Bari Weiss: How awful. No one but Israelis can imagine the trauma of having to go through something like this. No one.

40 miles away:

We may be witnessing the total obliteration of Gaza.

Political leaders refusing to speak out should feel eternal shame over the horror they are allowing to unfold.

Those of us who believe in peace cannot stay silent. We must say to the Palestinian people: you are not alone.

K.

I’ve kept an eye on this Israel situation for the past few days.

Here’s what I’ve learned, & here are my blunt & honest thoughts:

1. Israel chose to ignore intelligence from Egyptian officials about a major attack coming from Hamas.

2. Multiple former IDF soldiers &…

Behold the glorious diversity of thought in the American political system

This whole fiasco really should lead people to ask themselves: If they're willing to whitewash the bloody *SS* in the service of this war, what else are they misleading you about? And what *won't* they resort to?

'She got tired of explaining the meaning behind the pronouns.'

I would be worn out too if I tried to create meaning from things that are actually quite meaningless.

No one cares about the pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, or punctuation marks you choose to assign to yourself. What…

'NOBODY IS SAFE!' #COVID19

Pfizer Quietly Financed Groups Lobbying for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates.

Consumer, physician, public health, & civil rights groups received Pfizer's cash -- often undisclosed -- while lobbying for the mandate. New reporting: leefang.substack.com/p/pfizer-quiet…

It's only recently that I've come to fully appreciate how shockingly impoverished the popular understanding is of WWII, and how centrally this factors into present-day propaganda. Be honest: what percentage of the population do you think knows the first thing about any of this?

History proves that wars have a tendency to escalate out of control. By the end, the costs exceed the participants’ wildest dreams at the beginning. People know this and yet they cheer on every escalation. Wild to watch this play out in real time.

I assure you whatever @Twitter was doing, pre-Elon Musk, is currently being done on steroids at YouTube, Google, Meta and Instagram.

#Twitterfiles

As they race to 'Ukrainify' Taiwan, everything happening right now is exactly what you'd expect to happen in the lead-up to some major multi-front global military conflict. And there's hardly any debate about it... anywhere. Just boggles the mind

By all accounts - including Joe Biden's - the world is closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Yet judging by current US discourse, this emergence of this severe danger is either exciting or trivial – anything but deeply alarming.

I urge everyone to watch this monologue from Neil Oliver. It is a brilliantly frank summary of what has happened over the past 2 years and why it is happening. Share it as widely as possible. We need more people to wake up before it is too late.

Reject weakness. Stop being enslaved by your moral anxiety over being perceived as good so that you can instead be great.

Name what is bad and eschew failure without timidity so that you can aim and achieve what is good without guilt.

The EU economic war against Russia does nothing to help innocent Ukrainian citizens, victims of this illegal war. Russia is undeterred, while EU citizens face disastrous inflation, rocketing energy costs, and a historic decline in living standards. This is madness…

You’re not gonna like this, but: your outrage at Russia is not real. It was put there by ppl who know you better than you do yourself. There have been dozens of wars w/millions of casualties in the last 20 years, and you didn’t care about any of them until you were told to.

Please read this. niccolo.substack.com/p/fuck-it-russ…

People have been angry at me for a long time for saying the thing they'd rather not hear. It's fine, I'm used to it; but let me tell you: it never gets easier.

The infantryman who will not fight is a greater threat to the unit than the enemy