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This war was started on October 7 when Hamas slaughtered hundreds of innocent Israelis in their homes.
Remember the kibbutz, Kfar Aza, where it happened—remember these victims.
More from The FP in Israel:
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“When you’re not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad, and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has
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Senior
@NPR
editor
@uberliner
has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press:
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What the Hell Happened to PayPal?
The company that was meant to liberate countless individuals is becoming something else. Increasingly, it is becoming a police officer. It is deciding what is right and wrong, who gets to be heard, who is silenced.
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Our founder,
@bariweiss
, on
@morning_joe
sets the record straight on the Israel massacre. “The Nazis tried to hide their war crimes. Hamas is livestreaming theirs.”
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“We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings.”
Economist Roland Fryer tells
@bariweiss
at
@uaustinorg
about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish.
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Antisemitism is never about the Jews; it’s a warning system. It’s a sign that the society itself is breaking down, that it is dying. It is a symptom of a much deeper crisis.
Watch our founder
@bariweiss
’s speech at
@FedSoc
.
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An Israeli student assaulted at Columbia.
A Jewish student’s dorm room set on fire at Drexel University.
A Stanford University professor separated students by Jews and non-Jews in class.
Our institutions of higher education are alive with hate.
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Amit and Nir shared a kiss as they hid from terrorists who slaughtered their friends at the Nova music festival on Saturday. They took a photo, knowing it might be the last image anyone ever saw of them. The picture went viral.
This is their story, reported by Free Press’s
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The Free Press’s
@rupasubramanya
testified today at the House Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
She spoke about the gradual suffocation of free expression she has witnessed in Canada and warns that similar practices could soon arrive in the U.S.
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Welcome to The Free Press! We're a new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of great journalism. Read more from our Editor-in-Chief
@BariWeiss
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In the span of five days, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has managed to alienate the government of the largest democracy on Earth; anger key allies from Washington, D.C. to Canberra; and outrage Jews around the world.
@rupasubramanya
reports:
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“When I went to Shifa hospital, I found Qassam fighters all around us,” a Gazan patient reports.
“Every Palestinian knows Shifa is full of them, but nobody can talk.”
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by war.
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“We could face up to where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations don’t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we’re the ones with the word ‘public’ in our name.”
@uriberliner
's hope for a U.S. media institution.
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“After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead,” says
@ilanibenjamin
. Read his essay here:
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Anti-war activists in Chicago learn to chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” in Farsi.
Read more from The FP’s
@Olivia_Reingold
:
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Arab Israeli news anchor
@LucyAharish
switched to speaking in English to make a direct plea to the world.
“Try to imagine for a second that you are waking up on Saturday morning with your children sleeping next to you, waking up to the sounds of sirens. And then in a split of a
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“A lot of people have expressed their shock about what’s happened on college campuses… but I wasn’t shocked. And I want to tell you why.”
Watch Free Press intern
@juliaonatroika
’s testimony in front of Congress this morning on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses.
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A review of Twitter internal files by guest writer
@davidzweig
illuminates how Twitter executives suppressed Covid information - even from doctors and scientists - that conflicted with the official position of the CDC.
1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
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Are you part of the self-silencing majority?
@BariWeiss
explains what she is building at The Free Press:
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Safety first on campus. Except for Jews.
The Free Press's
@SulkinMaya
on the hypocrisy of the college presidents.
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A racial incident at a BYU volleyball game went viral when media companies ran with the story.
But it turns out it never happened.
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After
@coldxman
gave a TED talk on color blindness, the audience applauded; some people even stood up, and those who disagreed with him offered thoughtful criticisms.
But then some TED employees complained, and the talk was suppressed online.
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“It doesn't surprise me that a lot of young Americans wouldn't be willing to fight for their country if they've been told from the cradle that their country was rotten from birth and had nothing going for it other than slavery, colonialism, and everything else.
You've really
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“The answer is not for Jews to try and fit into the DEI caste system, to beg for a higher rank in the new ladder of victimhood.”
Watch Free Press intern
@juliaonatroika
testify in front of Congress on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses.
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“For how long can you lie to somebody before they start questioning the truth… What does it take for the West to wake up?”
@DouglasKMurray
and reformed Hamas militant
@MosabHasanYOSEF
expose the reality of Israel-Gaza—and the mindset of Hamas terrorists.
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We asked a Palestinian in Gaza if anyone supports Israel’s campaign to topple Hamas.
“The Jews didn’t kill my brother; Hamas did.”
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by the war.
