Alex

anyway I am resisting the impulse to see what is being said about this on other social media sites because I fear it will be Not Good

Previous incidents where synagogues or Jewish schools were shot at had been overnight when nobody was present. This time, there were still some people inside the synagogue after the religious services had ended about an hour earlier.

It would be nice if stuff like this would stop happening in Toronto.

very entertained by the apparent assertion that a logo on a t-shirt worn during a podcast interview is clear and conclusive evidence of someone’s political beliefs but a symbol that he decided to get permanently inked into his flesh is not a relevant concern.

Canadian cops questioned dad about human trafficking after he took his daughter to a coffee shop Plus: AI for mass surveillance, Alaskan lawsuit to decriminalize prostitution, "enhanced" British regulation of streaming services, and more…

Dad dares to go out with teen daughter in public, gets accused of human trafficking 🙄 reason.com/2026/03/02/c...

The cops, of course, commended the guy who gave them the totally baseless tip and blasted out the dad & girl’s pics on social media

Contradicting most everyone else in his Cabinet, Trump just said: "No, I might have forced their hand," when asked if Israel pulled the U.S. into war with Iran.

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

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After all, Trump and his administration never lie and have no reason to conceal their motives or try to deflect blame for their actions onto convenient scapegoats, as opposed to whistleblowers in the US military, who should be ignored and approached with maximum skepticism for some reason.

The US military is being told by commanders that this is a Christian nationalist war to bring about Armageddon & the Second Coming but Trump & his fellow Christian cabinet members are telling the press that the Jews forced them to do it and for some reason everyone has decided to trust Trump et al.

You do not in fact have to take the admin’s 7th excuse for why they are going to war as being true simply because you like this one

I am now seeing enormous politics accounts who know better doing “the US is actually subordinate to Israel” posts, which is fun & not concerning

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Trump’s entire everything is doing whatever he wants and then trying to find ways to distract and pass the buck with his supporters, usually via some type of bigotry

sure but they wanted to do it. they already did Venezuela and they want to do Cuba.

a bet that they will avoid the worst consequences because the Nazis in their base will focus their anger at the group who they perceive to be the puppetmasters is imo unfortunately a pretty good bet

this is how they triangulate doing the imperialist war they want to do while trying to avoid shouldering most of the blame

It’s the logical thing for them to do, given that (1) the GOP has been eager for war with Iran for decades and (2) the administration knows that a large chunk of their base are Fuentes & MTG adjacent groypers who are predisposed to accept that the US is being forced into the war by Israel

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

Suddenly I need to get my cat a tiny cat-sized wagon to travel around the apartment.

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Arguably, he ineffectively has no b-hole. There really aren’t any efficiencies or benefits to the lack of one that render him more effective.

Trump already attacked Venezuela and reportedly has prepared plans to attack Cuba and parts of Mexico but they also know that half of the GOP is Tucker and Fuentes and if they just say “Netanyahu made us do it” people will pretend the US was being forced

absolutely. but they also know that the war is incredibly unpopular with much of their own base so this is a convenient way to do what they were going to do anyway and pretend they didn’t want to do it.

and, once again, for the third or fourth time in the last few days, it is INCREDIBLY EASY to simply not do this. there are so many legitimate precise ways to harshly criticize the people you claim you want to be criticizing!

You might be able to convince other people, but I had classmates ask me “How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle?” more than once as a kid. I can pretty much guarantee that I already know the jokes in their original form.

Also, purely on a comedy craft level, you’re just being lazy.

Huh? I literally just went there now and took this screenshot 30 seconds ago.

It would be like saying “Why do Israelis have big noses? So they can smell money”. Anyone who has ever heard or been taunted with antisemitic “jokes” when we were growing up has heard all of those before multiple times so you aren’t actually being clever or sneaky.

that Watto “joke” doesn’t actually have anything to say about Israel or its culture or its government or its politics or it being a repressive apartheid state committing genocide and war crimes. it’s literally just a joke about Jews with one word swapped out.

that’s not a negative cultural stereotype about Israelis. it’s a stereotype about Jews! it’s been a stereotype about Jews since the Middle Ages and the Merchant of Venice and German Nazi cartoons and the Protocols and Mein Kampf and etc.

“israeli kid watching star wars episode 1 and crying because before Watto he had never seen someone like him represented on film.” doesn’t make any sense because the entire “joke” is that Watto has a big nose and is a miserly greedy merchant who will exploit anyone for a buck.