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Inconvenient facts for Zohran Mamdani @NYCMayor: Countries with an official religion: 43 Officially Islamic: 27 Officially Christian: 13 Officially Jewish: 0 (Israel does not have an official state religion) *None* of the countries with Islam as the official state religion fully protect the rights of religious minorities to the exact same extent as Muslims, in both law and practice.

The IDF took out the Hamas terrorist who tortured Rom Braslavski — in a precision airstrike. "This is the most emotional day of my life." We love you, Rom.🤍

@VerminusM Cons: Every government system is outdated, counter-intuitive, and designed to drive you insane.

@VerminusM Hands down, raising kids here. The country is set up to be family friendly, independence is nurtured from a young age, capability rewarded. I love watching my kids grow up here. Night and day from what they were like in the States.

I have a question for Americans living in Israel: what are the pros and cons of living in Israel compared to living in the States?

An 11-year-old boy. One crochet hook. 60 skeins of yarn. No pattern. Two weeks. 🇺🇸 While juggling tennis camps and baseball games, Grayson poured his heart into crocheting this stunning American flag blanket—just in time to celebrate America’s 250th Independence Day. 🧨 No fancy instructions, just pure determination and love for his country. The result is a beautiful family heirloom that proves some of life’s greatest treasures are still made by hand. 🇺🇸✨ Proud of this kid and the quiet power of creativity in the next generation. What an inspiration! 👏

🔴 I normally never ask people to share my content, but this one is important, so please share: I have just stumbled across a huge smuggler network on Tiktok. It's insane. They openly post their phone numbers and advertise their "services" on the platform, getting thousands of likes and replies full of prospective illegal immigrants. This includes forged passports, so called safe routes into Europe, and food/drinks and rooms to sleep on the way. It's a massive operation. Smugglers film the men they're smuggling, ask them if they're "happy customers", and boast about the accommodation and food provided while they do their smuggling. The migrants are mainly Afghan men, as are the smugglers. Many obtain fake Iranian passports, which is why many "Iranian" criminals in the West are actually Afghans with fake identities. They arrive in the West presenting themselves as Iranian, so that when many of them commit rape and murder, it gets falsely pinned on Iranians. Once again, illegal immigration is a BOOMING BUSINESS on Tiktok, and nothing seems to be done to stop it. They're so confident and secure in their operation that they're not only literally using Western social media to facilitate this - they post their own contact info and expect nothing to happen to them. Tiktok and social media giants have a responsibility to shut this down. The invasion of the West is being advertised on Western platforms and apps. It's MADNESS.

“My childhood was stolen. I was taken as a captive to the Gaza Strip, where I was sold to a Jihadist, and forced to marry him and bear two children. I lived there for years in slavery.” — Fawzia Amin Sido, Yazidi survivor of ISIS sexual slavery, freed from Gaza by the IDF

Noting: Yes. It is possible to criticize Israel without being anti Semitic. Exhibit Below.

This country drinks the ocean From 0% to 80% of the country drinking from the ocean in just 20 years. This is the story!

The sheer number of snide remarks about cheese in a can in response to this post is striking. It seems many feel compelled to mention it simply to reassure themselves of the inherent superiority of their European cheeses. Which no doubt I'm sure is true to some extent, but it's severely missing the point. Yes it's somewhat gross and terrifying that cheese can come out of a can the same way whipped cream can. But while it is about cheese in a can, it's not really about cheese in a can. It's about the sheer, glorious American instinct to look at something ordinary and ask: What if? What if we could keep cheese in that perfect, gooey, liquidy consistency - shelf-stable, ready at a moment's notice - and then invent an aerosol can to dispense it? It needs no refrigeration. You may thumb your nose down at the product but it's actually the same spirit that said, “what if we could fly to the Moon?” The invention of sprayable processed cheese is about a mindset of irreverence, optimism, and a culture that is unafraid of looking silly if it means pushing boundaries. Aerosolizing the cheese isn't easy. Any culture that can do that will start asking bigger questions without fear. What if we cure diseases with mRNA in months instead of decades? What if reusable rockets land themselves like something out of sci-fi? What if ordinary people can access computing power that once required government labs? The pretentious twats who roll their eyes at Easy Cheese simply don't get it. It’s not about sophistication; it's about agency. A people who refuse to accept “that’s just how it’s always been.” A culture that iterates, experiments, commercializes, and yes, sometimes sprays a neon orange dairy product from a can because...... why the hell not? That’s the moonshot mentality in its essence. Playful on the surface, revolutionary underneath. And it's why the European mind struggles so hard to grasp it. As long as Americans keep this fire, whether it's cheese or the cosmos, they will keep surprising the world.

