John Frankel 🚶‍♂️

“The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.” — Walter E. Williams

I was in Starbucks , and there was a guy sitting there. No phone, no iPad, no laptop. He was there drinking coffee like a psychopath.

Ayn Rand: "You would be attacked by people for your success. The most immoral thing on earth, to attack a man not for his flaws, but for his virtues. To make a success of yourself in any line of rational activity is a great virtue."

The strongest case for homeschooling is that nobody loves your child more than you do, and nobody has more stake in their flourishing.

I am legit seeing people saying they are flying to LA to vote for Spencer Pratt because they don't check ID. OMG, you can't make this up.

Check this out: I ordered a cheeseburger at a joint near me. It comes in a sort of simmering cheese pond. Give me a decent burial and speak well of me please.

.@GadSaad agrees with Orwell: it takes an intellectual to come up with truly stupid ideas. When academics are disconnected from reality or accountability, bad ideas spread like parasites. While STEM professionals have to answer for their mistakes, humanities professors build theories that no one ever has to test. That lack of accountability is exactly how toxic ideas take over a university and eventually a culture. If these professors can't survive the scrutiny of their own ideas, should they be teaching our children? Watch here 👉l.prageru.com/49RBlY7

Bravo to @peterbirkenhead for this very strong retraction.

Palestinianism is the inversion of history where failing at genocide gets treated as a tragedy. Think about how deranged that is. To spend 78 years claiming it was a “disaster” that they didn’t successfully commit genocide. It’d be like the Germans having a “Nakba” day.

A FIRST: FREEDOM OF RELIGION ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, has called on the Knesset to approve the construction of a synagogue on the Temple Mount. For years, Jews have been told that freedom of religion applies everywhere except the holiest site in Judaism. That contradiction cannot last forever. Boost the algorithm: Bookmark, Share, Reply, Repost, Like and Follow @Mossadil.

Vimeo just confirmed a data breach. 119,000 users affected. Names, emails, video metadata, and technical data exposed, through a third-party analytics vendor, not Vimeo's core systems. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and leaked 106GB after Vimeo refused to pay. And once again, the breach didn't come from within, third-party integrations mean more exposure and less control over it.

Among young educated women in the US, wanting zero kids was essentially nonexistent for 50 years until the 2020s.

France is losing one church every 2 weeks, while building one new mosque every 15 days. Churches are being demolished, burned, or left to rot. Mosques are doubling in number. As one expert put it: France isn’t going secular. It’s trading crosses for minarets.

Not a god time given interest in college is waiting, costs are excessive, and benefits are limited given the dawn of AI. The capture of many colleges as indoctrination villages does not help.

I believe the AI job apocalypse story is being promoted by those that want to limit data center growth, which is being funded by adversaries of the US. Productivity and deflation creates new jobs, every time, as new products and services become achievable and affordable.

🚨🇬🇧🇵🇸 BREAKING: UK Muslim imam responsible for spreading the lie about Israeli rape dogs has been BUSTED raping little British girls Every accusation is a confession

NBC just did the meme omg

Suspected hantavirus case reported at New York high school.

Liberal Jews need to look around and see they have zero friends at their side. My column in Friday’s @nypost nypost.com/2026/05/14/opi…

That is Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda, commander of the CARACAL unit near Gaza. On the morning of October 7th, she opened her eyes and saw Hamas in front of her. “I look up at the sky, then lower my head again, glance to the side, and there are maybe five pickup trucks coming toward me, full of motorcycle riders. There are terrorists leaping between the sand dunes and the trees, all of them wearing vests and uniforms, moving in our direction, and I can’t even count them properly with my eyes. It’s hundreds. Hundreds. And farther back, on the distant road, I see columns of Gazan civilians simply walking toward us, some armed, some not. And I say to myself: ‘That’s it. This is where I die. Right here, exactly where I’m standing now. This is where I die.’ Then I said to myself: Fine. If this is the end, then I’ll end it well. I’ll die with honor. I’ll do the best I can. And I’ll fight until my very last drop of blood. So I turn to my soldiers, a group of twelve heroic fighters waiting for me to tell them what to do. I turn to them with half a smile. Later, they told me I smiled; I didn’t remember it. And I tell them: ‘Come on, let’s tear them apart!’ And they all shout back: ‘Yalla!!!’ They come to the embankment with machine guns, with everything they can carry, and we position ourselves there and start firing at everyone approaching the outpost. We’re shooting like mad. At some point, we had a LAU missile with us, so we fired it at one of the Hamas pickup trucks. The truck exploded in a massive blast, something unbelievable. There must have been huge amounts of explosives inside, and the explosion took several of the motorcycle riders with it. And little by little, I suddenly realize many of them are beginning to retreat, turn around, and flee back the way they came. And suddenly I understood: yes, we’re doing something significant here. We were there for about half an hour, and then, in the middle of all the chaos, I suddenly hear the tracks of a tank behind me. It was an unbelievable sigh of relief. I told my deputy company commander: ‘Stay here! I don’t know whose tank this is — I’m going to get it!’ It was already around eleven o’clock. I start moving backward, advancing toward the tank through the concrete barriers, and suddenly I realize a terrorist is jumping at me from point-blank range, and in another second, he would’ve been hugging me. And my luck was that I already had a round in the chamber and my finger on the trigger. It was literally a question of who shoots first, and I shot first. The terrorist collapsed in front of me. And I froze for a moment, like, what was that? What just happened? Then I hear my deputy commander yelling from behind me: ‘Commander! Commander! Are you okay?’ I look at myself, I’m okay. I turn back toward him and signal with my hand: everything’s under control. He runs up after me, looks at me, and says, ‘What… what just happened between you two?’ And I tell him: ‘Exactly what’s going through your head right now.’ But the tank! I remember — I can’t let it leave. We need it. I ran quickly toward it, and because I’m used to working with my tank crews, I started signaling to them in tank hand signals: ‘Terrorists there, behind me, do this, shell over there!’ And he’s with us, he understands immediately. And for the first time, I suddenly have additional force joining me. We make some kind of flanking maneuver, take up a strong position, and simply fire toward wherever the terrorists are coming from. We keep firing and firing, and they start pulling back. And I understand — all of us understand — that if we don’t continue fighting right now, those terrorists will get past us and reach all the communities behind us. At a certain point, my deputy commander and his radio operator are hit by an RPG and collapse to the ground. So we pull them out of there. Then I call friends of mine who are pilots flying Yasur and Yanshuf helicopters, and I ask them to come land at the helipad near the outpost, because I’ve evacuated wounded soldiers there and I need them to clear our casualties out. And it actually happens. They arrive, they land, and they evacuate the wounded for me. Meanwhile, my medical unit is there the entire time treating casualties, loading them up, evacuating them to the helipad. We managed to bring there the wounded from the APC we had seen, the wounded from our battalion, and several civilians we picked up along the way — people who escaped from Kibbutz Sufa, from Pri Gan, and from other places. They all received treatment from my incredible medical team — those angels — and the helicopters I called in evacuated them to Soroka Hospital, where they finally received proper care. There were also many dead in that battle. There were dead. And I remember one moment at the end, when everything was over, just minutes before they came to evacuate the bodies. There was a moment when they were lying there side by side, and I walked between them, gently touching their faces, stroking them softly, telling them I was sorry, and closing their eyes. And I remember telling myself in that moment that those people, who were now making their final journey, were unbelievable heroes. They fought there like lions to save Kibbutz Sufa. They fought until their last drop of blood." From Or's book 'book One Day in October'.