‘#Jewish’ and ‘#white’ appear to be the two worst designations in the hyper-#progressive vocabulary. (The late #AbuObaida, the just-martyred #Hamas spokesman, used to call any Zionist he hated, ‘son of a Jewess.’) The one below was aimed at a Dutch author, Thomas van Linge

A wonderful writer, Joseph Epstein, whose politics I find at times quite disagreeable, ruminates (Wall Street Journal Opinion) about The Trump Organization's ubiquity, invasive and pervasive, hurting, insulting and relentless: “My notion is to outlaw politics on certain days of the year; this on the model of

He would have loved ‘the smell of deportations’ in Berlin and Warsaw in 1942. Does anyone have any doubts any longer about his goal? #DonaldTrump is still in January of 1939, however. Watch, dread, tremble

Look what worries #Hezbollah these days. Al Akhbar, their #Lebanon mouthpiece, complaints about ‘American bullying -- against #Venezuela Too.’ A sudden outburst of internationalism on the rag's part? hardly. The concern in the #Dahieh is about Hezbollah-#Maduro joint

BREAKING: Trump just suggested the federal government might revoke the licenses of broadcast TV networks that are "against me." "I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me again … They're 97% against, they give me only bad press. They're getting a license."

The good people of #Vendée, #France, are sending 500 kgs of their unused fishing nets to five provinces in #Ukraine, to deflect predatory #Russian #drones. They are going to protect life in #Kyiv, #Odesa, #Chernomorsk, #Ternopil and #Rivne. (Clipped from Le Courrier vendéen)

Russian nightmare coming to fruition. Billions of dollars wasted trying to militarily crush both, only for al-Sharaa and Zelensky to meet and have a laugh about it in New York.

In fact, contrary to Netanyahu’s sophistry, the Nazis did ask the Jews to leave, at least in the case of German and Austrian Jews. In Vienna in 1938/1939 they employed an obscure migration specialist named Adolf Eichmann to push Jews across the Reich’s borders after

We welcome Syria’s arrest warrant for its former president Bashar al-Assad and support all efforts aimed at bringing him to justice. Since December of last year, he has been hiding in Moscow, along with Ukrainian and other high-level criminals. It is telling that the world’s

In the ongoing contest who would make Israel more hated, Israelis win hands down theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

#Amerika [⁦NBC News⁩] “In the 2024-25 school year, #BookBans affected more than 3,700 unique titles in 87 school districts across 23 states, according to PEN America” nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-ne…

Ayuda me, he pleads with onlookers. Help me. Chicago, USA, in the course of the 250th year

#Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon marks the 2023 #October7thmassacre under the banner “Our dream is not dead.” One wonders what dream that might be and whether it would be prosecutable under the International Criminal Court code

Habeas who? We live in a farce

“Mama, they shot me.” Israeli snipers are so accurate lately apnews.com/article/west-b…

#China’s #PoliceState salivates over the prison cells it is busy preparing for a huge chunk of #Taiwan’s population the day after invasion and subjugation. Poor, brave Taiwan is being pulled ever closer to Beijing’s jaws reuters.com/world/china/ch…

NATO Secretary General Rutte: Take comfort in the fact that NATO is 25 times bigger than the Russian economy. Our military is infinitely superior to the Russian military. When it comes to our air force, the Russians cannot even stand in the shadow with these MiG-31s, or

Good to know.

baby and cat blaming each other

Javier #Milei scores handsomely, and unexpectedly, in #Argentina's midterm (see The Wall Street Journal below) -- but so, highly significantly, does #Trump. The US president has now proven he can affect the results of an election in a foreign country to the benefit of his ideological allies.