Really good column by ⁦Steve Politi⁩: “a New Jersey judge just told the world that high school sports is above the law. That is, if you can afford the right lawyer.” nj.com/highschoolspor…

Is this really what any reasonable person wants to happen? ICE wants to deport her to Russia where she was critical of the Ukraine war and faces imprisonment or worse. She obviously is not a gang member — doesn’t even have any noticeable tattoos. boston.com/news/local-new…

This 1930s musical was a bit ahead of its time. northjersey.com/story/entertai…

Why are clergy sex abuse investigations stalled in NJ and around US? There’s a ‘playbook’ northjersey.com/story/news/new… via @NorthJersey

In 1941, the Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler, helped recruit Muslims into the SS, and spread Nazi propaganda across the Arab world. People pretend this history doesn’t exist. But it does and it matters. That alliance didn’t end in 1945. Nazi ideology about

The elevation of Haj Amin al-a Husseini to Grand Mufti of Palestine in the early 1920s was perhaps the turning point in the region. He instigated massacres of Jews and the killing of moderate Arabs. Peace requires both knowing history and validating multiple sides to an issue.

A story told using public records: Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi? - by Maya Sulkin thefp.com/p/who-is-the-r…

The last piece I wrote was spiked by the owner of the L.A. Times. I wrote this one for the internet! gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/i-was-an-la-…

A “massacre” went viral. The evidence? Flimsy, disputed, and sourced to Hamas mouthpieces. “It’s not even clear if the massacre happened,” writes Eli Lake. But the headlines had already blamed Israel. thefp.com/p/profits-from…

I saw the October 7th film. I barely slept two days afterwards. It stays with you. One thing you see in the film is civilians hiding from Hamas in a dumpster at the Nova festival. I actually stood next to the dumpster when I visited the site. Then, the next day I met the

Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur: “Iran told Israelis publicly, ‘We’re coming to kill you.’ Opposition to this war… is done by people who think Israel is some kind of a moral cartoon—and not real people living in the real world and facing a real threat, facing real evil.”

“You will swim back to the ghettos.” Weak, incompetent and brutal toward their own people. There’s truly nothing more pathetic than a blustering dictatorship.

Good news for victims of childhood sexual abuse by priests - NJ Supreme Court says state investigation of Catholic clergy sexual abuse can go forward northjersey.com/story/news/new… via @NorthJersey

When I was twenty years old, I became a symbol. I did not ask for it. I did not understand it. I certainly did not benefit from it. I became a caricature of a person: “Foxy Knoxy.”

This is true. Mahmoud Khalil really came out to Ezra Klein, but none of his audience (or Klein himself) know enough about history or the Middle East to understand the casual bigotry that drives Khalil's worldview - and support for the October 7 massacre.

This is absolutely insane. Listen and think about what he's saying here. We couldn't avoid the slaughter of the Bibas children. Really?

“Closer resident John Kanjiram identified himself as the car's owner. Among the claims in his writings is his assertion that the swastika — the emblem of the Nazi regime that killed 6 million Jews in World War II — was ‘a symbol of peace.’”northjersey.com/story/news/ber… via @NorthJersey

We rely on CDC for early detection, nat'l coordination, clear public guidance. What happens now if Bird Flu starts spreading between humans? If we have an ebola case? A difficult new covid variant? The gutting of public health by RFK & his enablers will have dire consequences.

This aged well.

Good to know, Stephen Miller.