Karen A. Wyle

Retired attorney, author, mother, photographer, political junkie.

For tweets re writing (my books & in general) and publishing, please head to @KarenAWyle.

[Irregular @Irregulariks]

Bangladeş’te bir İslamcı, elinde silahla tıp fakültesini basıp "Kadınların eğitilmesi haramdır!" diye bağırıyor.

Önce "Başörtülü bacımız okula giremiyor" diye mağduriyet yaratanlar, güçlenince "Kadının okula gitmesi haram" demeye başlıyor. Olan yine geleceğe oluyor… 🇧🇩

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UN whistleblower warns: UNRWA staff fired for Hamas terrorist links may likely be receiving $50,000 each as “termination indemnity.”

We are calling on all UNRWA donor states—Germany, UK, France, Canada, Australia Netherlands—to ensure that not one more penny goes to terrorists.

[David Collier @mishtal]

When you land in Israel, you see Muslims everywhere - working in offices, relaxing on beaches, praying in mosques, living freely.

When you visit Arab states, Jewish sites are museums to vanished Jewish communities chased out long ago.

But yeah, sure, Israel is "Apartheid".

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Five U.S. intelligence sources tell CNN that Iran has begun collapsing tunnels and rigging entrances with explosive mines to secure its near weapons-grade uranium stockpile. The roughly half-ton cache of highly enriched material is now far more difficult and dangerous to access.

[Karen A. Wyle @WordsmithWyle]

Could humanoid robots be heading for the battlefield?(Not soon.) https://t.co/NTZi04I02y

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

If America beats Paraguay in tonight's World Cup match, come celebrate at Steak n Shake tomorrow with a Patriot milkshake for only 25 cents! Limited to one milkshake per customer.
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[Kevin Patrick Mahaffey @dropalltables]

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

[Karen A. Wyle @WordsmithWyle]

Painting With All the Colors of the California Alert System https://t.co/bIHFi9M9py

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@tim_cook Don’t want it.

Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies.

[Morgan. @morganamooo]

eyes filled with tears over this

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

OTD in 1864: 100,000 men vanished overnight, and the greatest general of the age had no idea where they went. This might be the most underrated move of the Civil War.

Context: Grant had just spent ten days locked in trench warfare at Cold Harbor, Virginia, after a frontal assault on June 3 that cost him thousands of men in under an hour. He admitted it was the worst mistake of his career. The armies were so close that soldiers could not lift their heads above the dirt in daylight.

Everyone, including Lee, expected Grant to do what every Union commander before him did after a bloody repulse: retreat north and regroup.

Instead, on the night of June 12, Grant did something audacious. He pulled the entire Army of the Potomac out of trenches that were in some places only yards from Confederate lines. No bugles, no fires, wheels muffled. By morning the Union trenches were empty and Lee's scouts found nothing but abandoned earthworks.

The army marched south, away from Richmond, which made no sense to Confederate observers. Then Union engineers did something almost nobody thought possible: they threw a pontoon bridge across the James River, roughly 2,100 feet of it, over water up to 85 feet deep with a four-foot tidal swing. They built it in about eight hours. It was one of the longest floating bridges in military history.

For three full days Lee was effectively blind, unsure whether Grant was north or south of the James. By the time the picture cleared, Grant's army was across the river attacking Petersburg, the rail hub that fed Richmond.

The siege that followed lasted nine months and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

Everyone remembers Cold Harbor as Grant's worst day. Almost nobody remembers that one week later he pulled off the maneuver that won the war.

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

Yiftah Dan Tweg, 27, a Jewish Israeli man, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.

That day, Yiftah and his friends fled to a nearby dumpster to hide once they learned Hamas had invaded.

At 11:47am, Palestinian militants open fired on the dumpster, killing all but two: the two women Yiftah protected by positioning his body over theirs, TOI reported.

Never forget🎗️

[Q STORM RIDER @_Qstormrider]

🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds.

Read that again.

Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.
Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED.

For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families.

Follow the money.
Audit everything.
Prosecute whoever broke the law.

Music to my ears.
Thank you, Sec. Bessent. 🇺🇸

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: PresidentTrump confirms that the US has assassinated Venezuelan terror group leader Niño Guerrero.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Leftist publication The Intercept blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for multiple bomb threats on Jewish institutions in February 2017. It turned out the threats came from one of The Intercept's staff reporters, Juan Thompson. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 months in prison.

[Karen A. Wyle @WordsmithWyle]

Elon Musk is a Genius, and a Litmus Test https://t.co/C9Lf9o5zNy

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

We will never leave Hezbollah in Lebanon alone, and the end of the war will also encompass Lebanon and all other fronts.

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

⚠️ WARNING TO TRUMP: IRAN doesn't want PEACE, they want TIME

Every deal they sign is the ancient Islamic strategy of Al-Hudaybiyyah: a calculated pause to rearm, regroup, and strike when you least expect it. Used for 1,400 years to lull enemies into a false sense of security before the kill.

Mohammed. Arafat. Iran. Same strategy, different century.

You cannot negotiate with a regime that has already decided you are the enemy. Finish the job.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

EXCLUSIVE: The kids whose lemonade stand was robbed at gunpoint in Boston opened another stand today

Check out this crowd who came to support them!!

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