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Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants.

Miss Rachel is honored for the Glamour Woman of the Year 2025 Award. This is a well-deserved distinction. She is like a modern Mr. Rogers, and she grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Her journey began with a YouTube channel aimed at helping her son with a speech delay, which has since grown into a global movement. Her work has empowered millions of children and their parents, making her a role model for compassion and creativity in education. 

At the Glamour Women of the Year ceremony, Ms. Rachel made a lasting impression with her gown embroidered with drawings from children in Gaza, symbolizing hope and resilience. She expressed her pride in sharing art from these children and their stories during her Instagram story post.

That was not before StopAntisemitism has conducted a hate and smear campaign against her.  Miss Rachel said she's willing to risk her career to keep advocating for kids in Gaza. She’s faced pushback for speaking out about the struggles children are facing due to conflict and lack of resources.

Twilight of the Shadow Government, by Kevin Shipp and Kent Heckenlively, is a notable and provocative contribution to the limited body of literature critical of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its significance rests largely on Shipp’s background: he is a former CIA officer who served for approximately seventeen years in senior roles, making him a rare example of a high-level insider willing to publicly criticize the agency.

Shipp’s career reportedly ended after he attempted to alert superiors to a vulnerability that he believed endangered CIA assets. According to his account, his concerns were unwelcome, and the agency retaliated in ways that placed both him and his family at risk, ultimately resulting in his forced departure from the CIA. While readers must evaluate such claims carefully, his narrative is detailed and internally consistent, lending it a degree of credibility.

Something extraordinary — and deeply concerning — is happening beneath the surface of American election administration.

Federal officials — and unnamed contractors — would then flag voters as allegedly ineligible. States would be expected to remove those voters within 45 days, then resubmit their voter lists to DOJ for approval.

This is not a technical adjustment.

It is a structural shift of power.

The Trump family is now directly investing in atomic energy.  Its money-losing Truth Social company has become a part owner of a major fusion nuclear power project.

Among much more, the investments mean the Trump family stands to profit directly from White House attacks on wind, solar and other cheap, clean renewable energies which for decades have been driving fusion, fission and fossil fuels toward economic oblivion.

Crime Minister Netanyahu told the UN recently that Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christians feel safe. He even asserted that. He even has the nerve to claim that Israel is the guardian of Christianity. "No, Israel is not the guardian of Christianity," and Netanyahu is a habitual liar. He denied the IDF has thousands of children in Gaza even though the IDF admitted recently that over 83% of people killed in Gaza were civilians. And who can forget in 2015 when he suggested it was not Hitler's idea to slaughter Jews, but it was rather the idea of Jerusalem’s then-Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini who met with the Nazi leader in Germany in the early 1940s. A bird flies and Bibi lies!

Yesterday, Israeli Police attacked Christians celebrating Christmas in Haifa's Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. On Monday evening, the Police broke into a cultural center where a Christmas show was on based on a "noise complaint," destroyed musical equipment and arrested 3 participants, including one dressed as Santa Claus.

Another travel day today but here we go:

We covered yesterday the current CBS scandal, after Bari Weiss pulled a “6o Minutes” segment on CECOT torture etc. at the last minute largely because there wasn’t enough appearances by Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. But, big whoopsie, it turns out the program had already been sent to some outlets in Canada, which aired it, and some eagle-eyed viewers taped it off the TV. A full and clear version here at the Internet Archive. 

Heather Cox Richardson:

https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/a-bari-bari-flub-goes-viral