Hi, @IntlCrimCourt, this is a violation of the Rome Statute. Why haven’t you taken action to protect Palestinian children when the perpetrator isn’t Israel?

Las Vegas, Nevada - an elderly man wearing a “Proud Zionist” shirt containing an Israel flag was spat on by a high school age female and then attacked by her male friends last night. Arrests were made and the victim was attended to by ambulatory medics.

The U.S. has 989 billionaires. And 23.8 million millionaires. (That’s more than 24,000x the number of billionaires.)

I've tweeted before about how there was a shift around 2005-10 within the conservative legal movement away from originalism being just one of several approaches to being the one default approach. Justice Alito's 2006 confirmation hearings are an interesting example. 🧵

I think the shift—in terms of what *a nominee* would be willing to say opposed to, like, a law student at the Mayflower—was in 2013 with the nuclear option. Grassley’s rumored-at-the-time “Justice Bill Pryor” threat to Reid was permission to come out of the closet.

This checks out.

Rees-Mogg: "I'm very surprised you're verging on defending Hitler." Excellent. Saying it straight to Carlson’s face, so there can be no ambiguity.

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has officially scrapped Keir Starmer’s plans to limit the use of jury trials [@Independent]

This Jacob Rees-Mogg vs Tucker Carlson interview is a perfect encapsulation of the benefits of old school, high-minded conservatism and the base evil of New Right blood and soil garbage.

Got my hands on an IRGC instructor training package for the IRGC/Basij terrorist apparatus which contains 2,521 files, including 266 presentations, 122 PDFs, 207 Word documents and 342 videos. The material covers weapons, sniping/counter-sniping, ambushes, guerrilla and counter-guerrilla warfare, night combat, explosives and booby traps. Alongside that: psychological operations, urban patrols, checkpoints and dedicated urban unrest-control courses: The 43-slide “Pacification” presentation lists “shooting by skilled marksmen” and “use of firepower” among the measures commanders may employ to control unrest. That’s slide 24, in the unrest-control course. Same presentation classifies post-election crowds as “abnormal.” A companion deck lists wage disputes, unemployment, rising living costs and political grievances as causes of unrest. A separate 61-slide presentation, attributed to an IRGC security unit, covers urban unrest operations and operational-control responsibilities involving the police and IRGC. The Basij urban-patrol course details training qualifications for patrol personnel and leaders, mission orders, judicial-officer credentials, compensation insurance and an office providing legal support for Basij members facing problems during their missions. (!) Combat training, protest suppression, ideological conditioning and the administrative machinery supporting the personnel carrying it out.

At the time of writing, barring additional reporting, reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sought asylum in the U.S. during the UNGA in NYC are not credible.

If reports are true that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi sought U.S. asylum, the implication is striking: at the top of the regime, there is fear about its survival and about accountability for its crimes.

NaZei squirrel acknowledging that the Jews of today are the same as the ancient ones.

I hear Carlson a bit differently here. Yes, he's definitely suggesting he'd be fine with the Nazis winning. the war and defeating Britain. But what comes through for me is the profound intellectual and moral unseriousness. It's a kind of debater's nihilism that thinks any good sounding talking point is a good point. For instance, he says at least if Germany won, Britain would be speaking a "European language." That sounds clever to un-clever people. But it's moronic on its own terms (Would Tucker be okay with Americans speaking Spanish? That's a European language, too). It reduces the interests and issues involved in WWII down to a ridiculous single metric. It's childish bullshit, but it sounds sophisticated to the insipid and the ignorant and it thrills those who understand the trolling of it. And that's why this interview is representative of Tucker more broadly these days. He's at sea. Nothing really matters except "winning" the conversation, the moment, the clicks. He's embraced a kind of Nietzschean amoralism that thinks sowing doubt in any notions of right v wrong, good v evil, traditional patriotism v transgressive iconoclasm is self-rewarding. "Neocons" and their ilk think Putin is bad? I'll claim he's awesome with the dumbest arguments imaginable packaged like they're smart. Similarly, Tucker likes to traffic in the idea that Hitler should have won, not because Tucker's a big believer in Nazism. He's not a big believer in *anything* other than the bit itself. He likes the idea that the Nazis should have won, because he likes turning over turtles and being a dick for the amusement of people who celebrate dickishness. More specifically, he also likes it because the argument that it was a good thing we defeated the Nazis is inconvenient to him and his pet causes. That America and the UK were the good guys still has heft, substance, and authority, and Tucker's whole transvaluative approach is to burn down good things with weight and substance by elevating evil bullshit into seriousness to prove his own transgressive courage. Every argument is permitted and equally valid because all truths are equally just matters of opinion. The superior opinion isn't the one with the better facts or the better reasoning, it's just the one more confidently or sneeringly expressed. That's why this interview went badly for Tucker, because he ran into someone who actually knows true things and is confident in what he knows. This is also why Tucker spends most of his time talking to cranks, bigots, weirdoes, and hacks who are good at sounding like experts so long as their bullshit goes unchallenged. Tucker doesn't give a rat's ass about ideas or history. He cares about vibes and sowing moral doubt about what is good by hawking moral support for what is bad. The Holocaust becomes a triviality in that project, which in a very real way, is worse than denying it happened. He's denying it didn't really matter much if it did.

What does any of this have to do with being the minister of diaspora affairs?

The “FlyDubai was a false flag” theory requires you to believe we got 180 Israelis to agree on something.

Also Saudi, Oman and UAE can’t even work together to get oil out of the Gulf, you think they would coordinate and align on a false flag on behalf of... Israel?

The only path to peace is recognizing the students as a sovereign state and demanding humanitarian aid for them.

BREAKING | Ethiopian federal forces captured Mekele, the Tigray regional capital, on October 3. The Ethiopian military (ENDF) and allied Tigray Peace Force advanced from the east to recapture Mekele airport, which is on the outskirts of Mekele, before entering the city. Federal forces reportedly did not face substantial resistance, as the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF)--the TPLF’s military wing—had already withdrawn from Mekele. The TDF also reportedly withdrew west from positions on the A2 highway immediately south of Mekele, allowing the ENDF to advance toward Mekele on the southern axis as well. Multiple open-source mappers claimed that the TPLF leadership has relocated to Adwa, which is 100 miles northwest of Mekele, although CTP was unable to verify the claims.