Axiom Magic

Multiple reports today indicate that Hamas operatives, using physical force and threats, blocked Palestinian workers and contractors, approved by the Board of Peace and Israeli authorities, from crossing the “Yellow Line” into the southern zone of the Gaza Strip, where Rafah once stood and where new temporary communities are planned. These sites are intended to move displaced Gazans out of rodent‑infested tents and into humane living conditions. The UAE has long backed this effort as an early step toward recovery, offering civilians an alternative to perpetual misery while the larger political and reconstruction questions remain unresolved. Hamas’s fascist leadership has no interest in any improvement in Gaza unless it directly empowers them, allowing them to siphon resources, rebuild capabilities, and maintain their stranglehold over two million Palestinians. This is why I have consistently argued that the only meaningful interim step is relocating civilians gradually, in phases, across the yellow line and out of Hamas’s reach. Doing so strips the terror group of its last remaining leverage: the ability to weaponize Gazans’ suffering to extract Arab, regional, and international concessions that keep it in power. Hamas can be defeated militarily, ideologically, economically, and socially, but none of that is possible while it maintains an unbroken grip over the population. It is astonishing that some in Europe and the broader international community still cling to the same development models that entrenched Hamas’s rule in the first place; promoting projects that ignore Hamas’s absolute control over the red zone west of the “Yellow Line” and indulging the very Band-Aid approaches the group relies on to create a normalcy bias that treats its perpetual rule as inevitable. There’s an alternate strategy: the international coalition’s approach in Mosul and Raqqa to defeat ISIS almost a decade ago. This entailed removing civilians from the terror group’s grip and areas of control first, confronting the militants, then beginning the long, difficult work of stabilization and recovery.

A recent “systematic review” claiming transgender women show no meaningful strength differences from women after hormones went viral in progressive circles, but it should never have been published. It included studies that didn’t even meet its own criteria, and excluded relevant studies that did but contradicted its preferred conclusion. It made sweeping claims based on limited (and flawed) data, and one outlier study drove the headline result. This did not pass even basic expectations for scientific rigor, and yet it passed peer review in a top journal. Exercise scientist @JamesLNuzzo does the rigorous, line-by-line review this paper should have received before publication, breaking down exactly where it went wrong and why the conclusions don’t hold up. Read the full article below. 🔗realityslaststand.com/p/how-a-flawed…

For those keeping track, Kristoff's piece: - Was published to pre-empt a detailed report about sexual violence by Hamas, full of actual evidence. - One of his main quoted Israeli sources says Kristoff misrepresented his take. - The article omits context about the background of its sources. - Several of his cited victims have a clear record of significantly changing their story. Kristoff omits any explanation for these changes. - The main source of the most significant abuse claim is a terrorist-tied org that has pushed constant insane conspiracies. A group that denies extensive evidence of widespread sexual violence by Hamas and had an interest in pre-empting the report mentioned in the first point. - The article promotes a central claim from that group about dogs being trained to rape people, which is biologically unlikely and has almost no supporting evidence. Kristoff has since misled followers about the medical evidence to support the possibility. Another primary linked source for the claim is an online grifter known for making stuff up, sexually harassing women, and sending inappropriate photos to minors, while having no firsthand knowledge to support the claim. The NYT fired several people for publishing a Tom Cotton op-ed with a very mainstream view about preventing mob violence, but Kistoff knows there will be zero consequences for any of the above because the NYT consistently adopts the view that journalistic standards don't apply when publishing anti-Israel content.

Five days after Cameron was sworn in last year, he gave me and my wife a call. He wanted to learn from FEMA's most fierce critics how the agency had gone wrong, what it had done to deserve such harsh blowback from residents in the mountains of North Carolina. I didn't hold back, I let him have it. And so did 6 other people that had lost their homes, bridges, their entire livelihoods. He ASKED for them to get on a Zoom call with him and tell him their stories of how the agency had failed them. The call lasted HOURS, each person telling Cameron what they had been through with FEMA, the state, insurance, the entire disaster process. Again, Cameron listened. But he didn't JUST listen, he APOLOGIZED for the way FEMA had failed these individuals. He got their FEMA case numbers, and he did the HARD WORK of rectifying their situations. Every single person on that phone call with Cameron has been helped by FEMA. Firing Cameron was an insanely stupid decision and I said it at the time… even when I was ripped up and down for it. I still believe it was stupid for him to be let go and I could not be more excited that he’s back. He’s an honest, genuine, hard working man. Well done @POTUS 🫡 Welcome back brother, @CameronVA. I’ve missed you so much.

