israeli role here, consider this: It was the NYPD that pushed to go in––that got the context to go in––based on [claims of] outside agitators being on campus.
Eric Adams has pledged total support to Israel (he's gone and visited Netanyahu).
But it goes deeper than that.
The NYPD has an office in Tel Aviv through its Counterterror and Intelligence Division, and one of the people who has been in and out of that office, who was a Middle East and North Africa intelligence director for the NYPD, is named Rebecca Weiner.
She is a professor at Columbia SIPA alongside warmonger queens Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton.
So, she's a professor at Columbia who's also the Deputy Chief of the NYPD's Counterterror Division, which has an office in Tel Aviv, and she has worked in and out of that office for many years before her current role.
She was spying on students.
Today, she appears with Eric Adams at a press conference and declares that the students had dangerous ideas.
She fabricates a claim that a terrorist's wife was working with the students.
She's talking about rhetoric; she's talking about speech as justification for bringing a BearCat vehicle onto campus, sending tactical teams in, and mass arresting students and sending them out not just on NYPD buses but on MTA buses that were seized by the NYPD.
She's not talking about violence; she's talking about speech.
And if you're watching this and you don't agree with the students, it doesn't matter because hate speech is protected under the First Amendment.
If you think they're anti-Semitic or whatever, it doesn't matter. What she's saying is that she is directly urinating on the Constitution.
This is someone who has penetrated Columbia University to demonize students as terrorists and paint American students as terrorists for their speech while she's part of an NYPD division that not only has an office in Tel Aviv but which has been exposed in a series of investigations going back to 2010 by the Associated Press for spying not only on Muslim students in the New York area but on Muslim students as far away as Yale, which is in Connecticut, and Rutgers, which is in New Jersey.
That's what her Counterterror division is.
[Is she known on the campus as a police officer who's taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment? Is she known on the campus as a spy?]
Well, she now is.
She's a spook.
She worked for the National Intelligence Director at one point while she was affiliated with the NYPD's Intelligence and Counterterror Division.
She's a literal spook and snitch on campus.
She is exactly what the students were protesting.
If you watched CNN last night with their live special coverage of the repression of Columbia by a militarized NYPD, you would have never heard why the students were protesting—that they were protesting a genocide or that they were demanding that their school divest from things like this, which are directly tied into all of this.
[All you would have heard is that the students are anti-Israeli—not that they're pro-free speech, not that they're pro-Palestinian, not that they're anti-war, not that they're against apartheid, not that they're against genocide, not that they think that Netanyahu is a criminal, but that they're anti-Israeli. That's all you would have heard if you watched mainstream media.]
Well, she's letting the cat out of the bag right there.
She's saying that because she personally doesn't agree with the views of these students, that they have to be repressed, suspended, not allowed to graduate, kicked off campus, kicked out of the dorms they paid for.
She said it herself—these are dangerous views that they hold, and she wouldn't want her children learning these views, so they can't allow that on campus.
She was feeding disinformation to reporters about a terrorist's wife being on campus.
I don't have time to go into the details there, but it's straight-up disinformation, and CBS New York actually retracted their story that was fed to them, apparently by her, but CNN has not yet retracted.
So, you can clearly see the NYPD's working the media.
It's taken control of Columbia's campus at the request of Columbia President Minouche Shafik, who is actually a British baroness.
She came over from the UK to take over this position, which she's mismanaged at every stage.
She has demanded that the NYPD remain on campus until May 17th, so Columbia University is effectively under occupation.
The views of Rebecca Weiner or Victoria Nuland or Hillary Clinton, who are all professors at Columbia and the body count that comes with them, is welcomed there by Columbia leadership.
The views of anti-genocide students are completely forbidden."
[And the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to keep the government out of the business of evaluating the content of speech, and that's what she's doing. And she's got an armed force who arrived at 2:00 in the morning looking like they were Marines about to storm a hill—an armed force to enforce her opinions of the content of the student speech.]
"If these students were protesting for the climate or something officially approved—something that could advance the imperatives of billionaires cashing in on renewable energy—there wouldn't have been this kind of police response.
They would have let them just camp out until the end of the semester, and then they would have mostly gone home.
But that's not the case.
We are kind of living in Netanyahu's America.
Just look at New York Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD and their relationship with the Israeli government.
If you don't believe there is an Israeli role here, consider this: It was the NYPD that pushed to go in––that got the context to go in––based on [claims of] outside agitators being on campus.
Eric Adams has pledged total support to Israel (he's gone and visited Netanyahu).
But it goes deeper than that.
