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He hears the silence howling, catches tabbies as they fall …





Ed: We’re going to wait a full week, eh? Well, as long as we’re not expecting anything else other than Iran’s version of the Hamas Hokey Pokey, and as long as the blockade remains in place, why not? Maybe Israel will achieve its objectives in Lebanon by then. Otherwise, I remain skeptical of any agreement with the IRGC. 

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WSJ: President Trump said the U.S. has had “good talks” with Iranian negotiators and the country has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon. “They can’t have nuclear weapons,” Trump said, repeating a red line that he has set. “They’ve agreed to that, among other things.” Iran claims its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes.

“They want to make a deal badly and we’ll see if we get there,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, while flanked by UFC fighters. Trump said that the U.S. had won the conflict, because the leadership of Iran had been killed. “Their first-level leaders are dead, their second-level leaders are dead, some of their third-level leaders are dead—I call that regime change,” Trump said.

Ed: The questions this raises are: Who agreed to end the nuclear weapons program, and can they deliver? The IRGC insists that it will never give up their nuclear ambitions, so it seems unlikely that anyone who negotiated that can deliver on that promise. Trump is correct that we have seen a leadership change, but it’s really the same regime. It has the same nature, the same ambitions, and the same tyrannical power. 

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… that President Trump is firm about his red lines, foremost among them the removal of nuclear material.”

Ed: He’d better be. Anything short of the verified removal of all highly enriched uranium will be just another Obamaesque JCPOA. 





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We suspect the President is letting the Iranians save face. The enemy just yesterday said they controlled the Strait, that was obviously a lie, and watching the Americans escort ship after ship out of the Gulf and them not being able to do anything about that was going to be humiliating.

Not only were they going to lose whatever military prestige they had left in the region, their negotiators weren’t going to be able to fight for their position after they lost their last bargaining chip.

The commander-in-chief must believe that the Iranians are serious about surrendering if he is going to pause Project Freedom for the sake of the deal, because you could also continue Project Freedom during the negotiations.

Ed: I suspect the same thing, and that’s a real problem. The only way to end the Islamist threat posed primarily by the IRGC is to destroy it, and to do so in a humiliating enough fashion to deter Muslims from gravitating toward Islamist groups in the future. This is a generational opportunity to defeat not just the IRGC but the entire theo-ideological construct of radical Islam. Watters hit the nail on the head yesterday, but I’m not sure he grasps the danger and the opportunity costs in this approach. 

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Ed: I agree … if indeed we get rid of the crazy country, or more accurately, its crazy regime. The IRGC remains in control of Iran, however, so we have yet to realize any firm long-term benefit from the war, except a temporary degradation of their military and industrial capacity. 

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Jerusalem Post: The Islamic regime tortured and mistreated prisoners ahead of their execution on Saturday, according to letters and recorded phone calls shared with The Jerusalem Post by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) on Wednesday.





Yaghoub Karimpour, 43, and Nasser Bakerzadeh, 26, were hanged on Saturday, and Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, 28, was executed on Sunday in Orumiyeh Central Prison. All three men were able to speak with the KHRN before their executions.

None of the men’s loved ones were informed of the execution, despite Iranian law guaranteeing families a final visit, the organization noted, and the men had not known about their execution when KHRN Rebin Rahmani spoke with them the Saturday before they were killed.

The Islamic regime tortured Yaghoub Karimpour, a disabled Azerbaijani Turkic citizen accused of sharing intelligence with Mossad, before his execution, according to a letter penned by Karimpour in January and shared with the Post.

Ed: The NCRI has been raising these issues with every execution that the IRGC conducts since the uprising in January. This is the nature of the military junta under Ahmad Vahidi, and that nature matters when it comes to relying on the good faith of its negotiators. They don’t have any scruples at all except power and no ambition except its exercise. 

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Axios: Physical assaults against Jewish people in the U.S. last year reached the highest levels since 1979, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Wednesday.

Why it matters: An overall decline in anti-Jewish harassment and vandalism didn’t extend to a reduction in violence.

ADL counted 6,274 antisemitic incidents in 2025, down 33% from 2024, but still the third-highest year on record.

Last year saw 203 anti-Jewish assaults, up from 196 in 2024. 32 of those assaults involved deadly weapons, up from 23 in 2024.

Zoom in: Three people were killed in antisemitic attacks in 2025, the survey found. It was the first year since 2019 that Jewish people were murdered in the U.S. due to antisemitic violence.

