Avigdor Loeb

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[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

Classic.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@GMGunstonHall Someone of stature has to oppose this openly and be a rallying point for opposition. Even if he loses electability. And Marco is by far and away my favorite candidate in ‘28. I used to think maybe I could hold my nose and vote for JD. No more.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

How long will Rubio stay in the administration? If he can’t help to begin and turn things around then the honorable thing to do is resign.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@GMGunstonHall My father grew up in Montgomery, he moved to NY and his brother moved to Louisville.

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

MOU aside for a moment, this was just a bad, bad rollout no matter which way you slice it.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@Osint613 A shameful moment.

[Melissa Braunstein @slowhoneybee]

https://t.co/Ti54sUeahO

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Remember today. It is the absolute high water mark for a deal with Iran. The echo chamber might get a news cycle from it, since they’re using all their resources to bully Beltway GOP. A segment of Americans are disgusted now, because they’ve been following the collapse of Trump’s Iran position. But foreign policy is a niche issue until it’s not—until it becomes the only issue. Because of the insanity of this deal, that day is coming, and it won’t be pretty.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@realDonaldTrump You said it.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@MaxNordau Hundreds of BILLIONS.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@ProfDBernstein Yes, but will it matter? Will Trump do anything? What the hell has happened?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The New York Times ran a piece from Nikolas Kristof based on a total of 14 interviews that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians—an obvious lie.

Yet, they haven’t written a word about an in depth report on the actual rape of 250,000 British girls by Islamists.

Weird.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Irish author Sally Rooney gave a speech last night blaming Israel for the rise of fascism and the far right in Europe and concluding that the “liberation of Palestine represents the liberation of the world”. How very 1930s Europe of her to blame the Jews for everything.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

Wonderful news!

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

🚨 Massive news with worldwide repercussions!

The FTC, along with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, have filed a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), alleging the organization has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services.

WPATH, an association of clinicians who profit from pediatric medical transition services, recommended medical interventions, including drugs and surgery, for children and adolescents who expressed dissatisfaction with or distress about their sex traits. In their complaint, the FTC and its state partners allege that these recommendations misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness, of such services, in violation of the FTC Act.

"Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries," said Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson.

"Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services. For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims. The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading."

In 2022, WPATH omitted all mention of age limitations for breast amputation or penis removal from the "Standards of Care" document providing the organization's official recommendations for treating sex-trait-related dissatisfaction or distress in children.

As alleged in the complaint, WPATH did not base this decision on medical evidence.
As described in the complaint, in several instances, parents seeking help for their children were asked by clinicians whether they "would rather have a live daughter or a dead son," based on WPATH representations that pediatric medical transition services are "lifesaving." As the complaint argues, there is no competent and reliable scientific evidence to suggest these interventions reduce the risk of suicide.

WPATH claims its recommendations represent "consensus-based expert opinion." This leads WPATH members and other clinicians to repeat to consumers false, misleading or unsubstantiated statements about safety and efficacy found in WPATH guidelines, according to the complaint.

According to the complaint, despite the absence of competent and reliable scientific evidence, WPATH's guidelines label nearly every pediatric transition service as "medically necessary" to maximize the likelihood that insurers will pay for the pediatric transition procedures.

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@nachamasol @mattyglesias Yet we have to try, if not for them, then for those who remain, for whatever reasons, unconvinced, or at worst, to strengthen ourselves.

[Nachama Soloveichik @nachamasol]

This is quite some revisionist history.

Radical Dems sided with Hamas just days after Oct. 7. The Squad embraced the campus encampments as Israel fought to free its hostages. Democrats defended universities as antisemitism exploded and students marched with Hamas flags shouting "long live the Intifada." Liberal senators rallied to deny Israel life-saving weapons as Hamas and Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets on Israeli civilians. I could go on all day.

Yglesias may view himself as a reasonable liberal, but he shares something in common with the rabid antisemites in his party -- in their eyes, it is always the Jews' fault. We are blamed when we are killed and blamed when we survive. Somehow, we are the perpetual perpetrator and victim. There is no winning with people like him, so there is no use in trying.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, no one's confident that Iran is going to do anything."

Sen. John Kennedy gives his blunt assessment about how he thinks Iran will behave after the Trump administration's new agreement with the regime.

The Louisiana senator says it's impossible to know what the Islamic Republic's next move will be as the U.S. tries to curb its nuclear ambitions.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Since the ceasefire was signed, the Islamic Republic has launched drone attacks every single night. U.S. forces have intercepted each wave before it could hit shipping lanes or American personnel.

Now do you see why some people are skeptical?

[Avigdor Loeb @AvigdorLoeb]

@KenGardner11 Well, not that far, but not vote for the GOP candidate. OTOH, O live in Maryland

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

I bear no ill will to people pretending to be someone they are not. I do bear ill will to people seeking to deploy state power to force me to join them in their pretense. The former is a mostly sad and injurious thing that some people have convinced themselves is their truest source of happiness in a way that I cannot prevent them from believing. The latter is an attack on my right to belief and disbelief that violates my personhood.