The Harvard professor who says dismissing aliens is arrogant. Eli Lake on Iran’s secret weapon. Al Gore’s climate legacy, 20 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ And more.
"Twenty years ago, Al Gore’s 'An Inconvenient Truth' turned climate change into a defining political issue."
Twenty years ago, Al Gore told us that we were ten years away from the "tipping point." We're still being told that we're ten years away from the tipping point.
I just can't bring myself to care anything about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It's a collection of liars for whom I wouldn't urinate in their ears if their brains were on fire.
An interesting post from Matt Yglesias this morning on the proximate cause of Palestinian suffering makes for a great comparison across his audience and Free Press readers at https://votto.app/freepress -- two new questions added:
1) Palestinian suffering is primarily the result of bad-faith Israeli diplomacy.
2) Palestinian suffering is primarily the result of Arab leaders refusing to accept the outcome of the 1948 war and build from there.
Respond to takes like these and explore how responses diverge across different groups, both among Free Press readers + other communities. Check it out if you like interesting cross-tabs and cool charts! Free Press readers have absolutely fascinating splits against other communities, and I'm a total nerd for visualizing stuff like this.
Wait! I thought AI knowledge was perfect, the answer to human fallibility. Allow me to lump the Dell and Sullivan & Cromwell stories together and note that an error in citation is one thing; an error in surgery quite another. I’ll keep that in mind if ever I need to get my appendix yanked in Austin.
The Texas redistricting had more to do with correcting past wrongs. The previous district lines were ordered by a judge to artificially increase black and Hispanic representation, and was widely viewed as a gross injustice. The recent effort corrects this injustice and restores a more fair representation.
I notice that liberals only consider gerrymandering to be unfair when it doesn't go their way.
Today, six Dems and five Republicans hold house seats in VA, a ratio pretty well reflected in the vote. This time next year, that ratio could very well be 10:1. Virginia, you’re starting to look like New England.
I strongly recommend that ppl read Matti Friedman essay on Gazology
the only sentence I take issue with is the one towards the end after the describing the “ Gazology “ books that describe the suffering of the Gazan mothers
“ The correct response to these suffering people is compassion”
I don’t think there is one “ correct response”
I have no compassion for Gazans and I’m not ashamed to post it
Nor do i hate them
I see their entrenched evil- that no peace loving ppl could live with
I see that Israel has no choice but to take care of business -preferably to emigrate them to Jordan -which is already and originally set up as “ palestinian” and much much bigger than tiny Israel
I see no utility in making empty statements about “compassion”
the ancient Jewish Sages teach us
"Anyone who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate" (often rendered as "kind to the cruel") “
I’m a realist
It’s crucial to know the enemy
These mothers in Gaza raise Their children to despise and kill my people-they dehumanize themselves all by themselves
We jews cannot fix the jew hatred sickness -that pervades the entire society -it is why they exist
Or if they hadn't kicked all the whites out of Haiti and made it a 100% Afro-Caribbean ethno state. They have almost no engineers, technocrats, or statesmen. Just a bunch of ignorant, unskilled people scrambling to stay alive.
I certainly hope there are aliens. Can you imagine if the human race really is the most intelligent beings in the entire galaxy? What a cosmic joke that would be....
SPLC- seriously? Going all Jussie Smollett on the country...but apparently according to its acolytes this is payback because they listed TPUSA as a far right threat to the country. But then again it also listed Ayaan Hirsi Ali as an antiMuslim extremist. And lost the defamation lawsuit brought by Maajid Nawaz when they listed him in their hater profile as well. The problem is, if you dont view the country threw a lens of the extreme left SPLC considers you a hate group whether you are or not.
Wait- so when republicans redistrict for the midterms in Texas its evil, horrible and undemocratic, but when Virginia does it, its Angelic and heaven sent? Its not a wonder most people think that politicians suck.
Good point. I forgot about California. Massachusetts is looney tunes but California is looney tunes on steroids. There's my mixed metaphor for the day!
“The unlikely Americans standing behind Haitian immigrants.”
What makes it unlikely? Is because they are Christians or is it because they are Trump voters? Numerous polls suggest that while a super majority of Americans wanted border control, enforced laws and deportation of violent criminals, a significant majority does not support deporting non-violent immigrants. Trump voters and Christian voters cannot be lumped into the false media “Christian nationalist” stereotype of a Trump supporter.
The Free Press rightly fights against anti-Semitism and Jewish stereotypes. Perhaps “The Editors” could extend the same principles to Christians?
