William Aronstein

I’ve long been puzzled why the Democrats and the media are unhinged when it comes to President Trump. Viewing videos of his interviews from the 1980s, it’s remarkable how consistent his views and principles have been over the years. And he was not demonized then, but lionized by all of the left-liberals who interviewed him. I would have said that he was a “Scoop Jackson” Democrat then - probably still is in many ways - strong on patriotism and national defense but basically within the broad limits of what would have been mainstream New York Democrat positions. President Trump has become more “pro life” since then, but I don’t think that is the reason that the Democrats, the Republican establishment, and their lapdog media hate him so much. I think the underlying reason is that for the first time, a national administration is working to uncover massive amounts of fraud and waste in government spending, so vast as to make the words “massive” “vast” and “incredible” inadequate. Abuse of the American taxpayer has been the means to an unending slush fund “beyond the dreams of avarice.” It wouldn’t surprise me if half of our Federal and State deficits are the result of waste and fraud. President Trump threatens the corruption that has enriched so many, and upon which so many depend. That’s why he is a threat, and that’s why he is hated.

This statement is extremely problematic. It implies violent Israel-hate would be somehow legitimate if it could be disassociated from direct targeting of Jews. It isn’t. Israelis are a protected national group under both international law and domestic anti-discrimination frameworks. Antizionism is definitionally genocidal by seeking to annihilate a protected group. Elias Rodriguez was an antizionist practicing antizionist violence, inspired by antizionist libels about Israel, starvation, genocide, etc. Yes it harms Jews, it’s also a coherent bigotry in its own right and demands a clear and direct response.

Just a reminder that this fraudulent piece of shit never called me a single time when I was working overtime on this case, and for transparency. Not once did I hear from this fraud about the case. When I saw him at main Justice he never even mentioned it. And then when I offered to brief him at FBI HQ about this case, and others, he passed. Because he’s full of shit. I’ve met a lot of political zeroes in my time but never a bigger zero than this pinecone. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. He jumped the shark, and when the shark bit back, he cried “The Jooos,” and “Epstein!” I’ve seen him behind the scenes and he’s a pathetic, boner-phone-club VIP points member. It says a lot that the people who know him best just kicked his sorry ass out by ten points. If he wants a war with me then I’m more than happy to oblige. Because nothing he vomits out will change the fact that he’s a zero, and a performance artist.

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NEW: A top homeland security official has directed ICE attorneys to aggressively pursue administrative fraud cases against immigration lawyers accused of filing false asylum claims. @CBSNews exclusively obtained the DHS memo directing the new ramp up. cbsnews.com/news/dhs-memo-…

Covering the Abrego Garcia case was an eye-opener in terms of how fast and loose some immigration attorneys will play with the facts This is great to see

Below is a common error. Here are the facts: Dr. Andrew Baker, the Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County (who was the only person that conducted the autopsy of George Floyd) did not agree with the prosecution’s evolving theories of the cause of Floyd’s death. He did not find that Floyd died from a vascular restraint (blood choke), which was the prosecution’s theory at the beginning of trial. And he did not agree that Floyd died of positional asphyxia, which became the prosecution’s fall back theory when, in the middle of trial and to prosecutors’ utter surprise, their blood choke theory imploded in real time (due to it being physiologically impossible to kill somebody by compressing only one of their carotid arteries). Baker’s autopsy provided zero evidentiary support for everything the prosecutors wanted the jury to believe. But it’s worse than that. Baker also found a lack of evidence where one would expect to find evidence had the prosecution’s theories been correct. Baker called this absence of evidence the “pertinent negatives,” and they all - ALL - worked against the prosecution.

IQ often predicts important life outcomes more robustly than other known variable. This isn't my opinion. It's the finding of 100s of studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. No major finding in psychological research can claim effect sizes as large as IQ. None are as endlessly replicable. Ignore the pseudoscientific projections of deep personal insecurity by people like Taleb, and stick to the science.

