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Michael Weingrad

5 years

"Here it is, the twenty-first century, and the rooms still aren't adequately soundproofed." --Stanislaw Lem, The Futurological Congress

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@Babygravy9 All is forgiven.

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@realchrisrufo Angela Davis spoke at my university a few years ago and said we needed to empathize with the Charlie Hebdo murderers rather than call them "terrorists." She was paid $15,000.

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@femmesforchrist Members of the Frankfurt School briefly proposed collaborative work, which stalled when Poisson refused to budge from his position that his Hegelianism required him to perform a human sacrifice according to Aztec custom.

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Portland State University President Stephen Percy indicates there will be no criticism of trans ideology allowed on campus. Instead, "cotton candy, temporary tattoos, and coloring will be available" and expanded "Trans Days of Resistance" scheduled.

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@JonIsaacsOR "No one is having a fentanyl overdose in the room with me right now. Checkmate MAGA!"

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@DrMonicaOsborne Spoiled children who will come after you if you don't do and say and think what they want. All the men's bathrooms at Portland State have tampons and pads in prominent dispensers. Meanwhile, enrollment expected to collapse by over a third by 2026. Priorities.

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Bari Weiss resigning from the New York Times is fine. Parents resigning from schools that use the Times' 1619 Project to indoctrinate their children is better.

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Portland State University decided to close the university today and cancel all classes as the anti-Israel protesters have broken into the university library and occupied it, trashing and vandalizing what is visible of the library through the barricaded windows. Honestly, none of

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The one and only @peterboghossian brought his street epistemology to my high school students last night and of course it was amazing.

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Portland State University is in the process of driving the last two vocal critics of woke left ideology from the campus. Meanwhile, fall applications are down 26%.

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@robbysoave Harvard, we've found your new president.

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BREAKING. Message from Portland State University president Ann Cudd. No consequences for wrecking the library, all demands will be met.

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@aimeeterese Daughter of Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm.

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@MZHemingway I remember in 2016 going from thinking it was weird that Trump dismissed Jonah Goldberg by saying "he doesn't buy his own pants" to thinking, "yeah, Goldberg probably doesn't buy his own pants."

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@realchrisrufo Bravo. Now let's keep the pressure on, because the rot isn't just the president of one college.

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Wow, I wish I had known that @michaelmalice was a "literal neo-nazi" before I put his book The New Right on my best of the year list for Mosaic, the magazine of Jewish ideas. Glad I'm on to him now!

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We won a war so i would never have to listen to your opinions

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BREAKING: @DrJillStein to raise $4.5M to determine if Castro really dead.

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@wil_da_beast630 Liberal culture has arrived at the point when it can't define anything as good or just or noble or true within its own arbitrary, appetite-driven system, and so calls it "sexy" because there's little else to indicate preference. So "recycling is sexy," "voting Dem is sexy," etc.

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Portland State University's Queer Resource Center follows up with more information.

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@unheardparent A clerk at Fred Meyer called a manager on me yesterday, insisted I wear a mask. I said no, he got pissy then walked off and I wished him a Merry Christmas. End of story.

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@karol BREAKING: Palestinian sources reporting that 10,000 active duty US soldiers set themselves on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.

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@pastors4txkids @BetsyDeVos @KochIndustries @DeAngelisCorey Pastroturf

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@JackPosobiec At Yale in 1990, with a mullet and a UB40 concert t-shirt, getting a kegger started with friend Dave.

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@RivkahBrown Yes, that's the best thing about Yiddish, that you can use it to signal your contempt for Jews and Jewish culture.

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@lbraccio @ggreenwald Interesting that they all use the "non-story" phrase. They're obediently executing their programming.

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@naomirwolf Please write a book that compiles what you're learning about these remedies.

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Michael Weingrad

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Kamala's husband left out the most important part of the Hanukkah story before he deleted his post. When the Jews emerged from their eight days of hiding, they saw their shadow and knew it would be six more weeks of winter.

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Michael Weingrad

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The sneering racism and classicism of the people who want to quash any challenge to their higher ed status quo may be the best indication of the need for more such challenges.

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Is the University of Substack going to have a blackface winter formal?

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@MZHemingway Thank you for standing against this in your work with such integrity and intelligence.

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@havivrettiggur We're watching not a failure, but a success of what the system is intended to produce.

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Last week the high school students in my "Idea of the Nation" course had a wonderful conversation with novelist and media studies professor @VamseeJuluri about Hindu Nationalism and how it is presented in western media. 1/

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@fox12oregon Hey, idiots.

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Kristin @rationalinpdx was attacked in downtown Portland, it was sadly a matter of time next to the downtown library. Portland needs dramatic change.

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@RealJamesWoods Boys are so great. Today I heard one of the little boys in the condo outside yelling earnestly to his friend: "William! Are you in SPACE?"