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“It felt like a page out of a dystopian novel.”
WATCH: Last night, Jewish Columbia student
@JessicaSchwalb7
and her friends were surrounded by pro-Palestine protesters—who demanded the “Zionists” leave their camp immediately.
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A few minutes after news broke that Iran had launched drones and missiles heading toward Israel, a crowd of far-left activists in Chicago started chanting “hands off Iran!”
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President Biden has announced $100 million in humanitarian aid to Palestinians. We asked Gazan civilians: What happens to international aid once it arrives in Gaza?
“Unfortunately, this aid isn’t distributed fairly. It’s distributed in a partisan way: only Hamas members get the
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Educator Richard Bilkszto challenged a workplace DEI instructor and was tarred as a racist. He lost contacts, friends, support, and professional esteem, and on July 13, he took his own life.
An investigation by
@RupaSubramanya
&
@AriBlaff
:
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How did college campuses like Columbia become the source of so much hate?
The FP’s
@Olivia_Reingold
travels to America’s most elite colleges to find the origins of campus antisemitism.
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Freedom? Democracy? The Democratic Socialists of America sounded okay to
@BenKawaller
, so he went to Chicago to cover their convention. Unfortunately, they kicked him out—but some optimistic capitalists took him in.
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Former collegiate swimmer
@Riley_Gaines_
responds to allegations that she is an anti-trans activist.
“My stance is not anti-anything. My stance is pro-reality. It is pro-fairness. It is pro-common sense. It is pro-woman. And if being pro-woman is deemed anti-trans, then it must
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The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, a new podcast hosted by
@meganphelps
coming February 21st.
Learn more at
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Our founder and editor,
@bariweiss
, sat down with Russell Brand (
@rustyrockets
) to discuss how censorship leads to political extremism and the importance of honest, transparent conversations.
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Earlier this afternoon, Free Press journalist
@Olivia_Reingold
was at a conference in Chicago for a story on how far-left activists are planning to disrupt the DNC, when news broke that Iran had just launched drones and missiles heading toward Israel.
The crowd started chanting
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EXCLUSIVE:
Sixteen female athletes are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association over its decision to allow biological males to compete against them in college sports and have access to women’s locker rooms.
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“There is no human language that can describe the evil that took place on October 7. And that’s not just a war crime. It’s not just killing. It’s a genocide.”
@MosabHasanYOSEF
speaks to
@DouglasKMurray
about the “joy” Hamas took in death on 10/7.
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“They came to murder. They came to mutilate. They came to maim. And they came to do that to as many innocent people that they could get their hands on. That is how this war began. Make no mistake.”
@bariweiss
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“We believe that you can wrestle with complicated ideas without being contaminated by them.
We believe that you can actually survive being a little bit offended and that that’s actually a really good thing for all of us.”
Part of
@BariWeiss
’ opening remarks at our first live
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“It’s time to defend our values. The values that have made this country the freest, most tolerant society in the history of the world. And to do that without hesitation or apology.”
Watch our founder
@bariweiss
’s speech at
@FedSoc
.
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“To move from door to door and just kill everything, animal, human, infant…”
Ex-Hamas and Israeli undercover agent
@MosabHasanYOSEF
explains to
@DouglasKMurray
why even he was surprised by the atrocities of October 7.
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“The trajectory for NPR is not promising. Two paths seem clear. We can keep doing what we’re doing, hoping it will all work out. Or we could start over, with the basic building blocks of journalism.”
Senior
@NPR
editor
@uberliner
speaks out in The FP:
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The CEO and co-founder of
@PalantirTech
on his company’s unapologetic commitment to Western values: “Our belief that the West is a superior way to live—and our ways of organizing around that—are the reason why our products are transformative.”
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“Decolonization isn’t just a turn of phrase or a new way to read novels. It is a sincerely held political view that serves as a predicate to violence.”
Watch
@bariweiss
’s speech at
@FedSoc
.
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“Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns.”
@uberliner
, a 25-year veteran at
@NPR
, on what went wrong at the prestigious news organization.
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Today is Israel's 9/11: To understand what is about to happen in Israel, you must not look away from the evil of the past 24 hours.
@NoahPollak
reports:
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Over the past two decades,
@bariweiss
has watched as the inverted worldview of DEI has swallowed all of the crucial sense-making institutions of American life. Now, she says, “It is time to end DEI for good.”
Watch her entire monologue:
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Young men today feel they must be six feet tall, make six figures, and have six inches downstairs to get a girlfriend—so many have given up trying.
