Jon Lake

Thought I could see ghosts but I was just oxygen deprived from sleep apnea. Diner coffee mug connoisseur. Writer.

[Elisha Wiesel @ElishaWiesel]

My father raised me with Jewish observance. Shma at night, Kiddush on Friday night. But the earliest memories I have of reading a sacred text with my father aren't of Genesis, or the Exodus from Egypt, or even of my Bar Mitzvah parsha.

They're of reading the Declaration of Independence with him every July 4th.

He would read them aloud with the same musical, passionate voice that compelled the attention of listeners at state affairs or class day ceremonies. We were a small family of four, often in those early years with another family we were close to, but we felt like a jury listening to the case that he was making in the highest of courts.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal!" he would insist, his eyes meeting ours -- and then pause, waiting to see if any of us would dare to challenge him. I didn't understand many of the specific accusations that the Founding Fathers were laying at Britain's feet, but I knew by the end that my father believed America had the protection of divine Providence, and that he pledged his life, fortune and honor to this country that had taken him in, that had given him a home when he was stateless.

To our fellow Americans, Shabbat Shalom and happy 250th anniversary of these blessed United States of America.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.

This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.

First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”

Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”

These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.

Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@pamvonhadder The original "Rainforest Cafe"

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To you, Zohran Mamdani! You stayed quiet when we have faced massacre, when Islamic Republic assassins were sent here in New York to kill us, stay quiet now!

STOP lecturing us Iranians about peace.

I don’t feel safe in New York listening to someone like you, Mamdani, who sympathizes with the regime that killed more than 30,000 unarmed Iranians in less than 24 hours. You talk about “safety” of this beautiful city? Listen carefully; Safety without justice means nothing.
We Iranians do not allow you to lecture us about war while you had nothing to say when the Islamic Republic shot schoolgirls and blinded more than 10,000 innocent people in the streets. You were busy celebrating the hijab while women of my beloved country Iran were jailed and raped by Islamic Security forces for removing it. And NOW you find your voice to defend the regime? No. I will not let you claim the moral high ground.
The people of Iran want to be free. Where were you when they needed solidarity?

New York belongs to people who stand against terrorism not those who excuse it.

This city is stronger than fear.
Stronger than propaganda.
Stronger than you think.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

The real trolley problem, Tesla edition:

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@grok @fudoe @acnewsitics @grok, isn’t it true that you don’t know what is actually true or false, only what the majority of your referenced data refers to as true or false? So if your programmers gave you incorrect data your responses could be incorrect as well?

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@PulpLibrarian Doctor Schuffhausen!!!

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

The police misconduct database has just been deleted. This is not hyperbole. This is dead serious.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@Picolas_Caged $HAWKTRUMP

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

It is not conspiratorial to ask for a #SwingStateHandRecount. it is ensuring that the process in determining the most consequential election of our lifetimes is sound, and there are enough alarms pointing to this not being the case.

The Democratic Party needs to stand up for us.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@Mark_Penn Where do you exchange your rubles?

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@jimstewartson Kamala Harris is going to have these installed outside the Oval Office for those aides that need to have a faint!

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@DrJillStein Jill Stein, the Sleeper Agent emerges again.

[Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline]

JD Vance follows a who's who of extremists on Twitter, including antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists.

Thread on the weirdos and freaks that the VP candidate follows: 🧵

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@JDVance That reminds me of the last time you took the gloves off J.D., and put them in between your couch cushions. 🤣

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine is grateful to President Biden for his unwavering support for Ukraine's fight for freedom, which, along with strong bipartisan support in the United States, has been and continues to be critical.

Many strong decisions have been made in recent years and they will be remembered as bold steps taken by President Biden in response to challenging times. And we respect today's tough but strong decision.

We will always be thankful for President Biden's leadership. He supported our country during the most dramatic moment in history, assisted us in preventing Putin from occupying our country, and has continued to support us throughout this terrible war.

The current situation in Ukraine and all of Europe is no less challenging, and we sincerely hope that America's continued strong leadership will prevent Russian evil from succeeding or making its aggression pay off.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@tedcruz Fixed it for ya...

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@WalterIsaacson You wrote Musk "thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war." There was already a major war going on. Russia invaded a sovereign country without justification and was committing wanton atrocities.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@trahana @kevinnbass @jljcolorado @kprather88 This gentleman gets it. Think of all the time these health care workers are not in the hospital setting after their shifts, sucking up unfiltered air! Besides, this study is a comparison between N95 masks and surgical masks, not N95 masks vs. no masks. Big difference.

[Jon Lake @jondlake]

@TimInHonolulu @Kellywhalegirl I got the Trotskys once from a restaurant in St. Petersburg.