The NYPD has an office in Tel Aviv through its Counterterror and Intelligence Division, and one of the people who has been in and out of that office, who was a Middle East and North Africa intelligence director for the NYPD, is named Rebecca Weiner.
She is a professor at Columbia SIPA alongside warmonger queens Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton.
So, she's a professor at Columbia who's also the Deputy Chief of the NYPD's Counterterror Division, which has an office in Tel Aviv, and she has worked in and out of that office for many years before her current role.
She was spying on students.
Today, she appears with Eric Adams at a press conference and declares that the students had dangerous ideas.
She fabricates a claim that a terrorist's wife was working with the students.
She's talking about rhetoric; she's talking about speech as justification for bringing a BearCat vehicle onto campus, sending tactical teams in, and mass arresting students and sending them out not just on NYPD buses but on MTA buses that were seized by the NYPD.
She's not talking about violence; she's talking about speech.
And if you're watching this and you don't agree with the students, it doesn't matter because hate speech is protected under the First Amendment.
If you think they're anti-Semitic or whatever, it doesn't matter. What she's saying is that she is directly urinating on the Constitution.
This is someone who has penetrated Columbia University to demonize students as terrorists and paint American students as terrorists for their speech while she's part of an NYPD division that not only has an office in Tel Aviv but which has been exposed in a series of investigations going back to 2010 by the Associated Press for spying not only on Muslim students in the New York area but on Muslim students as far away as Yale, which is in Connecticut, and Rutgers, which is in New Jersey.
That's what her Counterterror division is.
[Is she known on the campus as a police officer who's taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment? Is she known on the campus as a spy?]
Well, she now is.
She's a spook.
She worked for the National Intelligence Director at one point while she was affiliated with the NYPD's Intelligence and Counterterror Division.
She's a literal spook and snitch on campus.
She is exactly what the students were protesting.
If you watched CNN last night with their live special coverage of the repression of Columbia by a militarized NYPD, you would have never heard why the students were protesting—that they were protesting a genocide or that they were demanding that their school divest from things like this, which are directly tied into all of this.
[All you would have heard is that the students are anti-Israeli—not that they're pro-free speech, not that they're pro-Palestinian, not that they're anti-war, not that they're against apartheid, not that they're against genocide, not that they think that Netanyahu is a criminal, but that they're anti-Israeli. That's all you would have heard if you watched mainstream media.]
Well, she's letting the cat out of the bag right there.
She's saying that because she personally doesn't agree with the views of these students, that they have to be repressed, suspended, not allowed to graduate, kicked off campus, kicked out of the dorms they paid for.
She said it herself—these are dangerous views that they hold, and she wouldn't want her children learning these views, so they can't allow that on campus.
She was feeding disinformation to reporters about a terrorist's wife being on campus.
I don't have time to go into the details there, but it's straight-up disinformation, and CBS New York actually retracted their story that was fed to them, apparently by her, but CNN has not yet retracted.
So, you can clearly see the NYPD's working the media.
It's taken control of Columbia's campus at the request of Columbia President Minouche Shafik, who is actually a British baroness.
She came over from the UK to take over this position, which she's mismanaged at every stage.
She has demanded that the NYPD remain on campus until May 17th, so Columbia University is effectively under occupation.
The views of Rebecca Weiner or Victoria Nuland or Hillary Clinton, who are all professors at Columbia and the body count that comes with them, is welcomed there by Columbia leadership.
The views of anti-genocide students are completely forbidden."
[And the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to keep the government out of the business of evaluating the content of speech, and that's what she's doing. And she's got an armed force who arrived at 2:00 in the morning looking like they were Marines about to storm a hill—an armed force to enforce her opinions of the content of the student speech.]
Excerpt from remarks by American author Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, in an interview with Judge Napolitano, May 1, 2024.
Source: youtube.com/live/U12Ozd3s3…
Source: youtube.com/live/U12Ozd3s3…
This is Joe Dispenza.
A world-renowned neuroscientist.
He teaches people how to brainwash themselves into thinking on a higher level.
Some say he's a fraud & supernatural.
Here are 10 of his insights that shifted the trajectory of my life (and will do the same for you):
A world-renowned neuroscientist.
He teaches people how to brainwash themselves into thinking on a higher level.
Some say he's a fraud & supernatural.
Here are 10 of his insights that shifted the trajectory of my life (and will do the same for you):
The people who say Joe's a fraud don't understand him.
They live a mindless life.
We can learn from everyone – especially the people we don't understand.
Let's learn from Joe.