“I always said I was anti-Zionist but not antisemitic” Taryn Thomas used to join campus protests at Stanford where students called Israel’s war with Hamas a genocide. Then, she attended the Nova exhibit, and learned for the first time about what actually happened on October 7th. Now, she realizes, those protests “had already decided how the story was going to end,” before Israel even responded to the massacre. This is exactly why Free Palestine protests the Nova exhibit wherever it opens. They are afraid that if more people learn the truth, their movement will run out of support. Video Credit: GB News

I was an American Jew in the diaspora that did not want to tie myself to Israel. I was only tangentially aware of it, and in pure young adult fashion, rebelliously annoyed to be reminded of it by the Jews around me. I talked about Israel not at all. If you had asked me, I was opposed to it. That changed with Operation Cast Lead. I had no idea what it was called at the time. I was checked out completely. I was starting my PhD, and had no idea that there was anything happening in Israel. If it was mentioned, I just kind of glazed over and forgot about it. I was American, what did I care? But the people around me in academia? They knew. They cared. They saw my posts on Facebook spending time with a cousin who lived there; a trip to Tel Aviv five years ago. This was all it took. I was asked by other students about Israel, where I stood on it, what I thought. These questions carried an air of accusation that puzzled me. When I said I do not know, and I do not care, the questions became more pointed, more hostile. Was I a Zionist? What is a Zionist, I asked. I did not know. I heard the term only in circumstances of it being in the title of Jewish organizations mentioned in temple conversations. I wasn't there for that, though, I wanted a second helping of kugel and the ladies gossiping at the post-services buffet were in the way. My ignorance and nearly complete disinterest in Israel did not matter. I was tied to Israel whether I liked it or not. My dark eyes, tan skin, long dark curly hair, Mediterranean features, my Jewish husband who wore a kippah to fancy occasions... inquiring minds needed to know, was a good Jew or a bad Jew? It was a game, and I did not know the rules. Tails they win, heads I lose. I quickly learned that unless I verbally prostrated myself and proclaimed the most violent of antisemitic terrorists had a point, I had to answer for Israel. Even if I did that, I would still have to answer for Israel. Israel did not make me a Zionist. My Judaism did not make me a Zionist. Antizionists, who have always been antisemitic, always been hostile, made me a Zionist. Because I was not allowed to be anything but that, not if I wanted to have any respect for myself.

Confirmed: The source of @NickKristof's "dog rape" libel was LITERALLY Hamas

Neville Singham grew up in Chicago, the son of a Sri Lankan radical professor who ran in the same circles as Fidel Castro and a Chinese academic mother. He says he has admired Maoist ideas since his early activist years so when he sold Thoughtworks in 2017 he moved to Shanghai, where he has lived ever since, attending Chinese Communist Party forums on how to promote the party abroad and, in November 2025, appearing at a conference at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai to praise Xi Jinping and the CCP’s vision for what he called a new world order. One that includes control of Cuba. The House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith said: “Singham is “an individual who lives in Shanghai, maintains business ties with companies and individuals linked to the CCP, works with and physically alongside a foreign propaganda company, and attends CCP forums on how to promote the party abroad.” From Shanghai, Singham built a funding machine that investigators have now traced in full. He used a donor-advised fund at a Goldman Sachs philanthropy arm to anonymously route tax-deductible American dollars into six nonprofits he created after his Jamaica wedding to the co-founder of Code Pink: BreakThrough BT Media, CodePink, Justice and Education Fund, People’s Forum, People’s Support Foundation, and Tricontinental. Goldman Sachs terminated that fund in February 2024 after investigators began asking questions but by then, he had already moved $278 million dollars. Those six organizations then distributed roughly $163 million further out, into 52 additional organizations and five geographic regions. Fox News Digital, working through 223 documented transactions, traced $591 million total moving across five continents from 2017 through 2025. The eleven core U.S. nonprofits at the center of the operation received approximately $401 million combined but the network now touches roughly 2,000 organizations in 150 countries. Three Singham-linked American nonprofits sent seven payments totaling $9.1 million to Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. Ltd., a pro-China propaganda firm that identifies itself as producing content aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives and is housed in the same luxury Shanghai building where Singham operates. A former Thoughtworks executive sits on Shanghai Maku’s board and American tax-exempt charitable dollars, are routed through IRS-registered nonprofits, so they can land in a CCP propaganda company in the same building as the man who wrote the checks. That’s the monetary hub of the lefts anti-war pro-China and Iran movement.

