Johnny Strikes Hard

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Daily Wire

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

Today’s feel good story: A federal judge just handed Zionist YouTuber Ethan Klein a brutal loss in his copyright lawsuit against pro-Palestine Twitch streamer @DenimsTV. In a humiliating ruling, the judge cites a precedent that Klein himself created. 🧵

[UAW @UAW]

The UAW is proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for U.S. Senate.

UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity. Having never taken a dime from corporate PACs, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is someone we can trust to have our backs, including when we need it most – like come May Day 2028. From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Knicks fans are insane 😭😭😭

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

[Johnny Strikes Hard @hard_strikes]

@aliceesweett The same way sprinters run the hardest during the last stretch.

[disa! ᱬ | COMMS open! °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ @s00tspritezz]

sydney sweeny is gonna turn around btw

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Aaron Sparrow™, SDCC HALL F 4706 @Aaron_Sparrow]

Here’s a truth about Debra Wilson.

She gets hired because she cares about her performance, and she’s easy to work with.

This doesn’t explain why so many characters she plays are modeled after her (how many Troy Baker characters are made to look like him?) but the fact of the matter is, she’s cast because she’s got good relationships with casting directors, behaves professionally through and through and gives 100%.

[OG SNARK ☕️ @SnarkingIsLegal]

They published a photo of his house and said “here is where he masturbates”

[Dr. Adam Hamawy @HamawyForNJ]

New Jersey -- we made history tonight.

Healthcare not bombs.

Abolish ICE.

Unrig the economy.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

BREAKING: The House just passed a resolution to end the war on Iran by a vote of 215-208.

Just 3 months into the war, this is the earliest that a chamber of Congress has ever voted to reject an active conflict in U.S. history.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Last year, my friend Hasan Piker addressed the Oxford Union. He spoke cogently (https://t.co/UQCKLCjKpH) on the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

This coming Friday, The Econoclasts (that is, Wolfgang Munchau and I) were to host him at a live event at the Kings Cross Town Hall.

Alas, the Starmer government decided to ban Hasan from entering the UK. Why? Without even saying so explicitly, they hinted at Hasan's... antisemitism!

Join the club Hasan - your ban brings back memories of two years ago when I was banned from entering Germany for the hideous crime of organising, alongside German Jews, a conference on the ultra-subversive topic of the 'A Just Peace in the Middle East'.

These days, it seems, you are banned as an antisemite if you oppose the Palestinian genocide and the ideology that drives it.

And, as Freddie tweeted just now, your being silenced leaves those who purport to value free speech above all else utterly unperturbed.

Such are the 'interesting' times we are enduring...

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I pulled out of SXSW London, and I hope other speakers and chairs do too.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

sxsw was a minor part of my trip to the uk, they totally didn’t defend me or cenk at all, they’re actual fucking losers and i will never work with them for the rest of my life. if you bought a ticket expecting to see me you should demand a refund.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

nyt can you please have some decency about a decorated war veteran combat surgeon who saved tammy duckworth's life, who treated 9/11 first responders and was in gaza during the genocide. i get that he's muslim and antizionist but this is a shameful and racist subheader!

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Evangeline Lilly has called out Disney for being “disgusting and horrible” after they laid off almost all of Marvel's visual development team.

“SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.”

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Dana you haven’t spoken ONCE about the documented on video and reported on by Israeli media sexual abuse and rape committed by Israel against Palestinians. You’re a rape-excusing propagandist. Not a journalist.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

I’m not sure I can take another week of people who support genocide pretending that @hasanthehun, one of the most effective critics of that genocide, is the evil one.

[Johnny Strikes Hard @hard_strikes]

@dieworkwear Pho is just a handful of rice noodles and a few slices of meat in some broth and veggies on the sides there’s no fucking reason for a bowl of pho to ever cost $10 nevermind $20.