A US ambassador's job is to protect & defend the citizens & interests of the United States. @USAmbIsrael Mike Huckabee has failed to do so.
As violence consumes the West Bank & extremists call for a Greater Israel, he's become a mouthpiece for the Israeli govt.
He should resign.
It's wild that the left's excesses were bad tweets a half decade ago while the moderates' excesses are like foreign wars with death tools in the hundreds of thousands and the right's excesses are like literal attempts at authoritarianism.
What are we even talking about on here anymore
A bunch of people who’ve spent their whole careers dismissing women’s sports are now riding right wing hysteria to claim that they just want the best for women’s sports. Comical.
We live in a country where the entire political and media class talks about antisemitism every day, conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel, meanwhile prominent Republican members of Congress are saying this with zero pushback from political or media elites.
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.
Eitan Newman, a 17-year-old Israeli, grills one of Apartheid Israel's most genocidal politicians, on an Israeli TV program called "First Vote" in an August 2, 2026 interview.
It's a rare moment in Hebrew media when a genocidal Israeli politician is forced to defend genocide on live TV. Here's a condensced transcript:
Newman: Call it what you want, ethnic cleansing, transfer, voluntary emigration, fine. So, I want to ask you, what will happen to the Gazan who doesn't want to emigrate? Will IDF soldiers pile him onto a truck and expel him? Where will they take him? What will you do to him?
Feiglin: First of all, the vast majority of them want to leave, okay?
Newman: I asked about those who don't want to leave.
Feiglin: We need to encourage them to leave, because whoever doesn't leave will murder you.
Newman: That's not what I asked. I asked, what will you do to someone you wanted to leave and doesn't leave.
Feiglin: You'll make him leave.
Newman: What does "make" mean?
Feiglin: Every way possible. We'll shut off his water pipes, for example. Just an example.
Newman: And whoever doesn't leave can die, as far as you're concerned?
Feiglin: Then he'll be thirsty. He'll have to leave to drink a cup of water. Just an example.
Newman: So, for example, kind of kill off everyone?
Silence
Newman: Yes? Like everyone should die? Either they go or they die? Are they not human?
Feiglin: It's pretty stunning, excuse me, that after October 7, you treat us like murderers and that Islamo-Nazi terror entity like it's under attack. Forgive me.
Newman: I'm asking about your policy. I'm trying to understand what will happen if you're elected to the Knesset.
Feiglin: You know, I have a grandson your age, okay? His brother lies right now beneath a grave marker because of such questions.
Newman: So, I'm like responsible for his killing? Is that what you're saying?
Feiglin: No, I'm saying that your twisted worldview, which pursues the human rights of that murderous entity, led in the end to that disaster.
Newman: So, everyone should die. Two million people will die. However many you say are there, they should die.
Feiglin: I'm suggesting to you that you also listen to the person you're asking, not only to yourself.
Source: https://t.co/cfE6kSHiA2
LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi--
TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo*
LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
“I will not stand beside someone who has allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter our public dialogue,” Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich.
1. I guess "vote blue no matter who" only applies if the blue is white
2. The irony is one candidate got $60M in foreign dark money PAC spending, but its the brown guy Scholten calls anti-American
3. A reminder yet again that Dr. King called white moderates "worse than the KKK" and he did not lie
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
@peterbakernyt@ddk_nyc Jake Sullivan is not being honest.
Listen to how Jake Sullivan and Blinken actually behaved behind closed doors. Their behavior and words paint a very different picture to the one Jake Sullivan is now trying to manufacture.