Some Guy in a Chair
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The answer is mutiny. JD Vance could have private conversations with the cabinet, even the ones dedicated to hiding the Epstein Files, namely Bondi and Patel. He has more private conversations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may well already be close to open revolt, seeing their soldiers slaughtered in a meaningless fight for Israel's greater glory.
Once everyone's on board, activate the 25th Amendment and get rid of the guy before he gets us all killed.
The deal for Trump: leave, and the Epstein Files stay buried and you won't be impeached or prosecuted for starting an aggressive war or murdering children.
Alternative scenario, in case Vance's vocal support for the war is sincere: Tulsi Gabbard could maybe do it.
Tulsi would have the instant support of a majority of Americans, I think. Her patriotism is unquestioned, except for monsters like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, who found her truth-telling inconvenient, and drummed her out of the Democratic Party on the utterly fake pretext of her being a Russian spy.
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You are a billionaire-funded group who @LeverNews reporters exposed. You are doing Trump-style retribution against our reporters by literally trying to block our journalists from covering your meeting with Dem elected officials to sculpt the party’s agenda. It’s disgusting.
We are leaving conspiratorial nonsense aimed at generating clicks and subscriptions in the past.
What we are doing is building off the massive wave and creating a real, durable majority in both the House and Senate that's going to do a lot of good for a lot of people.
Sorry but this stuff does not fly anymore.
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🚨NEWS: Top Dems are heading to a conference with a shadowy billionaire front group @MajorityDems - and the group is now barring access to @LeverNews reporters as punishment for our investigative series exposing the group's funders.
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This interview conducted by Glenn Greenwald deserves the attention of anyone who still takes democracy, the rule of law, and individual liberty seriously.
Greenwald is no ordinary journalist. A Pulitzer Prize winner, he helped expose the National Security Agency's massive surveillance apparatus through Edward Snowden's revelations, one of the greatest intelligence scandals in modern American history.
And let us be perfectly clear about something: Greenwald is no right-wing conservative, much less a Republican partisan. His political and intellectual background has traditionally been associated with the left. I remember perfectly well when he supported Lula in Brazil.
Which makes his assessment of Brazil's current political and judicial situation all the more remarkable.
When a journalist with Greenwald's background recognizes the authoritarian excesses of Brazil's judiciary, the systematic erosion of due process, and the alarming concentration of power in the hands of unelected judges, perhaps it is time for the international community to stop pretending that everything is perfectly normal.
What is happening in Brazil is not simply another ideological dispute between left and right. It is something far more serious: the gradual transformation of a constitutional democracy into a system in which judicial authority increasingly operates without meaningful accountability.
And the tragedy is that all of this is being carried out under the convenient, almost Orwellian pretext of "defending democracy."
I sincerely hope this interview helps Americans understand what is really happening in Brazil, beyond the propaganda, the political theater, and the emotional manipulation.
Because the world needs to know.
Brazil is not some insignificant country on the margins of civilization. It is the largest nation in Latin America, an economic and geopolitical power, and a country whose democratic future should matter enormously to the United States and the entire Western world.
The question is no longer whether Brazil has a serious institutional problem. The question is how much longer the civilized world intends to look the other way.
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I interviewed Flávio Bolsonaro today in Miami about everything:
His leaving Brazil, how he did it, the role of other governments, corruption investigations, Vorcaro money, Moraes and more.
Tomorrow: exclusively in @Folha, with English subtitles on our Substack and YouTube,
I spy with my little eye someone whose DNC checks have been stopped.
Whatever shall we do without the cutting insights of Mary Elizabeth Williams?
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
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Welcome to hope and change 2.0
Brace yourself for more war and Wall Street bailouts.
Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
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Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers
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Israel apologists are unique in the way literally all of them constantly pretend to believe things they don't actually believe.
Over the years I've argued with members of every political ideology on earth, and I've never encountered any group who does this like Zionists do. Other ideological factions might hold idiotic and downright evil beliefs, but for the most part they tend to actually believe the things they are saying.