They live a mindless life.
We can learn from everyone – especially the people we don't understand.
Let's learn from Joe.
1. When your day runs on a program you’ve lost your free will to control your mind
The program is full of a memorized set of:
• behaviors
• fixed attitudes
• unconscious habits
• a set of beliefs & perceptions
• emotional reactions (some addictive)
Programs hypnotize you.
The program is full of a memorized set of:
• behaviors
• fixed attitudes
• unconscious habits
• a set of beliefs & perceptions
• emotional reactions (some addictive)
Programs hypnotize you.
1/14 Ukraine's biggest mistakes of the war: the delayed response to its manpower issue and succumbing to western pressure to launch a counterattack in 2023. Analysis by @joni_askola
2/14 Overall, this unjust war represents a significant failure for russia and a notable success for Ukraine thus far.
3/14 If we had been informed in March 2022 about how the situation would appear in May 2024, it would have been widely perceived as a significant success for Ukraine and a failure for russia.
It is ridiculous how Ukraine ignores high-priority targets and attacks low priority targets in Russia, says an observer criticizing Ukrainian attack on Russian oil refinery in Ryazan
Let’s take this argument seriously and think about what Ru targets should Ukraine hit first 1/
Let’s take this argument seriously and think about what Ru targets should Ukraine hit first 1/
But first let’s look at what Ukraine is hitting now.
The recent deep strikes have focused on oil refineries. They have not focused on crude oil production, electricity grid, command centers, or weapon storage facilities. 2/
The recent deep strikes have focused on oil refineries. They have not focused on crude oil production, electricity grid, command centers, or weapon storage facilities. 2/
There are of course strikes on command centers and weapons storage facilities closer to the front lines. One recent example is an ATACAMS attack on Russian training center in Luhansk region 3/
Imam Al Ghazali elucidates on how one can guard himself from the disobedience of the tongue.
The prophet ﷺ said,
“Most of the sins of the children of Adam are of their tongues.”
[al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr lil-Ṭabarānī 10446]
Know that your tongue was created so that,
1/17
The prophet ﷺ said,
“Most of the sins of the children of Adam are of their tongues.”
[al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr lil-Ṭabarānī 10446]
Know that your tongue was created so that,
1/17
You could spend time in the remembrance of Allah and in recitation of His Book and that you could guide Allah's creatures to His Way.
If you use it for other than what it was created for, you have been ungrateful for Allah’s blessing.
The tongue truly can overpower you,
2/17
If you use it for other than what it was created for, you have been ungrateful for Allah’s blessing.
The tongue truly can overpower you,
2/17
So struggle against it with all your might, for indeed failure can lead to ultimate ruin.
The master ﷺ said:
“People are not thrown into hell on their faces for anything other than the harvest of their tongues”
[Tirmidhi]
Protect your tongue from eight things.
3/17
The master ﷺ said:
“People are not thrown into hell on their faces for anything other than the harvest of their tongues”
[Tirmidhi]
Protect your tongue from eight things.
3/17
HUTANG RUMAH SAMPAI KIAMAT
1. Pada tahun 2007, saya berumur 25 tahun dan bercita-cita besar nak ada rumah sendiri.
2. Ini mungkin akibat serik berpindah-pindah sejak kecil dari satu rumah sewa ke rumah sewa yang seterusnya.
1. Pada tahun 2007, saya berumur 25 tahun dan bercita-cita besar nak ada rumah sendiri.
2. Ini mungkin akibat serik berpindah-pindah sejak kecil dari satu rumah sewa ke rumah sewa yang seterusnya.
3. Memandangkan pendapatan ayah saya tak besar dan dia tak layak ambil loan, jadi terpaksa la kami menyewa sahaja.
4. Maka dengan cita-cita nak ubah kehidupan keluarga. SAYA NAK MILIKI RUMAH "SENDIRI".
4. Maka dengan cita-cita nak ubah kehidupan keluarga. SAYA NAK MILIKI RUMAH "SENDIRI".
Kebodohan 1 : Miliki rumah sendiri dan miliki rumah yang dimiliki bank adalah perbezaan besar.
5. Jadi saya cuba cantikkan bank statement saya supaya dapat tipu bank untuk dapat loan rumah.
5. Jadi saya cuba cantikkan bank statement saya supaya dapat tipu bank untuk dapat loan rumah.
Animals interrupting wildlife photographers - a thread 🧵
1. A curious fox by Dan Dinu
1. A curious fox by Dan Dinu
2. A friendly seal by Art Wolf
3. Photographing meerkats by Will Burrard-Lucas
Super Explosive Thread Part 29🔥 🔥🔥
Long Thread
The New World Order (Part 6) and Abrogation of Art 370(Conclusion)
Why and How CIA created @ArvindKejriwal and How Modi Ji, Chanakya and The Boss prepared for The New World Order….
