▪️Yesterday, the usual suspects breathlessly jumped on the “Israel bombed a hospital” story. Twitter (X) sleuths quickly debunked this, showing it was a rocket from Islamic Jihad fired from Gaza that malfunctioned and was an own goal, but the damage was already done. Of course, Tlaib and Omar still haven’t corrected or removed their tweets.
https://x.com/geoconfirmed/status/1714390254935851272?s=61&t=wYS_HEkyKg4NfAC06jGdAg
▪️Not only was the story completely wrong, now it appears the rocket only hit the hospital’s parking lot, resulting in little damage to the hospital itself. The claim that 500 died comes from the terrorist regime of Hamas, yet got uncritically broadcast by so many.
https://x.com/radiogenoa/status/1714622731264614449?s=61&t=wYS_HEkyKg4NfAC06jGdAg
▪️Nearly all western media outlets (AP, NYT, BBC, CNN, etc.) ran stories about the hospital bombing, relying on Hamas as their source. Technically, the headlines were correct that “The Gaza Health Ministry says” but once shared it became viewed as fact.
▪️Not one outlet independently vetted it, they uncritically broadcast Hamas propaganda as news. The result was not just misinformation spread to millions, but riots and demonstrations across the world at US Embassies, stoking flames of war.
▪️It was wild watching the debunking happen. As more and more evidence came out that the rocket came from Gaza there were all sorts of rationalizations by people that it still couldn’t be from Gaza because they don’t have a rocket big enough to blow up a hospital. Which, of course, didn’t happen anyway. Don’t follow these sorts of people.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