True. What’s really fascinating about this dynamic here is that they obviously have TDS and talk about Trump supporters with the same condescending elitist attitude that Democrats have. However, Trump has been the best president for supporting Israel in my lifetime. I can’t help but wonder what they will do when Trump finishes job with Iran.
On forgets that the Haitians were brought here temporarily, until the Clinton Foundation and George Bush, built the housing paid for by taxpayers and blackmailers! Then they were supposed to return to a paradise of new housing, businesses and jobs!
Seems only the Clintons got richer, and the Haitians got scammed!
The people of northern Virginia, plus those living in Norfolk, Richmond and a few other Democrat strongholds, like Charlottesville, stuck it to everyone else, approving gerrymandering by a margin of 51.5 to 48.5. This was raw democracy in action and the result will by anything but democratic. And anyone who believes the Dems, having once "restored fairness" to national elections, will revert after the next census to the bipartisan redistricting system adopted in 2020 is also stupid enough to have believed Abigal Spanberger when she said she was a moderate. I fled the Old Dominion, my home, a few years back when I saw the Dems were hell-bent on turning it into California. But even the Golden State's descent into a Progressive Hell wasn't executed as quickly as they are trying in Virginia. The Dems pushed on with this initiative despite a court injunction against it, breaking all the rules about ballot initiatives because the Virginia Supreme Court declined to intervene pending the special election. Truly chickenshit and truly inexplicable. The litigation isn't over, and there may be a chance the court will stop this insanity before the Virginia Constitution is amended to enshrine this travesty. Virginians are learning good and hard that elections have consequences, something they forgot last November. Whether that knowledge ever has future utility for them remains to be seen. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-special-elections/virginia-ballot-measures
The redistricting will strip almost all Republican representation from the state. The Democrats are saying "Ha ha we won" as though elections are a winner-take-all, losers-go-to-hell type of event. It will only damage the state in the long run.
"Twenty years ago, Al Gore’s 'An Inconvenient Truth' turned climate change into a defining political issue."
Twenty years ago, Al Gore told us that we were ten years away from the "tipping point." We're still being told that we're ten years away from the tipping point.
Transcript button -- thanks! It's about time.
I just can't bring myself to care anything about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It's a collection of liars for whom I wouldn't urinate in their ears if their brains were on fire.
An interesting post from Matt Yglesias this morning on the proximate cause of Palestinian suffering makes for a great comparison across his audience and Free Press readers at https://votto.app/freepress -- two new questions added:
1) Palestinian suffering is primarily the result of bad-faith Israeli diplomacy.
2) Palestinian suffering is primarily the result of Arab leaders refusing to accept the outcome of the 1948 war and build from there.
Respond to takes like these and explore how responses diverge across different groups, both among Free Press readers + other communities. Check it out if you like interesting cross-tabs and cool charts! Free Press readers have absolutely fascinating splits against other communities, and I'm a total nerd for visualizing stuff like this.
Thanks VERY MUCH for adding transcripts!
Wait! I thought AI knowledge was perfect, the answer to human fallibility. Allow me to lump the Dell and Sullivan & Cromwell stories together and note that an error in citation is one thing; an error in surgery quite another. I’ll keep that in mind if ever I need to get my appendix yanked in Austin.
Virginians just voted to strip the Republicans of almost all representation in their state. How fair and enlightened.
Yes, it's unfortunate. Also, foreseeable once red states like Texas began the process at Trump's urging.
The Texas redistricting had more to do with correcting past wrongs. The previous district lines were ordered by a judge to artificially increase black and Hispanic representation, and was widely viewed as a gross injustice. The recent effort corrects this injustice and restores a more fair representation.
I notice that liberals only consider gerrymandering to be unfair when it doesn't go their way.
I am always amused at the argument, I know we did it to but in this case we were justified.
I think all gerrymandering is unfair. But to watch red states all across the country do it without expecting a response is naive.
Today, six Dems and five Republicans hold house seats in VA, a ratio pretty well reflected in the vote. This time next year, that ratio could very well be 10:1. Virginia, you’re starting to look like New England.
Or the inverse of Texas, this was all started by Texas.