I ended Part 28 at The Special Unknown Man being told by the Boss to himself supervise the Preventive Detention of the Political Leadership in J&K…
In this thread I will discuss about how effectively the Political Leadership of J&K were handled and finally Art 370 was Abrogated…
Long Thread
The New World Order (Part 6) and Abrogation of Art 370(Conclusion)
Why and How CIA created @ArvindKejriwal and How Modi Ji, Chanakya and The Boss prepared for The New World Order….
I ended Part 28 at The Special Unknown Man being told by the Boss to himself supervise the Preventive Detention of the Political Leadership in J&K…
In this thread I will discuss about how effectively the Political Leadership of J&K were handled and finally Art 370 was Abrogated…
As I told you all in the last thread that by the afternoon of 3rd August multiple teams of Unknown Men and Women created mayhem in the entire valley and over 400+ individuals were arrested under preventive detention in less than 12 hours…
The Political Leadership in J&K was caught completely clueless about the crackdown because of the communication shut down…
Even the Governor of J&K was not aware of the Crackdown by these Unknown Men and Women…
It was time for the Special Unknown Man to initiate Phase 3 of the operation and impose a complete lockdown in the entire state…
The Political Leadership in J&K was caught completely clueless about the crackdown because of the communication shut down…
Even the Governor of J&K was not aware of the Crackdown by these Unknown Men and Women…
It was time for the Special Unknown Man to initiate Phase 3 of the operation and impose a complete lockdown in the entire state…
The UM : Are we ready for Phase 3???
The Major: Yes
The UM : Okay then, Let the fun begin, Gentlemen initiate Imposition of Section 144 in entire state. Inform the Raisina Hills and also the Governor…
The Major: Governor?? Are you sure???
The UM : The Political Leadership will contact him first, he needs to be as confused as others…
The Major: Okay but he will require some briefings…
The UM : I’ll leave that to the Raisina Hills…
By 4 PM on 3rd August the entire valley was under complete lockdown and section 144 was imposed..
The Major: Yes
The UM : Okay then, Let the fun begin, Gentlemen initiate Imposition of Section 144 in entire state. Inform the Raisina Hills and also the Governor…
The Major: Governor?? Are you sure???
The UM : The Political Leadership will contact him first, he needs to be as confused as others…
The Major: Okay but he will require some briefings…
The UM : I’ll leave that to the Raisina Hills…
By 4 PM on 3rd August the entire valley was under complete lockdown and section 144 was imposed..
Myth: BTS "only" managed to perform outside of SK bc of their performance at KCON LA 8/10/2014.
Myth: No one overseas was interested in BTS prior to their performance at KCON.
Kp0ppies vs The Truth
--a thread for Army & our 'Monster Rookies'
#BTShistory #BTS
Myth: No one overseas was interested in BTS prior to their performance at KCON.
Kp0ppies vs The Truth
--a thread for Army & our 'Monster Rookies'
#BTShistory #BTS
Thailand '7Color Concert' (Nov. 30, 2013)
Invited by Thai organizers, BTS had their 1st overseas stage, performing in front of 8000 fans.
"We were able to see the group's potential in overseas events through this promotion. We were happy with the positive results."
#BTSHistory
Invited by Thai organizers, BTS had their 1st overseas stage, performing in front of 8000 fans.
"We were able to see the group's potential in overseas events through this promotion. We were happy with the positive results."
#BTSHistory
Thailand '7Color Concert' (Nov. 30, 2013)
🐥We had nothing back then...and they made us feel as if we were stars.
🐿️The fans were so loud that you couldn't even hear the music.
🐹That helped...in having a good impression on going aboard.
#BTSHistory
🐥We had nothing back then...and they made us feel as if we were stars.
🐿️The fans were so loud that you couldn't even hear the music.
🐹That helped...in having a good impression on going aboard.
#BTSHistory
TECNO Smartphones may not be that popular.
And its Software may not be the Best Android Skin out there.
But here are some features of Hi OS that puts SHAME on many Android OEMs as Well as Apple iPhones.👇
And its Software may not be the Best Android Skin out there.
But here are some features of Hi OS that puts SHAME on many Android OEMs as Well as Apple iPhones.👇
PEEK PROOF
Its a feature that lets you hide your screen from prying eyes.
