This is a really good point. As the confirmation of combatant deaths in Gaza continues to rise, as the fantasy academic papers about 100s of 1000s of dead get proved wrong, as S Africa beg for more ICJ time, their genocide narrative falls apart, so they must escalate.

Hoo boy the footnotes and comments on this. WWII ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. My grandfather was on the USS Missouri to witness one.

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” — C.G. Jung

The Lancet, one of the most important medical journals in the world, published a petition today calling for the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from the World Medical Association (WMA). 1,150 professionals signed the petition because the IMA "failed to condemn the genocide of the Palestinians, the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, and the torture of detainees." The IMA has, in actuality, spent the entire war advocating for Gazans, petitioning the government to ensure medical supplies were entering Gaza, and demanding that hospitals in Gaza remain safe havens. But they're evil because they didn't use the word genocide? It doesn't matter what you do for Palestinians or how you fight for them if you don't use a certain word? What happened to "actions speak louder than words?"

The entire first season of STAR CITY is absolutely superlative. The finale provides a new definition for sticking the landing.

⚠️ WARNING TO TRUMP: IRAN doesn't want PEACE, they want TIME Every deal they sign is the ancient Islamic strategy of Al-Hudaybiyyah: a calculated pause to rearm, regroup, and strike when you least expect it. Used for 1,400 years to lull enemies into a false sense of security before the kill. Mohammed. Arafat. Iran. Same strategy, different century. You cannot negotiate with a regime that has already decided you are the enemy. Finish the job.

"In October 2024, at approximately 1851 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet. The luminous object resembled a 'plasma-like sphere' intermittently changing shape and luminosity. At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points. A luminous point below the primary source hovered just above the water and did not appear consistent with a surface reflection. The object remained generally stationary for approximately 45 minutes before disappearing. The eyewitness did not hear any sound from the objects. This video was captured by a private citizen on an iPhone and subsequently analyzed and authenticated by the U.S. Government. To protect the individual’s privacy, the footage has been cropped. Apart from this privacy-protective measure, no edits, enhancements, or alterations have been made to the visual content. The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by an eyewitness to the event. The FBI assesses the individual who reported this event as highly credible." war.gov/UFO/#FBI-UAP-PR003-O…

John Lydon blames woke culture on “horribly, horribly tempestuous, spoiled children coming out of colleges and universities with shit for brains”.

American Jews are not and have never been an oppressed minority here—and this remains true today. The Left has turned on the Jews, but they are not "oppressing" us, because we are one with this nation.

Gene Shalit, Mussed-Up Movie Critic of the 'Today' Show, Dies at 100 hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-…

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

The Justice Department has approved the merger of Warner Bros and Paramount.

Our latest shipment from the @Space_Station is heading back to Earth next Tuesday, June 16, aboard an uncrewed @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Here's how to watch: go.nasa.gov/3Q2iGCu

Specifically: I’d first look at what promising approaches to post-Einsteinian science were we induced to abandon by Quantum Gravity/StringTheorists. I’d spend the first 1/2 million dollars simply destringifying the last 42 lost years. Then I would look at all the major ideas without ANY refereeing input from string theory/m-theory: Chern Simons Asymptotic safety GU Einstein Cartan McDowell Mansouri Spin connections Strings Gravitational Amplitudes Etc. Then based on that assessment, I would allocate grants to push for the spacetime successor. But the first allocation is to destringification. We need to stop being brainwashed by 5 people and their misinterpretation of Ken Wilson. We need to realize that the real physics that we would need to travel the cosmos got nerfed. By string theory. The first task is undoing the murderous anti-scientific lie and culture of TOGIT as spread by Witten, Susskind, Greene, Kaku, Gross and company. Just undoing that and making it viable to do theoretical physics without their fingers around our throats would bring us far closer to post Einsteinian engineering. Gravitational physics has become a lie under quantum gravity.

