Just incredible. Reuters does an entire sympathetic story on this teenager who was injured but doesn’t identify his father, who they admit the beeper belonged to. Purely by coincidence, he has the same surname as a Hezbollah Radwan Force commander who was later taken out. Again, only Hezbollah members had the beepers. This was the most targeted large anti-terror operation in history. It’s not even close. If you object to this, then you’re basically saying that no one is allowed to actually pursue terror organizations. But Reuters chooses to intentionally hide this context. I don’t know how anyone can defend this type of intentional omission by a media outlet other than because they like who is being targeted by the story.

X has now confirmed a Chinese bot farm of 200K fake accounts intentionally trying to manipulate public opinion against data centers. People might want to consider how common this has become and how it is manipulating multiple policy discussions on social media.

It is rather amazing how many widely accepted narratives about the Gaza war and Israel have been completely debunked in recent weeks. Especially after terror groups started announcing death notices for their commanders. You will note that the media extensively ran with all these narratives without hesitation, despite there being clear evidence of them being unsupported by the facts even at the time. 3 key examples: 1) Israel targeted journalists: This claim was highly reliant on the CPJ list of killed "journalists". Then the death notices exposed that many on that list were militants. CPJ started secretly removing names and has since announced a full review of their list, but a new analysis shows a majority remaining on the list had terror ties, and dozens are confirmed militants. Source: 2) Israel intentionally starved Palestinians in Gaza as part of a war strategy. This was always an absurd claim, given Gaza received more aid per capita than any war zone in recent history with Israel's active support. But the recent report showing Gaza has malnutrition levels below most of the region and that the expected famine deaths never developed really killed this narrative, which highly relied on data manipulation by the UN and willing dupes in the media. Source: 3) Israel targeted healthcare workers. Recent death notices have clearly shown that many of the healthcare worker fatalities had dual roles as militants. Here is a thread with 96 examples:

How about instead of a wealth tax on job-creators, we just fix loopholes holes that allow those with hundreds of millions and in-home elevators to avoid taxes by assigning ownership of golf properties to their young kids?

So this camera-seeking grifter pretending to be a Congressman, Ro Khanna, is endorsing a wealth tax for billionaires in California. 1) Notice he’s restricting it at that level because he’s worth several hundred million so happened to exempt himself. 2) He phrases it as something done on behalf the working class, but simply stealing money from job-producers and investors doesn’t actually help the working class in any tangible way. 3) When pushed by Mark Cuban because it’s obviously a terrible idea that will drive investors out of CA and bankrupt growing companies, Khana’s solution is to have the government give fake loans to pay the put entrepreneurs in debt to the government with the potential to lose their equity if they can’t somehow magically convert their investment into liquid funds. Cuban calls it crazy, but it’s honestly so much worse. It’s just an attempt to use envy to score political points while advocating destructive communist ideas. Keep in mind this is coming from a Rep that ran on and spent years pretending to be a moderate. That sold that fake image to his district full of founders and job-creators. This guy doesn’t belong anywhere near a position that determines policy outcomes for anyone.

Crazy stuff. WSJ reports that thousands of North Korean operatives are using fake and stolen identities to land remote jobs at U.S. companies—funneling hundreds of millions of dollars back to the regime.

This is a serious problem where these bad polls imo are actually impacting races. We’ve seen several examples of polls showing big leads for far-left candidates and associated media narratives. The result has been to suppress votes in what were actually close races.

In one notable example, an 88 year old woman who lives in a trailer and has no computer is listed as having donated over $150K to Dem campaigns. Including 47 times to @AbdulElSayed ‘s Senate campaign. Where is this money really coming from? Needs to be investigated.

What is this stupidity? The Tates fled the UK to Romania originally to avoid the very investigation that led to the charges they are now facing. The evidence against them is substantial. There is no evidence that this prosecution is politically motivated. We have extradition treaties with other countries. The U.S. Constitution does not somehow grant someone the right to sex traffic and rape in other countries without consequences just because they later make it back to America. You can’t charge them with a crime here because they committed most of their crimes in other countries and have barely spent any time in America. They can challenge the extradition in court. But politicians going out of their way to defend credibly accused sex traffickers and rapists (+ now have charges related to sexual material involving minors) are just embarrassing themselves.

For those keeping track, Kristoff's piece: - Was published to pre-empt a detailed report about sexual violence by Hamas, full of actual evidence. - One of his main quoted Israeli sources says Kristoff misrepresented his take. - The article omits context about the background of its sources. - Several of his cited victims have a clear record of significantly changing their story. Kristoff omits any explanation for these changes. - The main source of the most significant abuse claim is a terrorist-tied org that has pushed constant insane conspiracies. A group that denies extensive evidence of widespread sexual violence by Hamas and had an interest in pre-empting the report mentioned in the first point. - The article promotes a central claim from that group about dogs being trained to rape people, which is biologically unlikely and has almost no supporting evidence. Kristoff has since misled followers about the medical evidence to support the possibility. Another primary linked source for the claim is an online grifter known for making stuff up, sexually harassing women, and sending inappropriate photos to minors, while having no firsthand knowledge to support the claim. The NYT fired several people for publishing a Tom Cotton op-ed with a very mainstream view about preventing mob violence, but Kistoff knows there will be zero consequences for any of the above because the NYT consistently adopts the view that journalistic standards don't apply when publishing anti-Israel content.