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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 10h

So, just let me get this straight. Hamas has not agreed to disarm, and since Netanyahu will no longer have any hostage pressure, he will be free to resume bombing the shit out of things at his earliest convenience? Just giving Trump a few weeks to cosplay as a humanitarian.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

For the Warden Street Journal

Old BK @oldbk.bsky.social · 12h

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Johnny Cash — The Man in Black

I wear the black
For the poor and the beaten down
Livin' in the hopeless
Hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner
Who has long paid for his crime
But is there because
He's a victim of the times

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Championed the oppressed poor and working class in his songs.

Gave the finger to the warden when he played San Quentin.

The Man in Black.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 10h

Send my regards to the WSJ editorial team, and go ahead and look up the meaning behind the picture.

Johnny Cash flipping the bird while performing at San Quentin. He told the photographer it was for the warden.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Who but an ignorant con would not have considered the Man in Black — champion of the working class, oppressed and poor — to be ultra-cool.

PS WSJ reported but never followed up on who bought $5 bil in treasuries a week before 9/11; what did they know? www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

Johnny Cash explains why he’s the ‘Man in Black’, 1971

Johnny Cash answers the age-old question, why does the country legend always wear black? The iconic Cash answer the only way he knew how; with a song.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Who but an ignorant con would not have considered the Man in Black — champion of the working class, oppressed and poor — to be ultra-cool.

PS WSJ reported but never followed up on who bought $5 bil in treasuries a week before 9/11; what did they know? www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

Johnny Cash explains why he’s the ‘Man in Black’, 1971

Johnny Cash answers the age-old question, why does the country legend always wear black? The iconic Cash answer the only way he knew how; with a song.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 10h

I can only imagine that the WSJ means that an anti-war country musician who supported the poor and the incarcerated is uncool by current conservative standards. Johnny Cash is easily one of the coolest musicians to ever live and die.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.

Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Orthodox Jews in America…need to be supportive of…efforts to establish a Christian public life in those parts of the country where…that’s still possible” - Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which has received Peter Thiel $$$ & organizes NatCon, which helped promote JD Vance. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Nobody said to be a good NatCon, you have to…love Jews,’ [Yoram] Hazony announced in his opening remarks.” (Israeli-American scholar Hazony chairs the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon, the “New Right” coalition that fueled JD Vance’s rise.) 9/6/25 … 1/
unherd.com/2025/09/insi...

Inside national conservatism’s civil war

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

11/ The right wing Jewish-Christian alliance in action. Now that alliance is splintering. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 30

👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Sep 3

NatCon leader Yoram Hazony says he did not expect to see anti-semitism on the Right. I guess he somehow missed the pro-Trump “alt right” movement boosted by NatCon speaker Steve Bannon in 2016. 🙄 😡 1/ x.com/natcontalk/s...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

9/ Josh Hammer is a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon and is led by Israeli-American Jewish scholar Yoram Hazony. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Sep 5

7/ Yoram Hazony is the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon where Doug Wilson gave the highly misleading remarks in post 2. burke.foundation

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 28

4/ Right wing nationalist Christians AND right wing nationalist Jews signed this Statement of Principles. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Nov 19

21/ NatCon’s Statement of Principles (signed by Russ Vought, William Wolfe, Hammer, Thiel, & others) also states: “Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity & its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.“

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 28

3/ fedsoc.org/contributors...

Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer is the senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, where he hosts "The Josh Hammer Show" podcast and syndicated radio show. A syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, Josh also h...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 28

… a Federalist Society campus speaker, and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. 2/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 28

NatCon has been encouraging an alliance between right wing nationalist Jews & right wing nationalist Christians to reject the separation between church & state. Josh Hammer (who is Jewish) is Newsweek’s Senior Editor at Large, an attorney w/ the Article 3 Project, … 1/ youtu.be/hNk3MVGyURk?...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · May 7

8/ In addition to his work with A3P, Josh Hammer is a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes the NatCon conference. He’s also Newsweek’s senior editor-at-large (and a former fellow of the Claremont Institute).

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

6/ Jewish Right activist Josh Hammer—who was on the Charlie Kirk group chat mentioned in post 1—addresses what Candace Owens has been doing. It didn’t go very well for him, judging from the ratio. x.com/josh_hammer/...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

2/ www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk show responds to leaked text messages

"What is the truth about the way Charlie felt about Israel? Well, it’s complicated," Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA said.

www.newsweek.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 10h

Gop Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser on the loss of Canadian tourism following Trump insults and threats to annex Canada:

“They just pretty much said that they’re not coming back until he’s either out of office or he apologizes,”

Trump’s comments are hurting Canadian tourism in Louisiana. Lt. Gov. Nungesser wants an apology

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said he’s heard from many Canadians who are avoiding the state, including upcoming festivals in Acadiana, because of Trump’s comments.

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