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Category Archives: Media Criticism
“Free Palestine”
What it really means:
“Free Palestine.”
— Rawan Osman روان عثمان (@RawaneOsmane) May 25, 2026
I grew up on those words.
In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who… pic.twitter.com/KTwBrwKbJG
Why Democrats Need To Call Republicans “Nazis”
As has oft been said: They don’t try to eliminate people because they’re Nazis; they call them Nazis so they can eliminate them.
Democrats NEED to call Republicans “Nazis,” and the inverse is not true because it’s unnecessary.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 24, 2026
I’ll explain.
Republicans freed the slaves. Republicans won the Civil War and magnanimously reconciled with the losing Democrats even though they did not need to. Republicans…
The Church Of TDS
The Colbert show, explained:
I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation.
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) May 23, 2026
I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million… pic.twitter.com/UnOQ3PGk7O
“Starship Is Going Nowhere”
I gave up on this Elon-deranged nonsense after the paragraph in which he demonstrated his profound ignorance of orbital mechanics and the rocket equation, because I’m at an AIAA conference all week and don’t have time to properly fisk it, but have at it in comments.
The New Anti-Semitism
[Update Saturday afternoon]
Israel knows a defamation case won’t fly. That’s not the play.
Hamas’s Failure
Hamas captured documents show they believed they could destroy Israel with their October 7th attack, sought more Iran, Hezzbollah, others. But Israel was not destroyed and all the terrorists with their big plans are dead, their organizations decimated, dismantled, or greatly… pic.twitter.com/vnYtVBAVOb
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 13, 2026
Hopefully, the end point of this will be the end of its, and the other terrorists’ sponsor in Tehran.
The New Democrat Party
Captain Kelly Strikes Again
I hope that he is charged with revealing classified information.
Kelly is turning out to be the worst former astronaut in history, I think. Hard to think of anyone worse. https://t.co/MQMzoTKlDk
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) May 12, 2026
The New Iran “Deal”
Yes, Donald, stop talking about a deal with Iran. Just defeat them.
[Update a couple minutes later[
Win or lose, the old Iranian regime’s fate is sealed.
And yes, it should be viewed as an opportunity for UN reform.
[Update a while later]
The shadow cabinet of Soros (which lies at the root of a lot of this mess). DataRepublican follows the money.