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This is what happens when a terror group buys its burners in job lots from Shlomo in Brooklyn

James Woods has already been signed to play the guy in a Netflix docudrama

I mean, I have dear friends in the Carolinas but I live in England and the jet stream can stay blocked for a while longer ... SUNSHINE EVERY DAY

Man accused of trying to kill Trump wrote a book urging Iran to assassinate the ex-president The man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course Sunday wrote a book last year urging Iran to kill him.

An extreme case of buyer's remorse. This guy once voted for Trump.
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The Fuckwits @ 620 Eighth Ave, NY, NY want you to be afraid, very afraid. Current homepage double head:
The new definition of a gutless liberal is someone who has canceled their sub to @nytimes to show displeasure at this idiocy but kept their sub to Times cooking and/or puzzles.

Tuesday, Sept 10: The entire world of punditry (literally, the whole planet) is offering thoughts (and in some cases prayers) on tonight’s debate. My pledge to you, BlueSky is to never run with the crowd, so I am abstaining. Enjoy this from the Yorkshire Dales where I am on walkabout

Henri Bergson, philosopher à la mode In recent years there has been a kind of Bergson revival in the anglophone world. Could it be because there is a need to rediscover his ideas?

As an undergraduate philosophy major I discovered Bergson who wrote about perception & how our senses are organisedin such a way that humans exist in a time defined universe, which was what interested me.. ANyway, this is good:
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My dear Shaiel, while there's no doubt some disinformatsya driving this, the truth is rightwing Jews have no need of Russian bots to run vilification campaigns in public & while in private they work to destroy careers of liberal aka sane Jews they consider "traitors" to Israel
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Trying not to be pushy here but this is a truthful comment with a touch of ironic humour that I posted at the bad place and I would be grateful if you shared it.

LABOR DAY 2024: A VISIT TO THE ARCHIVES Through the miracle of the internet and the New York Times’ willingness to put its archives online, every Labor Day I re-read this article, published exactly 44 years ago today:

Still Labor Day in US -- actually it's still Labor Day in London. So time to read this little reminder of what it is really all about:
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Surprised my old colleague Cokie didn't remember a woman, Margaret Mitchell, wrote the bible of the Lost Cause: Gone With the Wind. She died when Cokie was 6 yrs old, so I'm not sure when this forgetting started.

This is how I like to think of people listening to FRDH podcast.
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Labor Day FRDH podcast special. Forget war and politics and the usual stuff and let's visit Paris vicariously

Paris: Love, Loss, Language

End of summer podcast, in case you didn't get to Paris ... and even if you did!
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Time for Colin Kaepernick to have a consciousness raising session with the Crimson Tide football team. Maybe a little boycott until this decision is reversed ... perhaps a visit to Auburn as well.

I came back to Bluesky cause I heard it was hoppin' but I'm getting less action than I did as an overweight, 4-eyed, pimply 10th grader on any Saturday night in 1965. Well maybe this pic I took will engage u: Hussein shrine, Karbala Iraq in 2004 when I was the only Jew for 1000 kms in any direction

Elon's worried he's going to be arrested. He should think of it as being taken into protective custody. A lot of people would like to see him get a more serious come-uppance

October 7th, the Gaza War and the Absence of Truth The fact that the Gaza War caused by the pogrom of October 7th is still going on underlines the absence of truth in the search for peace. Telling the truth about what peace will really mean and the co

The new FRDH podcast is one of the most important episodes I've ever put out.
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80 YEARS AGO: REMEMBERING PARIS's LIBERATION COULD YOU BE A HERO, JUST FOR ONE DAY?

Over at the FRDH substack newsletter is a piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris from the Nazis.
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OHIO, THEN AND NOW What Can the 2016 Election in the Buckeye state Tell Us About 2024

Can Biden’s appeals to hope and regeneration match Trump’s appeals to grievance?
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STILL WAITING FOR A CEASE-FIRE Understanding the News When It Is in a Diplomatic Holding Pattern

Sunday reading:
"The war in Gaza is in the long resolution phase, and this post is dedicated to explaining how journalism functions at this point in a conflict."
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My radio philosophy:
the whispering you hear --
that's the sound of light
I whisper in your ear.
The thing that makes it light
the thing that makes it shine
is that I whisper words
and that this voice is mine.
Osip Mandelstam, March 23, 1937 Translation by Paul Schmidt

Van parked by UCLA "pro" Palestinian demonstrators. This dialogue did NOT happen: ProPal person: Hey man. WTF? Get that van outta here. Van Man: Fuck you! Why? ProPal: That shit doesnt help the Palestinian people. the whole world is finally watching, use your head.

File this under, Gee, I didn't know that

I will be going to a traditional seder. We will say, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt" not "We were enslaved people to Pharaoh etc" We will say slavery rather than enslavement and use bondage as a synonym. (let him go, Pharaoh)

Today, we no longer have to wait in hope, there is a Jewish state in the land of Israel. We are free. How to interpret in the 21st century this ancient invocation of generosity and hope?
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Israel, Iran, Gaza, Hamas: World War 3? The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has expanded as Hamas’s overseers Iran entered the fray with a massive launch of airborne ordnance at Israel. The internet is alive with fevered speculation th

on April 14th, Iran launched 300 airborne drones and missiles at Israel five days later Israel responded with a swat of the back of its hand rather than a full scale retaliation. What's next?
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Smartest thing anyone who has been in the Tory government in the last few years has said about anything. Former Def Minister, Ben Wallace:

THE LIBERAL'S DILEMMA A New and an Old Film Explore the Consequences of Action

About Civil War the movie and other stuff
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