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Michael Weingrad

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@hunnybadgermom Here's my bank branch on Terwilliger Boulevard in SW Portland this week: a well-trafficked thoroughfare by a residential neighborhood. Brick wall and ATM machine ripped out. Nothing in the local paper which is determined to pretend everything is fine. It's Mad Max here.

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Michael Weingrad

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@ggreenwald She is explaining what she believes is a crucial duty of American Jews, not "Israel's view." She is also a brilliant, humane teacher and fierce polemicist, long one of the only right wing voices at Harvard, well worth reading, e.g.

Jews and Power (Jewish Encounters Series)

www.amazon.com

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Michael Weingrad

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So is it too much to ask now that we get rid of the omnipresent, blaring CNN monitors in our airports?

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Carjacking at gunpoint at the Portland State University campus. I'm so glad to be in the Middle East right now where it's comparatively safe.

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@AJDelgado13 @kalihollowayftw

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@DrewHLive Gen X nostalgia. A lot of my friends had that book when I was a kid in the 70s-80s, and even more had the "Where Did I Come From?" book on making babies. I bought the latter for my kids. I think they were first published in the 1970s.

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If we want to defeat Agrabah, an air campaign isn't sufficient. We will need Boots on the ground.

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Thank God.

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Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival. They are in good

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@michaelmalice The plot of the Wonder Woman sequel is literally that everything will go back to normal as soon as we defeated Trump.

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My review of @MattiFriedman 's great little book, Spies of No Country, @mosaicmag .

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@smcroasters I just buy your coffee, I don't need to go on a long fishing trip with you.

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I haven't read a word of it yet but @im_1776 already deserves congratulations for putting out a visually stunning first issue.

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@smcroasters I'm more concerned that there are no polar bears visible anywhere in this video.

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Michael Weingrad

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The fascinating Human Diversity by @charlesmurray on my end of year best books list. Brains, genetics, and the stubbornness of human nature.

The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part III)

Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring Stalingrad, the master, Margarita, parasitic minds, infectious ideas, dust, heaven, Zoom, traveling light, and more.

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@iowahawkblog I get my kicks above the waistline, Weinstein.

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@HuffPost I cast Bigby's Virtue Signaling Hand.

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@michaelmalice Relax, he's the Libertan nominee not the Libertarian nominee.

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@KurtSchlichter A friend of mine is moving to Detroit--but from Portland, which tells you how well Portland is doing.

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Thanks @FDRLST and @Bre_payton for the great podcast with @rwnicholson_ of @philosproject about Christian engagement in the Middle East. Informative and inspiring.

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@JesseKellyDC The first aftershave I ever used was a bottle of Old Spice I found in the bathroom cabinet that belonged to my father, who died when I was little. Nothing has ever smelled as good as that stuff.

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Vouchers are racist. They offset the private education of more affluent white kids in expensive private schools they already attend… …while trapping poorer kids of color in substandard voucher schools that promise big but don’t deliver. Re-segregation. At taxpayer expense.

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A tale of the 1980s in verse, now available for pre-order (link below)! I'm humbled reading the blurbs, and grateful to the wonderful Paul Dry Books. “Move over, Onegin—we’ve a new Eugene for the ages. In Michael Weingrad’s wildly charming and profound telling, young Eugene

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Michael Weingrad

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@BigDogSib That opening chapter is one of the great American essays and should be required reading in schools.

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This week my high school students and I were fortunate to have @M_Millerman walk us through an excerpt from a book by Alexander Dugin and speak with us about time, being, and political philosophy. What an extraordinarily gifted and brilliant teacher!

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My picks for best books of the year, including The New Right by @michaelmalice : "the best book I’ve read on the political landscape of the Trump era, and certainly the most entertaining." @mosaicmag

The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)

Six more Mosaic writers share their favorites, featuring shadow strikes, orchards, gleanings, constitutional evolutions and revolutions, serotonin, odd women, and more.

mosaicmagazine.com

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Michael Weingrad

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As part of its name change, Facebook has acquired Zoom, Uber, and Linkedin, and will relaunch, surprisingly, as a classical music app. It's going to be called Zubin Meta.

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@MarquetteToday Just curious, did you bargain her down from her usual $20,000 speaking fee to spin conspiracy theories about Israel?

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I am excited to announce the publication of a special issue in English translation of the Israeli poetry and art journal Yehee, the first time that this extraordinary collection of Israeli literary and artistic expression has been made available to an English-speaking audience.

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@MrAndyNgo I was privileged to know Andy Ngo when he was a student reporter at my university, Portland State. I found him thoughtful, independent-minded, and a brave and wonderful writer. And I still do.

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@pnjaban I support Trump and MAGA, but I'm not going to donate and so have my phone blow up with a million fundraising texts for the next decade.

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@MrAndyNgo Sort of makes sense. The left is fine with either one being mutilated.

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Like many, I look forward all year to the treasure trove of listening pleasure that is @tedgioia 's annual best recordings list. Up on his substack and a bargain to access.

