gidklio

Mostly follow baseball stuff and write bike stuff, sometimes the other way around. I'm not very active here.

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@NYTGames Lies!!

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day, May 14–15, 1974: The Ma’alot Massacre — Palestinian Terrorists Slaughter 22 Israeli Schoolchildren on Independence Day

While Israelis were celebrating their country’s 26th Independence Day, three Palestinian terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine turned a school trip into a bloodbath.

Disguised in Israeli army uniforms, they infiltrated from Lebanon and began their rampage in the immigrant town of Ma’alot.

- They burst into the home of Fortuna and Yosef Cohen and murdered the entire family: the parents, their 4-year-old son Eliahu, and left their 5-year-old daughter Miriam wounded. Fortuna was seven months pregnant.

- They shot a sanitation worker after asking him for directions to the school.

- Then they stormed the Netiv Meir Elementary School, where 115 teenagers (mostly 15–16 years old from Safed) were sleeping after a field trip.

The terrorists took the children hostage, wired the building with explosives, and demanded the release of 23 imprisoned terrorists.

For over 12 hours the kids huddled on the floor in terror as the terrorists screamed threats and prepared to execute them.

When the elite Sayeret Matkal unit finally stormed the school, the terrorists sprayed the classroom with automatic gunfire and hurled grenades directly at the children.

22 children were slaughtered.
Another 3 adults died with them.
68 more were wounded.

This was not “resistance.”
This was the deliberate, sadistic targeting of Jewish children — on Israel’s Independence Day.

This is what the Palestinian “resistance” has always been.

Long before Hamas, long before October 7, 2023, Palestinian terror groups were slaughtering the most innocent among us: schoolkids, pregnant mothers, entire families. Ma’alot was not an outlier. It was the pattern — from the 1920s pogroms, through the Mufti’s Nazi alliance, through decades of plane hijackings, school bus ambushes, and suicide bombings.

They have never wanted a state beside Israel.

They have always wanted Israel gone — and Jewish children dead.

Stop calling it “resistance.”

Call it what it is: genocidal Jew-hatred with a new name.

The Jewish people survived the Holocaust.
We survived Ma’alot.
We survived October 7.
And we are still here — stronger than ever.

Am Yisrael Chai.

Never forget the children of Ma’alot. Never let anyone sanitize what “from the river to the sea” has always meant.

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@LevineJonathan Thanks for this! I didn't quite have the time to dig all of them up myself but I immediately thought of the shark and vulture when I saw @NickKristof 's libel in the @nytimes this week

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@astoundconnects Oh good, I'm glad to see you will get to use my $260/year in "network access and maintenance fees" to maintain my 300 Mbps service! (What about the people with 1500 Mbps? Does the service fee scale up?)

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@astoundconnects Your last message to me was "Due to some recent changes to our security policy we are no longer able to make changes to accounts via social media support." (In other words, you pay more for worse service.) Has that changed?

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More @astoundconnects junk fees in #somervillema: junk fee raised a buck to 21.85 plus service fee raised $3 from 65 to 68. @jake4somerville how do we rein in these predators?

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@311Somerville @SomervilleCity @astoundconnects @RCNBoston1 @Ticketmaster @BenForWard3 @Stonepeak I might have missed a screenshot or two in this thread but the junk fee just rose from almost $21 to almost $22. https://t.co/Zk2yKr5SWN

So much for @maura_healey's "no junk fees"

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More @astoundconnects junk fees in #somervillema: junk fee raised a buck to 21.85 plus service fee raised $3 from 65 to 68. @jake4somerville how do we rein in these predators?

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@rcnconnects can you describe the new monthly $3.17 "network access and maintenance fee" on the newest bill? It was $1.97 on the previous five bills. I'm in Somerville, MA.

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@311Somerville @SomervilleCity @astoundconnects @RCNBoston1 @Ticketmaster @erika4rep @BenForWard3 I hadn't realized that after @astoundconnects bought @RCNBoston1, it was acquired itself by @Stonepeak, a private equity firm that of course would try to treat RCN's loyal customers like an ATM and charge $17 in junk fees on a $20 service.

[Gabriel Epstein @GabrielEpsteinX]

A new Gaza death toll list provided to the Israeli newspaper @haaretz by the Hamas-run Gaza MOH has been released (the 13th iteration), containing 68,820 non-duplicate entries and covering up to November 10, 2025. Very long analysis of data quality, demographics, and unknowns:

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Sunrise from @SouthwestAir DAL-LGA just a few minutes ago #WN2194

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@DD_Geopolitics Lemme guess. The Arabs started a war, lost land, lost the war, and now want a do-over?

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@tracian86 @thematidog @DD_Geopolitics Land doesn't vote. The Golan is about half Jewish.

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@WarFrontIntel At least you've shown the "genocide" libel is bullshit.

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@ShaykhSulaiman reading it repeatedly doesn't make it true. Now, if you made it rhyme (like all the other stupid street chants the palestinists sing) then it would definitely be true

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@AraquelBloss boy he sure did free palestine. rest in mental health problems bro

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@Palestine_UN If there had been Palestinians in 1949 surely they would have formed a state west of the Jordan River to go along with their state east of the Jordan River?

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@AJEnglish awwww what happened to $CAT @CaterpillarInc ? They used to be the darlings of the boycott idiots. Now nowhere to be found on this page! What happened, @BDSmovement?

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@YoBenCohen @MagnumGlobal Ben, call it FAFO - Filastin Attacked, Filastin Obliterated

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@Alonso_GD Well they could try harder and get the last 15 to touch on your rhetorical point. But also they could stop shooting during a ceasefire -- both at IDF positions and at their own people. Once all the hostages are back, can't wait to see what happens after the first rocket!

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love me some @BlueJays doinking balls off of their opponents in the winner take all game of a playoff series #ALCS #BlueJays #Mariners

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@jvplive The single most important thing is 20 living hostages. Then 28 dead ones returned. Then flatten the strip next time the Arabs shoot a single rocket.