"Sandy Koufax was the ultimate team guy, and I think the guys on his team knew it. By the seventh game of the World Series in 1965, he couldn’t throw a curve anymore. Koufax came out of the bullpen to toss his third game in eight days, and catcher John Roseboro went to the mound to find out why Koufax wasn’t throwing his curve. And for the first time Koufax admitted to his catcher, the guy who was his favorite receiver: "My arm’s sore. I just can’t do it." And Johnny Roseboro looked at him and said: "What are we going to do?" Koufax replied: “F*** it! We’ll blow them away." And that’s what he did. He went out there and pitched a shutout, 2-0, with 10 Ks, on two days’ rest. With one pitch." "A Lefty's Legacy." Jane Leavy

What I don't get is how lethal injection is both expensive and horribly painful and protracted when it's condemned criminals in the USA, and also so cheap and easy a Canadian MD can assess someone for MAID outside Tim Horton's then drive him to a murder centre for despatch

NEW: VP Vance shares a gut-wrenching example of Medicaid fraud uncovered by his task force: "A man who was supposed to be providing services to allow elderly people to live full and independent lives... What happened instead is that the man who was supposed to provide these services, reimbursed by the Medicaid program, was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check ins." "The vulnerable elderly man that he was supposed to be protecting and looking after, was reimbursed by the taxpayer in order to do exactly that, that man died." "That man lived his final moments on this earth, neglected while a fraudster got rich by providing services that he never actually provided."

🚨 SAVE SNUGGLES: Court Orders Euthanasia of Military Veteran’s Family Dog Snuggles is a 2-year-old livestock guardian dog belonging to a military veteran and his family in Tucson, Arizona. He lives with his mom, dad, and two young children who love him dearly and see him as their protector and best friend. Snuggles is now sitting in Pima Animal Care Center after a court ordered euthanasia ruling following a bite incident that occurred on his family’s property while he was on guard duty. He has now been sitting in the shelter for AMOST 8 MONTHS away from the family he has known his entire life. According to the family, this was Snuggles’ first bite incident. The bite victim was the children’s grandmother, and she is also fighting to save Snuggles and bring him home. The family believes Snuggles is being misunderstood for doing what guardian dogs are bred to do: protect their home and family. Snuggles is not a monster. He is a working guardian dog with a family desperately fighting for his life. PLEASE TAKE ACTION ‼️ Steve Kozachik, Director of Pima Animal Care Center 📞 (520) 724-5900 📧 steve.kozachik@pima.gov ‼️ Chad Kasmar, Deputy County Administrator 📞 (520) 724-7733 📧 chad.kasmar@pima.gov Please say: “Hi, I’m calling regarding Snuggles, the livestock guardian dog currently facing euthanasia in Tucson. I’m asking for a fair review of his case and consideration of alternatives to euthanasia.” Please remain respectful. #SaveSnuggles @JenniferEvn22

