Budd Shenkin

@CptAllenHistory Hungary is infamously anti-Semitic - always has been.

The Vrba-Wetzler Report didn’t just pierce the fog of disbelief around Auschwitz; it delivered maps, diagrams, and a precise warning that the next victims would be Hungary’s 800,000 Jews. Yet the same air forces that repeatedly struck the I.G. Farben plant five miles away left the crematoria untouched. In the eight weeks that followed, 437,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz — the overwhelming majority gassed on arrival. History’s verdict is merciless: when Jewish lives depended on the goodwill of others, goodwill evaporated. Jewish sovereignty is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.

@EdwardGLuce Seems to me that major culprit and victim of Trump years is journalism.

also listened to S.E. Cupp saying how upsetting it was for her even to be in the studio watching this, breaking down in tears. On this of all nights, journalists should try to be professional.

Listening to CNN going on about how it must have been so traumatic for Erika Kirk to have been in a room where shots were fired. Guess you have to fill up the minutes but this is dramatically awful.

Great column on Kerr, Lacob - who creates what? dubnationhq.com/p/the-genius-q…

Are they all rats, Bibi?

A 7-year-old boy slept under a bridge in London. No shoes. No food. No one who knew his name. A young stranger stopped and asked him a simple question — and what the child said next changed history forever. His name was Jim. The year was 1866. London was choking under black factory smoke, and the East End was a maze of sewers, starvation, and invisible children. Jim was one of them — filthy clothes, matted hair, eyes that held pain no child should ever know. Thomas Barnardo was just a 21-year-old medical student, quietly preparing to travel to China as a missionary. Then he met Jim crouched in a doorway, shivering. "Are there more like you?" Thomas asked. "Heaps of 'em, sir," Jim whispered. "More than I can count. We sleep where the dogs won't go." A few days later, Jim was dead. He died alone in the cold, another child the city had simply forgotten to notice. Thomas Barnardo never boarded that ship to China. Instead, in 1870, he opened a small home for abandoned boys in East London. Above the door, he hung a sign that read: "No destitute child will ever be refused admission." One night, the home was full and he turned a boy away. Two days later, that same child was found dead from hunger and cold. Thomas wept. He made a vow he never broke: the door would always open. When critics told him he was crazy and would run out of money, he kept building. More homes. Foster families. Vocational training. He gave street children — children people called "rats" — a trade, a name, and a future. He didn't ask for papers. He didn't ask for backgrounds. He simply opened the door. By the time Thomas Barnardo died in 1905, he had rescued more than 60,000 children from the streets of Britain. Today, Barnardo's is still one of the UK's largest children's charities — still keeping a dead boy's whispered words alive, 160 years later. Everything began with one man who stopped walking, looked down, and truly saw a child that the rest of the world had decided wasn't worth seeing. Tag someone who still believes one person can change everything. 💙

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

@ihtesham2005 This is what the world should be like. No wars.

@highbrow_nobrow Trump is the very definition of a prick.

Trump defames Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles. (2025)

@sheilatebra So I guess she's not a billionaire. they wouldn't do that.

Anonymous My twin sister and I aged out of foster care on the same day at eighteen which sounds like it should mean we had each other and therefore were fine. What it actually means is that two people with nothing faced a system that considers its job complete the moment the clock runs out and wishes you well with the particular indifference of paperwork. We had a social worker named Miss Charlene who was not assigned to us anymore the day we turned eighteen. Her caseload moved on and technically so should she have. She did not move on. Showed up at the group home on our birthday with a cake and two folders. Inside each folder was everything she had spent three months quietly assembling. Apartment listings she had called ahead about. Bus routes to the community college. A list of employers who had hired former foster youth and treated them decently. Phone numbers with names attached and notes about who to ask for. She sat with us for four hours that afternoon going through every page... Then she wrote her personal cell number on the inside cover of both folders and said use it. We used it. Many times. More than we probably should have. She answered every time. My sister is a registered nurse now. I run a mentorship program for youth aging out of foster care. Miss Charlene came to both of our graduations. Front row. Same smile both times.

Absolutely!!!! LMAO....

Correct

@warriorsworld Rich guys (Lacob) will always be a problem.

How dare he speak up and use his platform.

