David Brody

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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.

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And the answer is simple: it’s because his beard and muscles and aesthetically blue collar oyster job make dweebs in Dem politics feel tough. Irresistible to men desperately insecure about their own masculinity because they subconsciously embrace MAGA’s core gender politics

The U.S. Military's Great Tomahawk Missile Shortage Looks Inevitable Thanks to the Iran War 400 missiles in 3 days. 10% of the fleet gone. Steve Balestrieri breaks down the Tomahawk production crisis threatening U.S. readiness in 2026.

"With 400 missiles fired from Navy destroyers and submarines in three days, the U.S. has consumed a decade of production at current rates."

www.19fortyfive.com/2026/03/the-...

Noem is gonna be sent to New Mexico to intercept Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The FTC is responsible for policing the entire tech industry (and many other things), which includes regulating the safety, consumer protection, and privacy of the AI platforms that are currently driving most of the US economy.

This war costs double the annual budget of the FTC, per day.

Yes, and, it’s possible to be an antisemite without being a Nazi. Most antisemites aren’t Nazis. Grim is flattening the landscape to drive a wedge in a gross way that disregards legitimate concerns about bigotry.

I got a fully loaded 1998 Volvo station wagon to go over 100 mph.

How many of those voters are there in specific swing states? And how many nonvoters are available to mobilize in those states and what are their views?

Unless you have concrete data to support your claim, this is just a BS strawman argument to give an excuse to ignore Platner’s offensive acts.

Also, and this is secondary to the fact that leading left wing pundits like Grim are expressly normalizing antisemitism, but this wasn't just an antisemitic podcast, it was wildly anti-Black, too

Tweet from Ryan Grim: "Understand what Neera is arguing for here: she thinks that no Democratic candidate should appear on any podcast where a host has flirted with conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk and Israel. I don't think she understands how many podcasts that includes. And if you make the opposite argument, and say no, actually, tens of millions of people love those shows, Democrats should be on them, she says I'm "defending anti-semitic conspiracy podcasters." The good news is that this stuff doesn't work anymore. Save your breath, nobody cares."

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

"This stuff doesn't work anymore. Nobody cares" is explicitly nazi rhetoric, which ought to surprise nobody at all coming from Ryan Grim

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

One was a cook in the Navy in the Pacific in WWII and then was a shoe salesman.

The other was an electrical engineer who designed the lighting systems for the Verrazano Bridge and World Trade Center.

This sucks. The Children’s Museum is an awesome play space for kids. In particular it’s one of the few great indoor play spaces in town for bad weather days.

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I mean, you don’t need a fancy AI for that. It’s a war of aggression w/o Congressional authorization, so automatically none of it is legal.

Toronto Synagogue Is Damaged by Gunfire on Night of Jewish Holiday

At this point, we just have to assume that every Jewish holiday results in some attack on a Diaspora Jewish community: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Toronto synagogue struck by gunfire, police investigating Toronto police are investigating after a synagogue in North York was struck by gunfire late Monday night.

I will never understand how we have reached the point in Canada where synagogue shootings have become so common that they fail to shock. Yet many politicians still stay on the sidelines and those who regularly speak out on social justice remain silent.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Remember what I was saying? $80 billion in debt with $30 billion in revenue (not profit) and a $15 billion market cap?

They're dead. Even if they panic and try to spin off all of the properties they just bought, they'll never come close to profitable.

This is why Netflix walked away.

This one is pretty good re modern social justice themes, and it’s not very long, except it glosses over the traditional storytelling component, so it’s not well suited to Pesach newbies (or kids).
www.amazon.com/Gates-Freedo...

Hold on, lemme go find my box of high school mementos in the basement so I can dust off my antiwar protest signs. A bit of white out can change the Q to an N.

Like if another candidate for office put me in this advertisement I would probably say something.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Department is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down the president’s actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

sure is just as well that no big name law firms immediately capitulated to these unlawful actions, thus signalling both their cowardice *and* incompetence.

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168 killed at girls' elementary school in Iran

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Also 5/6 are white and 5/6 are male.

I mean, this has been up on YouTube for a month.

And the Collins oppo and attack machine hasn’t even turned on yet.

Matthew Kassel, who has done the key stories on Platner's knowledge of his tattoo and now on this podcast is someone I worked with many years back. He is a solid reporter who also happens to be Jewish. Many people ignored reporting and concerns from Jewish people and outlets here.

I’ve heard anecdotally in a few different ways that in the Biden-to-tech revolving door, A-team people went to Anthropic and B-C team went to Open AI. Personnel is policy.

Not beating the rap that he isn’t an antisemite.