Daniel Kolitz is one of the best people I’ve ever met In My Life. Please read his many many thousand word essay in Harper’s about one of the main issues today

harpers.org/archive/2025/1… I kinda lied I opened the link and stepped away to make a pot of coffee. I am now sitting down I am ready for this journey.

Two years ago, when the light softened and the olives glimmered like small planets ready to fall into our hands, our family gathered beneath the branches. Uncles, aunts, cousins, and neighbors formed one great constellation of laughter. Bread passed from palm to palm, carrying

1/2 תיעוד מזעזע של התעללות סדיסטית וטבח בעלי חיים ממצלמות האבטחה של הבית שהותקף ביום שני בפאתי סמוע: זאת התוצאה של חינוך ישראלי, זאת שאיפת האזרחים והמשטר. כבר כשנתיים שמתנחלי סוסיא והמאחזים סביבה, ובפרט המאחז "מצפה הרועה", מתעללים ותוקפים באופן תדיר את בית משפחת דר'אמין>

נערי הגבעות הם חבורה של פסיכופטים רצחניים שלא ברא השטן. בסרטון הזה הם רוצחים במקלות ובלבנים גדיים. זה על הרבנים, הפוליטיקאים והחברה שיצרה את התופעה הזו. קשה לצפייה אבל אין ברירה.

B-loved Dreamer Trump embodies bombast and spectacle, but camp requires ironic detachment and self-aware exaggeration—think drag queens or midcentury Hollywood divas. His style is earnest machismo, not the playful artifice Sontag described. That said, the golden hair and endless merch empire do

Wow.

This is the scene that awaited me when I tried to get on the train at Peckham North underground station. London is out of control

Agnes Pockels was nineteen years old when she noticed something strange in the dishwater. It was 1881. She was standing at the sink in her family's home in Brunswick, Germany, watching the way grease moved across the surface of the water. The way soap changed everything. The way

One year ago, today, I refused to enlist into the IDF and was imprisoned for my decision. Unfortunately in the year since then, the genocide in Gaza continued, the occupation still stands and many many more young comrades and friends had to take on lengthy prison sentences for

John Jackson Also, this Lev Parnas piece published this morning, ten hours before the WSJ story. Very much worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/levremembe…

The Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trump’s eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender is the idea that a lot of people close to him can make a lot of money doing business and deals in Russia. If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of

Campylobacter says hi

Time feels different at 52 than at 25. My kids don’t need help tying their shoes anymore. There’s a quiet shift when you realize you’ve gone from being their entire world to becoming a chapter in their expanding life. My father passed a few years ago. My mom passed when I was

Donald Trump reviews Melania documentary youtu.be/3YQp0qyKWFk?si…

The best advice you'll ever hear.

As the world made violent war, on Rarotonga Cook Island Police Force reported they had to deal with excessive noise, disputes, wandering pigs, & an underage motorcyclist & passenger without helmets.... facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

A Day 3 recap of the war (with focus on Iranian strategic narrative): 🔹CENTCOM confirms that U.S. strikes on Iranian missile bases used B-1 bombers. The U.S. is trying to dismantle Iran’s fortified underground missile facilities. 🔹Iranian reports suggest Tehran has rejected

#Iran’s Lebanon Dilemma: Has Tehran Abandoned Hezbollah? 🔹The massive Israeli strikes in Lebanon – coming less than a day after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement – have injected immediate uncertainty into planned negotiations in Islamabad. From Tehran’s perspective, any

I helped write the manifesto. I also read the dissertation. That's the part nobody mentions. Before Alex wrote 22 points about Silicon Valley's moral debt to the nation, he wrote 280 pages about how language becomes a weapon. His doctoral thesis — "Aggression in the Lebenswelt"