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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 14m

That is not a reputable source. AI doesn't always get it right.
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Research Guides: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Literacy: What does AI get wrong?

Learn about how AI works and how to spot common errors AI tools tend to make. You'll also learn fact-checking and critical thinking strategies for AI, how to cite AI in an academic paper, and how to l...

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 21m

Yep!

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1h

The pullout cover of the 11/2025 edition of The Atlantic is by artist Joe McKendry for this month's commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. The image below doesn't do it justice. This amazing, meaningful artwork is worth buying the hard copy and framing as a poster.

Pull-out cover for the 11/2025 by artist Joe McKendry, The Atlantic Magazine, for the 250th anniversary of American Revolution. Artistically rendered, long grouping of a racially and period diverse combination of Americans who were there, as well as real and fictitious historical names throughout American history.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1h

ZfromNJ, 10/11/2025, Washington Post comments:
Arab nations have NEVER actually cared about Palestinians; they are the great red herring that Arab dictators and monarchs can point to to distract their own people from the tyranny they live under.
wapo.st/471KaMZ

Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

Documents from U.S. Central Command show meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

wapo.st

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 2h

Provide the source for your statement.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, so war is soldiers lining up in a battlefield.

a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head while standing in front of a crowd .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head while standing in front of a crowd .

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 2h

Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel. The primary prayer of Judaism begins, "Hear, oh Israel". The name Israel appears approximately 2,000 times in the Hebrew Bible, which includes the Jewish Torah, with most sources citing figures around 2,000 to 2,500 times.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

This is the crux of the entire situation:

The Only Superhero Without A Movie @mbriatack.bsky.social · 1d

The fact is that Hamas is totally fine with using their own populace as shields and could have stopped retaliation at any point by returning the hostages, but they didn't.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

Hate symbols use numbers or visuals such as specific tattoos indicative of a hate group, hand signals, etc. Many white supremacists and other hate groups utilize hate signals. The linked source is an informative long list of hate symbols with visuals and explanations.
www.adl.org/resources/ha...

www.adl.org

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

You might not want to advocate for Israel's destruction. Most people don't know that quietly, unobtrusively, Israel has made extraordinary contributions across various fields—from technology and medicine to culture and security. We all reap the benefits.

www.hnaftali.com/post/76-ways...

76 Ways Israel Changed the World - Discover Innovations & Achievements

The story of Israel is not just a story of survival, but one of extraordinary contribution to humanity.

www.hnaftali.com

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

It's well-known by journalists that Hamas holds the passports of foreign journalists entering Gaza; if negative news is reported against them, the passport is stamped with a banning order on future entry for that journalist and their entire news network.
open.substack.com/pub/scribejo...

Terrorist Media

The extent to which terrorist groups, in particular Hamas, have infiltrated and influenced media in the West.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not surprised.
Are you?

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

If you believe the myth of Israel blocking aid - which did happen but only for two months - surely Egypt could have brought in aid, but chose not to do so.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

What is your area of specialty?

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Indigo 7A // Ash from New England // אשר @ashertheowl.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of the families affected by the most horrific, individualized but widespread terror attack in the modern era, two years ago. The babies. the elderly. the women. the hostages. for those who passed, may their memories be a blessing.
#BringThemHome

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

Is there anywhere outside of NYC and North Jersey to find a truly perfect bagel? With the crunch on the outside contrasted with the softness on the inside, no disgustingly sugary taste in the background, very slightly salty?

Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

Senator Klobuchar,
Thank you. Keep up the good fight!

Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

An authoritarian upbringing, particularly when severely punitive, is associated with personality characteristics incorporating a Manichean thought process and lack of empathy. Indoctrination of such personality types can readily orient them to terrorism and martyrdom.
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HATRED OF THE JEWS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY on JSTOR

Daphne Burdman, HATRED OF THE JEWS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY, Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3/4 (Fall 2006), pp. 51-64

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

An authoritarian upbringing, particularly when severely punitive, is associated with personality characteristics incorporating a Manichean thought process and lack of empathy. Indoctrination of such personality types can readily orient them to terrorism and "martyrdom."
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HATRED OF THE JEWS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY on JSTOR

Daphne Burdman, HATRED OF THE JEWS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY, Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3/4 (Fall 2006), pp. 51-64

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 3h

Battlefields lining up?
That hasn't happened in hundreds of years.

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 4h

Oy vey!!

Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 4h

In sports and in politics, Trump understands better than perhaps any competitor in recent history how to turn a bout into a brawl, and he knows that no one cares to listen to the bloodied losers when they complain about broken rules.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

The MAGA-fication of Sports Continues

Donald Trump’s partnership with the UFC takes his desire to identify with winners to snarling new heights.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 7h

Undeniably, Hamas has used civilians including children in schools and hospitals as human shields. That is so sad, and so abusive toward their very own children.
Hamas bears full responsibility. They knew what they were doing! They knew the inevitable outcome!
#BringThemHome

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 7h

10,000 kids killed by Israel? If true, it didn't have to be that way:
1) If Hamas had returned the hostages, it wouldn't have happened (if it happened; no proof)
2) If Hamas hadn't used their children as human shields, it wouldn't have happened (if it happened; no proof)

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 7h

jonathan-e asks a good question.
Please give it some thought, then provide your answer.
Clarification: The question is...
Share with us what you love about Hamas.

jonathan-e.bsky.social @jonathan-e.bsky.social · 1d

a note to the anti-zionists/antisemites

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