Some will mention Muslim countries that seem to be functioning. They won't bring up the struggle they've had with their radicals, and therefore the draconian laws they enact to preserve their stability. America is an exception, not a rule and it's okay to want to preserve it.

@shevereshtus Never has Israelis so clearly meant "Jooooos" than this tweet. Like she's barely trying.

The minds of antisemites are fascinating. Apparently the Jews are now engaged in a century-long project to… colonize Albania. Following our plans to colonize Ukraine and Patagonia, of course. Just how many Jews worldwide do they think there are?

@KassyKosher Hear me out. Clearly it was because you started with the opposite gender. Not tznius enough. Start again with Megyn or Candace this time and it should work. 😂

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects my favorite one right now is this guy who built an AI system that listens for birds outside his apartment, figures out what species they are, and paints them on his wall. here's how the whole thing works: 1. a cheap usb mic on his balcony listens for birdsong 24/7 2. BirdNET, Cornell's AI model trained on 6,000+ species, names each bird species from the sound alone (no camera needed) 3. every time it hears one, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image paints that exact bird in the style of an Edo-period japanese woodblock print 4. the new painting drops into a live collage of everything that's been singing outside in the last 24 hours 5. and it all shows up on a framed e-ink display on his wall that reads "heard today" like a little museum placard for his neighborhood knowing which birds visit you used to take a field guide, a trained ear, plus years of patient practice. teddy just glances at the frame on his wall and sees the cardinal came back this morning honestly i'm highly tempted to build one myself haha

@AThinksAloud If you want a good takedown from a Jewish perspective, @shevereshtus does his usual excellent work. x.com/i/status/20692…

I was helping my mom get into her nightgown earlier. When we were done, she thanked me for being patient with her. I said “You’re welcome.” A minute later she turned to me and said “Do you know my son Paul?” I said “Yes. I hear he’s a really good guy.” Without missing a beat she smiled and said “He has his moments.” 🤣🤣

@JakeTurx @jacklanger @FarroYossi A Partners in Torah program that matches Jews with antisemites could be kinda cool.

Public challenge for frum celebs and podcasters: Let's all follow the example set by @jacklanger and @FarroYossi, both of whom won over someone who was convinced he didn’t like us. I want to challenge every ehrliche Yid with a platform: find one person who’s hostile, suspicious or carrying around bad assumptions about Jews, and through charm, patience and a genuine Kiddush Hashem, flip him. Forget arguing with the internet. Go meet one person and surprise him with what a Yid actually looks and acts like.

@Abigailouise00 Frum, yes; Dati, no.

Question for Israeli frum Twitter: I'm a new olah from America trying to find my future husband. I'm hearing from shadchanim in Israel that looking for someone that is frum and pro-army is gonna be difficult. Are they right?

I assume the UK is like Chicago, no matter how awful the last guy was they'll manage to find somebody even worse

Hey @JDVance, instead of waiting for Iranians to come up to you & snub you... offer this NEW Ceasefire Terms (invented by me 5 seconds ago while I was taking a shahada): 1. IDF withdraws from Lebanon. 2. IDF is replaced by a group funded and armed by Israel. If the Iranians try to say "but that is just an Israeli proxy so that still counts as occupying Lebanon," just look at them like this 👇