Sic Semper Tyrannis
Jamaica Plain, MA
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While we’re talking about much-needed environmental review reform: California High-Speed Rail had to study how running service on existing tracks between SF and San Jose would affect anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and market squid. The rail line has existed since the 1860s.
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After seeing Patrick's tweet yesterday, I made a map of monasteries across the US and Europe highlighting those in need of financial support.
@rivatez is handling churches, so I focused on contemplative orders. These are usually small cloistered communities who live mostly in silence. Some of them host retreats!
Check out the Monastic Map: monasticmap.org
I donated to the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur to help them reopen after the recent wildfires in the area!
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Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, sat with 21 New York Times editors.
He brought numbers: how many aid trucks entered Gaza every day, and how IDF soldiers risked their own lives to spare civilians.
They brought feelings. "Ambassador, everybody can't be wrong."
His answer: not everybody thinks it's genocide. And if it feels like everybody does, maybe that's because of you.
Remember the NYT photo of the emaciated Gaza toddler? The boy had a genetic disease and cerebral palsy, and his perfectly healthy brother was cropped out of the frame.
That's not journalism. It's a blood libel.
And blood libels cost Jewish lives.
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In just the past two weeks, the pro-Palestine movement tried to burn down my neighborhood synagogue and organized a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia on the eve of Kristalnacht.
So please, spare me the “anti Zionism isn’t antisemitism” nonsense. Yes, it is.
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Someone I know told me Jews don’t need a state and nukes because if we faced genocide again he would advocate for us just like he does for Palestinians.
Considering his advocacy is just whining on Facebook, I think I’ll keep the nukes.
Periodically I’ll hear people say “the Jews are ungrateful that we fought for them in WW2”. This is, frankly, horseshit.
The Polish underground state intelligence sent the Allies detailed up to date information about the ongoing mechanized extermination of Europe’s Jewish population, and not only did they not do anything about it, they continued to block Jewish refugees.
I have enormous respect for all Allied servicemen, but stopping the Holocaust was an unintentional- and in the eyes of many, undesirable- side effect of defeating Germany’s bid for continental supremacy.
Nobody ever has or will stopped a genocide out of a sense of morality. “Never Again” is not a generic plea for tolerance, it is a promise, forged in Dimona, and fitted to a Jericho III.
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This French election candidate is NOT Putin's puppet, so Musk's algo crushes his visibility.
Do what you can to boost him.
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Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”
Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”
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The most impactful project New England could build is the North-South Rail Link. Right now there’s a gap between North and South Stations in Boston, and connecting them with 2.8 miles of tunnel would drastically change how the MBTA and Amtrak would operate.
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In his video statement condemning the antisemitic bike ride, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner explicitly condemned how antizionists have adopted the term "zio," the KKK/neo-Nazi slur for Jews and made it their own
This may, to my knowledge, be the first time an elected official has done so in such a stark manner
Going forward, it is imperative that whenever antizionist groups or far left activists use the term, it gets called out — immediately and without hesitation
It is imperative that Jewish groups are familiar with the history and ideology of antizionism and the ways in which the antizionist movement has adopted so much of David Duke's worldview, one that has been shaped by Soviet antizionism and Russian ultranationalism
I have seen firsthand how this slur has been normalized on the British and Irish left — often without much pushback. This cannot be allowed to happen in the United States and I appreciate Krasner for starting the conversation about how this hateful slur has no place in civilized American political discourse
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Boston has been discussing removing minimum parking requirements for nearly a year. If a much bigger city like Chicago can basically axe it, then so can we. Let’s seal the deal @RonDurk and @AbundantHomesMA!
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Israel's biggest problem is that no one believes that Hamas is as evil as it is. Hamas deliberately increases the suffering of its people because it knows that Israel will be blamed
REVEALED: The scandal surrounding Gaza's failed winterization efforts lays bare a grim reality: Hamas obstructed attempts to protect Palestinian civilians before the devastating winter storms that flooded tens of thousands of tents.
Palestinian Authority employees inside Gaza have reported that professionals from the Ministries of Public Works and Relief Affairs were intimidated, summoned, and coerced by Hamas into signing pledges not to undertake humanitarian projects without the group's approval. According to their accounts, those who defied Hamas risked so-called "field justice," including beatings and worse.
Several officials, including Najla Hammad, Ihab Al-Bahtiti, Khaled Abu Safiya, Wiam Aboul-Nasr, Dr. Adnan Hamouda, and Ahmed Abu Zaiter, have publicly stated that efforts to build more durable fiberglass housing and improve conditions for displaced civilians were blocked.