You can set what areas should be seen and what areas needs to be blacked out.
You can also change the transparency of shaded screen.
Helps really a lot in Crowded Public Spaces like Trains & Metros.
Its a feature that lets you hide your screen from prying eyes.
You can set what areas should be seen and what areas needs to be blacked out.
You can also change the transparency of shaded screen.
Helps really a lot in Crowded Public Spaces like Trains & Metros.
POWER OFF VERIFICATION
There are some really good options inside Mobile Anti-Theft Feature.
The power off verification won’t let your smartphone turn off or restart until the unlock password is given.
It helps after smartphone gets stolen,
Thieves can’t easily turn off device.
There are some really good options inside Mobile Anti-Theft Feature.
The power off verification won’t let your smartphone turn off or restart until the unlock password is given.
It helps after smartphone gets stolen,
Thieves can’t easily turn off device.
A short note on the encampment that's now set up here in Toronto @UofT. I snuck into it today (I told them I was a fellow comrade who'd stepped out to get a cig - not exactly crack security). I think it's only fair to talk to the folks and see what's going on before judging. 1/x
I did start recording video, just to ensure nothing was misinterpeted, when a fellow wanted to remove me from the site. I'm not trying to embarrass these kids, so won't post it, but suffice to say what I'm saying below is documented. 2/x
First fact is that strict majority of people I talked to are neither students nor affiliated with our university. We have something like 100k students and tons of staff, so it's not hard to find them! But yeah, "student encampment" is just objectively wrong as a description. 3/x
I went to the UCLA campus last night and spent a few hours there before the police dispersed the encampment. I wanted to see the pro-Palestine student protests for myself and get a sense of the atmosphere, energy, and students, as well as the movement's focus and the desired endgame. I wore a t-shirt with a chant that I hoped to use as an engagement opportunity with some students to see their views on various issues and how they perceive peace as an opportunity for the Palestinian people and cause. The chant is slightly modified from the ubiquitously repeated “from the river to the sea…” Here is what I saw:
- Right next to the parking lot and main entryway into the campus, a truck was parked with a speaker that loudly broadcast recordings from Richard Medhurst. I was disappointed and disturbed to see a rotating antisemitic symbol on top of the truck with a combined swastika and star of David. I wished that the protest organizers had removed that particular symbol, which was entirely hateful and vile. Many statements, words, and messages were plastered all over the truck, which had a Palestinian flag.
- Upon proceeding onto campus, something like 70% of protesters had masks, balaclavas, and kuffiyahs covering their faces – something that we see across college protests as students fear backlash, doxing, and retaliation for their participation. To me, as an outsider, this made the overall atmosphere immensely tense, not seeing peoples’ faces and feeling that people could do whatever they wanted while benefiting from anonymity. The environment was not conducive to dialogue, talking, discussions, debates, or anything of the sort. The message was clear; everyone who attended needed to be onboard with the dictated message and slogans or get out. You could feel the tension as many people looked around, suspicious and mistrustful of other masked protesters whom they didn’t know, fearing infiltrators, undercover cops, and pro-Israel students. As time went on, the tension I felt eased, and I became a bit more relaxed being around so many masked and covered-up faces.
- I went with my friend and ally @LucBernard, and we both observed people being wholly intrigued, confused, suspicious, and uncertain about me wearing a T-shirt with the modified pro-peace chant. Neither of us covered our faces, and we wanted to engage people and see what was happening, hear their thoughts, what they wanted, and why they were there.
- Thankfully, we encountered many extremely friendly people and very nice students (who were masked), and we asked questions about what’s been happening and got some intriguing details. Still, there was no room or space for bringing different views about the protests or the issue, as everybody was either on the “same page” or there was almost complete conformity with regard to the opinions that protesters espoused about Zionism, Israel, Gaza, etc.
My assessment:
1. It was truly disappointing and upsetting that the main entrance had a van with incendiary language and inflammatory rhetoric, not to mention a clearly antisemitic and vile symbol equating the swastika with the star of David. The organizers did not challenge this van; many who passed it showed immense enthusiasm and approval for its presence.
2. I can see how some students, certainly those who are Jewish and or don’t support the protesters and their message, would feel unsafe or intimidated. I felt that tension all around the campus with the masked students and the blocked entryways and barricaded areas – and it was strange to feel uneasy just wearing a t-shirt that promoted peace. Though I want to be absolutely clear: no one attacked me or said anything to me about the t-shirt despite being aggressively eye-mugged by pretty much everyone. Yet, I didn’t feel safe at all to actually have any real or detailed conversations with students about my views, Hamas, Gaza, or pragmatic paths forward. I genuinely feared being jumped by maskless students for simply expressing a view that differed from theirs.
