And in more deranged news:
Netanyahu with the first scare video of the day claims Arabs are outvoting Jews, trying to stuff ballots, and says you have to come and vote.
Golan’s security team reportedly stopped someone from approaching him in Tel Aviv and a knife fell out of the man’s clothes.
My friend asked me what I thought about Abdul el Sayed and I immediately said "he's really hot" and she was like "THANK YOU OMG WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT HOW HOT HE IS???!!!!!"
As much as internal party democracy was often a fig leaf, removing it entirely has been disastrous. Many Knesset parties these days are what's known as "mood parties": one guy (it is always a guy) who wants to be PM plus a dozen of his buddies whom no one has heard of.
In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.
I hope Texas and Kansas elect Democrats if only for Republicans to learn the lesson that there is an upper limit on how much of an asshole you can be before it costs you a "safe" red seat
The most insane thing about him is when he says things that are very insane, like the dementia test he’s bragged about for years now, something about his mental illness *requires* him to keep doubling down and never taking it out of his rotation
There is nothing more American than birthright citizenship. Nothing shows more ingratitude to America—nothing shows more ingratitude to the hundreds of thousands of Union dead—than acting as though Abdul El-Sayed is less of an American than JD Vance bc of his skin color or where his dad was born.
"I who am the voice of Christ crying in the wilderness of this island...declare that you are in mortal sin, and live and die therein by reason of the cruelty and tyranny that you practice on these innocent people." -Antonio de Montesinos, 1511, Santo Domingo
Anyway why is it never "I tried these people's food and it's good and I feel better" why is it "I tried these people's food and they are clearly tricking us into eating worse food" like guy, nobody stopped you from eating the Jewish bread. You could just eat the bread you like
All the great rabbis of yore loved putting things into lists and being like "hey Jews, memorize this list" like they died and Gd was like "man that was such a good list. Jews read your list from memory every day after prayer. they all have OCD and you get to go to Heaven"
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
Ridiculous how the high profile October 7 vigil that got disrupted by protesters is the one organized by Israelis that have been gathering in the same spot for almost 3 years to also condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza
Like I have met the organizers many times before, mostly at their protests at Union Square, most recently when they were protesting Netanyahu during UNGA week
Ridiculous how the high profile October 7 vigil that got disrupted by protesters is the one organized by Israelis that have been gathering in the same spot for almost 3 years to also condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African.
In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.)
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans.
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.
For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.