Another example was a proposal that was put forward to demolish several heavily damaged towers which were at risk of collapse from rainwater after extensive bombardment. According to those involved, Hamas blocked the removal of the “Bank of Palestine Tower” in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, reportedly arguing that it would "collapse from the rain anyway." The terrorist group did not show any concern for the civilian lives that would be lost when the tower eventually collapses on its own, because it wants dead Palestinians and news of tragedy to keep Gaza in the news cycle and to gain global sympathy, hoping for more incoming resources and donations for the Strip’s humanitarian and reconstruction needs that it could siphon.
Additionally, Hamas has also been accused of obstructing construction projects intended to create safer communities for displaced Gazans in southern Gaza, prioritizing political control over humanitarian relief.
This is a reminder that Gaza's suffering is not only a consequence of war. It is also the result of a fascist and ruthless governing power that repeatedly places its own interests above the welfare of the people it claims to represent. The same terror group that helped bring catastrophe upon Gaza continues to obstruct efforts to mitigate its consequences.
As floodwaters sweep through displacement camps and families endure another winter in misery, the question is unavoidable: how many Palestinian lives could have been spared had Hamas allowed humanitarian, housing, and reconstruction efforts to proceed unimpeded?
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Melanchon calls for ‘direct action’ - military intervention eg a French war - against Israel.
As i predicted, we have gone full circle from imperial colonial intervention 1917/18 to a call for neo-imperial ‘decolonialization’ intervention…
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
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Hamas released a video showing them digging up Gaza’s water pipes and electricity lines—to turn them into rockets.
If you’re upset about Gaza’s lack of a sewage system, direct your outrage where it belongs: at Hamas.
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people have pointed out that BSG was Ronald Moore properly following through on the Voyager premise, but a wild thought occurred to me that For All Mankind is him also kinda doing the ENT "origins of Starfleet" premise for real too
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For more than 100 years Jewish ex servicemen and women in Hackney have joined the communal Remembrance events.
The memorial was actually unveiled in 1921 by a Jewish Victoria Cross medal holder so holds a special place in the story of British Jewry.
This year was different because Hackney is now led by the Greens who echo the same Jew obsession as the Nazis.
As a small but respectful protest, the Jewish ex servicemen stayed away from the community wreath laying until the Mayor of Hackney and her keffiyeh sporting activist councillors left.
A small but heartbreaking rebellion, as Hackney AJEX chair Martin Sugarman, who is speaking here, told me:
‘We did not want to be associated in any way, or be complicit with the scurrilous Jew hatred of the Greens, or in any way be seen to give them credibility in Hackney, we attended the usual ceremony, with our Local branch Standard bearer, outside the church at St Johns's - as we have done for the past 100 years or so with fellow veterans and families - but refused to lay our Star of David poppy wreath. Instead we gathered in our small multi-faith group after the Greens had marched away, and held our own private wreath laying with a short service in Hebrew and English, for all those who defended freedom and democracy.’
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A year ago, I published a long essay in @Quillette debunking the “Gaza genocide” calumny and exposing the disingenuousness of its proponents.
It was translated into French by the magazine @LePoint, as well as into Polish and German. And in my own language Dutch? Every single newspaper I pitched it to in Belgium and the Netherlands turned it down. No dissent on this question is tolerated in the Low Countries — not in the press, and certainly not at the university, where my rector declared that anyone questioning the genocide narrative was “crossing a line that should not be crossed”.
But I have finally found a way to publish at least part of the essay in Dutch: it will appear as the foreword to Genocide en Gaza, the Dutch translation of an excellent new book by political scientist and genocide expert Joël Kotek of @ULBruxelles.
Did I mention that this internationally renowned genocide scholar (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%…) happens to agree entirely with my thesis? Are you listening, rector De Sutter (who deleted her account @pdsutter)?
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🎯 Values. Great by Noonan. Explaining the blue wave away as a pocketbook election is demeaning to the voters who still have America’s better angels in their mind's eye. As Navalny proved in Russia, people really don’t like corruption.
Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who has spent decades as the Wall Street Journal’s keeper of the old Republican flame, has written the GOP’s obituary. Her verdict: Trump is the author of the ruin.
It wasn’t the war alone, she argues. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons’ companies. Then came the decadence. Three days before the election, Trump threw a jungle-themed Halloween party with a caviar bar while Americans outside the gates added up their grocery receipts.
Ron DeSantis called Tuesday’s results “close to an extinction level event” for his party. Trump’s response: sign a ballroom beam, declare his office a national monument, and blame Fox’s polls.
Noonan has a line for that: “Please. It was you, Fredo.”
When a Reagan speechwriter is quoting The Godfather at you, the party is over.
wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-the…