Not so with Israel supporters. I've been interacting with them for years, often over extended conversations just to understand their arguments and their worldview, and what stands out the most in these interactions is the way they constantly lie about what they think is true.
They'll pretend to believe a given high-profile critic of Israeli atrocities hates Jews just to help marginalize their voice. They'll pretend to believe Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons in order to help drum up support for war. They'll pretend to believe antisemitism is one of the most urgent and dangerous threats to our society today in order to push for more laws against pro-Palestine protests. They'll pretend to believe every human rights group on earth is lying about Israel committing genocide in order to help Israel commit more genocidal crimes against humanity.
Over the years I've interacted many people who misrepresent my beliefs and the beliefs of other people, but Israel supporters are the only ideological group I've ever encountered who consistently misrepresent THEIR OWN beliefs.
I've seen it over and over and over again. I'll corner them on one of the claims they are making about what they believe, completely dismantling their given reasons for why they believe what they claim to believe, and they'll just shift to some other reason justifying the existence of their belief.
And this should not be surprising. If you would support genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, of course you would lie about your own beliefs to advance those agendas. Bad people do bad things. If genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid do not bother you, then you are unlikely to have ethical qualms about communicating without intellectual honesty.
These days I mostly just respond to such people by saying "You don't really believe that. You're just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state." It's the only way to deal with a group who literally never engages in good faith on any level.
Israel supporters need to do this because their worldview is not grounded in truth or morality. They don't hold their position because it is morally or factually correct, they hold it to advance personal agendas like career advancement, ladder-climbing, getting into Heaven, getting those tasty hasbara bucks, or winning the approval of their Zionist friends and family.
In a healthy society, supporting Israel would be as culturally toxic as loving Adolf Hitler or advocating the legalization of child sex trafficking. But we do not live in a healthy society. We live under a murderous, globe-spanning empire that is held together by lies and endless bloodshed. Zionism is rewarded and amplified because its evils are shared with the evils of the rest of the western imperial power structure which is choking our world to death.
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Ro Khanna on Israel: “The Democratic Party needs to be very clear. We need to call it a genocide. We need to say zero aid. We need to say zero military sales that are being used to kill civilians. And we need to say in the first week we’re gonna recognize a Palestinian State, put an embassy in Ramallah and East Jerusalem, and we’re gonna stop protecting Israel in the United Nations”
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I want to thank Haley Stevens for so succinctly destroying every centrist talking point that's been rammed down our throats for the last 6 months.
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No one supports Israel on principle. It's always because they think they're getting something out of it. Career advancement. A place in Heaven. Real estate in Tel Aviv. Acceptance from their family. Approval from their peers. The presidency of the United States.
People support Palestine because they sincerely believe it's the right thing to do, but Israel supporters always believe they're personally getting something out of it. It may have been possible for someone to sincerely believe Israel was on the right side of history once upon a time, but in 2026 nobody honestly thinks that. There's always something in it for them. Always some skin in the game.
In that sense, they're just plunderers. They're taking from an abused population in order to get something for themselves. They're throwing their support behind a genocidal settler-colonialist project in exchange for some personal reward in the same way vikings used to raid coastal towns and steal everything they had.
Pretty evil if you think about it.
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“allegedly attacked”
Please follow this entire thread.
Tucker Carlson is deranged. He accuses me personally of ignoring a US citizen allegedly attacked in Judea/Samaria by Israelis & says I "blew him off." Tucker knows how to contact me, but he'd rather make unfounded accusations than get facts.
Here is a timeline of Embassy Jerusalem American Citizen Services' interactions on this case. We have never been able to speak directly to the father, (name redacted) who was allegedly injured in an attack by settlers, only to his son in Chicago, (name redacted). The son has repeatedly asked that he be the only person with whom we speak with.
19 Oct – ACS received an email from (son) alleging his father had been attacked at his home in Turmusaya by settlers and was now at Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. We called the son in Chicago the same day and asked for contact information for his father which he was unwilling to provide. We followed up the same day with an email to (son).