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@TaraLaRosa I'm a Trump supporter living in Portland who's a Jewish college professor. Really popular...

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I hope one day soon there will be a Museum of Panic and Tyranny that walks through every step of the govt lockdowns and propaganda, the media fear-stoking and pharma malfeasance, the crushing of children, livelihood, expression. And honors the people standing against it.

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Michael Weingrad

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@FischerKing64 Same, I've been so much happier and more productive since I stopped trying to fight it and started working with it. And I'm grateful not to have a 9-5 so I can.

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@m7mdkurd Kanye, is that you?

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@visegrad24 Or cleanup crew?

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Michael Weingrad

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I was privileged to translate Shay Charka's brilliant graphic novel JUDESSEY, a Jewish story of the Holocaust and homecoming to Israel, told through dialogue with Homer's Odyssey. JUDESSEY is coming out in May and is now available for pre-order! From middle school to adult

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Reminder. Whatever the justice of the Ukrainian cause, the US is already engaged in one major regional war: our elites vs. our own citizens. So options are limited.

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@AviWoolf @n_koss @ProfDBernstein Academia is a broken intellectual and political and moral system. It no longer knows what it doesn't know, and doesn't want to. Which means that academia is incapable of self-reform. It can only be dismantled and replaced, from the outside. 5/x

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@SteveGuest It's that new breakfast taco flavored ice cream, Bögen-Dazs.

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Philadelphia's University of the Arts How it started: How it's going:

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@FistedFoucault Wrong:

Definition of ETCETERA

a number of unspecified additional persons or things; unspecified additional items : odds and ends… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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@joelpollak I was told the mosque doesn't give access to juice.

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@Cernovich No.

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If you're surprised when news reports vilifying Catholic schoolkids as racists turn out to be false, and also surprised when left-wing intersectional activists you marched with turn out to be antisemitic racists, You might want to give the political analysis a rest.

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@Sargon_of_Akkad Please can someone photoshop in the Resident Evil Umbrella Corporation logo?

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Latest: after weeks of violence including the destruction of the university library, @Portland_State University President Ann Cudd agrees to protesters' demands, adopts pro-Hamas view of conflict, praises violent anti-Jewish behavior, with a bit of lip service at the end.

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@anne_theriault @GregPogorzelski There was a great Israeli podcast about translating D&D into Hebrew with these exact frustrations. Not to mention, "paladin."

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@Adderabbi @Mandalorthodox I follow the Igud HaRay-Bannim.

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I live in Portland so I don't need to be told how bad it smells.

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@weingradmichael Jesus Christ our crime numbers are comparable to Tulsa Oklahoma it’s not a war zone! Come visit we can hit some awesome restaurants and smoke some of the best weed in the country!

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@shoshido @unheardparent It isn't making life difficult for them. None of the other clerks have pestered me. This was his choice. And at some point one has to exert pressure wherever there's opportunity, in hopes that it filters back through the lackeys to the ones in charge.

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Free them all.

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Happy to have an essay (on Hebrew writing in the US) in the winner for best collection / anthology: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (And What It Means To Americans), eds. Naomi Sokoloff and Nancy Berg

Jewish Book Council

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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards. Click here for the full list,

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@unheardparent When I thought I would have to give up my job or take the shot.

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My review of Jonathan Neumann's To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel, in @mosaicmag

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I am reading Andre Norton's 1978 D&D inspired fantasy novel Quag Keep, and I do not understand what three-sided dice are.

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@TsarMeesha @LarsLarsonShow @rationalinpdx @rosecityoutrage @ORhunter @oryx_not_crake @PeepPnw @TOPTBOSS @reneforportland living in Portland be like

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@InezFeltscher Real youth has never been tried.

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I am so pleased to announce that the wonderful Paul Dry Books will bring out my Gen X novel in verse.

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@libsoftiktok Well of course Vanderbilt can afford state of the art tampon dispenser in their men's bathrooms while here at Portland State University we have to settle for low-tech menstrual product dispensers in our men's bathrooms. #equity

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@AviWoolf @n_koss @ProfDBernstein That's the problem. This is a broken system, in which higher ed functions as a jobs program and wealth transfer scheme for the left. In which left-liberal faculty no longer even know what they don't know, and so continue to radicalize ever more extremely. 2/x

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@Google_Comms Get bent, Google.

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"The Empire of Palestine is an aesthetic convention. It’s an 'open-air prison' and 'the Riviera of the Levant.' It’s a forgery. A postcard from the continent of unreason." A brilliant essay from Lee Smith in Tablet.

The Global Empire of Palestine

The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.

www.tabletmag.com

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@AlexBerenson The point of the Portland violence is that it isn't random. It is localized and targeted. Wear the wrong clothes, express the wrong opinion and it will get ugly. Obey the mob and their leaders and you can enjoy your breakfast burrito.

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