@CptAllenHistory As soon as you call it Judea and Samaria, you have discredited yourself. It's your own Gulf of America.

This day (April 24) in 1950: Jordan Illegally Annexed Judea & Samaria After Ethnically Cleansing Every Jew From the Land On this day in 1950, Jordan formally annexed the “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) and eastern Jerusalem — territories it seized by military force during the 1948 Arab invasion of the nascent State of Israel. Jordan had no legal right to the land. The annexation was never recognized by the international community. Only Great Britain and Pakistan gave it any form of recognition — and Britain explicitly refused to recognize Jordan’s annexation of eastern Jerusalem. Even most Arab states rejected the move. During the war that preceded annexation, Jordan carried out a complete ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population. Every single Jew was expelled or murdered from the areas under Jordanian control. The ancient Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem was destroyed. 58 synagogues were desecrated or razed. The Mount of Olives — one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the world, with graves dating back more than 2,500 years — was systematically vandalized: thousands of tombstones were smashed and used as paving stones, building material, and even latrines for the Jordanian army. For the first time in more than 3,000 years of recorded Jewish history, not a single Jew remained in Judea, Samaria, or the Old City of Jerusalem. Jordan even invented a new name for the territory: the “West Bank” (of the Jordan River). Before 1948, the area had never been called that in history. The term was created to erase its ancient Jewish connection and reframe it as an Arab possession. From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was physically divided by Jordanian-built concrete walls, barbed wire, and minefields. Jewish families who had lived in the city for generations were forced to flee with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Jews were barred from the Western Wall and the Old City. Jordanian snipers regularly fired across the armistice lines into western Jerusalem. This 19-year period of illegal Jordanian occupation and ethnic cleansing ended only with Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Jordan’s annexation was eventually annulled at Jordan’s own initiative when it signed the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. But the damage had been done: an ancient Jewish presence was erased, holy sites were desecrated, and a new narrative was born. History does not support the claim that Judea and Samaria were some ancient “Arab homeland.” The record shows something very different: a brief, illegal occupation built on military conquest and ethnic cleansing. The Jewish people’s connection to this land predates Islam by more than a millennium — and it was never extinguished.

What we are finding out is that US government is too slow to self-correct. In 4 years, we will be a shadow of our former selves. Although the oligarchs and Trump family will be much richer. They are looting America, and destroying it.

@MeanwhileInUA The women political leaders in Europe are inspiring. (excepting AfD)

China wants a trade deal with the EU. Finland just made that impossible — unless China drops Russia. ㅤ Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was direct: China's ties with Moscow are a deal-breaker for any EU-China free trade agreement. No negotiations can begin without all 27 EU member states on board. Finland is one of them. ㅤ Beijing has been pitching trade and investment deals to European leaders for months. Last month Germany's chancellor called such an agreement potentially achievable. Valtonen just cooled that down significantly. ㅤ China now has to choose: one of the world's largest markets, or continued partnership with a sanctioned, isolated aggressor. ㅤ That's a real economic squeeze — and it came from Helsinki, not Washington. ㅤ

@YourAnonNews Kamala/Pete ticket???? Harris is dead meat - she just doesn't know it. In addition, you can't have an unbalanced ticket. In this case, all the brains would be in the VP.

Dumbest fucking idea ever. Don't do this. You'll lose, again. Just no.

@SenatorSlotkin @ADL Jews who experience anti-Semitism are additional victims of Netanyahu and the extreme right Israeli government, and of extremist groups in the US, AIPAC and ADL. With friends like these....

Jewish people are the most targeted religious community in the United States, and anti-semitism is rising left, right and center. That's why today, I met community leaders from the @ADL from Temple Israel in Michigan and across the country. These leaders have survived violence and hate of the worst kind, up close and personal. And they were here to fight for more security funding through the non-profit security grant program. I was able to get Secretary Mullin to commit to investing more into this program earlier this year, but the job is not done. I appreciate these leaders making their voices heard, and working to protect Jewish communities from the threat of violence.

These Czechs are baaad!

@marceelias Great quote!

Glad to see more people are coming around ro my argument that Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/jonath…

@burrytracker Same firm that hired Merrick Garland. I won't be doing business with them.

And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around: • Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist • Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written • Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code The primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hour