Ed: Interestingly, the number of incidents on college campuses plummeted by 66% in the same period. Why? Because Trump and Linda McMahon forced accountability onto colleges that sat by and allowed Jews to be attacked by anti-Semites. They are paying through the nose over their refusal to enforce Title VI protections. If we want to see these numbers decrease more dramatically, we need to intensify those disincentives. 





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Ed: Rufo has more here on this story. Why does any chapter of CAIR, which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation scheme to fund Hamas, get a single dime of government money in the US at any level? Shouldn’t Newsom be forced to answer that question, especially since this is precisely what it funds?

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Ed: I’m still wondering what words Billoo had in mind for the Joooooos that can’t be used on social media. This is a hate group operating in the open. 

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Free Beacon: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has quietly pulled an official landing page promoting New York City’s business ties to Israel, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

The page, which dates back to former mayor Eric Adams’s administration, once lived on the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s (EDC) website and touted the city’s close business and cultural ties to Israel—relations which had been a priority for Adams. …

Mamdani—a longtime antagonist to Israel who has falsely accused the country of committing genocide, refused to disavow the slogan “globalize the intifada,” which he says is “misunderstood,” and said he’d have the NYPD arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in Gotham—appears to be less interested in promoting New York’s Israel ties, as the page was quietly disappeared sometime after he took office.





Those looking for the page today will instead be greeted by a message reading “access denied.”

Ed: Jews in New York had better get used to that response as long as voters keep electing hard-Left progressives to office. That’s especially true with Mamdani, but it’s not exclusively true. 

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Ed: That’s practically an endorsement these days. Maybe the SPLC should save up its legal resources to deal with the tax consequences of the business model that just got exposed by the Department of Justice, too. That’s free advice from me to the SPLC. They’re gonna need it as states like Florida start checking their own tax records. 

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Ed: The lone voice of moral courage left in the Democrat Party speaks prophetically to those who have already sold out for TDS. 

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Warren Kinsella at The Free Press: In the past, white supremacists and Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis lost more battles than they won. They would run for political office and usually come last, or close to it. They would try to promote hate in a classroom and get fired. They would stand on street corners shouting about conspiracies and get laughed at, ignored, and sometimes arrested. In public opinion surveys, they, and their views, would register in fractions of puny percentage points.

In the mid-1990s, as the internet became available to everyone, everything changed. It’s surprising to many, but it is the truth: The neo-Nazis and al-Qaeda were on the internet long before Twitter or Facebook. They had websites, in the early days, that were more visually appealing than those of national governments. They had a message, a strategy. Notwithstanding their comparatively small ranks, notwithstanding the limits of their bank accounts, notwithstanding the unpopularity of their message, they could—for the first time—be heard and seen by potentially billions of people.





They had finally been handed a formidable weapon with which to attack their shared enemy: the Jew. And in the years since, they’ve continued to use it. Since October 7, 2023, in particular, Hamas and their allies have done so to remarkable effect, capturing the sympathies of millions.

That is the thread that connects Hamas with all the bigots and antisemites who went before them: They’d discovered a new way to defeat the enemy. They had discovered the power of the online campaign.

Ed: Read it all. I don’t think the model itself will surprise anyone, but the effectiveness and scope of it might. Kinsella has a new book out that provides a deeper dive. This essay is an adaptation from the book. 

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Ed: More like Inspector Clouseau by way of Marshal Petain. IYKYK.

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Kira Davis: Mockler is in his 20s, and Jennings is nearly 50. He’s a man and he’s been around long enough to know better than to let another man invade his personal space while aggravated. It’s Man Code 101. I’ve never been a man, but I’ve lived with one for 27 years, and I’ve seen him use that same code on occasion. There are some things a man just does not let happen and one of those things is letting another man, especially a younger man, break the barrier of your personal safety.

Charlie Kirk is dead. Corey Comperatore is dead. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim are dead. Nick Shirley has 24/7 security just to be an independent reporter. Conservative reporters are being assaulted on camera nearly every day. President Trump has suffered four (and after today, maybe five) assassination attempts.

The left keeps pretending men like Scott Jennings are “melting down” in the face of aggression and disrespect, when really they’re just enforcing Man Code, which is long overdue. …. Jennings was doing what a lot more conservative men need to start doing in the face of all this disrespect – from boys invading girls sports to men in women’s bathrooms to little turd-breath commentators who have been on planet earth for a whole five minutes – it is time the men of our movement start laying down their boundaries.





Ed: Kira points out the feminization of the most recent generation of adults, thanks to woke formation in education and culture. She’s onto a big part of the problem. Men aren’t melting down in response; they are modeling masculine decorum, and the soy boys are freaking out over it. 

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Ed: Colbert’s whole schtick is a motel-room fantasy involving Obama. 


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