3. There was no room or space for meaningful discussions, engagement, and exploring the building of a sustainable, broad movement with realistic and articulable goals, strategies, tactics, and sophisticated messaging. The slogans, goals, and ethos are based on maximalist, zero-sum aspirations that will never achieve anything for the Palestinian cause. It was clear that a small group of students and organizations developed their platform, and subsequently, the masses are being herded into following it, seemingly mindlessly and without a deep understanding of Gaza, Hamas, Israel, foreign policy, and all the relevant issues.
4. I stand by my assessment that at the current rate and trajectory, this historic opportunity will be squandered and will fail to harness unprecedented empathy for the Palestinian people to fuel actual change and achieve justice, freedom, and peace for the just and urgent Palestinian cause.
5. Most students are sincere and absolutely have their hearts in the right place. They are, however, misguided and are being led by extreme, radical, and genuinely detrimental organizations, voices, and “revolutionary” types who are the worst possible allies and spokespeople for the Palestinian people. If presented with the right balance of information, analysis, assessment, and recommendations, I’m confident that many, if not most, students will likely adjust course and become better-informed protesters and advocates. Nevertheless, it's nearly impossible to imagine a change happening anytime soon, given how entrenched the “pro-Palestine industrial complex” is becoming, and there’s no space for diverse opinions or alternative narratives within the movement.
I support free speech and freedom of expression; I oppose vandalism, intolerance, forced conformity, hate, and mindless activism. I commend the intentions of students and their rights to voice their opposition to what’s happening in Gaza as enshrined by democratic principles of liberal societies; I blame radical, unsophisticated, maximalist, hateful, and misguided organizations, activists, and voices for squandering a historic opportunity to drum up support for the Palestinian people and push for an independent state living side by side with a secure Israel – they don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
- Right next to the parking lot and main entryway into the campus, a truck was parked with a speaker that loudly broadcast recordings from Richard Medhurst. I was disappointed and disturbed to see a rotating antisemitic symbol on top of the truck with a combined swastika and star of David. I wished that the protest organizers had removed that particular symbol, which was entirely hateful and vile. Many statements, words, and messages were plastered all over the truck, which had a Palestinian flag.
- Upon proceeding onto campus, something like 70% of protesters had masks, balaclavas, and kuffiyahs covering their faces – something that we see across college protests as students fear backlash, doxing, and retaliation for their participation. To me, as an outsider, this made the overall atmosphere immensely tense, not seeing peoples’ faces and feeling that people could do whatever they wanted while benefiting from anonymity. The environment was not conducive to dialogue, talking, discussions, debates, or anything of the sort. The message was clear; everyone who attended needed to be onboard with the dictated message and slogans or get out. You could feel the tension as many people looked around, suspicious and mistrustful of other masked protesters whom they didn’t know, fearing infiltrators, undercover cops, and pro-Israel students. As time went on, the tension I felt eased, and I became a bit more relaxed being around so many masked and covered-up faces.
- I went with my friend and ally @LucBernard, and we both observed people being wholly intrigued, confused, suspicious, and uncertain about me wearing a T-shirt with the modified pro-peace chant. Neither of us covered our faces, and we wanted to engage people and see what was happening, hear their thoughts, what they wanted, and why they were there.
- Thankfully, we encountered many extremely friendly people and very nice students (who were masked), and we asked questions about what’s been happening and got some intriguing details. Still, there was no room or space for bringing different views about the protests or the issue, as everybody was either on the “same page” or there was almost complete conformity with regard to the opinions that protesters espoused about Zionism, Israel, Gaza, etc.
My assessment:
1. It was truly disappointing and upsetting that the main entrance had a van with incendiary language and inflammatory rhetoric, not to mention a clearly antisemitic and vile symbol equating the swastika with the star of David. The organizers did not challenge this van; many who passed it showed immense enthusiasm and approval for its presence.
2. I can see how some students, certainly those who are Jewish and or don’t support the protesters and their message, would feel unsafe or intimidated. I felt that tension all around the campus with the masked students and the blocked entryways and barricaded areas – and it was strange to feel uneasy just wearing a t-shirt that promoted peace. Though I want to be absolutely clear: no one attacked me or said anything to me about the t-shirt despite being aggressively eye-mugged by pretty much everyone. Yet, I didn’t feel safe at all to actually have any real or detailed conversations with students about my views, Hamas, Gaza, or pragmatic paths forward. I genuinely feared being jumped by maskless students for simply expressing a view that differed from theirs.
