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[SCHMITT]: "Why are you and your wife harboring Chinese spies?"
[SMITH]: "We aren't."
[SCHMITT]: "Let’s jog your memory, scumbag.” shows text bubble: <‘Do you mind picking up the chinese on your way home?’>
Somewhere deep in the data center debate is a solution where AI becomes engines of prosperity for the many, not just the few and the protections are built in at the source.
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The average life expectancy at birth in Indiana is approximately 74.6 to 75.4 years,which is notably lower than the national U.S. average. In contrast, the war torn country of Lebanon has a higher average life expectancy of roughly 78 to 79.5 years. Republican Party rules Indiana
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Paul Begala to Jessica Tarlov: "The DSA has their own party, and here's what they've done for America: They elected George Bush by supporting Ralph Nader in 2000. They elected Donald Trump by supporting Jill Stein in 2016. They helped elect Donald Trump in 2024 by doing this 'uncommitted nonsense.' So their contribution to America has been the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, the financial crisis, and the Trump presidency. I've had just about enough help from the kook left. Not only do they siphon off votes, but they taint and poison the brand." overcast.fm/+ABLWa14lb2c
Does Supreme Leader Khamenei have enough authority over IRGC to make a deal with Trump & make the IRGC honor it?
This is central ? in determining whether diplomacy w/ Iran can actually work
(IRGC), works through a network of security, military, clerical & political institutions
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Trump thought this would be easy? One of the biggest challenges in negotiating with Iran is that power is intentionally divided among multiple centers, and no single official can always guarantee that an agreement will be fully implemented without support from the others.
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Gary Reiter retweeted
Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.
After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.
Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.
This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.
Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.
New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.
#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel
At the top of the elite of watchmaking, for the @fp_journe Tourbillon Souverain (Calibre 1519), the watch contains; 230 movement components and 260 total components when cased on a leather strap.
Each and every component is a deliberate and conscious decision. Amazing piece.
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For those watch aficionados & you notice the French Open Press spotting @fp_journe Tourbillon Souverain 18K 6N gold case topped off with a black dial & a white main time subdial,a sub-seconds display, a power reserve indicator below 12 o’clock, & a tourbillon at 9 o’clock. Woof.
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Gary Reiter retweeted
Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.
open.substack.com/pub/samhar…
This will get the Hoosier blood racing! It’s the month of May!
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Gary Reiter retweeted
A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims.
The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones.
Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating.
Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter.
Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?quillette.substack.com/p/wha…
Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy.
There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West.
But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: youtube.com/watch?v=K7fJuzr4…)
Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault."
And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases?
I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game.
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Gary Reiter retweeted
The people in the West who should read this report won’t read this report.👇
BREAKING: A new report compiled by over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff of October 7th reveal new never before told horrors.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot, and burned. They were executed both during and after rape.
Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.
At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound.
On another victim, grenades were used.
Men were also sexually assaulted, with at least one case of gang rape occurring.
The horrors are truly barbaric.
Even if U.S. produces enough domestic crude to meet U.S. demand, it’s still tied to global benchmarks.
•If supply is disrupted prices rise everywhere, including the U.S.
•U.S. producers can export oil, so they’ll sell at the best global price—not a discounted domestic one.
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The look when I told my Dad in College that I only drink on weekends. – at Indianapolis, IN
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Wisdom from a man who was coming to terms with his own mortality.
Take the 2 minutes and 50 seconds to watch this.
Incredible. What a great human being.
Gary Reiter retweeted
We must preserve the memory of Auschwitz to honor all the victims of the German Nazi camp: Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and others who were persecuted and murdered.
This memory, however, must not offer comfort. It must disturb us. Auschwitz stands as a warning of what humanity is capable of when dehumanizing ideologies are allowed to take power.
Preserving this memory is not only an act of remembrance but a moral responsibility. It obliges us to reflect on our choices today, and to confront the consequences of indifference, exclusion, and hatred.
Only through such reflection can this memory help us shape a better present and a more humane future.
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Photo: instagram.com/apsdeina/
ALT A view along the railway tracks at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In the foreground, a person wearing a dark coat and red scarf stands with their back to the camera, facing the tracks leading toward the camp gate, with visitors visible in the distance under an overcast winter sky.
