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“Just a kid from Brooklyn”
January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This is the plan that Jared Kushner unveiled at Davos for “New Gaza.”

The oligarchs are carving up Palestinian land into fiefdoms and vanity projects.

Behold the “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone” and the “Gaza Trump Riviera and Islands.”
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
“Sentenced to be a Hero” is great—albeit very grim—anime that turns beloved fantasy tropes on their heads. Highly recommended.
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Meanwhile, this is the bullshit that ICE posts on its site:
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 PM
For years, hard left activists denied that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons. Now, these same folks are denying—and ridiculing—reports of atrocities in Iran, even when they’ve been confirmed by human rights groups.

www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 AM
William Shatner and Stephen Miller are high-fiving one another on social media, and I’m more convinced than ever that we’re living in a computer simulation.
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 AM
The only thing worse than non-experts opining on medical matters is listening to non-experts explain the strategic implications of seizing Greenland. It’s like they played a game of risk while listening to MAGA podcasters, and suddenly they think they’re Carl von Clausewitz.
January 20, 2026 at 1:06 AM
How many of those protesters have access to the nuclear codes?
January 19, 2026 at 10:39 PM
"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.”

(“Bananas,” 1971)
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
It seems like just a week ago that Mehdi Hasan was explaining why the Left had no reason to protest the brutal crackdown in Iran.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in Vancouver to protest the regime and demand that Western media pay more attention to Iran’s brutality.
January 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Mehdi Hasan has a history of downplaying Iran’s threat to peace in the region.

Read his comment below—and then keep in mind that Iranian militias were complicit in killing tens of thousands of civilians in Syria, whose bodies were dumped in dozens of mass graves.
January 19, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well.
January 19, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, receives the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol from Professor Henry Jones Jr. in recognition of his many contributions to the field of archaeology.
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Just look at Ireland, which has been very outspoken about human rights in Israel. Yet Ireland continues to expand trade agreements with China, despite calls from Irish human rights activists and the United Nations to sanction Beijing over its persecution and ethnic cleansing of Uyghur Muslims.
January 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Donald Trump claims that wind turbines ("windmills") are "bird killers" that create "bird cemeteries".

Meanwhile the same NOAA reports that drive his obsession with Greenland also say that global warming is killing a record number of seabirds.

Think he’ll respond to this crisis?
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 AM