lisa young @llilyyoung

@rickygervais OMFG it's hilarious. Thank you! Florida, baby!

We could get by with a mere three seasons: Murder Must Advertise Strong Poison Gaudy Night Who we find as Harriet I do not know, but this is important. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Tom Hiddleston is currently 45 which means he needs to drop whatever he is doing NOW and star as Lord Peter Wimsey in a well written prestige series adaptation of Sayers novels before he gets any older.

When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me: Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal." First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation. On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City." Not one of the 18 is Jewish. Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected. It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee. Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up. On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee. My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized. We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC. In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership. No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening. To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination. But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city. The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews. If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.

The thing about GOP Senators is it always seems shocking what absolute assholes they all are but the scary part is they appeal to men just like them ALL over the United States. MAGA is a sociological disease fomented by billionaires preying on the psychologically stunted male.

@BookerGWash Thank you. We still and will always stand with you.

The report Silenced No More opens with these words from @CochavElkayam: “There are moments in history that rupture the moral order by which societies define themselves. Moments that do more than shatter lives; they unsettle the very boundaries by which human conduct is understood. October 7, 2023 was such a moment.� In the week after that black Shabbat, my Rabbi described what happened as a spiritual violence. The atrocities were so unbearable that it was hard to wrap words around them. They were so profound that they required a re-ordering of our understanding of the world. Having spent hours with this report, I can attest that they profoundly change the soul of anyone who bears witness. One of the witnesses of the gang rapes, tortures, and murders at the Nova Music Festival said he heard: “Women screaming. Screams that pierced the heavens, and cut the soul to pieces.� The report describes evidence as “materials [that] are almost unbearable in their brutality,� and “their cruelty and magnitude … rendered them impossible to comprehend and harder to believe.� The scale and horror of the atrocities was the point. In committing crimes that defied our very humanity, in celebrating them, live streaming them, and then getting much of the world to deny them almost instantly, to blame the Jewish state, to blame Jews as a whole, Hamas accomplished their goals. They turned the worst evil imaginable into a carnival of hate the West was happy to justify, to endorse, to at the very least dismiss as ‘part of something complex and nuanced.’ As if the sheer scale of evil could ever be nuanced. When you fully realize what happened that day, you know the cost of denial was our souls. In advance of writing this, I spent hours reading the report. After getting through every page of testimony on the Nova Festival before I had to stop, take a break, breathe, try not to vomit. I visited the Nova site this summer. I looked at photos of the young people that died. And they were so young, so hopeful, so full of joy. To read about how they died was to kill something inside me. Because what I read was beyond comprehension. There was gang rape, of men and women. Women were stabbed while they were being raped, raped after they died. Women were shot with their rapists still inside them, and then their corpse was passed to another man to rape, while the men around joked and laughed and praised God. Women were bound and tortured. They were shot in their genitals. Their uteruses were ripped out. They were raped and tortured in front of their partners, who were forced to watch and then murdered. A witness said, of hearing multiple gang rapes and executions, that when the woman was killed, “you say: ok, it’s over at least, she’s done with it. The moment they were killed, I said, ‘Oh my God, finally it’s over.’� And indeed, women being raped begged for death. Women were found split in half, beheaded, exploded by what was placed inside their vaginas. Men were found with their genitals shoved into their mouths. In some cases bodies were found staged, a woman holding a man's severed penis. People were doused in gasoline and burned alive. Nail guns were used to drive nails into women’s groins. Spikes were driven into their vaginas. Knives, axes, screwdrivers, tools, were all driven into a single woman’s body. Women were gang raped, and after surviving they burned alive. Children were killed in front of their parents. Parents were killed in front of children. Dead bodies were taken, along with hostages and paraded down the streets of Gaza to cheering crowds. Hostages were subjected to sexual torture and slavery. The torture was so extreme that a new form of violence had to be defined for this report: Kinocide. “In documented cases, victims were abused in front of relatives. In at least one case, family members were coerced into acts of sexual violence against one another. The Commission defines this as kinocidal sexual violence, violence deliberately designed to destroy family structures by weaponizing familial bonds.� All of this violence was documented, streamed live to the world. We knew. We always knew, because they wanted us to know. They didn’t hide it. In fact, the perpetrators cheered it, celebrated it, called home to their families to boast of how many Jews they had killed. Gazan civilians followed after the initial invasion, joining in the orgy of violence. Women’s dead and broken bodies were paraded through the streets of Gaza, while crowds cheered and the women were spit on. Hostages, women and children, were also paraded, jeered and mocked, before descending into their own hell of sexual torture. On October 9th, 2023, I had to get on a group call for my coaching program. There was no war yet. Or there was a war, and it was still taking place on the streets of Southern Israel. The IDF was still fighting terrorists on the ground, trying to clear the area. Like every other Jew, I was shattered. I could look at my screen of 100 women and pick out the other three Jews by their dead eyes and fractured faces. The lead coach asked to lead a prayer. And who she prayed for was not Israelis, not Jews, not survivors of the attack. She prayed for us and our perpetrators in equal measure. I hit mute. I stared at the wall. I tried not to throw up. And I realized this was a sign of what was to come. In the moments after October 7th, Jews were already being asked to commiserate with the people that committed, supported, and cheered on, these crimes that break the boundary of what it means to be human. We were asked to rise above the devastation of the soul. And then we were asked to put what happened aside. To leave our hostages to the depraved sex and torture tunnels of Hamas. To move on. To be the bigger people. When you look at the facts, the details, the truth of what actually happened, you realize how impossible that request always was. Because society was unwilling to face what happened, it chose denial. That was it’s drug of choice, it’s way to survive the horrors. Just like in the Holocaust, the women and men who suffered these demonic fates were re-framed as sub-human. The victims were not imagined as the people. For society to justify looking away, the victims could not be young adults that went to a music festival, or families slowly waking up on a Sunday morning, kids watching cartoons, women going for a run, families ready to enjoy the holiday. Instead, the atrocities were framed almost immediately as something that would never happen to us, something deserved. To justify and erase crimes of this magnitude, society has to make the Jewish state somehow so monstrous that they deserve this. We have to make up lies. Dog rape. Organ stealing. Child murder. Genocide. And since no state, and no people, could ever deserve this, no matter what their purported crimes, the other choice is to deny that it ever happened, to look away. My latest in full on Substack: fieldnotesforthebrave.substack.com/p/the-end-of-d…

The @nytimes owes Israel and every Jew around the world an apology. A public apology. Utterly despicable & utterly antisemitic what they did. Fuck the NY Times for what they did.

Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion

3 months ago

From @WSJFreeEx: Nicholas Kristof has published a poorly sourced, fantastical tale of torture and dog rape in Israel, writes @rachelodonoghue on.wsj.com/4diLgHc

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If a country was overtaken by a violent female militia who brutally banned all men from public spaces or work, shot little boys for trying to attend school, forbade them medical care, and traded them as young as nine as sex slaves and husbands, how many hours would it be before the world intervened

Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent. None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say"most men are the same," this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.

Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion

3 months ago

From @WSJFreeEx: Nicholas Kristof has published a poorly sourced, fantastical tale of torture and dog rape in Israel, writes @rachelodonoghue on.wsj.com/4diLgHc

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such a gathering of wretched mediocrities, fawning lickspittles, and pustulent carbuncles on the body of the constitution they care so little for, that they will let the dime store dictator snuff it out

Matt McDermott @mattmfm

6 months ago

Feels like this photo of Susan Collins standing proudly behind Trump in the Oval Office, red MAGA hat in hand, really deserves to go viral.

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I’m genuinely confused. We’re dumping Epstein files, parading names, laying out rape and pedophilia like it’s a damn spreadsheet, and then… nothing. No arrests. No perp walks. No accountability. So what’s the plan here exactly? Are we just supposed to stare at this filth, rage-scroll, and pretend exposure equals justice? Because right now it feels like the system is saying, here’s the proof, here’s the monsters, now go back to work and shut up. If this isn’t followed by real consequences, then all this “truth� isn’t a reckoning — it’s just another sick reminder that there are two sets of rules, and the worst people somehow never play by either

@SouthwestAir @jimmychickey I hope you fix this. I'm hearing many accounts of people paying for a premium seat upfront on the aisle, and having to put their bag farther back because people in back have taken front bin space. People like me will pay for an upgraded ticket or seat, but not if this happens.

This. Do this.

Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus

7 months ago

They need to be shunned. Don’t welcome into your establishment. Cut them off socially. That is something every one of us can do. We are not powerless.

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I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now. I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.

Nobody wins every swing state, especially when five of the senate races in those states go for the other party. He called the 2020 election stolen so we would be afraid to say anything when he stole the 2024 election.

Michelle @Michell33650674

7 months ago

This is one of the whistleblowers talking about the rigged 2024 election.

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I will absolutely be ordering this book. I've loved all of your work.

Don Winslow @donwinslow

7 months ago

I'm facing a serious threat and had to cancel my 'open to the public' appearances. I've never done that. I hated doing it. I hope you will consider ordering my new book The Final Score today. It comes out Tuesday. 30% off below. Click to order here: a.co/d/0E9g5EC

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I, however, do exactly believe this.

Diana Alastair💚�💜 ⚢ ��✡� @sappholives83

7 months ago

So this is the darkest worry of my brain. I don’t exactly believe this, you understand, but I can’t quite shake it off. It’s cynical and depressing and probably more than a little paranoid, but it also makes uncomfortable sense of a lot of the things that don’t make sense

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@_sorrengailll Buying makeup costs hard-earned money and putting it on costs precious time. Wearing makeup reinforces the idea for girls and women, and also for boys and men, that the way women actually look is not good enough. Why would I want to do any of that?

Last March I gave a lecture at Sydney University on anti-semitism and spent time with a deeply worried community. Two synagogues in Melbourne had been firebombed; children arriving at their Jewish school in Sydney saw its walls covered in swastikas. I tried to reassure the people I spoke to that there was a future for Jews in Australia but they were right, even then, to be distressed. Globalise the intifada just means kill Jews wherever and whenever you can. So I don't want to hear anyone telling me the weekly hate marches are just anti-Zionist, not murderous race hatred against Jews.