Jesse Myerson

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

FINANCIAL TIMES Trump sons back launch of new military drone company Company will go public through merger with Nasdaq-listed operator of Florida golf courses

Oh. Uh…

We already live in a high-tax society for median income households, it’s just that the entities taxing us are finance, insurance, and real estate profiteers

The US is spending a billion dollars a day to incinerate schoolchildren and fill the air millions upon millions of people breathe with the byproducts of bombing oil infrastructure to smithereens, and these guys are surprised that the Iranian people aren’t rallying to Trump and Netanyahu’s cause.

Two Toronto-Area Synagogues Are Struck by Gunfire

Seneing solidarity and love from NYC to Toronto’s Jewish community 💔 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

What’s the strongest take from people whose focus is Trump-Russia as to why Trump is going to war with a key Russian protectorate?

AIPAC is targeting me because they’re worried I won’t go along with their MAGA-aligned agenda in Congress.

They’re absolutely right.

Costing the US a billion dollars a day to make war on Iran.

I haven’t heard a single centrist politician or columnist for an elite publication or think tank pundit fretting about how we’re going to pay for it, have you?

HAARETZ Israel News Netanyahu: I Don't Want a Binational State, but We Need to Control All of the Territory for the Foreseeable Future 'I'm asked if we will forever live by the sword - yes, says prime minister.

Sparta, of course, died as it lived: by the sword.

But Netanyahu has never paid too much attention to the epilogues of the phrases he uses

Hours before unleashing a ground offensive against Gaza City on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu braced his country for a future of mounting economic isolation, urging it to become a "super Sparta" of the Middle East.

No less than Netanyahu himself made the Sparta connection explicit, over 80 years later

Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defence interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it become plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland.

Brings me back, as so many things do, to Hannah Arendt’s 1944 prediction

Haaretz Today • Israel's Conformist Thinking on Iran Has Swallowed Netanyahu's Opposition 'There is no opposition and no coalition, wrote opposition leader Yair Lapid this week, showing how much the country has become an isolated echo chamber, feeding itself justifications for Israel's war with Iran

Not a spiritually healthy society

If I were a content creator, the schtick would be me in various NYC neighborhoods sharing the stories of the people who streets are co-named for, which tbh somebody probably already does

Hurt people hurt people.
Attack dogs attack dogs.
Dwarf galaxies dwarf galaxies.

Some social media personalities have expressed similar views. Conservative commentators Kevin Hodge and Keith Hodge, who go by the monicker Hodgetwins, said the “war isn’t as popular as the Zionist shills on X say it is”. “President Trump has completely LIED to his voters, backstabbed our country and has disgraced his legacy beyond repair at this point,” they wrote on X.

Conditions keep improving for the more thoroughly antisemitic (Tucker Carlson, Groyper, etc.) tendencies to take over MAGA

Image from T'ruah Rabbis: "Mordechai would not bow. But we do! Join the ADL today."

This is ice cold, for Purim. But also deserved.

How can these AIPAC Democrats not see that “I object to the fact that the President did not offer me my due opportunity to vote in favor of this war he launched, which I support” is a more embarrassing line than simply remaining silent?

(FWIW, that movie, like Django Unchained and Kill Bill, totally works on me! I watch it and inwardly am like “Yessss! Kill! Kill! Kill!” and then afterward feel disgusted with myself.)

The Scoll of Esther was the Inglourious Basterds of its day — a “could you imagine if” political revenge fantasy meant to engage our bloodlust for entertainment’s sake.

Happy Purim.

Of course as long as he’s running everyone should back him, but for crying out loud wouldn’t it be better to retire Eddie?!!

Nothing a neo-Nazi dictatorial oligarchy and its genocidal apartheid protectorate do can possibly result in the liberation of any country, for reasons that should be patently obvious.

US foreign policy discourse terminally superhero movie pilled

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

Let’s check in on how a variety of other fortunate recipients of US-supplied “liberation” are faring of late.

Remember when Obama and Kerry made a huge breakthrough with the Iranian government and struck a deal promoting long-term peace, and then Trump, with support from alleged Democratic leader @schumer.senate.gov, shredded it to pieces?

That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this

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Hegseth: U.S. 'Did Not Start This Conflict, but We Will Finish It'

It did, and we won’t.

You can just say things.