Hezbollah started this war. On March 2, 2026, they fired rockets into Israel in solidarity with Iran, the same Iran that had been arming them for forty years to do exactly this. They had spent the previous fifteen months violating a ceasefire by rebuilding the arsenal they’d promised to dismantle. They are a designated terrorist organization, an Iranian proxy that operates as a state-within-a-state inside Lebanon, and they have made the destruction of Israel their explicit founding purpose. None of this is in dispute. Every time Israel has entered Lebanon 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, 2006, 2024, 2026, it has been after attacks on Israeli civilians from Lebanese soil. There is no instance in the historical record of Israel invading a peaceful Lebanon that was leaving it alone. The narrative that Israel is some kind of unprovoked aggressor is a story terrorists tell the cameras that are pointed at the rubble after the response they themselves provoked, with their own rockets. The “proportionality” charge is a bunch of activists like this guy banking on your stupidity. International law does not require body-count comparisons. It does not require the stronger side to lose. It does not require a country under rocket fire to wait until enough of its own citizens are dead before fighting back. The actual legal test asks whether a specific strike’s expected civilian harm is excessive compared to its military advantage and when Hezbollah deliberately fires from apartment buildings, stores weapons in children’s bedrooms, and runs command centers out of hospitals, the legal and moral responsibility for civilian deaths shifts substantially onto Hezbollah, not Israel. That is what the Geneva Conventions actually says. Human shielding is itself a war crime, and using it does not make the target untouchable. The deeper problem is that Hezbollah and groups like it have built an entire strategic doctrine around exploiting the gap between a society that follows rules and one that doesn’t. They hide behind civilians precisely because they know the cameras will film the funerals, not the launch sites. They count on activists and international bodies to translate “Israel killed more people” into “Israel is the villain,” regardless of who started the fight and regardless of who put the civilians in harm’s way. It is a cynical, deliberate strategy, and it works because of idiots like him.

Hen Mazzig on the visceral canceling of Gwyneth Paltrow: A Hollywood producer leaned across a table a few months ago and told me a secret that is not really a secret. Most of the people he works with support Israel’s right to exist. Many of them are not Jewish. Nearly all of them are disturbed by what they see online. And almost none of them will ever say so in public, because they have watched what happens to the ones who do, and they have careers. I told him I understood. I did not fully understand until this week, when I watched an industry decide that the most dangerous woman in America is one who advertised an apartment by a park. Concede the obvious first. The war in Gaza has been horrifying. People are entitled to their grief and their anger, and criticizing the Israeli government is legitimate. Plenty of the people posting this week are sincere. Hold all of that, because the story still does not add up. Here is the crime. Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a commercial for 51 Park, a residential tower in Herzliya, a beach city north of Tel Aviv, on land legally bought by Jews in 1921 and officially founded in 1924, inside the pre-1967 lines, about as politically contested as Sacramento. The ad was made by an Israeli agency for Israeli television, in Hebrew-market media she does not control. She never posted it on her social platforms. She wakes up, goes for a run, and says she likes living near a park. That is the footage. There is no statement about the war, the government, or the conflict, because there is no statement about anything. Now watch what the internet did with it. Anti-Israel pop culture influencer “Saint Hoax” branded it “Gwynicide,” a genocide pun built out of a woman’s first name, and over a thousand people lined up in the comments to agree. Diet Prada, another anti-Israel pop and fashion account, pushed it to millions. Livia Firth, an Italian film producer, declared that Paltrow should be canceled by everyone on earth, in the same breath as insisting she does not believe in cancel culture. She also disinvited Paltrow from a scheduled visit to her farm. Commenters compared a real estate spot to Zone of Interest, the film about a family living beside a death camp. A viral post with tens of thousands of likes explained that there are two kinds of people in Hollywood: the martyrs who opposed the war and the monsters who market “cities built upon the blood of children.” The city in question has Arabs and Jews living by a marina. So ask the question nobody in those comments asked. What, specifically, was she supposed to have done wrong? Not visited an IDF base. Not endorsed a policy. Not said a word about Palestinians. Remove the heat and the charge reads: a woman with Jewish family advertised homes, in a Jewish city, in the Jewish state. If that sentence describes a crime against humanity, the word for what is being criminalized is not real estate. There is an irony here worth slowing down for. Paltrow built an empire on being eccentric. Goop sold jade eggs and psychic vampire repellent, and the world rolled its eyes and bought it anyway. For twenty years, none of that was held against her. Then she did the single most conventional thing of her career, a glossy ad for apartments near a park, and that is the act her industry treats as monstrous. When the normal thing becomes the unforgivable thing, and the only new ingredient is Israel, the bizarreness has switched sides. She is no longer the strange part in this story...

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.” - John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words

HORRIFYING: Eight pro-Palestinian students at the University of Michigan have been indicted for allegedly vandalizing the homes of and plotting to poison and murder members and families of the local Jewish and pro-Israeli community. The opposite would never happen, but can you imagine if it did? The country would be in an uproar. Unfortunately, the extreme violence and terrorism of the pro-Palestinian movement have been too normalized. Even worse, one of them is a former staffer for Abdul El-Sayed, the Muslim candidate for Senate in Michigan. They are now facing up to 20 years in prison.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway