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ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: "[We're running] randomized control trials to evaluate what are the most effective interventions to deal with anti-Semitism."

Grant was one of the most consequential Americans in history. He was the only one of the Union’s generals who understood the depth of the problem in front of him. The Confederates were fighting for a cause. They were ideologically possessed. Be it for State’s Rights, Slavery, or the principles of the American system, it did not matter. He saw this in his first battle with them and knew that they would not relent or submit until soundly broken. This is why he fought them the way he did. Why he pursued them and pressured them the way he did. And it’s why he won battles that he “lost” the first time. Grant understood this was an industrial war, a war of attrition. And that that logistics behind you were more important to winning than the men in front of you. He was nearly erased from history because he was the man who, along with Sherman, saved the American experiment from the depredations of British and French external pressure and support. This is why he was consigned to the role of “a drunk butcher who got lucky,” rather than the man who won Lincoln the war and gave the US republic another chance to thrive. He and Lincoln were the first of historic consequence to beat the Color Revolution playbook and his reward was opprobrium and marginalization. In short, U.S. Grant was a badass who learned from his failures and never wavered. In the end, he beat Lee to a pulp, while his strategy tore the South’s fever dream to pieces. Yes, total war is deplorable. It brings out the very worst in humanity. But, sometimes that is all your enemy offers you in return. Look around you today, and you’ll see this vile pattern playing itself out in Ukraine, Tehran, and yes, in the Blue States in the US. They are banking on weaponizing our humanity against us to stop short of where they are willing to go to win. Grant was both a model and a warning. If you are going to fight, fight like a demon. He didn’t have the luxury of the broken field Patton had in France in 1944-45. He couldn’t move so fast that he could beat the enemy before they knew they were beaten. Grant had to force the issue head on, being just as relentless as Patton, and did so knowing the price would be almost too high to bear. That’s America. That’s what fighting for a cause truly looks like…. Where kings aren’t gods, but men, created equal. I hope that this is the message Donald Trump conveys without equivocation to Charles and Camila this week. Do this great American’s legacy proud on the anniversary of his birth.

BREAKING: Millionaire big game hunter Ernie Dosio was trampled to death by five elephants while hunting a rare antelope in central Africa. A classic case of fucking around and finding out! Go elephants! 🐘

The 50 best bands of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine. Who got left out, and which band is ranked a little too high?

It’s a book that aims to form the imagination to reject, with disgust, Christian anthropology and ethics

Two gay men in Nashville are sparking nationwide outrage after recording a video of themselves mocking the baby they had via surrogacy as it cries for its mother for content. Man: “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?” Baby: “Mama” Man: “No, there is no mama.” Baby: cries