Alp H

You can’t fix stupid.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

No words for this abomination.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

The New York Times coverage of the Gaza-Israel war was grossly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, according to a peer-reviewed study. Jewish casualties were omitted or minimized while Palestinian casualties were amplified and misrepresented.

Yale University Professor Edieal Pinker published the review in the an academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. His peer-reviewed research quantitatively evaluated 1,559 New York Times articles published between October 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, to assess potential narrative imbalances.

The study found that:

- 91% of the analyzed articles failed to mention Israeli casualties that occurred after October 7.

- 1,423 articles completely omitted mentions of both Israeli post-Oct. 7 casualties and Hamas combatant deaths.

- 50% of the articles did not reference the Israeli hostages held by Hamas during the fighting, and 41% omitted mentions of the Israeli casualties from the initial October 7 attack itself.

- Personal stories highlighting Palestinian and Lebanese suffering appeared on average two out of every three days. Comparable accounts of Israeli suffering unrelated directly to the October 7 events appeared in very few articles.

- The word "Israel" appeared 27,205 times across the dataset, compared to just 8,499 mentions of "Hamas," meaning Israel was mentioned more than three times as often. This statistical discrepancy places near-exclusive agency and responsibility on Israel while severely diminishing Hamas's role in sustaining the conflict.

Pinker concluded that these consistent editorial choices cultivated a dominant narrative portraying Israel as the sole aggressor facing few consequences beyond losing international sympathy, while Palestinians were predominantly framed as passive victims. He argues that the coverage deprives readers of a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing combat dynamics and the continuous nature of Israeli losses.

Following the initial release of the study data, The New York Times publicly defended its reporting, claiming it has covered the war with rigor and from all angles. Of course my commentary on their reporting shows that this defense is hot garbage.

The New York Times buried the Holocaust in the back pages and then doubled down on downplaying Jewish suffering after October 7. They are a disgusting business that should be boycotted.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

President @realDonaldTrump, @marcorubio, and @PeteHegseth, if you are going to watch any footage of Iran, this mini documentary is it.

Please watch the first 15 minutes and you will bear witness to one of the greatest crimes against humanity in recent decades.

The United States is the most powerful country in the world. The IRGC has been an exporter of terror around the world with nuclear ambitions only recently temporarily thwarted by our incredible military.

Leaving these monsters in control of the second largest oil reserves in the Middle East — which they will continue to use to fund terror around the world, rebuild their nuclear capability, and support our arch enemies — remains an extremely serious persistent and long-term existential threat to the United States and to the world at large.

President Trump, you are a man of your word.

You drew a red line about the regime killing protesters. They have now reportedly killed 43,000 and blinded and maimed hundreds of thousands more.

You have called out to the Iranian people to continue their protests as they have bravely done unarmed and at massive cost in tens of thousands of young lives lost to this genocidal regime.

You have lived up to every commitment that you have made to the American people and to the world.

Your reputation for keeping your word has restored the United States to again being respected as the most powerful nation in the world.

And let’s not forget that they have attempted to assassinate you twice.

President Trump, it is time to finish the job.

We have important strategic, moral, economic, and ethical reasons for doing so.

A world without the IRGC controlling Iran would generate a massive peace dividend forever experienced around the world.

It would set a powerful and important example that the United States does not tolerate the worst form of evil.

It would be one of your most important forever legacies as President of the United States.

The Iranian people are an amazing people who deserve to be free from terror and evil.

The United States has the most powerful military in the world as you so remarkably and masterfully demonstrated against Maduro in Venezuela.

It appears that we are now locked and loaded.

Let’s let them live.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, the IRGC are among the most evil people in the world. I know I am not telling you anything that you don’t already know.

I remind you that they have attempted to assassinate you more than once.

I would strongly encourage you not to negotiate with them as leaving them in power continues their ability to inflict evil on the world. And their word means nothing.

As I write, they are indiscriminately shooting young and old women and girls in the face and in the back just for protesting on the streets.

You have made a public commitment to rescue and help the anti-regime protesters which has motivated tens of thousands of additional protesters to go to the streets, and tragically thousands more have died as a result of their doing so.

You have kept your word with all of your public statements which has returned the U.S. to being a superpower and made you into one of the greatest presidents in our 250-year history. And importantly America’s word now means something again and the world is much safer as a result.

If America walks away from the Iranian people, it will be an even more catastrophic blood bath and a massive missed opportunity for the U.S. and the world.

I am not Iranian and I don’t have any ties to Iran, but I care enormously about humanity.

This is an incredible opportunity to bring an enduring peace to the world and to shut down one of the most evil and powerful regimes with the support of the Iranian and American people and hundreds of millions and perhaps even billions of other people around the world.

God bless Mr. President.

The world’s future is in your hands.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.

Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook.

‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’

The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

In honor of Charlie Kirk, President Trump is ordering all American flags throughout the U.S. to be lowered to Half Mast.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The Saudi foreign minister calls out Qatar's direct involvement in terrorism.

"The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists, that is unacceptable. There is a list of terror financiers living in Qatar."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s true

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza released a video of Israeli Evyatar David, who they took hostage on October 7 at the music festival and have held for 665 days. He is skin and bones, a shell of the man he used to be.

The IDF published multiple images of plentiful meals shared by terrorists in the tunnels where he is being held. David is being deliberately starved by his captors.

It’s a sick psychological game.

50 people are still being held hostage in Gaza. Around 20 of them are still alive.

France, the UK and Canada announced they will reward Palestinians with a state for their terror efforts.

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

This is the way

[Alp H @guhpla]

@ModernTalmud Mission: Sail to Gaza. Outcome: Frequent flyer miles on El Al.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.

President @realDonaldTrump has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.

And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.

But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.

The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.

If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.

What CEO and what board of directors will be comfortable making large,
long-term, economic commitments in our country in the middle of an economic nuclear war?

I don’t know of one who will do so.

When markets crash, new investment stops, consumers stop spending money, and businesses have no choice but to curtail investment and fire workers.

And it is not just the big companies that will suffer. Small and medium size businesses and entrepreneurs will experience much greater pain. Almost no business can pass through an overnight massive increase in costs to their customers. And that’s true even if they have no debt, and, unfortunately, there is a massive amount of leverage in the system.

Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.

The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system.

Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.

May cooler heads prevail.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Tim Walz single-handedly saved the market.

$TSLA

[White House Press Office @PressSec]

Remember when Joe Biden and Democrats said they needed a border bill to secure the border?

President Trump did this in four weeks:

[Alp H @guhpla]

@SenSanders Please stop at your nearest seniors’ home and check yourself in.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: The Trump Administration approved a $3 billion arms sale to Israel that includes over 35,500 bombs, thousands of warheads, and hundreds of armored bulldozers.

Thank you, @POTUS .

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Full remarks on Ukraine situation last night on @cnn. Even my friend and normal sparring partner @joshrogin was forced to agree: VZ made a serious mistake.