@jpodhoretz I went to Princeton with Hegseth, and I feel exactly the same way.
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Brian Beck
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Brian Beck
@tigerhawk310
Chicago Patent Lawyer/Gamer
Glenview, IL Katılım Kasım 2009
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This hurts no one but Harvard and Princeton students who love their country. Given their conduct and the ideology that governs them, Harvard and Princeton should be opening reserve officer training programs for the IRGC.
Gregg Nunziata@greggnunziata
This hurts both the military and academia.
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@EWErickson In our school district, Rosh Hashanah, Good Friday, and Eid are all days off, without any description of what those days are. Which is the right answer.
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You will not be surprised to learn that in the Nashville school system, Christmas break is "winter break" and Good Friday is "Spring break" but Ramadan is Ramadan.
Cabot Phillips@cabot_phillips
Nashville public schools are embracing Ramadan. Let's have a look at the people making this possible, shall we? 🧵🧵🧵
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Guess I have to pay for Grok, so I’ll just screenshot Wikipedia:
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I’ve seen a whole lot of pro-Palestine activists bemoaning the “discriminatory” Israeli law that allows the death penalty for terrorist murderers.
So, @grok , what is the punishment in the Palestinian Authority for selling land to Jews?
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@Sean_C2 @dilanesper There are in peacetime, yes. Those justice and ethics issues go out the window when the other nation is in a state of constant war with you with an intent to annihilate you - and when they take civilians prisoner explicitly as a bargaining chip to free imprisoned murderers.
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@tigerhawk310 @dilanesper So in other words, yes there are, but it’s inconvenient for you to acknowledge this.
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i would just mention that Israel is not exactly behaving as if it realizes what the problem is.
Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין@MairavZ
Israeli Knesset members are currently voting to pass a death penalty bill that would apply only to Palestinians. In what would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago, it is poised to pass.
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@tigerhawk310 @dilanesper Gee, are there any fundamental principles of justice and ethics that make the punishment for a crime being contingent on the nationality of the actor a problem?
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@emzanotti I turned on Spaceballs once thinking “I don’t remember anything really inappropriate in that.”
Came on right at the “WE AIN’T FOUND SHIT” line.
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I'm starting to think that, perhaps, people may not have really watched the movies they've labeled "family friendly."
Bridge on the River Kwai?
Ghostbusters?
I mean, they're good movies, just...maybe you weren't really paying attention.
Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin@FoundationDads
The Great Escape is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? The Bridge on the River Kwai is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? The Princess Bride is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? North by Northwest is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? Star Wars is family-friendly. Is it a movie just made for kids? (No, it was not, despite what prequel apologists say) A "family-friendly movie" is not the same thing as a "movie made for kids," though many people conflate the two. And, importantly, a "family-friendly movie" does not mean a movie is tame or boring. Constraints give birth to creativity. All movies used to be "familiy-friendly" because it was understood the familiy would be watching movies together. Some of the best movies of all time are "family-friendly." Only later did we split off and create the category of "made for children," with one side betting more obscene and the other getting more frantic, shallow, and inane. Bring back "family-friendly" as the default. Project Hail Mary, which just made a bazillion dollars, is also "family-friendly." Not a coincidence.
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@estherzelda0514 I’m sure the person with the Hamas triangle in their handle who was in prison is accurately conveying a story from another prisoner, who was totally innocent and truthful. I think there was a song in Chicago about this…
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If you don't fight back: well, it must not have been rape, just regrettable sex.
If you do fight back: wow, women are so violent, here's a six year prison sentence.
Tell me again that we don't live in a patriarchy.
CC🏳️🌈🪁🔻@ccnameisfriday
I was in prison with a girl who stabbed her rapist. He didn't even die. She just injured him and got him to stop. She had just barely turned 18 and they locked her up until she was 24 years old.
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Those misunderstanding Netanyahu’s paraphrase of William Durant are making the same childish error as those who believe Song of Ice and Fire is nihilistic. It’s the same theme: morality is real, but being good does not automatically mean success. In the real world, evil can win.
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@SoloChronicler @DanielSeidemann Even better, it’s actually from 2023. timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-plan…
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@DanielSeidemann You are such a liar. That image is taken from purim 2025, (at least) from a website advertising for purim 2026. Why do you lie? Go ask grok if you want to waste your time! Bomb shelters in 2026 you liar.
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Find the differences.