I would love to post in my own name and maybe some day I will. I'm an ethnically (not religiously) Jewish academic at an Irish university. My name is so identifiably Jewish that, many moons ago, back when there were "phone books" I got a cold call from some American stranger who was very apologetic but who explained that he was looking for the synagogue (this was pre-iPhones) and he had already tried a "Shapiro" in the phone book but there was no answer so he thought he'd try a "[my surname]." He was in luck, but not because I'd ever attended services there. I just happened to know where it was. Until recently, my university had an encampment in the front of it with signs saying it was a "Zionist free zone" as well as the usual "genocide," "apartheid," "coloniser" blood libels. That encampment sat there for months with no action on the part of my employer to close it down. For all its rhetoric of "diversity, equity, and inclusion," they have made it exceedingly obvious to me that none of that applies to Jews. And, given the kind of vehemence I've encountered online from those who are convinced--against all evidence--that Israel is committing a genocide (the subtext of which is that "Jews are demonic baby killers") and that therefore all the usual rules of decorum and civil behaviour go out the window, I can only imagine what kind of threats, whisper campaigns, and maybe even violence I might be subject to if I "came out." Even my colleagues who signed the disgraceful Letter condemning the "genocide" (barely a month after October 7) while dismissing October 7 itself as a mere "crime" don't know what I really think. And I'm glad to be under the radar. But next time someone rants on about "academic freedom" in Irish universities, as if the fact of being a tenured academic means being free to say whatever one wants, tell them about me. There's great freedom for the mob. Less so for those who disagree with it. I feel less free to speak my mind on this campus than I ever have anywhere else. It's absolutely stifling. So that's why I'm anonymous.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt just CAUGHT Karen Bass RED-HANDED violating election law and filed a formal complaint Pratt has accused Bass of "illegal ELECTIONEERING," and Bass recorded herself doing it! "Electioneering within 100 feet of a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW. Soliciting votes at a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW." "These clear violations show a reckless disregard for the rule of law and our democratic process. Someone in a position of power should be especially respectful of our democratic laws, but this is just emblematic of Karen's mafia-like regime. It's 'rules for thee, but not for me.'" He's so good. FAFO! She needs to be held accountable. Nobody is above the law.

🚨BREAKING: Growing outrage is building online and across conservative circles as many Americans highlight what they call the unjust imprisonment of former Minneapolis Officer Tou Thao. Thao spent nearly five years behind bars — convicted for merely standing nearby and managing the crowd while George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose — despite never laying hands on Floyd. Critics argue the case exemplified rushed “social justice” prosecutions that ignored key toxicology evidence, turning a bystander officer into a scapegoat. Thao’s long ordeal is now drawing renewed attention as a symbol of politicized policing fallout from 2020.

Normalize use of the terms "hobo" and "street person" and “bum” to describe the long-term homeless. Mock those who use the term "unhoused" to describe the mentally ill and drug addicted hobos that degrade the quality of life in our cities.

