There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza:
A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Which Reminds Me: Just Shut Up. We’re talking Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel:
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has accused Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, of failing to condemn “blatantly antisemitic” rhetoric by “extremists,” wading into a party-wide debate over the Democratic nominee and his views on Israel.
During the primary, Mr. Mamdani refused to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” though he has denied using it himself. He has more recently appeared to soften his defense of it. Palestinians and their supporters have called the phrase a rallying cry for liberation, but many Jews consider it a call to violence, a direct reference to deadly attacks on civilians in Israel by Palestinians in uprisings in the 1980s and 2000s.
Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and longtime Democratic official, also criticized Mr. Mamdani, saying bluntly in a podcast released Thursday that a politician unwilling to condemn use of the phrase has no place in the party.
Say it with me, motherfuckers: Israel is committing genocide. Won’t say it, will you? Meaning, you are complicit in the genocide. Ya feel me?
Just A Few Reasons Why Hulk Hogan Was A Piece Of Shit. Some worse than others. As in, he was a racist:
Both the pro wrestling world and entertainment world viewed the story of Hulk Hogan’s racism as a big deal. Hogan’s infamous sex tape was leaked with Hogan saying some heinous things about his daughter potentially dating a black person.
Objectively evil racism was shown by Hogan towards the black community. WWE reacted by firing Hogan a little over a year after he returned to the promotion in an ambassador role. Hogan lost a lot of fans and exposed his beliefs to the world, despite trying to apologize and claim he learned from the mistake.
And perhaps his final public act:
A new group of people outside of wrestling started criticizing Hulk Hogan for his appearance one of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign events. Trump is controversial enough to make a celebrity receive blowback, but Hogan’s actions caused more controversy.
The Republican crowd reacted well to Hogan and his general antics of cutting his old promos to endorse Trump. However, Hogan went way too far when talking about body slamming Kamala Harris to receive negative backlash.
To me, though, his biggest sin was ‘inspiring’ a whole generation of kids to take ‘roids’ to look just like the Hulkster, preferably w/o the hair loss.
Extortion Wins In Fascist America. Paramount Merger Approved. Columbia University Blows Its Reputation Up Real Good:
Columbia University has reached a sweeping agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration, ending months of political and financial warfare that turned the Ivy League school into a high-profile test case for Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on higher education.
The university will pay $200 million over three years to settle federal claims tied to alleged discriminatory practices, plus another $21 million to resolve Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations. In return, the federal government will reinstate most of the $400 million in research funding it froze earlier this year and restore Columbia’s access to billions in future grants.
The deal also brings external oversight and forces Columbia to adopt Trump-backed policy changes, including a controversial federal definition of antisemitism that will now guide teaching and disciplinary reviews.
Betcha didn’t know about that last sentence, didja? Might I suggest a professorship for Rahm Emmanuel?
Could Those Brain Worms Have Been Caused By Venereal Disease? Yep, turns out that RFK Jr. was in the Epstein orbit:
In March 2024, Kennedy was roundly mocked online for defending his interactions with Epstein by, oddly, listing numerous other figures accused or convicted of horrendous acts with whom he’s also had run-ins, such as Harvey Weinstein, O.J. Simpson, and Bill Cosby.
That bizarre remark aside, the health secretary’s past connections to Epstein still were seemingly not as deep as the president’s, who had a storied friendship with the disgraced financier. In fact, Epstein once told journalist Michael Wolff that he “was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.”
Still, Kennedy’s closet is full of skeletons, to use his own words. When Vanity Fair reported on a former babysitter’s sexual assault allegations against Kennedy, he did not deny them. Instead, the then-candidate said, “I am not a church boy.… I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that, if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”
Meyer Dumps Chief Of Staff. The rumors were true:
Three days before the end of the Delaware legislative session, Gov. Matt Meyer held an all-staff meeting to address what he has said were unfounded rumors about a personnel shakeup within his office.
In the day before the meeting, several lawmakers had told Spotlight Delaware that they had heard the claim that certain senior staffers in the governor’s office, including Meyer’s Chief of Staff Vanessa Phillips, had either been fired or reassigned.
About a week later, Spotlight Delaware asked the governor during a press conference what had happened during that all-staff meeting. In response, Meyer said he told his staff that “rumors travel around the world before the truth can put on its shoes” – an adage that illustrates how conjecture spreads more rapidly than credible information.
At the press conference, Meyer also said that “all the firing and reorganization rumors — that I found very entertaining — are not true.”
Two weeks later, on Thursday, the governor’s office announced that it is reorganizing, with Meyer having reassigned Phillips to a new role of senior advisor to the governor.
Which, let’s face it, is tantamount to a firing. She’ll be there until a better role comes along–outside of the Governor’s office–which it no doubt will soon. The new Chief of Staff?:
The Thursday announcement also revealed that Meyer had promoted his deputy legal counsel, Misty Seemans, to become his next chief of staff.
Seemans has performed legal analysis on multiple key issues and pieces of legislation, handled commutations and immigration policies for the office, and worked on a range of legal issues from criminal justice reform to social justice efforts, according to Meyer’s office’s announcement.
Before working in the governor’s office, she served as statewide Family Court Supervisor at the Delaware Office of Defense Services, the official names for the public defender’s office, where she handled multiple jury and bench trials, ranging from misdemeanors to capital murder. A native Delawarean, she also serves as an adjunct professor at Delaware Law School.
My favorite snippet from the article?:
In the statement, Meyer congratulated both Seemans and Phillips, who he called “an indispensable partner in advancing our agenda.”
“As Senior Advisor, Vanessa will continue to lend her strategic vision and counsel on our most complex challenges,” he said.
Meyer’s deputy chief of staff, Nick Merlino, said in an interview on Thursday that Phillips’ new role “lets her flourish more as a high-level driver of the governor’s mission.”
When pressed, he also said Phillips’ reassignment was not a demotion.
Hey, I believe ’em. What, you have doubts?
I searched high and low. Could find nothing on the Data Center meeting in Delaware City. Anybody have a report for us? And/or a link that I missed?
Far be it from me to insert gratuitous music videos only nominally related to a topic at hand (he lied), but could it be that the meeting turned into this?:
What do you want to talk about?