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Marjorie Taylor Greene: “If your church leaders and elected leaders tell you the way to bring Jesus back is by killing innocent children of innocent foreign people, in a foreign land you’ve never been to, then you’re believing the lies of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.”

Reminder: The Democrats are not an opposition party. Their function is to sell the illusion of democracy and cover up the truth, which is that the US is a dictatorship of capital where every aspect of society from the government to the economy is controlled by and for the rich.

Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life that was "about to" take place, and that agents had conducted an operation in Hoboken related to this plot. For months, Zionist organizations like Betar and politicians like Randy Fine have encouraged violence against my family and me. I will have more to say as additional details come to light. I will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine. Thank you for your support. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/nyr…

@PelicansLead Absolutely cannot shoot 3's off the dribble - a big NO-NO for a "movement" shooter

Jordan Hawkins has been a major disappointment since we drafted him

Yes, standing up for human rights is the most basic litmus test. Our party needs a new moral direction.

🚨 BREAKING Spain breaks diplomatic ties with Israel. Madrid has just recalled its ambassador and is planning to close its embassy in Tel Aviv. Israel condemned the move, calling it "highly antisemitic." Antisemitism is hatred of Jews. Criticizing Israel is not hatred of Jews. Zionism is not Judaism.

@Fleetwoodzac76 @tparsi @Navsteva @GeorgeBeebe13 @ForeignPolicy Isn't that what negotiations are all about?

@mctuman @tparsi @Navsteva @GeorgeBeebe13 @ForeignPolicy With what power?

Trump failed to listen to better counsel, and America is facing a debacle in the Persian Gulf as a result. But it isn't too late to end this unnecessary war through a sensible compromise. My colleague @GeorgeBeebe13 and I lay out in @ForeignPolicy a politically feasible deal that would end the war, reopen the Straits of Hormuz, stabilize the Middle East, and restore nuclear diplomacy. The key elements are: 1. A non-aggression pact that encompasses the US, Iran, Israel, as well as Iran's allied organizations 2. Complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in return for sanctions relief for states seeking to buy Iranian oil and finance Iranian post-war reconstruction. Iran would also commit to denominating at least half of its oil sales in USD. 3. Tehran would renew its stated commitment to never pursue nuclear weapons, followed by renewed nuclear talks premised on preventing nuclear weapons rather than enrichment. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/26/tru…

Yesterday, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir warned that the army is facing a serious manpower shortage and could "collapse from within." Today, Netanyahu announced that the government will advance the law allowing ultra-Orthodox to avoid the draft. That is a massive blow to the IDF and will increase the overload on an army fighting on several fronts. It is yet more evidence that Netanyahu is waging his wars for domestic survival and not for reasons related to Israeli security.

Gaza. It is always about Gaza. Gaza is where Israel's parallel universe crashed into the actual world. Gaza is where the rotten seeds of supremacy, nourished by the debauched entitlement of "western values" sought to choke humanity as it slept, dreaming of "peace". No peace.

Israeli officials have admitted to the Wall Street Journal that not only is regime change in Iran now impossible, but they will only be able to cause limited damage to Iranian military capabilities. A source I spoke to added that "we are concerned that with much of their capabilities underground, band Russian and Chinese support more robust than we thought, Iran will be back on its feet sooner than expected. Just like Hezbollah manage in Lebanon. The current goal of the war is to hit as many military targets as possible to set back Iranian capabilities as much as possible. But that will likely be pretty limited and nowhere near worth the price Israel and the US are paying in lives, economically and diplomatically.

This is an important moment for the left because figures on the right are willing to say the truth: Israel is the problem. Meanwhile Gavin Newsom and even Bernie Sanders are blaming Netanyahu and promoting more palatable Zionist groups like J street. What we’re seeing is an attempt by leftist gatekeepers to protect Israel at all costs. Matt Duss and his side have no argument except finger wagging about historical antisemitism. That’s not analysis. There is no plausible thesis that explains how blowing up the petrodollar fits into grand U.S. imperial designs. The Israel lobby is why this is happening. Most rank and file people on the left understand. The gatekeepers need to be aggressively resisted otherwise our side will surrender truth to the right.

