Abu Aardvark

It’s cold day in hell

It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.

Fortunately I have my ways and means 😂

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

One of the things I love about DC airports is the unbelievably sensitive things people shout into their phones and just saying someone’s lucky I’m not a journalist

I almost included Don’t Worry about the Government but couldn’t decide what to cut

Added to the queue

a man in a suit is dancing in a row ALT: a man in a suit is dancing in a row

Once in a Lifetime
Life in Wartime
And She Was
Girlfriend is Better
Wild Wild Life

What’s yours

An Assadist insurgency has thus far been a non-barking dog in Syria’s transition. Let’s hope it stays that way.

The End of the Israel Exception A new paradigm for American policy.

Andrew Miller was a senior official in the Biden administration, working on Israel-Palestine. Today, FA publishes his call for a dramatic reshaping of U.S.-Israeli relations: ending the "exceptional" relationship and replacing it with a "normal" one. www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/end-i...

“the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy.. are thankfully over.. it is no longer the constant irritant, potential source of.. catastrophe, that it once was. It is rather emerging as a place of partnership, friendship, investment” lol

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"The extensive leak, called the Damascus Dossier, contains over 134,000 documents and images exposing how thousands of people were systematically imprisoned, tortured, and killed under Bashar al-Assad’s rule."

These horrid people are so thirsty to kill our children

What Syrians Want New survey data shows the promises and perils facing the country’s new government.

New Arab Barometer survey of Syria finds “the country’s people are hopeful, supportive of democracy, and open to foreign assistance…. They approve of and trust their current government. But our results also provide reasons for concern.”

www.foreignaffairs.com/syria/what-s...

IDF Chief Says Israel's Gaza policy enabled Hamas' October 7 attack In a Rare Public Rebuke, IDF Chief Eyal Zamir Said Israel's Policy of Containing Hamas Since 2008 Allowed the Group to Grow Stronger

Hopefully a journalist with insider connections will explain how it is that a Chief of Staff handpicked by Netanyahu is saying Netanyahu's policy toward Hamas enabled October 7. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The End of the Israel Exception A new paradigm for American policy.

“Rather than helping ensure Israel’s survival—the policy’s ostensible intent—unconditional U.S. support has enabled the worst instincts of Israeli leaders.” Andrew Miller in Foreign Affairs - very good and in line with arguments in my book.

www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/end-i...

How Israel’s Settlement Surge in the West Bank Is Displacing Palestinians

“‘This is our land, and I make the rules here’ Over the past year, settlers have built a record number of outposts — small encampments often made of prefabricated homes — according to an Israeli military official.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...

Most of Syria's Neighbors See Assad's Ouster as Good Thing A year after Assad's ouster, many of Syria's neighbors say the change will improve Syrians' lives but are less sure it will bring security to their own country.

Gallup: Jordanians, Lebanese and Turks generally optimistic about post-Assad Syria; Iraqis still not thrilled about it.

news.gallup.com/poll/699248/...

Why U.S.-Iran Hostility Endures Kaye wants us to have a clearer picture of how U.S. Iran policy is made so that we might be able to make a better and less destructive Iran policy.

"Why has the hostility between the U.S. and Iran been such a constant for almost half a century since the revolution? That is the question Dalia Dassa Kaye seeks to answer in her excellent new book, Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy." daniellarison.substack.com/p/why-us-ira...

I don’t even know who that is 😂

Yasser abu Shabab, leader of Israel-backed militia, killed in Gaza Death of commander of Popular Forces is blow to Israel’s efforts to confront Hamas through proxy groups

It’s kind of grimly symbolic how easily Hamas took out Israel’s top proxy in Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I don’t believe a word this FBI says about the pipe bomber or anything. I don’t believe a word this DOJ says about anything. I don’t believe a word this FDA, this HHS, this DOD says about anything. It’s not just a credibility crisis. If they say it, I assume it is not true. That’s not sustainable.

It is simply unsustainable to have an ostensible democracy effectively governed by six lifetime appointees accountable to nobody but their secret donors as they make up law to suit their partisan commitments.

“Why does the U.S. persist with costly and destructive policies when they have been proven time and again to produce bad results?” Nice review of Dalia Dassa Kaye’s new book on US Iran policy, with a cameo for my new book, by Daniel Larison.

daniellarison.substack.com/p/why-us-ira...

Yasser Abu Shabab, Militant Leader Backed by Israel, Killed in Gaza, Official Says

Israel's chief collaborator in occupied Gaza, the former ISIS member Yasser Abu Shabab, is reported to have been killed.

WE WON!!!

The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.

Read the order here:

Leader of Israel-backed Gaza militia killed in clashes, security source says Yasser Abu Shabab, Leader of the 'Anti-Terror Service' Militia in Gaza, Has Died in Clashes, a Security Source Said. Abu Shabab Was Critical of Hamas, and His Group Was Accused of Looting Aid. An Isra...

Perhaps the whole project of arming criminals and (reportedly) ISIS-linked elements to fight Hamas was not such a great idea from the start...

Leader of Israel-backed Gaza Militia Killed in Clashes, Security Source Says

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

This horrible conspiracy addled freak should never have been allowed within ten miles of US vaccine policy and given the chance to destroy countless lives for no reason at all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Personnel losses, political interference, and the erosion of America’s soft power have pushed the diplomatic corps to a breaking point—just as global threats intensify. - AFSA afsa.org/at-the-break...

Tunisia arrests top opposition leader Nejib Chebbi in widening crackdown Ahmed Nejib Chebbi is among dozens of government critics facing years-long prison terms after 'sham trial'.

Ahmed Nejib Chebbi is among dozens of government critics facing years-long prison terms after 'sham trial'.