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Michael Kieval

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Radical centrist. Institutions matter more than policy positions. http://mkieval.bsky.social @[email protected]

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We all collectively forgot that success isn't changing someone's mind--it's understanding and relating to each other as part of a society. The discussion is worthwhile for its own sake


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True. All the leftists just sort of expected Israel to commit a genocide in Gaza, and when it didn't, they just decided to run with it and say it did anyway.

Quote: "That Israel is perpetrating a 'genocide' in Gaza is a preposterous lie, easily disprovable to anyone not determined to believe it, but a shocking number of academics, intellectuals, Hollywood actors and Democratic politicians accept the claim.." wsj.com/opinion/2025s-…



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Gym Bro: What’s the most you’ve benched, bro? Me: Rosh Chodesh Shabbos Chanukah


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Leftists falsely claiming “genocide” to rile people up and meet their ideological goals are no different to MAGAs claiming “Haitians are eating the dogs and cats.” Two sides of the same coin, all the same rhetorical tricks.


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What’s infuriating is that a lot of the theory undergirding ‘anticolonialism’ and contemporary activism generally was predicated on semiotic theory and acceptance that all meaning is sustained by communal use. But when it’s them, suddenly only subjective intention matters.


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I feel it would wrong to use the actions of a couple of bad apples tarnish the reputation of the entire Syndney October 7 Mass March to Gas The Jews community

Were the Bondi beach terrorists at the ‘Gas the Jews’ protest in Sydney two days after October 7th? Our online investigators believe that Naveed Akram and his father Sajid Akram may have been present at the ‘Gas the Jews’ protest in Sydney on 9th October 2023. (At the time,…



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What IS a matter of principle is recognition of national/citizenship rights for the two peoples that have lived in Palestine/Israel since 1930s: Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This means opposing occupation but also recognizing the fundamental legitimacy of Israel’s existence.


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Frumside's tweet image.

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I genuinely don't care. I just want to be left alone and not dragged into this.



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these guys really believe that they can create an alternate left wing anti-semitic mirror universe where arguing about whether the Gaza War is a genocide is the same thing as denying the Holocaust. They are toddlers, who don't want to learn how the grown up world works.

Took 5 seconds to find that you really are a genocide denier. x.com/i/status/19950…



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But I think the Court's reliance on TOS is mistaken, as I have argued here: scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewconten… Interestingly, the Colorado Supreme Court in People v. Seymour relied on Google's TOS to reach the opposite result, saying it's a 4A seizure b/c the TOS suggest you have property…


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Pocket your kippah. Tuck your Star of David into your shirt. Keep your head down. That’s just some of the advice Jewish college students were given by the leaders of major Jewish organizations to weather antisemitic storms on campus. @IzaTabaro’s counter-message: Don’t hide.…


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I vividly remember attending a friend’s kid’s bar mitzvah in VA just a little after the The Tree of Life synagogue shooting & someone thanking the off duty cops outside—which I did not realize was even a thing before that—and her voice cracking as she did it and people flinching.


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Shabbat-Rosh Chodesh-Chanukah bentching is great because by the time you finish you’re milchigs again.


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I lived through Oct 7th. Never imagined I’d see this horror in Australia. Bullet grazed my head. Doctors said miracle survived, but will make recovery. Tonight is 1st night of Chanukah. The forces of darkness and hate will never triumph. We will prevail. Am Yisrael Chai ✡️

Ostrov_A's tweet image. I lived through Oct 7th. Never imagined I’d see this horror in Australia.

Bullet grazed my head. Doctors said miracle survived, but will make recovery.

Tonight is 1st night of Chanukah. The forces of darkness and hate will never triumph. We will prevail.

Am Yisrael Chai ✡️

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Reminder: This past summer, we spent at least a month discussing whether major politicians should condemn the phrase "Globalize the Intifada." Many who expressed concerns were treated as oversensitive hysterics.

A shooting at a beach in Sydney during a Hanukkah celebration killed 10 people and injured 60 more. One of the shooters was disarmed by a passerby. What a horrible tragedy. Deepest condolences to the victims and their loved ones. So much violence in the world. We must make the…



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A day after the Signal chat story was published, U.S. Africa Command conducted multiple airstrikes against ISIS affiliates. I FOIAed for info similar to the Yemen info that officials said was unclassified. I was told it would harm national security. cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-…

JimLaPorta's tweet image. A day after the Signal chat story was published, U.S. Africa Command conducted multiple airstrikes against ISIS affiliates. I FOIAed for info similar to the Yemen info that officials said was unclassified. I was told it would harm national security. cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-…
JimLaPorta's tweet image. A day after the Signal chat story was published, U.S. Africa Command conducted multiple airstrikes against ISIS affiliates. I FOIAed for info similar to the Yemen info that officials said was unclassified. I was told it would harm national security. cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-…

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8/ A public service reminder: This entire exercise is Alice in Wonderland for legal experts. That's because the truth is: It's not an armed conflict. The laws of war thus don't apply. The more restrictive rules of human rights apply. It's extrajudicial killing.


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Valuing accurate information can't be mandated by statutes Caring about accuracy must be a CULTURAL value that is nurtured in homes, education institutions, and work places Choices & behaviors of AUDIENCES impact whether more accurate info wins in the attention economy (or not)


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Pete Hegseth should resign or be impeached and removed. Even if it were politically motivated, it would not be unlawful to make such a video. His effort to mislead millions of Americans about the Constitution, the freedom of speech, and the basic operation of law is abhorrent.

The despicable video urging @DeptofWar troops to “refuse illegal orders” may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military. This was a politically-motivated influence operation: ☑️ It never named a specific “illegal order.” ☑️ It created…



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So do I! Wait what's your reason

I cringe every time I hear the term "Judeo-Christian." On what basis is the Western moral system Judeo-Christian and not Roman-Christian or (probably more accurately) Aristotelean-Christian?



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