@Olivia_Reingold
on the dating pool dropouts:
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"Today I am speaking out...knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue [treating kids with gender dysphoria] and the ways my testimony might be misused."
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
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Last night at 1 in the morning, student demonstrators at Columbia University shattered windows to take over and occupy one of Columbia’s academic buildings. Students can be heard chanting, “we will honor all the martyrs,” “long live the intifada,” and “Israel will fall.”
As of 2
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Former collegiate swimmer
@Riley_Gaines_
says she and her competitors were “not given any prior acknowledgment” that they would share a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
“The first time we found out that this would be the case was when we were actually undressing
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“American Jews, having lived as if we were immune from history, find ourselves in the belly of the beast once more.”
Watch
@bariweiss
State of World Jewry Address at the
@92ndStreetY
.
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“America is so exceptional—indispensable, really. Please do not succumb to the same illiberal authoritarianism. Please keep fighting for what you know is right… The world is watching.”
The FP’s
@rupasubramanya
at the House Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal
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The Free Press’s
@rupasubramanya
with the man of the moment,
@AintGottaDollar
. Story coming soon.
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We have a society whose members increasingly see their opponents as evil & believe they're in a moral panic.
So today, a conversation with
@meganphelps
,
@NAChristakis
,
@lukeburgis
&
@waitbutwhy
's Tim Urban to try to understand why we hunt witches.
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Collegiate athlete Réka György talks about being cheated out of an All-American title in the 500-yard freestyle because Lia Thomas competed in the category.
“Watching that last heat of the 500 freestyle and seeing my name as 17th... I broke down.”
Today she joins 15 current and
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“There is something refreshing about Musk barging into the Twitter Tower on Market Street and turning over the tables. But I’m not sure anyone should have that kind of power.”
@bariweiss
discusses Elon’s takeover, the Twitter Files, and more:
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The fight is about to begin!!
@bariweiss
@SarahTheHaider
@Grimezsz
@TimJDillon
@annakhachiyan
@Louise_m_perry
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“He’s been conditioned in a climate of a propaganda that is anti-Israel, anti-West, anti-infidel, anti-anything that is non-Muslim.”
Ex-Hamas turned Israeli undercover agent
@MosabHasanYOSEF
explains the mindset of a jihadist to
@DouglasKmurray
. Watch:
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Senior
@NPR
editor
@uberliner
has resigned from the network he served for 25 years after being suspended for sharing concerns about bias in The FP:
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We like Bill. Be like Bill.
Subscribe to The Free Press today.
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We asked a Gazan if local attitudes toward Hamas had changed since October 7.
"There's a feeling of disgust here... Most of the people don't want an Islamist government."
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by war.
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Columbia University’s most committed activists—armed with nail polish, gluten-free bread, and friendship bracelets—stand up against “the violent Zionist settler entity” ✊
@Olivia_Reingold
shares her experience from the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
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WARNING: Disturbing content.
Newly released video shows women kidnapped from the IDF Nahal Oz base to the Gaza Strip on October 7. Terrorists can be heard saying “you are so beautiful” and “these are the girls that can get pregnant.”
@BariWeiss
, 100 days after October 7: “For
(TRIGGER WARNING)
A video of the instances in which female IDF observers were kidnapped from the IDF Nahal Oz base to the Gaza Strip on October 7 was published on Wednesday evening.
Read more:
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Historian
@nfergus
from
@HooverInst
describes how American universities are “engaged in precisely the same processes that led the great German universities down the path to hell to complicity in the Holocaust.”
Read his essay on this topic here:
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“When the parents would say no…these doctors would push and push and push and push.”
Pediatric gender care whistleblower Jamie Reed explains how parents are pressured into consenting to their kids’ medical transition. Watch the rest of the interview:
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“Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm.”
Adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, who pioneered Finland’s pediatric gender program, is speaking out against gender-affirming care in minors.
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When it comes to the fate of the many young women abducted by Hamas, the silence from some corners has been deafening.
What explains their silence, downplaying, and denial? WATCH:
@bariweiss
“Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder?”
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While apologists for Hamas deny the group hides in civilian areas, Gazans we spoke with are blockading their own neighborhoods to prevent Hamas from using them as human shields.
We’ve partnered with
@peacecomcenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by war.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to our first live debate last night!
@annakhachiyan
@louise_m_Perry
@grimezsz
@Sarahthehaider
@dash_eats
@Aella_Girl
@meghan_daum
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“In D.C., where
@NPR
is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.”