3. There was no room or space for meaningful discussions, engagement, and exploring the building of a sustainable, broad movement with realistic and articulable goals, strategies, tactics, and sophisticated messaging. The slogans, goals, and ethos are based on maximalist, zero-sum aspirations that will never achieve anything for the Palestinian cause. It was clear that a small group of students and organizations developed their platform, and subsequently, the masses are being herded into following it, seemingly mindlessly and without a deep understanding of Gaza, Hamas, Israel, foreign policy, and all the relevant issues.
4. I stand by my assessment that at the current rate and trajectory, this historic opportunity will be squandered and will fail to harness unprecedented empathy for the Palestinian people to fuel actual change and achieve justice, freedom, and peace for the just and urgent Palestinian cause.
5. Most students are sincere and absolutely have their hearts in the right place. They are, however, misguided and are being led by extreme, radical, and genuinely detrimental organizations, voices, and “revolutionary” types who are the worst possible allies and spokespeople for the Palestinian people. If presented with the right balance of information, analysis, assessment, and recommendations, I’m confident that many, if not most, students will likely adjust course and become better-informed protesters and advocates. Nevertheless, it's nearly impossible to imagine a change happening anytime soon, given how entrenched the “pro-Palestine industrial complex” is becoming, and there’s no space for diverse opinions or alternative narratives within the movement.
I support free speech and freedom of expression; I oppose vandalism, intolerance, forced conformity, hate, and mindless activism. I commend the intentions of students and their rights to voice their opposition to what’s happening in Gaza as enshrined by democratic principles of liberal societies; I blame radical, unsophisticated, maximalist, hateful, and misguided organizations, activists, and voices for squandering a historic opportunity to drum up support for the Palestinian people and push for an independent state living side by side with a secure Israel – they don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
A friend of mine who came up with the slogan has been making these t-shirts; in a day or two, I'll share a link to order it online.
After becoming the first president in history to be found guilty of contempt, Donald’s trial in lower Manhattan continued and, overall, it was another significant day of MAGA losses.
Too often the corporate media overlooks important stories and it's my intention, whenever possible, to cut through the noise and ensure that important stories are not just covered but discussed and analyzed in a meaningful way.
Here are TEN critical stories that received little attention but deserve to be covered widely:
1. Kaitlan Collins shuts down J.D. Vance:
Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of “The Source,” MAGA Senator J.D. Vance was caught like a deer in the headlights after Kaitlan Collins pressed him about whether he’d accept an invitation to be Donald’s running mate — in light of the fact that Donald incited an angry mob against Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th and didn’t lift a finger to stop them.
"The last time I checked, President Biden wasn't approving of the chants to hang his vice president and didn't call his vice president when their life was in danger on Capitol Hill, something that Mike Pence himself has testified to," Collins explained. "So my question is, does it give you any pause to be [Donald's] vice president given how he treated Mike Pence?"
"Kaitlan, I'm extremely skeptical that Mike Pence's life was ever in danger," Vance said before Collins cut him off. "I think Mike Pence would disagree with that part, senator," she insisted.
Unsurprisingly, Vance attempted to diminish the importance of the insurrection on January 6, which Collins refused to let him get away with:
“...The idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone's lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it's just absurd,” Vance said.
"But they were chanting that they wanted to hang him," Collins pointed out.
She also didn’t let Vance get away with his absurd assertion that Donald’s New York trial is being orchestrated by President Biden to keep Donald from campaigning:
"I think the biggest threat to American democracy, Kaitlan, is that the Biden administration is trying to prevent Donald Trump from campaigning and taking his case to the American people,” Vance said.
"It's a judge in New York that's presiding over that case," Collins interrupted. "And the Biden administration is not preventing Donald Trump from campaigning. He just did two events tonight!”
Then, in perhaps the best moment of the segment, when the two were discussing the campus protests, Collins asked Vance, “So you agree that people who break in and vandalize should be prosecuted?”
Vance responded, “Exactly.”
“Okay. I'm just checking because you did help raise money for people who did that on January 6, which was impeding an official proceeding, breaking into and vandalizing the Capitol.”
I think it’s long past time that networks like CNN stop hosting political figures like J.D. Vance who have no interest in the truth. But, if they insist on continuing to have them on, this is a good example of how they should be interviewed.
Too often the corporate media overlooks important stories and it's my intention, whenever possible, to cut through the noise and ensure that important stories are not just covered but discussed and analyzed in a meaningful way.
