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@BlondShelley Happy birthday!

Blessed to have made it to 56 surrounded by love, laughter, happiness and the best people on the planet♥️🖤

People really underestimate to what extent contemporaries of the early explorers and conquistadors were repulsed by their behavior, punished their crimes, and documented it for posterity. If anything, the language we use today sounds overly academic and sanitized.

Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles. Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d. Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.

I love Obama but it’s increasingly clear that some of his most decisive foreign policy accomplishments actually made the world a more dangerous place. (Aside from fucking up ISIS.)

A brave Lebanese journalist 🇱🇧 • You can’t film here • I have approval from Lebanese army • Show me proof • Who are you to ask me? • I am Hezbollah • Ya so what?

This post should single handedly weaken the value of a Harvard PhD.

Disney should only produce live-action remakes of “okay” movies and leave their masterpieces alone. That’s why the Jungle Book worked, and every other remake since then has been lobotomized at best and unwatchable at worst.

@atlasjlively But you can rush food.

Billy wants you to know that it’s okay to take your time writing your book. You can’t rush art ♥️✨

The Green Knight is aggressively anti-slop. You cannot browse your phone while you watch it. You cannot rely on it for cheap hits of dopamine or MCU quips. It is art. Whether you love it or not, it earns your respect.

Drew followed the usual path of city liberal to conservative. He got robbed. But that’s not what really does it, it’s the fact that there’s no one who really cares on the left about robbery. Your stuff gets broken, stolen, and the left just shrugs. They don’t take it seriously, not because it’s impossible to stop, but because they have a series of insane sociologic theories about human nature and crime that are so bat shit insane that they don’t think catching and punishing criminals is a good thing. So Drew like many before him is sitting there listening to people he once respected explaining why his stuff being stolen is actually not the fault of the robber, but of societies oppressive nature blah blah blah and all the bullshit becomes plainly obvious. They’re just wrong about the world.

This money might be better spent monitoring, arresting, and prosecuting the 200-300 extremists the IDF and Shin Bet say are driving the majority of settler violence. The many social initiatives attempted to re-integrate hilltop youth over the years are valuable, but the time for them has long since passed for those already committing attacks. The first step to stopping the wave of violence is breaking the sense of impunity, physically removing repeat offenders from the area, and ensuring their offenses are actually investigated and prosecuted rather than quick release to house arrest with no follow-up, which happens far too often. The institutions exist already: the IDF and Shin Bet to enforce security and the police and courts to enforce the rule of law. What will a new NIS 130 million unit do to advance basic law enforcement that they can't?

Adam from Pakistan is openly coordinating mass reporting campaigns to get pro-Israel accounts suspended. He even posts screenshots bragging about which option he’s selecting — “Hate, Abuse, or Harassment” — while encouraging his followers to do the same. This is textbook coordinated harassment and abuse of X’s reporting system. X’s own rules explicitly prohibit “coordinating and/or encouraging others to misuse reporting features to harass others under false pretenses.” Yet Adam keeps doing it daily without consequence. It is infuriating to watch this foreign agitator weaponize the platform against Americans and Israelis who simply defend their people from jihad. @nikitabier and X leadership need to act. Enforce your own rules. Suspend Adam for systematic abuse instead of letting him silence voices that expose Islamic terror and stand with Israel. No more double standards. Protect free speech — stop protecting the censors.

@RachelMoiselle @danielthemate I’m starting to think that at least some of these people legitimately struggle with reading comprehension. I don’t mean that as a cheap dig—those who can’t understand the obvious meaning of a text or infer from context probably can’t read anything of significant length.

The reporting on the latest antisemitic graffiti incident in Ireland (the 11th in that particular area), by both our national broadcaster and the news outlet below, has incomprehensibly censored the offending words. They have reported that the antisemitic graffiti contains the Star of David and the word Jews, without clarifying that there is a censored word before Jews that almost certainly is the f word.

It's become clear that the mainstream media is hiding Rama Duwaji's tweets. Her racism, bigotry, and glorification of suicide bombers are either beneath them to report on or inconvenient for the narrative. I am going to write about this. Pls share any thoughts.

Funny, but you can actually stress-test this claim yourself and it’s not really accurate.

Peacocks enliven every place they dwell. My favorite place in Paris is Parc de Bagatelle—a lush botanic garden with waterfalls, hidden trails, and plenty of peacocks.

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

yet they claim we’re the “genocidal”