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@JohnKasich No chance he does that. On a scale of 1-100 he takes the opportunity, the number is 0.

The President has a real opportunity at the State of the Union: Bring the country together. Remind us who we are. We saw it for brief moments recently celebrating Olympic medal wins by Team USA. Politics disappeared and we were simply Americans cheering together. We need more of that.

When I sat down with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, I was expecting a thoughtful conversation and that he would ask questions and give me the opportunity to actually respond--just like he did with the little Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes or the guy who thought Hitler was the good guy and Churchill the bad guy. What I wasn't anticipating was a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren't really same people as the Jews of the Bible. I'll first just say something I didn't think to say to Tucker, which is that Ashkenazi Jews, meaning those who families had spent centuries in Europe, are a minority of Israel's Jewish population, only maybe 35-40%. There are far more Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews inside Israel. But there's a good reason, as it turns out, that I had never encountered this theory that Tucker kept pushing on. That’s because it comes from some of the darkest realms of the Internet and social media. I think it's important to take a moment now and educate Tucker and anyone else who might get sucked in by this dangerous conspiracy theory, just as I have been educated this week. I'm sharing this information because it has been weaponized by very bad people to delegitimize Jews and strip them of their history. It's an idea that gained traction in the 80's and 90's with David Duke and other Klansmen and neo-Nazis. It has really caught fire in recent years on the Internet and social media, mostly from some of the most overt anti-Semites and Jew haters you can find. I don’t know why Tucker was so fixated on this, and I'm certainly not saying he knew the origins of this conspiracy theory. I don't know what's in his heart or what he was thinking. But I do know that the discredited idea that most Ashkenazi or European Jews descended from the ancient Turkic kingdom of Khazaria is bunk. It's also been weaponized by people trying to deligitimize Jews, to strip them of their history, and to call them "imposters" or "fake Jews." This odious conspiracy theory is peddled by the likes of Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and by people who love David Duke, as well as Islamist accounts that make up false smears about Israel non-stop and are run out of countries like Pakistan and Turkey. But we know from genetics and rich volumes of written literature that the Jews of today can trace their lineage back thousands of years to the Israel and the Jewish people of the Bible. They are as connected together as genetics tell us that the ancient Khazar kingdom is to people living today in Turkey. And if Tucker wants to tour more than Ben-Gurion Airport on his next trip to Israel, I'm happy to show him places where Jews have lived going back to the time of Jesus Christ and even earlier. I sincerely hope Tucker will let me know when he actually wants to learn facts about the land and people. Asking me about conspiracy theories should remain on the fringes and not be the heart of the conversation.

Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents 3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen 4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

I have never seen a contested catch like this ever be called anything but a catch. Even as a DB you know that if it’s even a Tie it will go to the WR. Can’t believe this decided the game.

Please join us in wishing a happy 90th birthday to Sandy Koufax!

Happy Birthday to the closest thing I’ve ever seen to perfection on a pitcher’s mound. Seeing him in recent pictures makes it impossible to believe he’s 90. He’s still 10 feet tall.

@jessicahadwin Le Tête Dor

Need a good date night spot tonight. If you could pick 1 place to have a nice dinner in NYC what are you going with?

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Yamamoto now. Can this game, can this Series get any better?

Accurate timeline: 1. Hamas broke hostage release deal 2. Hamas killed Israeli soldier 3. Israel responded 4. Hamas makes up crap about lots of dead children & legacy media happily repeats. And lets not forget: this began with the Hamas atrocities on Oct 7 Glad I could help

How does Sandy end up in the second row? Maybe those are his permanent, personal seats but Sandy Koufax takes a back seat to no one. Especially at Dodger Stadium.

@ShaunMorash You clearly are not a real fan of baseball. Only Yankee fan. It is unfortunate you can’t enjoy and appreciate the greatest player performance in a single game in the history of the great sport.

All my years watching sports, one thing I know for sure, I really don’t care about Ohtani. Didn’t see a pitch, had zero interest in watching a Dodgers Brewers game. woke up saw the game he had, cool I guess? None of it moves me as a baseball fan. I don’t know why either.

.@ZohranKMamdani I do not speak for all Jews, but I do represent the views of the large majority of the NY Jewish community, which is increasingly concerned about your statements about Israel and the Jewish people. I urge you to reconsider your long-held rejection of Israel’s right to exist. Be a uniter and a peacemaker.

Two single sentences about how raping and killing Jews is bad, before proceeding to smear Israel for doing far less than any other country in the same position would have done. Shut the fuck up

Two years after Hamas launched its barbaric massacre against Israel and the Jewish people, Mamdani has chosen to act as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda — spreading Hamas’s fake genocide campaign. By repeating Hamas’s lies, he excuses terror and normalizes antisemitism. He stands with Jews only when they are dead. Shameful.

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Real question for Hannah Einbinder. What exactly do you want to “free Palestine” from? From UNRWA classrooms that teach Palestinians that Jews like you and me are subhuman and should be slaughtered? From Hamas, which has spent two decades building a terror army instead of schools and hospitals for its own people? From this same terrorists whose the Palestinians as expendable human shields? No, I don’t suppose that’s what you mean. And by the way, you forgot to mention the hostages. I would think it’s also your “obligation as a Jewish person” to muster at least a word for the hostages - your brothers being starved and tortured in Gaza.

Michael, as a 19 handicap who loves the game and trying my best to get better, I have found your posts to be informative, entertaining, enlightening and at times provocative. Please keep up the great work! I use a 10.5 degree driver. I assume 11 would give me additional loft?

Friends abroad ask me what Israelis think. Here’s what I think many Israelis think (Israeli society is fragmented along political, ethnic and religious lines). But if there is a common thread it’s this: the war is not •primarily• about the hostages, it’s about defeating Hamas once and for all. Not a ceasefire not truce not political settlement. They must surrender or die. I don’t think there’s loss of humanity on the Israeli side. There’s a determination to terminate Hamas. That’s a good thing, to want to destroy the enemy that vows to destroy you. Not figuratively. literally actually. Be the price what it may. Israelis don't see a price higher than October 7 and the global wave of hatred that started on October 8 against them. It's hard for our friends abroad to understand this. I feel for them, true friends, we owe them so much. It's getting harder and harder for them to defend us but this is the truth. This is where we are at. It's terminate Hamas or bust.

@Mike_kim714 Michael, best golf content on any platt. You give such amazing insights into both your own game and the grind of each week! Thank you.

Giving away my Titleist staff bag that I used from the Open Champ to the BMW I believe. Must be a follower Comment, like, retweet for a chance to win!