Fred Raskin, ACE

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@BoyGeorge No pressure or anything, but if you wanted to go into the studio to record a version of “King Herod’s Song,” I would be happy to purchase a copy. And I suspect I am not alone.

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

“Mayor Mamdani, I’m an Arab Muslim Israeli, and let me tell you why you’re wrong.” Lourd Atia debunks all of Zohran Mamdani’s lies and shares the truth about what life is really like for her in Israel.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@kaitlancollins Come on, Kaitlin — Lindsey Graham is having a lucid phone conversation with your colleague Scott Jennings as I type this…

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MUST WATCH:

Clip from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Rob Reiner (before his death) as George Washington.

Trump is going to hate this.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@eshanbuilds The assumption you’re making with this post is that because it’s a true story, everyone on earth is familiar with it so it can’t possibly be spoiled. As someone with only a vague awareness of the show, I would have appreciated a spoiler warning before your first fucking sentence.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@LieutenantRusty For the record, if you’re the only one to get a shot off, you didn’t shoot first

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed:

Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting.

Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade.

Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7.

O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn.

Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas.

Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods.

A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year.

Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights."

Now hold that next to actual genocide.

Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café.

Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead.

The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943.

Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves.

Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados.

The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence.

Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true.

That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction.

It is not what genocide looks like.

So why the word?

Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield.

It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not.

Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@elliotsteinmetz Don’t forget the actual videos of those atrocities, recorded by Hamas for posterity

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

Amen.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

This is ridiculous — it was 13 dogs, not one. Does anyone at the NYTimes actually research their stories?

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

🚨 BREAKING: The New York Times reveals that Israel has successfully trained a dog to take over Nakatomi Plaza and steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds

[Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @jerusalemofiron]

It's worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois.

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

As a genocide scholar, help me out.

Can you point to a single other "genocide" in history where:
a) The target population grew larger every year,

b) The target population refused to surrender,

c) The genocidal party provided mass humanitarian aid

d) The genocidal party warned the population to move

e) The target population of this genocide immediately held victory parades?

f) The genocidal party had the ability to wipe out the entire target party from the air without a single military casualty but chose not to do so?

g) The genocide abruptly stopped with a ceasefire agreement.

h) Hundreds of medical students from the target population trained and graduated during the genocide.

Any one example will do. Just one. I'll wait.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

@bdgrabinski Seems pretty clear Don Jr had better watch his back

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

SNL writers breathing a HUGE sigh of relief that there’s no new show tonight

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

It’s safe to assume he thinks Jared Kushner, Alan Dershowitz and Steve Witkoff are also doctors, right?

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

Imagine being on the Epstein list and realizing that the member of your crew tasked with covering up the entire criminal conspiracy isn’t Bill Gates or Alan Dershowitz, it’s Donald fucking Trump. Tick-tock, assholes.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Watch 🎥

This should be shared EVERYWHERE.

This is what happened when 20 random westerners sat down to watch what Palestinian kids are taught in UNRWA schools.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

Trump was right about one thing (hey, even a broken clock…): Ghilaine has been treated very unfairly. If she did 1/10 of what these files allege, fair treatment for her could maybe be found in a tunnel underneath Gaza.

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

I’m beginning to suspect he could rape a 13-year-old girl in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he wouldn’t lose any voters.

#thereisnobottom

[Fred Raskin, ACE @FredRaskin]

My Trump-supporting friends who spent a year or so referring to our last president as “Pedo Joe” are oddly silent after yesterday’s Epstein files release