So touching. Great Americans: ‘We’re Going to Take Back the Airplane’ open.substack.com/pub/bariwe…

🧵Calling Israel a “European colonial project” may sometimes be ignorance. But it’s a lie. Mizrahi Jews — who never lived anywhere but the Middle East for 2,500 years — are the largest group in Israel (between half and ~61%). They weren’t colonizers. They were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands in the 20th Century. The colonial myth requires erasing them. 🧵

Gordon Wood wrote the lead essay for "Democracy and the American Revolution," the first volume in @AEI's "America at 250" series. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground the first time I read how he summed up the democratic force the Revolution unleashed:

Don't worry about Iran or the economy or ANYTHING because our President is a genius.🙃

There should be song, plays, statues and poems commemorating her! nytimes.com/2026/05/27/nyreg…

One of the few declassified IDF drone videos from high altitude over Gaza. First 5-7 seconds: Watch Hamas rockets launching from right in the middle of civilian areas. The IDF then tracks the exact launch sites in real time and destroys them with precision strikes. This is the reality behind the “indiscriminate bombing” lie. Hamas hides among civilians, IDF targets the terrorists. Share this. The truth needs to be seen. 🇮🇱

give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man

Rare footage from a kindergarten graduation party in Gaza in 2016. Palestinian children in Gaza are taught to be terrorists. They have been planning October 7 for decades, brainwashing their children to join Hamas. Share this. Make it go viral. The world must see this.

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This anonymous bot account posts a video saying the IDF killed an innocent 14 year old boy, and it’s quickly on its way to millions of views… Meanwhile, here’s the full video of the kid walking up and stabbing IDF soldiers before being shot, and it won’t break 100k.

Insanely clever marketing. It’s a water stencil so what they’re doing is power washing the sidewalk and creating the words with the dirt that remains.

RT @stanveuger: Better economic analysis from Wallace Shawn than 99% of what we see here: “In a way, I’m still downwardly mobile from my pa…

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

I understand you’re not supposed to say you are opposed to a Palestinian state. But this clip is why I think you have to be out of your mind to want it. Here is a clip of a wife of a clip of a senior Palestinian leader THRILLED that four of her children died trying to destroy Israel. She considers it a “sweet miracle.” These are not rational actors. They can’t be any peace until the Palestinians renounce violence and that’s just a fact.

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In Peru, a growing trend is transforming traditional funerals into festive celebrations through "dancing undertakers" (los portadores bailarini), offering a cheerful alternative to solemn mourning.

RT @TheModerateCase: 🚨 WOW: San Diego mosque shooters manifesto: “all [problems] can be traced back to or be caused by one group, the Jews.…