Here are TEN critical stories that received little attention but deserve to be covered widely:
1. Kaitlan Collins shuts down J.D. Vance:
Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of “The Source,” MAGA Senator J.D. Vance was caught like a deer in the headlights after Kaitlan Collins pressed him about whether he’d accept an invitation to be Donald’s running mate — in light of the fact that Donald incited an angry mob against Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th and didn’t lift a finger to stop them.
"The last time I checked, President Biden wasn't approving of the chants to hang his vice president and didn't call his vice president when their life was in danger on Capitol Hill, something that Mike Pence himself has testified to," Collins explained. "So my question is, does it give you any pause to be [Donald's] vice president given how he treated Mike Pence?"
"Kaitlan, I'm extremely skeptical that Mike Pence's life was ever in danger," Vance said before Collins cut him off. "I think Mike Pence would disagree with that part, senator," she insisted.
Unsurprisingly, Vance attempted to diminish the importance of the insurrection on January 6, which Collins refused to let him get away with:
“...The idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone's lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it's just absurd,” Vance said.
"But they were chanting that they wanted to hang him," Collins pointed out.
She also didn’t let Vance get away with his absurd assertion that Donald’s New York trial is being orchestrated by President Biden to keep Donald from campaigning:
"I think the biggest threat to American democracy, Kaitlan, is that the Biden administration is trying to prevent Donald Trump from campaigning and taking his case to the American people,” Vance said.
"It's a judge in New York that's presiding over that case," Collins interrupted. "And the Biden administration is not preventing Donald Trump from campaigning. He just did two events tonight!”
Then, in perhaps the best moment of the segment, when the two were discussing the campus protests, Collins asked Vance, “So you agree that people who break in and vandalize should be prosecuted?”
Vance responded, “Exactly.”
“Okay. I'm just checking because you did help raise money for people who did that on January 6, which was impeding an official proceeding, breaking into and vandalizing the Capitol.”
I think it’s long past time that networks like CNN stop hosting political figures like J.D. Vance who have no interest in the truth. But, if they insist on continuing to have them on, this is a good example of how they should be interviewed.
3/ Republican Congressman Mike Kelly exposed for his hypocrisy:
Today it was revealed that the family of Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), who criticized President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act for being “loaded with bad policy and wasteful spending,” received a grant of nearly $315,000 from the program for their car dealership.
The grant, part of the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), was used to install a solar panel array at the dealership, which is expected to save the business around $27,300 annually.
This isn’t the first time Kelly’s car dealership has benefited from a federal program. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the dealership received a nearly $1 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program. This loan was, of course, forgiven. Ten bucks if you can tell me where Helly stands on student loan forgiveness.
Today it was revealed that the family of Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), who criticized President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act for being “loaded with bad policy and wasteful spending,” received a grant of nearly $315,000 from the program for their car dealership.
The grant, part of the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), was used to install a solar panel array at the dealership, which is expected to save the business around $27,300 annually.
This isn’t the first time Kelly’s car dealership has benefited from a federal program. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the dealership received a nearly $1 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program. This loan was, of course, forgiven. Ten bucks if you can tell me where Helly stands on student loan forgiveness.
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I talk a lot of trash about BigLaw, and most of it is deserved. But sometimes they do important things like represent victims of terrorism in a lawsuit that connects the dots between Hamas and Students for Justice in Palestine. This is a massive deal, filed today in the Eastern District of Virginia by Greenberg Traurig. 1/10
The complaint, filed by United States and Israeli citizens who survived the October 7 attacks, alleges that Defendant American Muslims for Palestine (“AMP”) serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States. Hamas is a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (“FTO”). 2/10
The complaint alleges that AMP was founded from the ashes of disbanded organizations created by senior Hamas officials after those organizations and related individuals were found criminally and civilly liable for providing material support to Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups. 3/10
10 years ago I moved across the country for a job opportunity in Calgary. It was a big risk - I didn’t know anyone outside of some folks from this app whom I had never met in person.
I had a medical emergency a few weeks after moving - and one of those people saved my life 🧵/1
I had a medical emergency a few weeks after moving - and one of those people saved my life 🧵/1
His name was Tory and at the time I knew him only by his avatar and handle. But when I landed in Calgary he reached out via DM and offered me help and advice for getting to know my new city. /2
I told him I would take him up on that offer when I was more settled - but truthfully I was a bit leery about meeting a man I didn’t know in real life. So we exchanged messages here & there but did not meet up in person. /3
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