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Correction: We’ve deleted the post below because it and early versions of the article didn’t meet Post fairness standards.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 3, 2025
The background: Early versions of the article on Sunday stated that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site in Gaza, with the… pic.twitter.com/KseRXgJn6A
Ed: Translation -- 'We keep publishing claims by Hamas while calling them the 'health ministry' and then get embarrassed when those claims turn out to be fake news. We will learn no lessons from this. Thank you.'
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Who are you firing? (Hint: nobody) https://t.co/iungkQ7nLN
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) June 3, 2025
Ed: Exactly. And they won't fire anyone the next time they run a Hamas propaganda hoax, either.
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BREAKING: Hamas has openly announced “field executions” of Palestinians who went to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for food.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 3, 2025
They’re publicly murdering their own people for seeking aid—and the media somehow keeps “missing” the story. pic.twitter.com/km627Fc3jx
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Momentum has built for the U.S. government to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip, lawmakers and other sources familiar with the effort tell the Washington Free Beacon.
While the parties involved iron out the final details, sources working on the effort said that lawmakers have multiple avenues to financially cripple the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist organization that preaches terrorism against Israel, the United States, and Western governments.
Ed: This is long overdue. We should have done this when the Brotherhood birthed Hamas decades ago. As the Free Beacon notes, we'll likely be the last to designate the MB as a terrorist org, since all of our allies in the region did so long ago.
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Florida police have arrested a 37-year old illegal immigrant for molesting at least one, and possibly more, of the teen girls that the Biden administration sent to live with him as part of its "unaccompanied alien children" smuggling operation. pic.twitter.com/R7N3WKvuQr
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) June 3, 2025
Ed: Joe Biden's critics accused him of being the biggest human trafficker in American history. Stories like this certainly make it appear to be the case.
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Lucy Connolly is Britain’s foremost political prisoner. Connolly, a 41-year-old childminder and the mother of a 12-year-old daughter, is currently serving a 31-month sentence for “stirring up racial hatred” in a single tweet that she deleted less than four hours after posting. On May 20, a court rejected Connolly’s application to appeal.
Connolly’s case is the latest in a series revealing the decline of free speech in Britain and the rise of a “two-tier” justice system that treats ordinary people like enemies of the state.
Ed: What was it I wrote earlier about Orwell weeping?
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David Mamet just compared Democrats to PEDOPHILES 😬
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) June 3, 2025
“Liberals have poor mental health because they spend all their time denying reality… it’s no different than a dysfunctional family.” pic.twitter.com/UiYsYa7PVH
David Mamet has his own RULES for MEN. 💪🏻
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) June 3, 2025
“One of the things men are raised to do is protect women. It's one of the many joys of being a man… instead, the Democrats are saying 'there’s no such thing as men, go take something that belongs to a woman; take her sports away.'” pic.twitter.com/WZWPM6Yzuf
Ed: Mamet is an absolute treasure in American culture. He grasps the problems in our culture and what their consequences will be.
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All I can see is a system so filled with rot that there’s no hope of salvaging it. What needs to happen is that the entire system needs to be burned to the ground—metaphorically, literally, or both work for me—and something better be rebuilt on its ashes.
We don’t need 40 million gender studies majors running around looking for work. We need people who can fill actual roles, and these schools, which still consider themselves elite, are thoroughly unable to provide them.
It’s time to stop feeding into their delusions.
Ed: Academia is among the most Orwellian of our institutions, to continue today's theme. It starts with an education system designed to obfuscate rather than enlighten, to narrow discussion to only the Tenet du Jour rather than open debate and discussion, and eschewing education for indoctrination into radical-activist organizations. It doesn't need reform; it needs rebirth.
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Academic institutions think they have a problem and that its name is Donald Trump. But he’s only the beginning of their problems. The difficulties are systemic, not only legal or political, and that means it’s time to reconsider what higher education should look like.
The current institutional players are in no condition to rethink higher education. Having cultivated and tolerated violations of civil-rights laws, universities and colleges can’t afford candid introspection, lest it be understood as an admission of wrongdoing. They are controlled, moreover, by administrators who generally don’t have the stomach to recognize the damage they’ve done to higher education, let alone what should be done with their jobs.
Ed: This is an essay that leans into rebirth rather than reform. It's worth reading in full. My preference would be to end all federal financial connections to Academia and force them to survive in a real market with proper pricing signals to the consumers, but for understandable short-term reasons, Trump prefers to have the leverage to force changes. Long term, however, it just means that progressives will get the leverage to undo those changes at some point.
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.@CoryBooker: "I am sick and tired of hearing the kind of heated partisan rhetoric…"@tedcruz: "I do enjoy that my colleague from New Jersey raises his voice and says it's a patent lie and says he's doing so in defense of lowering the rhetoric." pic.twitter.com/BUd4OSqNia
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 3, 2025
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In the latest act of judicial overreach, a rogue lower court judge ordered the Trump administration to restore federal prisoners’ access to transgender-related “treatments” and accommodations on Tuesday.
Writing for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted petitioners’ request for a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration’s policy ensuring that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) expends “no Federal funds … for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”
Ed: I don't think the APA applies here, but I'll be interested to see what the Supreme Court has to say about that. This isn't a regulation change, it's a policy change.
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It’s a win for women because they won’t be battered to death in the ring by men.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 2, 2025
If you had any idea what physical tests women go through routinely in their lives you’d know a cheek swab is no bigger deal than flossing your teeth.
Any more moronic questions, wing them over. https://t.co/Qa40hjn1CQ
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