Alan Wolk

𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘟, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 2015, 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰. This just happened. New York Review of Books reviews "Over The Top" Favorably. Cover story. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Doctors say medical journals, not TikTok, are the appropriate place to research vaccines. But this Florida Surgeon General isn't so sure.

Does the end of the monoculture spell the end of the megabrand? A look at why this is the most likely conclusion and how it all may play out. www.tvrev.com/news/wir2025...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social - this was my feed when I opened the app up just now. It took me a minute to realize you'd only written the first two.

Israelis and Palestinians deserve peace, safety, and dignity. The solution will never be displacing one side, whether that means a Judenfrei state “from the river to the sea” or forcibly resettling Palestinians. We must solve the conflict by recognizing Israeli and Palestinian ties to these lands.

Big week for Disney: a groundbreaking deal between the NFL and ESPN that sees the league owning part of the network and the non-totally-unexpected merging of the Disney+ and Hulu apps worldwide. www.tvrev.com/news/wir2025...

“Evyatar is fighting for his life with what little strength he has left,” Matan Eshet, David’s cousin, told Jewish Insider. “You can see it in his eyes. You don’t need a medical degree to understand that Evyatar only has a few days to live.” @lahavharkov reports:

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Where are all the headlines today showing Evyatar David’s starved body, forced to dig his own grave in Hamas’s tunnels? Where are all the Instagram stories from celebrities who “can’t stay silent anymore”? Why doesn’t Evyatar deserve your outrage?

What hell looks like: the footage Hamas shared of the hostages they still hold, knowing the media and the entire world would look away and never be outraged about it.

‘Live hunger experiments’: Thousands rally for hostage deal after haunting videos of captives https://www.timesofisrael.com/live-hunger-experiments-thousands-rally-for-hostage-deal-after-haunting-videos-of-captives/

Two physicists are the brains of an Arab-Jewish startup connecting optics to chips https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-physicists-are-the-brains-of-an-arab-jewish-startup-connecting-optics-to-chips/

NEWS: The FCC said Thursday it would allow Paramount to merge with Skydance, clearing the way for one of the most highly scrutinized media deals in the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

If you refuse to condemn Hamas for the murder, maiming, mutilation, rape, torture, and abduction of thousands of Jews and Israelis on October 7, then you have no business calling yourself a humanitarian. A humanitarianism that devalues Jewish life is no humanitarianism at all

"You have to speak and act with moral clarity, and when supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can’t leave room for that to just sit there. You’ve got to condemn that," Josh Shaprio told Jewish Insider in an interview.

Keynote from Cannes Lions - "Life After The Monoculture: How To Survive The Dark Ages Of Media" www.tvrev.com/news/life-af...

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What happens when AI tools start letting people create their own stories on video and the gatekeepers are all algorithms? www.tvrev.com/news/wir2025...

“If this is what I have to do to get home, I’ll do it.” Omer Shem Tov was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th. He survived by becoming his captors’ gofer

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Like Charlie Brown, Lucy and the Football: He says these things because he knows that (a) while they'll never happen, the press will spend endless days discussing them and keeping him on the front page, (b) much of his base would be thrilled if he could actually make it happen.

Incredible, inspiring story.

When the Times tries to imitate Buzzfeed

Does the left need its own antisemitic AI chatbot?

Lol

Elderly woman dies of wounds sustained in Colorado attack on activists for hostages https://www.timesofisrael.com/elderly-woman-hurt-in-colorado-attack-on-activists-for-hostages-dies-of-wounds/

NYT making none-too-subtle point that Mamdani won White College-Educated Hipster neighborhods, not the working class and Black voters his supporters like to think Democratic Socialism is working for.

While Dems will no doubt take away that this is the path forward, the real lesson is that when they run flawed candidates who don’t connect with voters, extremist candidates win, whether it is Trump or Mamdani

People, we are nearing the end of civilization.

Two present votes condemning the antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado where a man lit on fire elderly Jews. The white nationalist and the Palestine one stater. Sounds about right.

Dave's Hot Chicken started in a parking lot less than a decade ago with $900. It just sold for $1 billion. https://on.wsj.com/4kXzlk7

HOW TO GIVE A STELLAR KEYNOTE ADDRESS This is the first in a series of videos about public speaking (something I do a lot of). First up is how to give a keynote, my favorite form of public speaking. Follow me for more videos on how to improve your public speaking skills. 👇

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

New @tvrev.bsky.social Special Report drop

“Terrorism doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It depends on the oxygen of rhetoric,” writes Bruce Hoffman. The cumulative effect of calls to “Globalize the intifada” perhaps inevitably led to the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado:

Jewish Congress members are worried by a spate of attacks aimed at Jews — and are openly saying they may be next on the target list.

Lies about Israel become real violence against Jews. The media might silently retract their claims, but the damage they cause is done, and Jews are suffering because of it.

The assailant yelled, “How many children have you killed?” before throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish and Israeli activists. This didn’t happen in a vacuum. This is the direct result of the viral lie that “14,000 babies might die in Gaza.”

Donna Speciale, the Madison Ave. veteran who led ad sales efforts at Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision for the past four years is leaving -- even as the company is in the midst of critical upfront negotiations.... variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety.com

Not even one of the Times's top headlines today. This is how inured we've all become. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

US official who promoted antisemitic conspiracies appointed Pentagon press secretary https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-official-who-promoted-antisemitic-conspiracies-appointed-pentagon-press-secretary/

The Pentagon has hired yet another openly antisemitic staffer. Remember, liberals, it takes an antisemite to stop an antisemite.

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I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

I love watching white people condemn Palestinians for condemning the murders of two Israelis.

Pro-Palestinian social media accounts cheer killing of Israeli staffers at DC museum https://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-social-media-accounts-cheer-killing-of-israeli-staffers-at-dc-museum/