Should Zionist Educators Teach the Nakba? In the charged classrooms where young Zionists form their understanding of Israel, one question now demands courage: Should we teach the Nakba? The answer is yes. Not because the Palestinian narrative is true, but precisely because it is not. When we confront the events of 1948 with honesty, acknowledging real pain while refusing to distort the moral record, we strengthen the next generation rather than shield it. The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the displacement of roughly 700,000 Arabs during Israel’s War of Independence. Anti-Israel voices present this as the inevitable result of Zionist aggression: a premeditated ethnic cleansing that stains Israel’s birth. That version is false. The truth is more complex, more human, and far more defensible. In 1947, the Jewish leadership accepted the UN Partition Plan despite its painful compromises. Arab leaders rejected it outright and launched a war of annihilation. No war, no displacement. Once the fighting began, Arabs fled for three primary reasons. The majority left out of fear as battle lines shifted; many departed on the explicit advice or orders of local Arab leaders who cleared villages so their armies could operate freely; and in a smaller number of cases, Israeli forces expelled populations from strategic areas during active combat. These were wartime decisions, not a systematic policy of expulsion. Historians who have examined the records closely, including Benny Morris in his early work, confirm that the overwhelming majority of departures occurred before major Israeli offensives and often preceded them. We must never flinch from the human cost. Hundreds of thousands lost homes, orchards, and the familiar rhythms of daily life. That grief is real. As Sandy Tolan captured in “The Lemon Tree,”for one Palestinian family the dream of return became “What everyone talked about, all the time. In exile, there was little else worth dreaming of.” Any educator worthy of the name will pause to let students feel that longing. Empathy is not weakness; it is the mark of moral seriousness. But empathy without context becomes surrender. The Deir Yassin episode illustrates the danger of narrative over fact. On April 9, 1948, Irgun and Lehi fighters attacked the village. What exactly happened remains disputed even today. Some accounts describe a brutal battle with civilian casualties caught in the crossfire; Arab leaders quickly inflated the story into tales of mass rape and mutilation. Whatever the precise truth, and decades later we cannot know every detail with certainty, the exaggerated horror stories were broadcast widely and deliberately. They terrified neighboring villages into flight, accelerating the exodus. Panic, once sown, proved more powerful than any Israeli order. Broader context matters deeply. In 1948 there was no sovereign Palestinian state to “lose.” The Arabs of the region did not see themselves as a separate Palestinian nation; their identity was largely pan-Arab, often oriented toward Damascus. “Palestine” was a geographic label, not a national one. Jews living under the British Mandate were frequently called Palestinians. Five Arab armies invaded the newborn Jewish state the day after its declaration. Israel, just three years after the Holocaust, lost nearly 6,400 lives, fully one percent of its Jewish population, in a fight for bare survival. The contrast with Jewish refugees is instructive and rarely taught. Roughly 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab lands in the years following 1948, their property seized, their communities destroyed. Israel absorbed them. They received no UN agency dedicated to perpetuating their refugee status. There was no Jewish “Nakba” industry. These Jewish refugees built new lives. The Palestinian experience diverged tragically, largely because of UNRWA. Created in 1949 for temporary relief, UNRWA did something unprecedented, it passed refugee status to all descendants, swelling numbers into the millions. Unlike the UNHCR, which works to resettle and normalize refugees, UNRWA has kept Palestinians suspended in permanent grievance, nourished by the false promise of “return” that would mean the demographic destruction of Israel. That policy helped incubate the ideology that exploded during the October 7th massacre. Some thoughtful voices in our community argue against teaching the Nakba at all. They worry, with reason, that even mentioning the term legitimizes a hostile framing designed to portray Israel’s birth as original sin. They rightly note that classroom time is precious; better to focus on the miracle of Jewish return, the heroism of 1948, and Israel’s extraordinary achievements. Why dwell on Arab suffering when so much Jewish history goes untaught? These concerns are serious. Yet silence carries greater risk. Today’s students swim in a sea of anti-Israel content, from social media to university campuses to parts of the international media. If we leave the Nakba untouched, the first time they encounter it will likely come wrapped in accusations of Israeli monstrosity. That initial, unchallenged exposure can corrode trust in everything else we teach. Intellectual honesty demands we meet the question on our terms. When we do teach it, the framework must be clear and unflinching. Acknowledge the Arab pain, present the three causes of Arab displacement and contextualize Deir Yassin. It is important to stress that no Palestinian nation-state was lost. The Arab responsibility for launching the war must be highlighted. Contrast the refugee outcomes between Arab refugees from Israel and Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Educators must rrive home the central truth, had Arab leaders chosen peace and partition in 1947–48, there would have been no refugees and no catastrophe. Responsibility cannot be wished away by victimhood.Pro-Israel education has nothing to fear from the full story when it is properly told. On the contrary, it emerges stronger. Students who learn this version of 1948 develop both moral imagination and intellectual resilience. They learn to hold two truths at once, that displacement brought genuine suffering, and that suffering was the direct consequence of a war their side started and lost. They become equipped to defend Israel not with slogans, but with clarity, empathy, and unapologetic moral confidence. In an age of propaganda, the greatest service we can offer Zionist students is not protection from difficult history, but preparation to face it. Teach the Nakba. Teach it truthfully. Our children, and Israel’s future, will be better for it.