People like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer have effectively no audience. Their influence does not come from any mass popular appeal because they have none. They get ratioed by anons on Twitter. Podcasts out of basements get more organic views. And yet, because they are well-connected influential jews, they have massive influence with the Trump administration. A perfect representation of our “democracy”

A los 97 años, la voz de Noam Chomsky, que durante décadas fue una de las más incómodas y necesarias del mundo contemporáneo, se ha visto profundamente limitada. El hombre que convirtió el lenguaje en una herramienta para desmontar el poder, para cuestionar narrativas oficiales y para incomodar a quienes preferían no ser cuestionados, ya no puede expresarse como lo hacía antes. Sin embargo, lo que dejó dicho sigue vivo, como una especie de eco que no termina de apagarse. Chomsky nunca fue un pensador fácil de digerir. Sus ideas no buscaban consolar ni simplificar, sino obligar a mirar donde normalmente no se mira. Insistía en que la pobreza no es un accidente ni una fatalidad inevitable, sino el resultado directo de estructuras diseñadas para concentrar poder y riqueza. Esa afirmación, por sí sola, desmonta muchos de los relatos que durante años se han presentado como inevitables. También defendía que la verdad no llega sola, ni se recibe sin esfuerzo. Requiere trabajo, duda, pensamiento propio y una disposición constante a cuestionar lo que parece evidente. Para él, aceptar sin pensar era una forma de renunciar a la libertad, y por eso ponía tanto énfasis en la incomodidad intelectual como punto de partida para entender el mundo. Una de sus ideas más persistentes era que el poder necesita fabricar enemigos, alimentar el miedo y luego presentarse como la única solución posible. Este mecanismo, que él analizó durante décadas, no era para él una teoría abstracta, sino algo visible en la historia reciente y en el funcionamiento cotidiano de los medios y la política. Del mismo modo, recordaba que los derechos que hoy parecen normales no fueron concedidos por generosidad, sino conquistados por personas comunes que decidieron no aceptar lo establecido. Esa mirada devolvía el protagonismo a la gente, alejándolo de la idea de que solo las grandes figuras cambian el rumbo de la historia. A lo largo de su vida, Chomsky mantuvo una coherencia poco habitual. No suavizó sus ideas para resultar más aceptable, ni buscó encajar en los espacios donde su pensamiento incomodaba. Eso le costó críticas, vigilancia y rechazo en ciertos ámbitos, pero nunca cambió el fondo de lo que defendía. Hoy, su silencio no significa ausencia. Sus libros siguen leyéndose, sus conferencias siguen circulando y sus preguntas siguen abiertas. Porque más que ofrecer respuestas cerradas, su legado consiste en una forma de mirar el mundo que obliga a no conformarse. Quizá por eso su influencia no desaparece con su voz. Permanece en cada persona que decide cuestionar lo que parece incuestionable, en cada duda que rompe una certeza cómoda y en cada intento de entender quién se beneficia realmente de las cosas tal y como son. Al final, no dejó un monumento ni una verdad única, sino algo mucho más difícil de ignorar: una invitación constante a pensar por cuenta propia, incluso cuando hacerlo resulta incómodo.

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago. The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans. Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites. Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written. The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention. El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity. "Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different. The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes. Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe. The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire. In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it. The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence. So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East: The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys. The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world. Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic. Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite. History has a very dark sense of humor.

The IDF Chief of Staff has warned that the IDF is on the verge of collapse after 900 straight days of war. This is what he told the government yesterday: 1) Reservists are being stretched to a breaking point across multiple active fronts simultaneously: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, and the Iranian front 2) No ultra-Orthodox conscription law has been passed, leaving thousands exempt from service in practice 3) The cabinet approved the legalization of dozens more outposts and farms in the West Bank, requiring additional troops to protect them 4) Jewish nationalist terrorism is surging in the West Bank, requiring an additional battalion to be deployed there, with possibly another needed soon 5) Mandatory service is set to shorten to 30 months in January 2027, the opposite of the IDF's request to extend it to 36 months 6) The government is avoiding passing the necessary laws (conscription, reserves, extended service) largely due to political pressures related to the Haredi exemption controversy The expansionist policies of the government are straining the army to the point of no return. The IDF cannot carry this load and will "collapse into itself" according to the Chief of Staff soon if the wars of expansion do not stop. Israel is simply not big enough and not rich enough to dominate the Middle East in the long-term.

🚨 BREAKING: "Israel wanted to assassinate Iran's Foreign Minister Aragchi and speaker Ghalibaf. It had coordinates of their movements. Pakistan intelligence got the information about Israeli plans. Pakistan informed US that if Israel kills Abbas Aragchi and Ghalibaf, there will be no one left in Iran to talk to. Iran will be taken over by the hardcore IRGC commanders. At this, US intervened and stopped Israel from carrying out strikes to eliminate Aragchi and Ghalibaf. " - Pakistani official to Reuters

@SIChrisMannix According to EPM, we don't have a player in the TOP 75 😉

Finished Pelicans-Knicks. Is it wrong to really like this Pels roster? Fears is an All-Star in like three years. Queen hit a wall but he's going to be good. Murphy/Jones/Murray -- solid. Gotta figure out the Zion piece but this team has a future.

This is the exact speech Israel needs to be able to make & yet cannot!

No, he doesn't know it but the gods of history have anointed him to discredit and dismantle the Empire, close the bases, scrap NATO and each and every unnecessary alliance, bring the troops home and thereby usher in MASA (Make America Solvent Again). He's way ahead of schedule, but just hasn't been told yet.