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In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says his forces are waiting for a "green light from the United States" to renew war with Iran and target the new Supreme Leader’s family and Iranian energy and power sites.

I’m genuinely astonished by the stunning immaturity of the views expressed by Piker and Tolentino in these clips. These are sentiments you’d expect to hear in a dorm room as someone was passing around a bong.

Democrats, stop. Please. This is the road to hell.

After Israel struck a car in front of her, killing two people, Amal Khalil and her colleague Zeinab Faraj, took shelter in a nearby building. Israel “specifically targeted the home where they took refuge.” Zeinab was injured but survived the strike, Amal was killed. Lebanese Red Cross arrived to rescue Amal and Khalil and others, but an Israeli drone dropped a grenade on the medics, and fired at their ambulance, forcing them to withdraw for hours. ^^^ all per Lebanese Ministry of Health.

🔵 Haaretz: Israeli soldiers looting homes across southern Lebanon on a “crazy scale,” soldiers and commanders stationed inside Lebanon told the outlet. “According to the testimonies, as IDF soldiers leave Lebanon, they load stolen items onto their vehicles openly, without attempting to conceal them. ‘It’s on a crazy scale,’ one soldier said. ‘Anyone who takes something – televisions, cigarettes, tools, whatever – immediately puts it in their vehicle or leaves it off to the side, not inside the army base, but it’s not hidden. Everyone sees it and understands.’” Witnesses described troops taking motorcycles, televisions, tools, paintings, sofas, and rugs—often in full view, with no effort to conceal the theft.

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

They teach their children that America won World War II. Which is, and this is important, not technically false but is also a form of organized forgetting. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people defeating Nazi Germany. Twenty-seven million. The Eastern Front was the war. What happened in Western Europe after D-Day was, from a military scale perspective, the closing chapter. Americans know Pearl Harbor. They know D-Day. They know Hiroshima. They do not, in general, feel in their bones the weight of 27 million Soviet dead as a fact that shaped the outcome of a war they believe they won. This isn't ignorance. It's curation. History gets curated to produce a specific psychological output: we are the people who save the world. We showed up, we sacrificed, we won, we rebuilt Europe with the Marshall Plan, we were generous in victory. This narrative, repeated for eighty years, produces citizens who experience American power as inherently benevolent by historical nature. And those citizens then cannot understand why anyone resists it.