Welp

If only there had been some signs.

People who know Obama say he has been surprised and appalled in how many of the rich people who now form his social circle have made concessions to Trump. He’s reaching out to business and other institutional leaders, urging them not to bend to the current administration even if it helps their bottom lines.

One of Obama's flaws is that he is an elitest. He does believe the rich guys in nice suits should run the world, and that they will do it competently and benevolently.

Not sure how he came to that conclusion.

Dear JD Vance,

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally…

— Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) October 31, 2025

Mayor Mamdani

The likely result on Tuesday. Many of our "vote blue no matter who" favorites have behaved very badly in all of this, and that should not be forgotten. Islamophobia never stopped being "respectable," and that goes beyond any issues related to Israel or American Jews.

Though there are many who think "the more Muslim you are, the more antisemitic you are" by definition. 

The "Islamophobic" label is for them .

Unreality

One of the unrealities that our media embraces - and it is mostly pretending not to understand things, not actually failing to understand them - is that a conservative movement and administration filled with actual Nazis can genuinely be interested in things like "fighting antisemitism on college campuses."

Every time the New York Times, for example, puts a phrase like that in the newspaper, are they informing readers? If not, what are they doing? What do they think they are doing?

Morning

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