It doesn't matter if it's true to the people pushing it. Keep in mind, the main source for this campaign (EuroMed) has made claims that Israel uses secret weapons to vaporize bodies, steals and harvests organs, does house-to-house executions of innocent bystanders, uses dogs to rape people, and a hundred more absurd claims... Back in 2020, I remember all of the insane fraud claims/conspiracies. I would debunk hundreds of them, but it never mattered because the point was to throw as much at the wall as possible, so the general impression for the targeted audience was widespread fraud. So even when I would prove stuff wrong (ex common claim was that more people voted than were registered, but it was always based on a false assumption about registered totals), they still believed the general claim was true. The same strategy was employed by the far-left/BLM crowd to claim there was an epidemic of racially-motivated police murders. Now you see the same strategy from the anti-Israel crowd. They just throw stuff at the wall. What's crazy about this instance is that the NYT chose to publish such obvious falsehoods without any serious support and using such transparently dishonest sources. The same people who buy this stuff would mock the Trump supporters who fell for many of the 2020 fraud claims, but they are just as bad when it's a narrative they are inclined to believe. The point is to exhaust and overwhelm people until they concede the point. Sadly, the strategy often works. Of course, the consequence is that it discredits real concerns about voter fraud, police abuse, and treatment of prisoners in Israel because it just becomes about narratives. But those concerns were never the point.

A senior aide to NY Governors, Linda Sun, is also on trial right now for acting as an agent of the CCP. I think people will be shocked once they realize just how many people in America China has on their payroll.

We found that the anti-fraud system in Ohio used to require patient signatures and GPS verification for Medicaid home care visits. Then, for some reason, Ohio turned both of those off… Now, over half of homecare payments are made despite having zero verification at all.

Growing up in Hafez al-Assad's Syria, my mom woke up as a young girl to armed agents in her bedroom searching for banned books. She witnessed a massacre of protesters as the bullets lodged in her shutters. She was denied entry to graduate school because the secret police informed on her. She left it all behind and came to the United States for freedom, to inarguably the greatest place on Earth (Metro-Detroit), and started her family. She was finally able to go to graduate school, start her own small business, and speak freely about politics for the first time in her life. She spoke so freely that Bashar al-Assad put out an arrest warrant against her, thousands of miles away. But the Assads finally fell — and my mom won! Happy Mother's Day!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY Here is my tribute to my mother in heaven A tribute to resilience and resistance on Mother’s Day My mother Huai Bin passed away in November 2020 at the age of 77 in Colorado. Her life in China was so tragic, and it took me a long time to write about her life and death because I had to confront the complex feelings and meaning of her legacy. I loved my mother for her kind and gentle soul. She was meek, although often in ways I did not understand: bulliable, submissive, and conflict averse. Her interactions with Chinese Communist Party officials were characterized by obedience and tolerance of their inhumane treatment of people like herself. I am haunted by a childhood memory of when she got on her knees and begged a CCP official for a raise at her factory job. She sacrificed her dignity only to be cruelly denied. I used to assume I was entirely my father’s child. He was a fighter whose strength was like the factory steel he helped produce: firm, resilient, and tough. I spent my life assuming that my defiant nature was the product of my father. Now I am not so sure. In an unremarkable village in Penshan County, Sichuan Province, China, a sickly child cursed by fate was born prematurely. Her mother believed her too weak to survive and left her to die in peace, yet the child refused. Fighting through labored breathing, she produced a cry so loud and enduring that her mother could no longer ignore it. She fed that night and would live to see the morning. Growing up poor with an elementary education and introverted personality, she resigned herself to a life of labor in a state-run factory in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. The oppression of her social condition was matched by her physicality: at 4'9", she was frail and severely nearsighted. Despite this, she won the love and adoration of my father, an illiterate orphan whom she married and blessed with three children. Raising children under Mao’s regime was an arduous burden. We lived in a primitive worker’s row house sharing one restroom and faucet with eight other families. We were literally dirt-poor; our mud floor would sprout mushrooms after flooding. We barely survived on food rationing coupons from the government. Despite all this, my mother’s heart never hardened. She was known for approaching beggars in the street with small gifts and the words: “Buddha bless you!” Her generosity defied the cruelty of her reality. Amid a very hard life, she found happiness in music (which she only sang after a little Chinese moonshine). She was elegant, clean, and loved pretty, pink clothing, which was frowned upon under Mao’s regime. Using what little money she saved to buy pink fabrics was a small act of defiance against Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Happiness was often short-lived, however, as she was ill most of the time and required frequent care in the decrepit state-run local hospitals, a product of socialized medicine. While undergoing surgery in the 1980s, she received a blood transfusion infected with syphilis that was discovered a decade later when I brought my mother to the United States in 1995. Despite a course of antibiotics, her brain had already suffered the consequences of neurosyphilis. She displayed signs of dementia at the age of 59. Though she was ill, America offered my mother a degree of peace, even if it was momentary. She and my father converted to Christianity and lived peacefully, attending a Chinese church every Sunday. In the end, her advanced dementia collided with COVID-19, and after being hospitalized, she died alone in November 2020. My mother’s legacy is one of defiance. It began with a cry that defied death, lived through compassion that defied pain, and endures in me. This revelation testifies to the miracle of God’s design — subtle, yet purposeful. God imbues in each of us a part of his divine essence. For my mother, she bore the suffering and submission to pain that Christ knew; not out of weakness, but out of love for her family, so that they would survive. She embraced God’s Word that we defy evil not through the hardening of our hearts, but through turning the other cheek and committing to compassion. Happy Mother's Day. I love you, Mom. I know you are very proud of me running for Congress in NH and fighting for the mothers and daughters today. I pray for all the mothers in the world never suffer or endure your tragic fate under communism. lilytangwilliams.com

I spent two years urging people to be skeptical of logic-defying "polls" & "surveys" by Khalil Shikaki, claiming that the overwhelming majority of Gazans support Hamas; the IDF itself found documents in 2024 confirming how the terror group manipulated them. Gazans hate Hamas, and not just because of the consequences of October 7th - these sentiments have long preceded the heinous attack, and have to do with two decades of the group's fascistic and failed rule, incompetence, lies & destroying the Palestinian national project for statehood & independence. Gaza is controlled by Hamas, but Gaza is not Hamas!

I had a two-hour conversation with a progressive pro-palestine African American. After walking through the history of the conflict, the ideological roots, and the human casualties in relation to Gaza’s size and population, along with Hamas’s tactics, and the peace process, he said this to me: “What you don’t understand is that as an African American who is oppressed daily by state police, I don’t care about history or theology. I care about the Palestinians because I can relate to them living under a police state.”

Anyways, here was the @benshapiro response, which was the only thing would reading among this garbage.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

Our “ally” is building ICBMs, bragging they can hit the US, and then showing them off and trying to sell them to Islamists at weapons expos. NATO is an insane proposition right now.

Revealed: Hamas leader Jaser Al-Barghouti shared that Sinwar and Hamas decided to use protests on the Gaza border between 2018 and 2019, belovingly referred to as the “Great March of Return,” to deflect internal pressure against the terror group’s rule and weaken the “we want to live” anti-Hamas protest by Palestinians in Gaza. Hundreds of Gazans were killed & nearly 10,000 were wounded as part of a con to proclaim the "right of return" of refugees displaced in 1948, when the effort was ultimately a way for Hamas to manipulate the global masses and force Israel into resuming monthly Qatari cash payments.

She absolutely wrecks the retards screaming “tax the billionaires.”

Words fail me. A 14 year old disabled girl was in a shopping centre in Uppsala, Sweden last November. Two boys dragged her into the disabled toilets where they took it in turns to rape her, over several hours, beating her buttocks and back and threatening her with violence if she reported the rape. They also filmed it all, and said they would spread the video if she told anyone. Thankfully, she ignored that, told the police and they have found and charged the two boys. So who are the two boys? The first is a 17 year old Syrian immigrant who has been given a Swedish passport. As such, under Swedish law he cannot be deported. He has been charged with making child pornography (which he admits) as well as rape. He was also convicted of aggravated assault after repeatedly kicking a man in the head a couple of months ago. For that offence had to do 70 hours of youth service. The second is a 14 year old Afghan immigrant. Under Swedish law he cannot be found to be criminally liable because of his age. Therefore he will be assessed for guilt but there will be no penalty even if he is found guilty.

Let me get this straight. Virginia voters created an independent redistricting commission in 2020 specifically to end partisan gerrymandering. Democrats then bypassed their own commission, rushed a constitutional amendment through while over a million people had already voted, and tried to turn a 6-5 seat advantage into 10-1. Obama backed it. Jeffries campaigned for it multiple times. House Majority PAC spent $38 million on it. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled the process violated the state constitution. Now Jeffries calls it "unprecedented and undemocratic" when a court enforces the constitution against his party. He calls it "voter suppression" when Democrats are stopped from suppressing five Republican districts into one. And he invokes Jim Crow to describe a ruling that upheld the very redistricting reform Virginia voters chose in 2020. You did not lose your voice. You lost your gerrymander. There is a difference. And the fact that you cannot tell the difference is exactly why you should not be drawing maps.

As an urban warfare scholar, researching, documenting, and writing case studies on the history of urban battles for over a decade as well as conducting hundreds of interviews of Israel political and military leaders (From the prime minister, minister of defense, 2 chiefs of staff, corps, division, brigade, battalion, company, platoon leaders, soldiers) and direct combat observations of the IDF fighting in Gaza on 6 separate research trips into Gaza, I validate and support this statement. Great article @spectator article. “The IDF have sought, albeit imperfectly, to minimise casualties. Hamas has worked to maximise them…has managed to limit casualties below the level seen in other similar conflicts, including those in which British and American troops were engaged.”

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field. His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family. When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message. The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit. He accepted. Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved. He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control. Instead, he resigned on day 16. He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done. Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days. He died poor. On his farm. 2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power. King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble. The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die. Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him. Most people who live there have no idea why.