20 Oct – We followed up with another email to (son) asking for contact information. (Son) asked us to call him. We called the son twice that day and there was no answer. We called the hospital in Ramallah several times but were unable to reach anyone.
21 Oct – Received another email from (son) saying his father was undergoing surgery at the hospital. We called the son in Chicago who said he would send contact information for next of kin in the WB which we didn’t receive. He stated he didn’t want to pursue the matter with the local authorities and said family members would travel from the States to the WB and wanted assurances they wouldn’t be denied entry at the airport.
22 Oct – We spoke again with (son) who subsequently wrote in an email…”Thank you for taking the time to speak with me and for your understanding regarding the tragic incident involving my father. Thank you again for your time, support, and assistance during this difficult time.” We responded in an email that we would like to speak directly with his father or his uncle and asked for local contact numbers. We didn’t receive any numbers. We received another email that same day saying his brother and mother were traveling to the WB from the States and he wanted assurances that they would be allowed in. We also received medical reports and photos passed to us from the son showing the wounds of his father.
23 Oct – We called the hospital in Ramallah but were unable to reach the father.
26 Oct – We called the (son) in Chicago, but no answer. We left a message asking if the brother and mother had arrived and contact numbers for them. We haven’t received a response or contact numbers.
Tucker, you can apologize when you find your conscience & acknowledge the facts.
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Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men.
And they finally figured out why.
They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas.
The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality.
First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children.
When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity."
It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time.
But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy.
The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones.
Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark.
They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable.
If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world.
When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering.
A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability.
A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7.
The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide.
Nobody explicitly coded these rules.
This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
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Look it’s annoying that all the people who were wrong about everything and enriched themselves ruining the world are now monetizing themselves as the saviors from the problems they created. But even if they never apologize, even if it’s irritating to watch arsonists pretend to be firefighters, if in practice they’re now actually bending the ideological/political knee to everyone who was right all along, then I guess that’s something. Better late than never.
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I like to be optimistic. If flaunting your ignorance and internalized Jewish supremacy—thereby drawing scorn from people who understand the illegitimacy of Israeli military occupation and the right of Palestinians to resist it—is what it takes to ultimately enlighten you, then I’m here for it.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
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They always misuse the word terrorist. Locals attacking occupying soldiers is not terrorism. What the occupying soldiers are doing to Palestinians is terrorism and Netanyahu’s threats in this video are part of that terrorism.
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Zelenskyy claims he wants peace, yet he never mentions the inconvenient steps he would have to take for any real peace to become possible in Ukraine. If he were genuinely guided by the country’s interests rather than his own, he would have done at least two of the following:
1. Repeal his own 2022 decree banning negotiations with Putin (by name.) As long as that decree remains in force, any talks with Putin are legally illegitimate under Ukrainian law.
2. He recently stated that a 60-day ceasefire would allow him to submit the legislative initiatives required to hold elections. Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic. Parliamentary elections are fully prohibited under martial law, but there is no direct constitutional ban on presidential elections. Nevertheless, a series of legislative changes would still need to be passed to make presidential elections possible. Why, then, does Zelenskyy need a 60-day ceasefire for this? The parliament is fully functional and can vote on such bills right now. Passing them would demonstrate a genuine intention to hold elections. Until that happens, the ceasefire demand remains a legal maneuver aimed mainly at Western audiences, who are less familiar with the details of Ukraine’s electoral system.
3. Given the corruption scandals surrounding Zelenskyy, growing doubts about his legitimacy, and the deep divisions his continued leadership has created within Ukrainian society — divisions that fuel constant debate and hostility — he could resign and transfer power to the Speaker of Parliament, the only figure whose legitimacy is currently beyond serious dispute. The Speaker could sign any agreements, conduct negotiations, and appoint elections without the same questions of authority that now attach to Zelenskyy.
