After the hospital attack story fell apart, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D–Mich.) was breaking down in tears and telling a rally, “I continue to watch people think it’s OK to bomb a hospital with children.” This was after it was clearly established that the hospital was not bombed, making this a massive lie for which Tlaib will face no consequences. “Kill the difficult ones,” says Hamas’ hostage-taking handbook, according to The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood. The hostage count has been upped to 203. Yael Bar tur shares a picture of a Shabbat table with 203 empty place settings to represent those who have been taken by Hamas, outside the Tel Aviv Museum. “Terrorists, rogue nations, drug traffickers and other criminals are using cryptocurrency to endanger our allies and U.S. national security,” write Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Roger Marshall (R–Kansas) in a piece titled “Cryptocurrency Feeds Hamas’s Terrorism.” The myths that cryptocurrency is only desired by criminals, and that encryption is only really desired by bad people with something to hide, refuse to die. RFK Jr. loves reparations now? Very awkward when you dox your own soldiers. I’ll give you my menthols when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. On Sunday, Argentines will vote in their presidential election. After winning the most votes in the primary held in August, the self-declared anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is the favorite to win. But polls suggest that he “will fall short of the votes needed to avoid a November runoff,” reports the Associated Press. “When Henry was 18, he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said they were 18 too. The 16-year-old’s parents found out, summoned the cops, and Henry was charged with a sex offense. He took a plea: no jail time, and seven years on the sex offense registry,” writes Reason’s Lenore Skenazy. What happens if Israel’s Iron Dome gets overstretched? Good thread on how bad “Buy American” industrial policy made sugar artificially expensive and corn artificially cheap.
Crisis at the Egypt-Gaza Border Where Humanitarian Aid Hasn’t Arrived
