Attention to the Unseen

  Houston Chronicle reports: Suddenly, Beto O’Rourke is everywhere again. He just had a rally in Philadelphia, another in Baltimore, and is planning to head off to Nebraska early next month. And he’s worked in speeches to the NAACP Convention in North Carolina and the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., and made in-person TV hits on CNN with Jake Tapper and the PBS Newshour. Over the last 30 days, he’s held 10 rallies total from Texas to the…

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The Guardian reports: More than a dozen men wearing black masks and sunglasses – obstructing any open source investigators from easily identifying them – appeared in a Telegram video in front of city hall in London, Canada, in June. “Mass deportations now,” the men yelled in unison, holding up banners with the same slogan. “No blood for Israel.” While this type of scene with masked men chanting is a relatively common occurrence in the US, this incident in Canada illustrated…

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The Guardian reports: Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor has a group of Pakistani American aunties and uncles so excited that they are wondering if they should have given their own children more freedom in choosing their careers. “What if we let our kids become politicians, and not just doctors and engineers?” a member of the grassroots political organizing group, Drum Beats, asked at a small celebration held at an Islamic school last month in…

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Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men. — Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) October 4, 2024 Its not politically correct to say, but low-iq, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties—they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for…

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Matt K. Lewis writes: [I]t’s no longer absurdly premature to start talking about succession. And, for my money, there are three leading contenders. Vice President JD Vance — seemingly the obvious successor — is clearly positioning himself as heir apparent to Trumpism 2.0: similar themes, better vocabulary, a little more polish and (crucially) a future. Tucker Carlson now also seems to be testing out what it would look like to actually run for office. And Donald Trump Jr. is lurking…

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  Calder McHugh writes: They said last year they were done with Donald Trump. They didn’t know what more they could say about him. But in the return to the airwaves of Comedy Central stalwart South Park — the first episode since March 2023 — the creators of the irreverent, long-running cartoon series just couldn’t resist. Trump is skewered for his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and he is depicted as a man who has lined the walls of the White…

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Shane Burley writes: Joshua Shanes, the director of the Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, says that while the rightward shift among American Jews (Orthodox Jews in particular) began in the 1980s, it has been supercharged under Trump. Yet he notes that there is a voluntary blindness within the community to the obvious antisemitism of the conspiratorial right. “American Jews don’t understand what actually threatens their lives,” Shanes told New Lines, adding that many…

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