I strongly recommend that ppl read Matti Friedman essay on Gazology
the only sentence I take issue with is the one towards the end after the describing the “ Gazology “ books that describe the suffering of the Gazan mothers
“ The correct response to these suffering people is compassion”
I don’t think there is one “ correct response”
I have no compassion for Gazans and I’m not ashamed to post it
Nor do i hate them
I see their entrenched evil- that no peace loving ppl could live with
I see that Israel has no choice but to take care of business -preferably to emigrate them to Jordan -which is already and originally set up as “ palestinian” and much much bigger than tiny Israel
I see no utility in making empty statements about “compassion”
the ancient Jewish Sages teach us
"Anyone who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate" (often rendered as "kind to the cruel") “
I’m a realist
It’s crucial to know the enemy
These mothers in Gaza raise Their children to despise and kill my people-they dehumanize themselves all by themselves
We jews cannot fix the jew hatred sickness -that pervades the entire society -it is why they exist
Modern Jew-hate comes from two sources: a hyper-amplified influencer fringe and the Islamic money that fuels and supports it.
And many of our teachers
Wow. Imagine how much better Haiti might be if all that Clinton Foundation money had actually made it there...
Or if they hadn't kicked all the whites out of Haiti and made it a 100% Afro-Caribbean ethno state. They have almost no engineers, technocrats, or statesmen. Just a bunch of ignorant, unskilled people scrambling to stay alive.
I certainly hope there are aliens. Can you imagine if the human race really is the most intelligent beings in the entire galaxy? What a cosmic joke that would be....
SPLC- seriously? Going all Jussie Smollett on the country...but apparently according to its acolytes this is payback because they listed TPUSA as a far right threat to the country. But then again it also listed Ayaan Hirsi Ali as an antiMuslim extremist. And lost the defamation lawsuit brought by Maajid Nawaz when they listed him in their hater profile as well. The problem is, if you dont view the country threw a lens of the extreme left SPLC considers you a hate group whether you are or not.
Wait- so when republicans redistrict for the midterms in Texas its evil, horrible and undemocratic, but when Virginia does it, its Angelic and heaven sent? Its not a wonder most people think that politicians suck.
Love transcripts! Thanks!
I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.
I'll take anyone other than EITHER group, thanks. Massachusetts liberals are some of the worst, most hateful hard core fanatics in the country.
That's hard to argue with, but Cali gives them a run for their money
Good point. I forgot about California. Massachusetts is looney tunes but California is looney tunes on steroids. There's my mixed metaphor for the day!
“The unlikely Americans standing behind Haitian immigrants.”
What makes it unlikely? Is because they are Christians or is it because they are Trump voters? Numerous polls suggest that while a super majority of Americans wanted border control, enforced laws and deportation of violent criminals, a significant majority does not support deporting non-violent immigrants. Trump voters and Christian voters cannot be lumped into the false media “Christian nationalist” stereotype of a Trump supporter.
The Free Press rightly fights against anti-Semitism and Jewish stereotypes. Perhaps “The Editors” could extend the same principles to Christians?
'extend the same principles to Christians'.......that's a big ask from TFP. Just sayin.......
True. What’s really fascinating about this dynamic here is that they obviously have TDS and talk about Trump supporters with the same condescending elitist attitude that Democrats have. However, Trump has been the best president for supporting Israel in my lifetime. I can’t help but wonder what they will do when Trump finishes job with Iran.
On forgets that the Haitians were brought here temporarily, until the Clinton Foundation and George Bush, built the housing paid for by taxpayers and blackmailers! Then they were supposed to return to a paradise of new housing, businesses and jobs!
Seems only the Clintons got richer, and the Haitians got scammed!
"You effed up, you trusted us."-- Liberals
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the transcripts.
The people of northern Virginia, plus those living in Norfolk, Richmond and a few other Democrat strongholds, like Charlottesville, stuck it to everyone else, approving gerrymandering by a margin of 51.5 to 48.5. This was raw democracy in action and the result will by anything but democratic. And anyone who believes the Dems, having once "restored fairness" to national elections, will revert after the next census to the bipartisan redistricting system adopted in 2020 is also stupid enough to have believed Abigal Spanberger when she said she was a moderate. I fled the Old Dominion, my home, a few years back when I saw the Dems were hell-bent on turning it into California. But even the Golden State's descent into a Progressive Hell wasn't executed as quickly as they are trying in Virginia. The Dems pushed on with this initiative despite a court injunction against it, breaking all the rules about ballot initiatives because the Virginia Supreme Court declined to intervene pending the special election. Truly chickenshit and truly inexplicable. The litigation isn't over, and there may be a chance the court will stop this insanity before the Virginia Constitution is amended to enshrine this travesty. Virginians are learning good and hard that elections have consequences, something they forgot last November. Whether that knowledge ever has future utility for them remains to be seen. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-special-elections/virginia-ballot-measures
The redistricting will strip almost all Republican representation from the state. The Democrats are saying "Ha ha we won" as though elections are a winner-take-all, losers-go-to-hell type of event. It will only damage the state in the long run.