If Zelenskyy truly wanted elections or a viable path toward a settlement, he would take these concrete legal steps rather than endlessly performing the role of the aggrieved wartime leader on international media. This is political theater, and the quality of the performance has long since declined. Behind the cameras, much of the current political class fears Zelenskyy, understanding that there are effectively no limits to the retribution he can exact for perceived disloyalty.
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The more children Israel kills, the more unpopular it becomes. The more unpopular Israel becomes, the more violently we are throat-fucked with the narrative that "antisemitism" is a major problem in our society.
The UK's Department for Education has released a 107-page review which asserts that much more needs to be done to protect Jewish students in England from discrimination. Which in and of itself sounds reasonable, until you look at the actual document.
The review, led by Sir David Bell, mentions the word "political" or "geopolitical" no fewer than 125 times. It mentions the word "Israel" or "Israeli" 60 times and the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" 35 times.
So, as always, it is clear that this isn't actually about protecting a religious minority from persecution.
The Bell review lists 27 recommendations for dealing with "antisemitism" in English schools, which the government has reportedly accepted in their entirety. The first recommendation is adopting the hotly disputed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism which lists common criticisms of the state of Israel as hateful toward Jews.
Under the IHRA definition, you are guilty of antisemitism if you compare the modern state of Israel to Nazi Germany, or if you say that Israel exists as a racist endeavor. This framing effectively brands anyone a hateful bigot who agrees with the unanimous consensus of international human rights groups that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state.
"Anti-Israel attitudes have distinctly increased over time," the review says. "In 2020, 23% agreed with the statement 'Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews', which increased to 45% in 2025. The prevalence of beliefs such as these, which could be regarded as antisemitic according to the IHRA definition, demonstrate the difficulty faced by schools and colleges in tackling antisemitism."
Under the section titled "Political expression and pupil wellbeing in schools," the review scorned the use of "political identifiers" in schools such as "badges, flags, or other political symbols and slogans such as ‘Free Palestine’, including staff displaying Palestinian flags in their classrooms without relevance to the lesson."
"It is the view of this review that political identifiers do not have a place in our schools," the report reads, while stopping short of saying such expression should be banned in all instances.
"Political expression by staff can create a learning environment in which some learners feel distressed, excluded, or unable to engage fully with their education," the review asserts. "In such circumstances, colleges may be justified in placing proportionate restrictions on lawful political expression where this is necessary to ensure learners' education and fulfil the college’s wider duties."
"In practice, antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology. This means that challenging antisemitism often requires teachers to address or correct political claims or misinformation, which can appear to conflict with impartiality duties," the review says.
This uncritical assertion that "antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology" tells you everything you need to know about what this review is really designed to accomplish. This is about stomping out political speech that is critical of Israel, and nothing else.
The review of course also attempts to conflate antizionism with antisemitism, saying, "Antizionists can express views that include a deep hatred for the existence of Israel and of those who believe in its right to exist as a Jewish homeland. Such views may be antisemitic, in certain contexts. There are also examples where Zionism is used as a synonym for ‘Jewish’ to hide antiJewish hatred within lawful political expression."
I am so fucking sick of this shit. People who live in Israel's western allied states are getting bludgeoned and bludgeoned and bludgeoned by these ham-fisted psychological operations by state and non-state actors with more and more aggression the more Israel's popularity rating goes down the tubes, and it's not even working. The way these freaks keep trying to stick their rapey fingers into our minds and manipulate the thoughts we think about a genocidal apartheid state is fucking disgusting. It's only making everyone hate Israel more.
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Latest on Heidi Levine: broken rib, four broken vertebrae, her finger was nearly cut off, multiple potential stabbing wounds. Surgery first thing in the morning.
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.@MaxBlumenthal on new reporting on David Milstein:
“So what you have is an Israeli mole inside the US embassy who is reversing the work of everyone else in the diplomatic corps to advance intelligence on behalf of the Israeli government and specifically Netanyahu”