Corey

If you compare the academic outcomes of pre-pandemic in-person learning to mid-pandemic virtual learning and attribute the gap to VIRTUAL rather than THE PANDEMIC, you are engaging in a fundamental correlation vs causation error that ignores 60 years of peer-reviewed research.

A reminder that Sam Harris was always an Islamophobe and here's proof: he calls Mamdani a sinister "Islamist." There is literally nothing Mamdani has ever said or done that qualifies him as an "Islamist" (he doesn't support an Islamic state, or sharia law for New York, he takes part in Gay Pride rallies, etc). But he's a Muslim and that's what Harris means and is opposed to but he doesn't have the guts to say so and he hides behind "Islamist" instead.

Cuba is ninety miles from Florida. It has been under American embargo for over sixty years. The people who designed that embargo, who maintained it through 13 consecutive administrations, who tightened it every time Cuba showed signs of building a functional public health system, are not considered to be engaged in economic warfare against a civilian population. They are considered to be defending "democracy." The Cuban doctors who went to Africa to fight Ebola. The Cuban literacy programs. The Cuban medical system that, despite the embargo, produces health outcomes that embarrass the richest country on earth. None of that appears in the American curriculum. Because the curriculum is not designed to give you information. It is designed to give you a framework. The framework says: Cuba is a dictatorship. America promotes freedom. The embargo is a consequence of Cuban choices. The framework does not say: the embargo was designed, from the beginning, to make the Cuban population miserable enough to overthrow their government, as documented in declassified State Department memos from the Kennedy era. The framework never gives you the memos. The framework gives you the conclusion. Sixty-four years of civilian suffering. Sixty-four years of medicine shortages and economic strangulation. And in the American schools: Cuba is a cautionary tale about socialism. The operation never ends.

Polymarket is evil for all the obvious reasons but it is also a right wing machine for lying

DNC won’t release their 2024 autopsy report because it reveals they lost for things they intend to keep doing.

JUST IN: $760,000,000 worth of oil shorts were reportedly placed 20 minutes before President Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open.

Last year, I published an article featuring interviews with 13 former Jewish-school students about the “brainwashing” they said they endured. What you see in the video below is part of a trip that almost everyone I spoke with mentioned. Here’s an excerpt from my article that discusses it. “Another key component most former students mentioned to me was the March of the Living, where thousands of Jewish students from around the world go on a two-week trip consisting of a week in Poland visiting concentration camps and other sites of the Holocaust, and then a week in Israel celebrating the state, culminating in Israeli Independence Day.  [Shoshana] Schwebel told me that while the trip wasn’t mandatory, classes would shut down during it and it was seen as “embarrassing” to not go. Describing the trip, Schwebel said, “It was really like, ‘Let’s whip them into a froth, and then they’ll be primed to join the IDF.’” Explaining how this would occur, Schwebel said, “The Israel part was very, very directly a recruiting breeding ground. It was very clearly using this shock of the Holocaust and death camps and concentration camps — a very straight line, like ‘point a’ to ‘point b,’ where ‘point b’ is joining the army and ‘point a’ is the Holocaust. So it’s like, ‘Okay, now you’ve seen the Holocaust. Now it’s your duty as a Jewish person to join the army and make sure that never happens again.’” Schwebel provided a specific example from her trip: “I remember one activity that they ran for us when we were in Israel where they had us sort ourselves into, ‘Which type of Jew are you?’” The options put forward were “soldier,” “diaspora philanthropist,” “rabbi” and “pacifist.” Schwebel and her boyfriend at the time chose pacifist, the only ones to do so. Then, she said, “[The soldiers] literally just laughed at us and called us naive treehuggers. The soldiers were like, ‘These naive treehuggers are going to get killed. You guys are going to get killed first because you’re so naive.’”  She added, “The idea was that the top tier that everyone should be aspiring to was ‘soldier,’ and if you weren’t ‘soldier,’ you should be ‘rich philanthropist’ donating to the soldiers.” The March of the Living’s website links to a 2015 study exploring the impacts the trip has on its participants, and approvingly cites several examples, including that: 86 per cent “assert that it’s very important that their spouse be Jewish”; 91 per cent “intend to give their children a Jewish education” (though just under half attributed that intention to the March); 65 per cent “feel that it’s important to live in a Jewish neighborhood”; and almost 90 per cent “said that the March had made it more likely that they would financially support Jewish causes.” The article adds: “Given the overwhelmingly positive results, it’s fair to say that the March has been and continues to be an enormously successful program in terms of ensuring and enhancing Jewish identity.” The March of the Living did not respond to The Maple’s comment requests.”

One question I would love reporters to ask all potential 2028 candidate is “what do you think the US should offer as recompense to the families of the 150+ school girls we murdered in our sneak attack on Iran Feb 28?” This answer would, I think, reveal a lot.

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel. Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone. No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life. thenation.com/article/politi…

A somewhat crucial difference between Benjamin Netanyahu and Hasan Piker is that one of them has murdered tens of thousands of people while the other is a Twitch streamer

Por volta de 2013 a cidade de Chengdu tem adicionado trepadeiras em seus viadutos para conter ilhas de calor e o difícil trabalho de tornar essa infraestrutura mais agradável.

A 15-pound honey badger can survive a cobra bite that would kill a full-grown man in under two hours. Then it finishes eating the snake. A biology grad student at the University of Minnesota wanted to know how. She needed badger blood to find out, and the only samples she could get were from two American zoos in San Diego and Indiana. What she found in the DNA was one tiny change. There's a small socket on your muscle cells that your nerves plug into to tell your muscles to move. Cobra venom kills you by jamming that socket shut, so your lungs stop working. The honey badger's socket has a swapped-out amino acid that gives it a positive electrical charge. Cobra venom is also positively charged. Like magnets pointing the wrong way, the venom gets pushed off before it can lock in, and the muscles keep firing. The same workaround showed up separately in hedgehogs and pigs. Mongooses got there too, with a slightly different molecular trick. Four different animals with no shared ancestor all arrived at the same solution because venomous snakes kept biting them for millions of years. That only covers snakes like cobras and mambas. Puff adders work differently, destroying tissue instead of paralyzing muscle, and the DNA trick doesn't help there. So when a puff adder lands a solid bite, the badger collapses into a kind of coma for two or three hours. Then it wakes up groggy and eats the snake anyway. The skin is maybe the unfairest part of all this. It's about a quarter inch thick, rubbery, and so loose it fits like a wetsuit two sizes too big. A lion can clamp its jaws on a honey badger and the badger will twist halfway around inside its own skin and start clawing the lion's face while still in its mouth. Bee stingers barely get through. Porcupine quills don't either. Which brings us back to the bees in that photo. They're annoying. A few sneak through to the face, and enough stings have killed honey badgers in the wild. Honey badgers still die. But they're running three different defense systems at the same time, and one of them is a genetic lottery ticket evolution has pulled four times.

holy shit they are calling the House into session literally in the middle of the night to try to give Trump warrantless surveillance powers

LIVE FOOTAGE: Israel directly bombs 3 separate paramedic groups… on purpose. This is the most horrifying video I ever watched.

Oh wow Dems missed it by one vote who could have ever guessed that such a thing would happen for the 40 billionth time

"El sionismo siempre ha estado contra las víctimas judías del Holocausto como yo, nos consideraron material humano sin valor para construir Israel. Los sionistas dicen que si Israel hubiese existido 10 años antes, mis padres no hubiesen sido exterminados... estos idiotas no entienden que si para sobrevivir tengo que hacer daño a otros, como los palestinos, entonces es mejor no sobrevivir, esa es la lección que aprendí de Auschwitz". Hajo Meyer, judío antisionista sobreviviente del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz.

💥"The truth no longer matters. The facts don't matter." Eli Hazan, Netanyahu newly appointed head of the Government Press Office, a former Likud spokesman, believes in "flooding the zone with fake news."

We should appreciate this level of candour. All it takes is for western journalists to actually look at what Israeli officials are willing to say in Hebrew.

Another aspect of this is that the Jewish diaspora was already well established even in Biblical times, 800 years before the common era. There were Jewish communities scattered in several places, including Ethiopia and Babylon. The Levant, and especially Palestine, was by no means central or exclusive to Jewish identity.

Under Barack Obama, celebrated, Nobel Peace Prize-winning, uniquely thoughtful and deliberate Barack Obama, the United States used drone strikes and other forms of air power in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Syria. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimated that between 2004 and 2020, U.S. strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan killed between 8,858 and 16,901 people, including between 910 and 2,200 civilians. The Obama administration developed a classification system for this. Adult males in strike zones were presumptively counted as combatants unless posthumous evidence established otherwise. Read that again. If you were a man, and you were in an area the U.S. government decided to strike, and you died in the strike, you were counted as a militant. By default. Unless someone could prove you weren't, after you were dead. This is not a Bush policy. This is not a policy that the anti-Iraq War liberals could point to as the exception. This is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the most symbolically powerful embodiment of American liberalism and multicultural optimism the country has ever produced, signing off on a kill list every Tuesday morning in the White House. Tuesday. Morning. Kill list. And the American liberal establishment, the people who marched against Bush, who wept when Obama was elected, who believed in the possibility of a different kind of American power, largely looked away. Because the discomfort of following the analysis where it leads, past the party, past the leader, past the identity investment in having chosen the right side, is greater than most political psychologies are built to bear. The drone kept flying. The Nobel medal kept hanging. Both things were true at the same time. That is not a contradiction that can be resolved by voting differently. It requires a different kind of reckoning entirely.

It's literally -- literally -- a tax on empty luxury properties that nobody lives in. These people already live in Florida, you dumbass.