"Conservatives" like Michael Knowles are now enthusiastically advocating for censorship.
True champions of liberty must come together and form a coalition. Our common enemy has a large collection of masks.
This fraudulent, dying, Israel First media company and its figurehead Ben Shapiro deceived their audience by branding as principally devoted to free speech and debate.
They of course favored censorship of Israel critics and it's good that they're now explicitly admitting it:
"Conservatives" like Michael Knowles are now enthusiastically advocating for censorship.
True champions of liberty must come together and form a coalition. Our common enemy has a large collection of masks.
I've been working on farm animal protection for a while now, and I haven't seen anything quite like what's happening around the Save Our Bacon Act.
People who have never organized before, including some genuinely prominent voices, are hosting events, calling senators, and fundraising from friends. And those of us who have been here a while, across many ideological divides and every strategic disagreement, are showing up together.
We've always punched above our weight (out of necessity!), but this feels substantively very different. The political and social cost of supporting this barbarism is finally rising.
I'm back in court today for a hearing on the Ridglan rescue. The state has not just charged us with 4 felonies but engaged in a series of efforts to undermine our most basic constitutional rights. Today, we are fighting in court to ensure that these rights—including the right to present a defense at all—are preserved.
And I am fine with this. Because the sacrifice is the point. The fact that I and my co-defendants are willing to take on the full power of the state, knowing they would use every underhanded tool in their toolkit (including barring us from First Amendment activity), should give the world confidence that we mean what we say:
We MUST rescue the animals, no matter what it takes.
Even if that means having our constitutional rights threatened. Even if that means being charged with serious crimes. Even if that means being imprisoned.
This is a fight worth having because this dog deserved to be safe.
I'll see you in court today.
Hey Will, remember one month ago when you told me that you’d be shocked if the Iranian regime lasted another month and I promised you they would?
Remember when you were celebrating that Trump had recovered their enriched uranium?
Tell me more about delusions.
שוחחתי הערב עם הנשיא טראמפ ואמרתי לו שאם חיזבאללה לא יחדל לתקוף את ערינו ואזרחינו - ישראל תתקוף מטרות טרור בביירות.
עמדתנו זו עומדת בעינה.
במקביל, צה״ל ימשיך לפעול כמתוכנן בדרום לבנון.
"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.
Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"
Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
I was reliably told (by you) way back four days ago, that a deal was done and that it was “a massive win” for Trump.
Now, the best you have is “he says talks are still happening?”
It’s unbelievable how the supporters of Trump’s idiot war continue to get everything wrong.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
You posted “massive win for Trump” about a deal that doesn’t fucking exist and you have the nerve to demand others admit when they’re wrong?
I've already addressed these warnings from Norman Finkelstein about growing opposition to Israel among numerous leading right-wing figures (which he regards as dangerous and anti-Semitic), but there's one other key point about this video here from his @curaffairs interviw:
Norm claims that the only common ground between the left and this right-wing faction is solely about Gaza (and thus implies that this proves that the anti-Trump Right is anti-Semitic because they only find "empathy" when it involves Israel).
That's just false. The right-wing grievances against Trump from this group go far beyond just Gaza. It includes vehement opposition to his bombing of Yemen, his two attacks on Iran, the invasion of Venezuela, imminent operations for regime-change in Cuba, Trump's reckless rhetorical threats generally, the censorship scheme in the US to protect Israel and far more. For many (Tucker/MTG), it also includes opposition to domestic policies serving mega corporations and hedge funds at the expense of ordinary citizens.
I'll never understand why -- if someone genuinely cares about the issues they claim to care so much about (as I believe Norman does) -- they prefer to remain an impotent minority rather than forming majoritarian *ISSUE-BY-ISSUE* coalitions with other factions in order to actually stop these injustices.