@uberliner
on his outlet’s shift from “curious” and “open-minded” to “knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.”
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"[Hamas] is driving around in jeeps, shooting in the air, beating up merchants … and where are those trucks [of aid]?"
Life under the recent ceasefire, according to a Gazan in Rafah.
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by
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Chapter One: Plotted In Darkness out now.
Listen to The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling.
New episodes every Tuesday.
APPLE:
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“I want to get out. That’s the only thing you’re thinking of is getting out.”
EXCLUSIVE: Mario Torres, the Columbia custodian trapped by student protesters, sat down for his first on-camera interview with our own
@FrancescaABlock
.
Full story:
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We asked a Palestinian civilian how ordinary Gazans feel about Hamas's attack on Israel:
"When I saw what happened I was very angry... Ending Hamas is the demand of young and old in Gaza."
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted
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“Life has to be fought for, and it has to be cherished.
And what Israel has been up against is not just a people of death, but a cult of death.”
@DouglasKMurray
at the
@ManhattanInst
. Get the full transcript here:
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While Western protesters demand an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, we asked Gazan civilians for their reaction.
“Foreign people feel sad for us… but if they truly understood what is happening here, they would have stayed home.”
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous
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👀👀 Attention LA, NYC, Austin, and SF: keep an eye out for our posters around town.
If you find them, take a picture, post on social media and tag us — you might even get something special from us.
#thinkforyourself
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There is no free press in Gaza.
That’s why our Voices from Gaza series with
@peacecomcenter
is so important. Tonight on
@TheLeadCNN
with
@jaketapper
,
@josephbraude
explained how we report on what Gazans really think of Hamas.
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Having lots of kids is now countercultural. But
@bethanyshondark
, who just welcomed baby number 6, thinks having children is actually the biggest "expression of hope and belief in the future."
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The big reveal in the Durham report, released late last week, is that the FBI didn’t persecute Hillary Clinton. It protected her.
@EliLake
has more:
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On Tuesday night, October 17, an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital rocked Gaza City. Almost immediately, news organizations— Reuters, the AP, New York Times, & the Washington Post— blamed Israel, citing claims by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
But Israel denied
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For six years therapist Tamara Pietzke worked at a hospital that declared all teens with gender dysphoria must be affirmed. She quit her job to blow the whistle.
“We can no longer medicalize youth and cause them potentially irreversible harm.”
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“We need to uproot—root and branch—the ideology that has supplanted truth at the core of American higher education. And that ideology goes by the name DEI.”
Watch the rest of
@bariweiss
’s monologue on why it’s time for DEI to end:
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Nonprofits are making billions off the border crisis:
@Maddie_Rowley_
investigates how federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives. 🧵
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On Sunday,
@rupasubramanya
went to a pro-Palestine rally full of people outraged by what they called the genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza. This is what she heard from the people in attendance.
🧵
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Episodes 1 & 2 are out now. As Harry Potter becomes an international phenomenon, J.K. Rowling is accused of mainstreaming witchcraft and poisoning children’s minds.
Listen to the Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling:
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In this week’s Things Worth Remembering,
@DouglasKMurray
recalls how the late Christopher Hitchens defied the censorship mob with a brave, “blasphemous” speech on Islam that resonates with even greater power today.
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DEI “demonizes hard work, merit, family, and the dignity of the individual, all virtues that are the foundation of what makes America exceptional.”
Watch
@bariweiss
’s monologue on a congressional hearing, a resignation, and why DEI must end:
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Six months ago we published an explosive insider account from Jamie Reed, a former employee of Washington University’s pediatric gender clinic.
@jamiewhistle
described vulnerable adolescents with multiple mental health problems being rushed into life-altering treatments that
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"The problem for Harry is that he must cleave to his belief that the press and fellow royals are the architects of all his woes—or else he’ll have to confront some uncomfortable truths."
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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has a price on his head.
A widow in Gaza told us why she would be happy to "deliver it for free."
We’ve partnered with
@PeaceComCenter
to gather anonymous testimony from Gazans impacted by war.
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On December 30, masked men abducted Mohammed Mushtaha, a respected imam in Gaza. “He knew that refusing to act as a megaphone for Hamas could lead to his death,” his son Ala writes, “and yet he refused.” Read his story, in partnership with
@peacecomcenter
.
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“It is my job to make sure that my two sons grow up in a country where they’re able to live that same American dream.”
Presidential candidate
@VivekGRamaswamy
sits down with
@bariweiss
on this week’s
@thehonestlypod
. Listen now:
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