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I mean that NYC DSA, in all of its official capacities, disagrees strongly with describing Oct 7th as "war crimes" committed by Hamas. Isn't that an accurate statement of their position?

Right, what he said literally also applies to Westboro Baptist! Living their values by protesting at funerals.

Fictional Oscars to rank entries in a long-running franchise, you say?

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Yeah, polarization is at the heart of all this. No one can fairly expect Mamdani to become "pro-Israel" by any reasonable definition, but there are ways to speak publicly about it that don't always default to zero-sum. I'm sure he's capable of understanding that, but so far not mature enough.

The legitimately critical view is that he has not shifted his approach from activist to mayor. Activists always prioritize their own side's suffering, but with a huge constituency as an elected, it's reasonable to ask that he not keep relativizing one side's trauma EVERY time he speaks about it.

Hat tip to them for doing the one thing I'm truly invested in during every postseason: eliminating the Yankees.

Ha, right, and bizarrely Ionescu went 2-6 -- a 90% shooter! Angel's mean-mugging is hilarious, it's way more fun now that she's on a legit contender.

Bizarre ending...no timeout by NY? Clutch plays from Angel though.

My Kentucky homie Rhyne may've gotten away with the people's elbow.

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How did that last shot not go in...serious regret for ATL if they don't win this.

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Bizarre stat from the FT line: Ionescu 2-6?! She's a 90% shooter!

Jewish self-determination in Israel is a fact regardless of what Mamdani or anyone else thinks. His actual words have condemned Oct 7th, so it would be worth focusing public attention on how many of his supporters are pro-Oct 7th to get him to keep repeating it and driving them apart.

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You got me there, I don't understand what could possibly be the point you think you're making.

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DC residents can get a card at my local library, which gives free access directly to WSJ (plus some other papers including NYT). I checked DC library online and they have WSJ archive(?) access, or something, but seemingly not as direct as this. mcpl.aspendiscovery.org/WallStreetJo...

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I think Jewish leaders have mistakenly missed the chance to drive a wedge that he's opened up with his admissions that Oct 7th was a war crime + Hamas killed innocents. His activist base DOES NOT believe those things, AT ALL, and highlighting that could raise a cost to him for discussing it at all.

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Then we're disagreeing on where the antisemitism is here. I do not agree that someone who admits Hamas committed war crimes is being antisemitic.

You can bang your head against the wall but he and others won't stop saying those things. The ship has long since sailed on when pushback could achieve that. But a key wedge to push that's been missed is the split between what even he admits about Hamas and what loudmouth activist nuts still say.

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My own preference is to focus on the things he does say -- Oct 7th constituted "horrific war crimes," and that Hamas committed them -- that the activist circles he comes from VEHEMENTLY disagree with.

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By "fissured" do you mean that if there's peace with the Palestinians, that it would hasten/bring about collapse in Israel?

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Clair's movie uses Christie's ending from her own stage adaptation, while the 2015 TV series does stick much closer to the book. I liked the series cast a lot but thought the flashback killings were too blunt -- one eerily powerful effect of the book is they'd all gotten away with "indirect" murder.

The psychological intensity of the book is incredibly relentless. Clair did pretty well in portraying the mechanics of the story, but the greatness of the book is pretty elusive when trying to make it visual.

Haggai Elitzur @helitzur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You may not know the crazy drama of Maradona's peak years at Napoli, the place on Earth that worships him the most, maybe even more than Argentina. This article appears to be from before he passed away; within days of his death, Napoli re-named their stadium after him. www.goal.com/story/diegom...

JFK over FDR, the curse of the Boomers.

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Vance sent out a direct appeal fundraising alarm to Idaho just last week: idahocapitalsun.com/2026/09/30/i...

A few days ago @tbonier.bsky.social said it's the opposite one NJ district, that GOP mail vote is lagging from 2022 while Dems are at the same level as then: bsky.app/profile/tbon...

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Have you seen this lesser-known Sirk? Until a lame last-second sellout, it's a very mature and involving exploration of those themes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fir...

Towne was undeniably a great screenwriter, but Sam Wasson's recent Chinatown book had some fascinating details about Edward Taylor, Towne's close friend who was a major contributor to a lot of his scripts as well. Good summary here: themillions.com/2020/04/does...

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It was a lot more appropriate in the '70s that Conway & Loretta were the same age, although a lot of Conway Twitty's solo lyrics were very pre-code and probably prosecutable by today's standards...

I was in winter break from grad school, had been out for a while and came home to my mom asking "did you see the news?" (about Livingston) as she laughed. I was totally confused until she filled me in, at which point I also burst out laughing.

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Brazilian diminutives in particular are great. They probably all sound similarly mundane to native speakers, while for us they range from wonderfully florid (Vava, Zico, Deco) to literally "Jo" or "Fred."

Which Frederico did you have in mind? I've always been amused by the fact that multiple Brazilian footballers have been known professionally as just "Fred."

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You're the only here who's mentioned a "get out of jail-free" card. A historical researcher should probably understand that the Palestinian/Arab position in 1947 and decades after was 100% anti-partition, a logically consistent position that cannot be reconciled with "it was just a bad deal."

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Right, and while I don't know about Guthrie in particular, Hollywood communists flipped back + forth consistent with approved Soviet positions: anti-Nazi/fascist and pro-supplying their opponents (e.g. Spanish Civil War), until joining with US isolationists as pro-"stay out" post-Hitler/Stalin pact.

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It might also help to acknowledge the reality of who rejected partition when it was internationally adopted in 1947.

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Is that true? I know little about him, but I do know a lot about entertainment politics in Hollywood in the '30s. A broad anti-fascist front among liberals + communists loudly opposed conservative isolationists, until it fractured in 1939 when the reds flipped sides to support the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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I was surprised that the vote was actually kind of close, roughly 1000-800. Though not surprising at all that radicals are more interested in pressing their factional majority than in even mildly acknowledging any need for internal consensus.

Connery was a trailblazer in Scottish appropriation of Irish eyebrow culture.

His pre-Bond eyebrows were as out of control as any movie monster ever made.

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Is there any chance that particular insert was added or edited post-facto, maybe sometime in 1915, for a re-issue with a "WE CALLED IT!" publicity campaign?

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Walking Sanchez was deadly. Can't put a barely over .200 guy on there and expect to get away with it.