Stephen A. Miskin

@FalkTG @fredforthemets Yeah.

I repeat: The U.S. sent thousands of its 19 years old soldiers to die in Normandy, to free Europe and to end the biggest crime against humanity ever commited - by Europeans. It was just 81 years ago. The whole reason, France, Benelux etc. 🇫🇷 exist today is because of this heroism. My grandparents could grow up in a liberal democracy. Without the U.S. they would be raised at the H*tler Youth. We Europeans would still be in wars again and again, like 1914, 1866, 1870, 1795 etc. They brought peace, democracy, liberty and human rights. They invested billions of U.S. Dollars into Europe with the Marshall Fund. They gave us more than we ever had in our history before. They protected us for 7 decades with hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the cruelties of the Soviet Union. The terror we can see nowadays in Donetsk, would have happened in Bavaria, Bourgogne or the Netherlands in 1950 if there wasn’t the U.S. 🇺🇸 Who do we Europeans think we are to let that nation down, act like bad allies, calling their President names every day on television - and have full confidence we stand better alone. All of instagram is just about, why we’re better than the U.S. We owe them so much. We Europeans are most arrogant species on earth. And to cure this we have to face the truth.

Frankly I hope I can join your ranks one day. I'm done with the morally smug, economically illiterate, declinist mindset here. We think we're so cultured & so smart, but it's mostly masturbatory. Americans keep demonstrating their uniquely actionable & pragmatic intelligence.

Bravo to Argentina for expelling Tehran's top diplomat in Buenos Aires. They're not diplomats—they are IRGC terrorists, and must be treated as such.

This was a rare sight in Philadelphia today. Lincoln Drive closed to vehicles and opened to volunteers for an hours-long clean-up campaign.

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.

@JaredGSolomon Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover Representative, to you and youe whole family. Enjoy your celebration and this special time.

Jack’s first Passover! Happy Pesach!

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

Hamas apologists unite.

@SpencerGuard And what western main stream media outlet will report this? Rhetorical question... because we all know the answer... none. It appears there are many in America rooting for Iran, Hezbolah, Hamas, Russia, et al...

No surprise but still a violation of the laws of armed conflict that should be called out, the use of protected sites and population for military purposes - human shielding.

From Day One, the mission was crystal clear: This was the final, best chance to wipe out Iran’s threat for good - so they can never have a nuclear weapon. @SecRubio breaks it down ⬇️

@thewebbie Literally, the only difference in your story and what would be mine, was my father, not grandfather. I too was youngest, so I would transliteration the Ma Nishtana; my oldest sister would change the Haggadah on me, so struggle through I did! Next week will be w/my grandchild. TY

Passover Terminology 2026 Edition I didn’t grow up religious. Not really. We were what I’d call “strategically Jewish.” Holidays, traditions, the important stuff. Enough to know who we are. Not enough to argue halacha over coffee. But Passover? Passover was different. Passover was my grandfather. Every year, like clockwork, the house would fill with that familiar chaos. Too many people, not enough chairs, someone arguing about who forgot the wine, someone else insisting this year we’d “keep it short.” We never kept it short. My grandfather sat at the head of the table like a conductor. Not loud. Not flashy. But completely in charge. The kind of presence that didn’t need to raise its voice because everyone already knew. He led the Seder the same way every year. Slowly. Intentionally. Like the story actually mattered. Because to him, it did. And every year, without fail, I was the youngest. Which meant one thing. Spotlight. The Four Questions. The Ma Nishtana. Didn’t matter if I was ready or not. Didn’t matter if I suddenly forgot Hebrew mid-sentence. That was my role. My moment. And I remember that feeling. A little nervous. A little proud. Everyone watching. My grandfather nodding along like I was delivering something important, not just reciting words I barely understood yet. And then came the real highlight. The afikoman. If you didn’t grow up with this, let me explain. At some point during the Seder, a piece of matzah gets hidden. And later, the kids have to find it. This is not just a game. This is a treasure hunt. We tore that house apart every year like it was designed by professionals. Couch cushions flipped. Closets opened. Someone always checking the same spot three times like maybe this time it would magically appear. And when you found it? You won. And the prize was always the same. A crisp $2 bill. Every year. Simple. Predictable. Perfect. I still have some of them. Not because of the money. Let’s be honest, even then it wasn’t exactly a life-changing payout. But because of what it meant. That moment. That search. That feeling of finding something hidden and being rewarded for it. But the truth is, it was never really about the reward. Because the reward came from my grandfather. And that made it priceless. Some of the happiest memories of my childhood live right there. Around that table. With my grandfather leading, and all of us playing our parts in a story thousands of years old. And here’s the thing. At the time, I didn’t fully understand what we were doing. Now I do. We weren’t just telling a story. We were remembering who we are. So for my non-Jewish friends, my Jewish friends who forgot half of this, and everyone in between, here’s your updated guide. --- Passover (Pesach) The annual Jewish festival where we celebrate going from slavery to freedom. Historically in Egypt. Spiritually in every generation. Practically, it means cleaning your house like royalty is coming over and then eating like it isn’t. Chametz Anything leavened that Jews suddenly treat like radioactive material for eight days. Bread, pasta, cake, that one forgotten granola bar in your car. If it rises, it’s out. Spiritually, it’s about removing ego. Practically, it’s about finding crumbs you didn’t know existed. Matzah The official cracker of freedom. Made fast, eaten slow, and somehow still managing to confuse your digestive system every single year. Seder A ritual meal with a clear order that immediately dissolves into family debate, storytelling, and at least one side conversation that has nothing to do with Egypt. Haggadah The book that guides the Seder. Part history, part ritual, part group participation exercise where someone always asks if we can skip ahead. Four Questions (Ma Nishtana) The one night a child becomes the main character. Same questions every year. Completely different performances. Maror Bitter herbs meant to remind us of slavery. Also a great way to clear your sinuses and reconsider your life choices. Charoset A sweet mixture symbolizing mortar used by slaves. Which raises an important Jewish question. Why does suffering taste this good? Karpas A green vegetable (often parsley) dipped in saltwater. Represents spring and tears. Also represents every kid asking why we’re doing this. Afikoman The hidden piece of matzah that turns the Seder into a full-scale treasure hunt. Found by kids, rewarded with something small but unforgettable, and remembered long after the matzah is gone. The Four Cups of Wine Four cups representing redemption. Also four chances for the conversation to get increasingly philosophical. Plagues Ten ancient punishments. Now performed with props, dramatic flair, and children who fully commit to the role of locust. Dayenu A song about gratitude that proves one thing. Jews can turn appreciation into a full group production. Elijah’s Cup A glass of wine set aside for Elijah. The door gets opened. We look. He remains fashionably late every year. Bedikat Chametz The pre-Passover search for crumbs using a candle, a feather, and just enough theater to make it feel like a mission. Biur Chametz The ceremonial burning of leftover chametz. Because nothing says renewal like setting your carbs on fire. Kitniyot Rice, beans, and legumes that some Jews avoid and others eat. A yearly reminder that Jewish unity includes healthy disagreement. Kosher for Passover A special category of food with extra rules. Somehow results in desserts that taste like optimism and compromise. Next Year in Jerusalem The closing line of the Seder. A statement of hope, continuity, and identity. Also the moment everyone starts eyeing dessert. --- Here’s what I didn’t understand as a kid sitting at that table. My grandfather wasn’t just leading a meal. He was passing something down. Not just tradition. Something deeper. Memory. Identity. Continuity. The same story, told in different homes, across different countries, in different languages, for thousands of years. Different tables. Same words. Empires came and went. We stayed. And every year, we come back to it. We sit down, open the same book, hide the same matzah, ask the same questions. Not because we forgot. Because we remember. And if you ask me now, all these years later, what Passover really is… It’s that table. It’s my grandfather’s voice, steady and patient, carrying the story forward. It’s a kid, a little nervous, reading the Ma Nishtana like it actually matters… because it does. It’s the laughter. The chaos. The sound of a house alive. It’s searching for something hidden… and sometimes, if you’re lucky, finding it… and holding onto it for years. It’s freedom, told as a story so it’s never lost. And somehow, all of it… still feels like home.

@AdamMossoff Does this really surprise anyone?

Data analytics confirm huge bias in favor of pro-Islamic regime of Iran by BBC, CNN, NBC and NY Times. These media orgs used "war crime" 32 times in news reports in the first 3 weeks of the U.S./Israel-Iran war. ZERO references solely to crimes by Islamic regime, and 88% media uses referred solely to U.S. or Israel. Islamic regime uses cluster bombs against Israeli civilians, shoots missiles and suicide drones at civilian targets in numerous Arab countries not involved in war, fires missiles at holy sites in Old Jerusalem, etc., etc. ZERO identification of these war crimes as standalone crimes by major Western media organizations. This is shameful.

"I was told by "Chesty" Puller years ago, there is only a hairline’s difference between a Navy Cross and a general court-martial." Gregory "Pappy" Boyington During their first combat tour, while on the island of Vella Lavella, the Black Sheep’s Intelligence Officer Frank Walton wrote to the Commissioner of Baseball with a proposition: "The Black Sheep are in dire need of sun-shading ball caps due to the humid weather, which quickly destroyed our military issue caps." Walton promised that his Squadron’s pilots would shoot down a Japanese aircraft for each cap sent to them. Only the St. Louis Cardinal organization of the National League responded, sending dozens of caps to the heroes in the Pacific. VMF-214 "Black Sheep Squadron" pose with an F4U Corsair after receiving baseball caps from the St. Louis Cardinals. Gregory ‘Pappy’ Boyington. Front row, third from right.

With antisemitic incidents skyrocketing in the UK, we must learn the long history of attacks against Jews in England. Let’s go back to the March Massacre at Clifford’s Tower in 1190 when the entire Jewish community of York (150 people) was slaughtered or driven to suicide inside the royal castle. What is now Clifford’s Tower stands as a silent witness to one of medieval England’s darkest antisemitic pogroms. Jewish families in York all huddled together as a mob bayed for blood and forced baptism. Led by prominent local Jews like Josce (Joceus) and the visiting French Rabbi Yom Tov of Joigny, many chose suicide over forced conversion. Some emerged from the piles of bodies, fearing death and begging for baptism; and they were cut down anyway. The attackers, just ordinary townsfolk, finished off the remaining Jews - men, women, and children - and then looted the Jewish homes. Not a single person was ever punished for the horrific crimes that occurred on that day. The March Massacre wasn’t random mob violence either. It was the bloody climax of a wave of pogroms that swept England in 1189–1190, triggered by the coronation of Richard I “the Lionheart” in September 1189. A Jewish delegation had dared attend the ceremony, and rumors spread that they were there to “buy” influence. Riots erupted in London, killing dozens. Similar attacks hit Norwich, King’s Lynn, Stamford, Bury St Edmunds, and elsewhere. In York, the sheriff was conveniently away on crusade, leaving the Jewish Quarter undefended. Today, on the 836th anniversary of the March Massacre, the same poisonous blend of hatred, resentment, and scapegoating festers in modern Britain. Antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed since the October 7, 2023 Massacre with 3,700 recorded in 2025 alone (more than double pre-2023 levels). And just days ago, four ambulances belonging to Hatzalah, the volunteer Jewish community emergency service in Golders Green, north London, were torched in a deliberate arson attack outside a synagogue. England once expelled its Jews entirely in 1290 (100 years after the March Massacre); and it is allowing antisemitism to flourish in the streets once again. The plaque at Clifford’s Tower reads simply: “On the night of 16 March 1190 some 150 Jews and ewesses of York having sought protection in the Royal Castle on this site from a mob incited by Richard Malebisse and others chose to die at each others hands rather than renounce their faith." We remember, not to dwell in victimhood, but to learn from the past and try to ensure that the same hatred under different names ("anti-Zionism") can be recognized and fought.

Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?

@CptAllenHistory Unfortunately, the media, such as @NPR @ap @Reuters etc. doesn't care about the facts. As much as they virtue signal, their bias is astounding.

This day (March 26) in 1964, Egyptian President Nasser told the UAR National Assembly: “The danger of Israel lies in the very existence of Israel as it is in the present and in what she represents.” No fig leaf about “occupation,” no UN resolutions, no “human rights” jargon—just raw, unvarnished, exterminationist truth. The Jewish state’s "crime" was existing. Three years later, in 1967, Nasser attempted to carry out this planned genocide by gathering the armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and others for what they openly called the final solution to the “Zionist problem.” PLO founder Ahmad al-Shuqayri was even more direct: “We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants… and as for the survivors—if there are any—the boats are ready to deport them.” Iraqi President Abdul Rahman Arif promised Arab forces would “remove Israel from the map” and meet in Tel Aviv. The rhetoric wasn’t subtle. It was genocidal - ACTUALLY genocidal. What happened next is history’s blunt rebuttal: tiny Israel, outnumbered and surrounded, destroyed the combined Arab air forces in hours and ended the war in six days. Nearly 60 years later, it’s almost refreshing to remember how openly these "anti-Zionists" once said the quiet part out loud. Now we hear the same eliminationist goal, but in thinly veiled language of “human rights” or so-called “resistance.” When Nasser made clear the problem was Israel's very existence - in 1964 - he wasn't talking about "67 borders." After all, Egypt was occupying the Gaza Strip and Jordan had illegally annexed the entire "West Bank." Just as it was at modern Israel's inception in 1948, it remains today: the problem to so-called "anti-Zionists" is and always has been Israel's very existence.

@afalkhatib Can anyone have said this better? No. This perfectly hits the problem.

When I became a citizen of the United States in 2014, on the basis of political asylum from the Gaza Strip and escaping Jihadi Islamism, I sincerely and seriously never thought that pro-Jihad, pro-Hamas, pro-terror, fascist, pro-Iran, pro-Hezbollah, anti-civilizational dark forces would become a mainstream staple in American politics and discourse. Having a group of ignorant domestic terrorists with Hamas and Palestinian flags, hiding their faces and taking over public space outside the City Hall of Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is not only a grotesque sight, but it also demonstrates so much that has gone wrong. It is a condemnation of our country's higher education institutes, which have normalized violence, anti-Western ideologies, and embarrassing “post-colonial” narratives. This is a condemnation of a failed revisionist, neo-liberal immigration approach in which assimilation is frowned upon and viewed as bad and negative, coddling people with truly horrendous beliefs, ideologies, cultures, and backgrounds, instead of seeking to uplift and elevate them and their status. This is a condemnation of failed parenting, nonexistent community infrastructure to educate young people, failed leftist discourses, and moral bankruptcy. Remember that this has nothing to do with Palestine, for these “activists” ruined the “pro-Palestine” cause and are now seeking to latch on to any and every remaining filth that can vector their anti-human, anti-America, anti-Western, and anti-decent discourse and value system that can produce anything of meaning. Burning the American flag, while exercising your right to free speech, is the ultimate irony that only the United States of America affords to literal domestic terrorists, who are engaged in a subversive act against the very country and patriotic values that they seek to “dismantle.” Still, freedom of choice does not equal freedom from consequences. This cannot be normalized, as it unfortunately has been over the past two and a half years since Hamas’s October 7th attack. This is a domestic battle for our country’s values and future – it’s time to choose the direction you want this country to head in.

@antonioguterres And our message, the people of Iran, to you: shut up just like when the criminal Islamic Republic was massacring the people of Iran… #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran