David Frum

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[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term. https://t.co/OVU9xhF3jA

[Eliot Pence @EliotPence]

The scale of what Canada is building is hard to overstate:

--Churchill Falls = roughly 9 nuclear reactors worth of clean power.

--Pacific Link = an oil export route approaching the consumption of the entire UK.

--LNG Canada Phase 2 = enough gas to equal roughly half of Canada’s domestic consumption.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Wednesday's David Frum Show with guest @EricHolder https://t.co/XPyE0Tf1Gq Weekend edition will post shortly

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

You’re acting as if Putin himself didn’t openly say, in his “interview” with this very same Tucker Carlson, that Poland had “provoked” Hitler into starting World War II by being “uncooperative,” by “overplaying its hand,” and by refusing to “peacefully” hand Danzig over to the Reich, thereby “leaving Hitler no choice” (*wink wink*), while this very same Tucker Carlson just sat there nodding, with his classic a vacant stare and his mouth hanging open.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

All of Carlson’s disingenuous techniques are on display here. Half-truths, quotes of context, taking what the other person says and twisting it. Mehdi has a similar playbook.

You have to be exceptionally good even to hold your own, and Rees Mogg owns him.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Nearly there: almost C$1 million donated to support the convalescence of Ontario hero police officer Jeff Smith https://t.co/9Tnp0VPmZc

[David Frum @davidfrum]

When Carlson interviewed Putin, he somehow omitted to ask whether Putin agreed it would be better if Hitler had enslaved all the Slavs he didn't starve to death.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Tucker saying he wishes Hitler had won World War II was absolutely on my 2026 bingo card

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Everyone is talking about the men who rushed the cockpit on flydubai 1073. They earned it. But the attack was caught first by Tali Manes, who took her six-year-old to the bathroom at the front of the plane, heard fighting from the cockpit, and didn't tell herself it was nothing.

She got a flight attendant's attention, saw the blood when the door opened, and screamed. Her husband Tzvika, Yaniv Hayun and Asaf Rajuan went in only after that. Herzog thanked her by name and recommended her for the presidential medal alongside the other four.

She should be as well known as they are.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

The truth will set you free. The @IDF just published a list of 170 Gazan terrorists who doubled as journalists during the war. Including stringers from multiple main stream media organization. https://t.co/RZodEF1Dpc

[גיא עזריאל Guy Azriel | Diplomatic Correspondent @GuyAz]

🚨 BREAKING: An Emirati source reveals that among the belongings of the Omani co-pilot were leaflets and publications from “Free Palestine” groups, as well as pro-Palestinian material.

The pilot had repeatedly expressed support for the Palestinians and hostility toward Israel.

This is consistent with the broader investigation, which is examining the co-pilot’s Islamic radicalisation and possible terrorist motives.

By my colleague @BaruchYedid

[Nadav Pollak @NadavPollak]

IDF intelligence helped the UK and the US to foil the plot that targeted the RAF Fairford base.
That shouldn’t surprise anyone, as Israel has better intelligence access than the UK and the US when it comes to Iran.
Once more, it was Israel that helped the UK. Someone should tell that to Miliband

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage made its biggest weekly jump in four years, rising to 7.28%. https://t.co/av4TzoKB68

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv replayed the dramatic attack and his desperate effort to open the cockpit door to seek help, in a video call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi https://t.co/y6Hz4o49oG

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: The U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, missing expectations.

The unemployment rate grew to 4.2%, up slightly from the previous month. Economists had expected 4.1%.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Yahya Shihab was lauded as a pediatric nurse at Gaza's Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital where hostages were taken immediately on 10/7. But Hamas admitted he was a Platoon Commander killed in action. He is the 107th confirmed Gaza "medical worker" who was really a combatant.

[Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake]

Trump in Oklahoma repeats his line about $21 trillion dollars in foreign investment in 15 months. There’s absolutely no supporting evidence for this number, and it seems to fluctuate based on his mood. The government’s official foreign investment numbers show a fraction of that

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Ukraine got its hands on a Russian plan to hit energy and water infrastructure with up to 1000 missiles, drones and bombs this winter. The main targets are major cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa. The goal is to leave civilians without power, heating or water in an attempt to force Ukrainians into capitulation.

Now would be the right time to send Ukraine a ton of Patriot missiles, heating equipment and any other assistance it needs.

[Semafor @semafor]

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”

https://t.co/4G2rJ1n8e0

[David Frum @davidfrum]

An idea from latest David Frum Show with @EricHolder

If GOP loses House, as seems likely, Speaker Mike Johnson will face Trump pressure to refuse to seat elected Democrats. How to communicate to him that if he behaves constitutionally after defeat, his future clients will receive respectful attention from the next majority ... but if not, NOT.

https://t.co/j6rGYM970X

[Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman]

I reviewed the IDF's document identifying 170 Gaza journalists it says were terrorists. For the first 67 entries, the IDF provides a military ID, unit, and rank.

Most of these also include an official Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) "martyrdom poster," or a photo of the individual in uniform. In other words, Hamas and PIJ already claimed these men as their own.

Roughly a third of this group served in their faction's military propaganda or combat information units. For them, journalism and military roles often overlapped.

The other two-thirds held combat posts, including snipers, anti-tank operatives, engineers, and squad and company commanders. For entries 68–170, the detail drops off sharply.

Nearly all list only "Military Operative in the Military Wing," and 58 of the last 60 include no military ID.

The news outlets track the factions almost perfectly.

All 15 Al-Quds al-Youm staffers on the list are PIJ, as are those from Palestine Today and al-Quds Radio. Al-Aqsa TV, Sawt al-Aqsa, Felesteen and Shehab staffers are nearly all Hamas.

The news outlets appear to function as personnel pools for their factions. Several family clusters also appear, including at least six likely sets of brothers.

PIJ military IDs run low and sequential, and one tight block of IDs belongs almost entirely to media-linked commanders.

Fourteen individuals allegedly took part in the Oct. 7 invasion. One caveat: most of the names tied to international outlets fall in the less-detailed tiers, among them Al-Jazeera, Reuters, AFP, the BBC and Anadolu.

Those cases deserve closer scrutiny.