Blake Wood

Nothing doth hurt more in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

[Blake Wood @gblakew]

Quote for 2025: "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
- Jonathan Swift

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Something that absolutely must be said about Van Jones, famously saying 'dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby', while mimicking a scrolling motion on Bill Maher's repugnant show, and Sarah Hurwitz saying she can't talk to young Jews because of 'a wall of dead children' in some Jewish conference:

Both employ the same devious technique.

Both mention the dead children of Gaza that humanity has been witnessing over the past 2 years, but both do it in a way in which the children are not the subject of what they want to say. What both purport to talk about is the supposed general misinterpretation of Israel and its actions.

For both speakers, the dead children are secondary to Israel's image; they are only casually referenced as a cause of unreasonable and uncalled-for hatred for Israel.

Only this is a very sinister ploy: dead children are always the main subject of any conversation in which they are mentioned, especially now, and the two know it well. So what they're doing - pretending to use Gaza's dead children as a rhetorical tool, as if in an offhand manner, is them actually intentionally trying to normalize Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children.

They are breaking the taboo around the murder of children by mentioning it without focusing on it.

They can't say 'dead Arab children are no big deal' directly, so they say it obliquely, by bringing it up in a lighthearted way, devoid of any recognition of the horror they inspire. This casual treatment is their main purpose. This is how they normalize dead children.

Zionism has moved on from denial (combined with bragging) to trying to contain the rage by taking out the sting from the phenomenon that broke humanity's heart into a million pieces.
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We must know no rest until Zionism is delegitimized and thrown into history's facility for handling toxic waste

[PHM @Johener11]

@NathanJRobinson I mean...

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

The panic over TikTok was always in part because it is a prime source for factually accurate coverage of the Gaza genocide.
Now one of the leading pro-Israel fanatics is set to take control and ensure that young people don't keep getting videos telling the truth about Palestine.

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

L'Italie se porte en protection de la Flottille menacée par l'armée du génocide. Que fait la France dont 4 députés sont embarqués pour briser le blocus de Gaza ? De qui Macron a-t-il peur ?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

All of these are unanswerable, indisputable points

So let's watch the MAGA people attack him personally, as they cannot fault his arguments

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

"Gaza Beach 2030".

Peter de Wit wins the annual award for the best political cartoon in the Netherlands.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Guess "America First" is a joke. Nowhere in this long essay did you answer my questions about why President Trump is bailing out Argentina's global investors using American taxpayer dollars.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Peak hypocrisy is showing concern for Israeli hostages, yet ignoring the fact that Israel is running the world’s largest hostage-taking operation. This is in the West Bank, not Gaza.

Netanyahu kills his own and kidnaps ours.

[Alex Almeida @AlexAlmeida2020]

It’s a combination of undeniably high raw IQ/mental processing power with a lack of broader cultural formation which leads to a sort of stunted personality type. Cf. Wheeler-Bennett on Ludendorff.

[. @jdpoc]

True, this :

[Dave DeCamp @DecampDave]

Did you ask him about how Israel very recently helped Azerbaijan cleanse over 100,000 Armenian Christians from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)?

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

"Trains don't only connect cities; they also connect families and dreams" is a great line.

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Those tears w/ Adam Friedland are real. I experience these feelings too. Thousands of other young Jews feel the same. Despicable that the only place we see these feelings explicated is in a comedy show hosted by a dude from a podcast named “Cum Town”

[Extrommeda @extrommeda]

@SeanAMMcKay @ClimateAudit @TuckerCarlson B.S.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking| Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “Water, electricity, and food must be cut off from the Gaza Strip, and those who don’t die by bullets will die of hunger.” #Genocide

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Married and own a home by 30 years old in America

1950: 50%
1960: 52%
1970: 48%
1980: 45%
1990: 43%
2000: 35%
2010: 25%
2025: 12%

Incredible

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

@_TimBarker It’s not really about sums. One dollar spent on human welfare is at least 15 times more painful to the bourgeoisie than money spent on weapons.

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

Seniors should know that the COLA on their Social Security benefits is tied to the CPI. If the CPI is artificially reduced, as Trump wants, your benefits will be reduced.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

There was a kind of civic millenarianism that Obama's election brought to liberal elites. As a result, between Buttigieg, Booker, Harris, Gavin Newsom, etc., we are saddled with a generation of C-suite nitwits in a time of monsters and tyrants.