One photo is of Purim celebrations in Jerusalem on March 4.
The second photo taken today is of Ben Gvir's militia (aka the Police) dispersing Muslim worshipers praying on Eid al-Fitr outside the ramparts of the Old City.
Occupation in action.
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@Betar_USA Refusing to serve a Jew is not a crime for which the police can do anything. It is, however, a civil tort which the courts can remedy through a civil lawsuit, and which can also be remedied through executive action by city, state, or federal governments.
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USA: Jewish man stops at a convenience store to buy chicken. The Palestinian clerk says it will be ready in an hour but later tells him he cannot have it. The clerk calls the police, and the Jewish man is arrested for refusing to leave the store.
In general, Jews in Diaspora must understand the police and law enforcement won’t be on our side and shouldn’t be surprised when we are refused service.
There’s not enough lawyers to help and courts too can be biased.
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@CMarieMartinez @IonaItalia @MeachamDr More Jews have been killed in Australia in the last year for being Jewish in a single terror attack than have been killed in Israel during this war. So much for the “safety of Australia.”
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@IonaItalia @MeachamDr Lady, you are supporting a war that is killing Israelis.
You want a war but you don't want to live in the warzone yourself. You live in the safety of Australia.
Granted the spiders of Australia are deadly AF
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@dilanesper While the political complaints are somewhat true, the emergency cots are due to severe weather, not TSA. They pop up at O’Hare all the time. Stop falling prey to Twitter slop lies.
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As I said yesterday, we have become an unserious country. Because this is So Bleeping Simple-- the Democrats and Republicans just get together, hammer out a bipartisan compromise, pass it, and the TSA goes back to work. Which is what would have ALWAYS happened in the past.
HustleBitch@HustleBitch_
🚨 HOUSTON AIRPORT JUST TURNED INTO A MASS SLEEPOVER AFTER TSA LINES COLLAPSE — “LOOKS LIKE A DISASTER SHELTER” Wild video from inside Houston’s airport shows rows of emergency cots set up across huge sections of the terminal floor as travelers deal with unbelievably long TSA security lines. Passengers say waits stretched for hours, triggering waves of missed flights and leaving people stranded overnight inside the airport. With the backlog growing, airport staff reportedly began setting up temporary sleeping areas right inside the terminal so travelers had somewhere to rest while waiting. And this isn’t the first time this has happened at this airport... previous footage shows this isn’t new. At what point does this stop being “travel delays”… and start being a system failure?
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@jpodhoretz Much like Liam Cunningham, most famous for playing a smuggler who thinks of himself as a good guy while serving a religious fanatic who burns his own daughter in order to kill his enemies.
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Remember Javier Bardem is the cinema's most terrifying villain. That was Anton Chigurh saying 'Free Palestine.'
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@dilanesper Cool, cool. Say, does Berkeley protect the speech of its students who don’t want to murder Jews? rankings.fire.org/assets/docs/ca…
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This is disgusting. But it is also free speech. UC Berkeley is a public school and they cannot engage in content-based speech discrimination.
Jessica Costescu@JessicaCostescu
NEW from me: UC Berkeley, is allowing its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter to include an inverted red triangle—a symbol Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets—in its logo. The image is displayed on an official university webpage for the group. 🧵 🧵
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@dilanesper @dennisjsaffran So if the local government tries to censor them, they don’t merit a dinner invitation, but if the federal government does, they do???
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@dennisjsaffran No, but the federal government didn't try to censor the Nazis in Skokie either.
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Here's the thing-- if you turn a person into a free speech martyr, you up their profile and esteem.
Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner are great examples of that-- they became far more beloved because they fought free speech battles. Modern pornographers aren't thought of that way.
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh
Mamdani, for second time since his inauguration, facing backlash from mainstream Jewish orgs for hosting at Gracie Mansion Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate who was held for deportation for his role in the pro-Palestinian protests.
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@dilanesper After the crap CNN’s pulled this week, believing anything they post at face value is a classic Gell-Mann Effect error.
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Sigh. This is what happens when the people who get us into a war don't bother thinking through the other side's moves on the chessboard. We have put ourselves into an enormously difficult situation.
CNN@CNN
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue. cnn.it/4sw3Ph0
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Even if you accept Mamdani’s claim to be protecting the 1st amendment - the ACLU defended the Skokie Nazis in court. They didn’t invite the Nazis home for dinner.
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