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About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.






Most of us don’t personally know Joe Kent, and I certainly don’t. But we probably know a number of people, whether in real life or online, who have suddenly shown anti-Semitic or at least anti-Israel tendencies. So what do you do about it? Do you block them and cut all ties? Do you try to engage them? Those are deeply personal choices, and everyone handles it differently. My starting assumption is that most of these people aren’t inherently bad, in fact, most of them are good people. But something has gone wrong, probably a mix of social media contagion, cognitive dissonance, and other factors. I’m not saying that being anti-Israel is automatically wrong, but what’s concerning is how quickly so many people’s views have turned. We do have recent precedent in that Covid showed us how quickly 80 or 90 percent of people could lose their minds, including those I would never have expected to enthusiastically support stripping away civil liberties. So yes, I don’t know exactly why it’s happening, only that it is part of human nature. And that’s why I won’t simply cast aside everyone who experiences this kind of shift.





Excited to see the House unanimously pass the HEAR Act, legislation I helped lead and pass unanimously in the Senate. The legislation now heads to the President’s desk, and upon his signature, a long-overdue victory for the families of Holocaust victims will finally be delivered.


🚨My bill, the HEAR Act, has officially passed the House and is headed to the President’s desk.



After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.


After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.



What they did to these DOGE kids, purely to harass them and discourage anyone else from even trying to do real civic work, is completely beyond the pale. Truly sick people. Credit to Nathan Cavanaugh for running circles around that mob.







