Shortly after the air strike, several figures connected to the captagon trade in southern Syria received texts from an unknown number: “We know who you are, your movements are monitored, your meetings are hacked. You contribute to destroying the minds of our people, and for their sake we will not have mercy on any of you. The Jordanians will soar like eagles to hunt you down, one criminal after another. Marai al-Ramthan was the first but not the last.”
Under assault from all sides, in the last weeks of his campaign, the former President speaks often of enemies from within, including those trying to take his life.
When the pre-program started, I was confined to the metal barricades of the press pen, so I talked to a man standing next to it. “I hate Democrats,” he told me. “They’re demons.” He went on, “I can’t say for sure Trump is a Christian. I don’t really care,” he said. “I’ve done some really bad things—violent things, armed robbery, thirty-year sentence, escaped, jumped parole, out on parole violation for fifteen years. I wasn’t doing anything except trying to be free.” He, like many rallygoers I’ve met since the summer, said Trump was not safe, because he had threatened to “drain the swamp” of “the F.B.I., the C.I.A.—really evil people.”
Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus tired to build a fascist compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant … then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal.
Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.
Since October 7th, I feel that I am fighting a three-front war. There’s the war on my borders against the forces of October 7th; I’m fighting a war around the world for the legitimacy of the Jewish story; and I’m fighting a war in my own country against the forces that want to turn us into the criminal country that our enemies say we already are
the biggest players, Russia and Iran, are working even harder at election influence than they did in 2016 or 2020. Yet the government’s warnings about foreign schemes are frequently undercut by the efforts of both Democrats and Republicans to weaponize such intelligence
A central roadblock, the psychologist Keith Payne writes, is that people employ “flexible reasoning.” By conceding here and asserting there, they evade our queries, leading us into mazes of rationalization. Once we’re in the maze, it can seem as though these people don’t have stable beliefs, or don’t believe things in the usual way
Brandy had often checked Englyn’s phone, looking for inappropriate photos or bad language; it never occurred to her to check the videos Instagram was recommending. After Englyn died, Toney and Brandy found a hidden note on her phone: “I show ppl what they want to see but behind the social media life nobody knows the real me and how much I struggle to make sure everyone’s good even though I’m not.”
She wanted to press charges, but his manager told her it would ruin his career. So she backed off. Yet for a time, she still loved him and wanted to be with him, and stayed in his orbit for many more years. Recounting the incident three decades later, she is still furious, still processing the stress of being involved with him.
For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe.
In the small town of Kirkenes—in the northeastern corner of Norway, six miles from the Russian border—the regional counterintelligence chief, Johan Roaldsnes, peered out his office window at the fjord below. There were eight Russian fishing trawlers docked outside, housing at least six hundred Russian sailors.
The Inquirer found that at least 12 starters from the Eagles’ first Super Bowl team developed neurocognitive issues, including dementia, movement disorders and depression.
“How many concussions? Daily. I was getting them daily,” said Sisemore, still stout at 73. “Now I’m starting to stumble a lot. I get lost. I can’t drive by myself anywhere. I used to love driving. Now I can’t go to the store and back without getting lost.”
That day has arrived. Advanced poker software is now widely available for a few hundred dollars. Forums are full of accusations about everyone from anonymous, low-stakes fish to sponsored professionals. All the big platforms promote a zero-tolerance policy, but no one seems to know how many bots are out there or where they come from. “It’s a scourge,” one gambling executive told me.
I spent my thirties writing a novel and paying the bills as low-paid part-time faculty at three different colleges. I could’ve studied law or learned to code. Instead, I manufactured sentences. Looking back, it baffles me that I had the wherewithal to commit to a project with no guaranteed financial value, as if I was under an enchantment. Working on that novel was like visiting a little town every day for four years, a place so dear and sweet. Then I sold it.
The Internet, however, created the sense that there was always more to know—and this was “an acid, corrosive to authority.” Now “every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor.”
Kennedy’s family members have been nearly unanimous in opposing his campaign. Last fall, four of his siblings released a statement calling his run “perilous for our country.”
‘O’Connor intentionally undermined her pop world ascendancy by spurning the trappings of fame, and this attracted derision from those who could not understand the path she chose.’
The public watched an artist lean into her self-destructive impulses, seemingly unafraid to lose it all. What drives someone to win awards but boycott award ceremonies, to embrace being mercilessly booed at Madison Square Gardens after selling millions of copies and conquering the charts? She was so happy, in her dressing room, after ripping up the photo. Being a pop star didn’t suit her, she admits in an interview from Nothing Compares. ‘I didn’t throw away any career I ever wanted.’ Celebrity was an endlessly frustrating by-product of sharing a creative self with the world, but she was always willing to let it go.