An Israeli survivor of the Hamas’ Oct. 7th attack has reportedly taken his own life on the grave of his girlfriend who was murdered by the Hamas terrorists

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NY Post (h/t Thereza B) The body of Bar Asraf, 30, was found on Saturday evening at the burial site of his slain girlfriend Liron Barda, almost three years after her death at the Nova Festival massacre, according to Israeli news site JFeed.

"You fought to save everyone, you knew you wouldn’t come out of it
alive and you kept going, until your last breath,”

"NY Post The traumatized survivor shared a goodbye message on his Instagram page prior to the grisly immolation — describing the pain and loss he has felt since the massacre that took his partner.

“I’m truly sorry. I can’t bear this pain any longer,” Shalev said in a heartbreaking message to Instagram Friday, the outlet reported. “I’m burning inside, and I can’t contain it anymore. “Never in my life have I felt such pain and suffering — deep, burning, eating me from within. I just want this suffering to end. I’m alive — but inside, I’m already dead.”

"On Oct. 7, 2023, Shalev was wounded during the Hamas attack on the Nova festival near Re’im, which he attended with his girlfriend 25-year-old Mapal Adam, according to The Times of Israel. They hid under a truck and played dead for hours as blood-soaked chaos raged around them — until one terrorist fatally shot Adam at close range. Shalev was shot twice while attempting to protect his girlfriend but survived.

"In a 2024 Youtube interview, Shalev recounted the horrific day. Shalev said he and Adam said “I love you” and closed their eyes to play dead just minutes before a Hamas militant approached and shot each of them. “They disappeared and I opened my eyes — Mapal is next to me in a pool of blood. She get bullet in her heart.”

"Just days after the Oct. 7 massacre, Shalev’s mother committed suicide, also setting her car on fire, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN.' . . .

Nov 2023: Full List of Democrats Who Refused To Condemn Hamas Supporters

Thomas Massie, a Republican for Kentucky. He said of his decision to vote no that there was no agreed definition of antisemitism, adding: "Free speech means protecting speech you don't like, not just speech you do like."

The Piker-Pink Axis of Influence

 Lloyd Billingsley  

"The progressives of the left, Arthur Koestler noted in Arrow in the Blue (1952), repeat “every single error of the past,” and “this time there will be no pardon.'”

Meet the far-left streamer who is stirring up controversy and dividing Democrats

 “Prominent far-left figures, including livestream influencer Hasan Piker, are rallying around a pro-China media outlet within the sprawling network bankrolled by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham,” Fox News reports, “casting recent congressional subpoenas as leading a ‘McCarthy-style’ witch hunt against the left.” For some readers the “witch hunt” reference may be unfamiliar and others might wonder how the far-left Piker wields his influence.

A search for books, essays, and articles written by Hasan Piker turns up nothing. As it turns out, the influencer, aged 35, doesn’t write books, but there is a book about him: Hasan Piker: The Radical Voice Shaping the Future of Politics – Voice of the Left, Leader of the Digital Age, by Laurence K. Kennedy. As the book’s Amazon profile reads:

Step into the world of Hasan Piker, the outspoken political commentator reshaping modern discourse. Known for his bold left-wing views and unapologetic stance on social justice, Piker has become the voice of a new generation, challenging the status quo and driving the conversation on critical issues like universal healthcare, economic equality, and global justice.

"And so on. According to Wikipedia, the voice of a new generation was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to Turkish parents but raised in Istanbul as a Muslim. So far, his bold views include nothing on the Turks’ massacre of Christian Armenians, as Peter Balakian described in The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. The Turkish government denies the genocide and the CIA considers the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG) a terrorist group.

"Piker is a big fan of actual terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah, and charges that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The livestream influencer also believes that the United States deserved the attack of Sept. 11, 2001, and that’s not all. He is a big fan of Mao Zedong and his Little Red Book. According to The Black Book of Communism, China’s Communist regime is responsible for 60 million murders, outpacing both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

"Piker also supports Cuba’s white Stalinist regime, and fails to support any of their black political prisoners.

"The Communist Party USA, founded and funded by the Soviet Union, achieved considerable influence in the U.S. government and movie industry. “Moscow gold” funded the massive post-war strikes in Hollywood and bankrolled the party’s newspapers on both coasts. As I showed in my book Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry, the Soviets channeled the money to Hollywood through union boss Harry Bridges, whose goons joined the fight for control of the dream factories. “Communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham,” shapes up as a modern equivalent to Bridges.

"Singham married CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans in 2017. According to Fox News, Singham money also flows to The People’s Forum and Tricontinental:" . . .  More...

Japan Thought USS Yorktown Was Gone—Then It Appeared at Midway

World War Legacy and 6 more "In May 1942, the USS Yorktown limped into Pearl Harbor after being bombed at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japanese intelligence declared her sunk. Senior American officers said she would need three months in drydock to be ready again.

Admiral Chester Nimitz gave the shipyard seventy-two hours. This is the story of how fourteen hundred workers — welders, electricians, shipfitters, and exhausted men who had already lived through December 7 — performed one of the most impossible repairs in naval history so that a "dead" carrier could sail to Midway and help change the course of the Pacific War. From the flooded drydock where Yorktown was patched with scabs of steel and runway cement, to the skies above the Japanese fleet where dive bombers arrived at the exact moment history demanded it, this is how ordinary Americans refused to accept what the enemy believed was impossible."

Fifth Amendment Fauci’s Narcissism Destroyed Faith in Scientific Methodology

"Congress may be investigating COVID, but the deeper scandal is how one bureaucrat reshaped science into dogma."

The American Spectator  

"Fauci can now enjoy a comfortable retirement, delivering well-paid lectures and polishing his legacy. But the legacy itself is broken trust, degraded scientific standards, and a template in which fear always outranks fact." 

"You have to explain why Mao and Stalin died in bed, and Hitler was able to choose his own way out. But watching Anthony Fauci on the witness stand before Congress taking the Fifth as fast as his lips could flap (more than 100 times), you could see some evidence that at least some hens become broiler chickens.

"There he sat — the undisputed grand vizier of American public health — hedging his answers and reciting the familiar line about “following the science.” To the uninitiated observer, perhaps it looked like the noble defense of an overworked public servant unfairly hounded by partisan inquisitors. To anyone who has tracked his career since the 1980s, it looked like something else entirely: another verse in a long song of dodge, delay, and quiet goalpost-moving in furtherance of a career fueled by narcissism so extreme it should have its own place on the Periodic Table. (RELATED: Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout)

"The hearing was ostensibly about the origins of COVID-19, gain-of-function research, and the shifting, often contradictory directives that governed life for 300 million Americans during the pandemic. But the real subject was never the virus alone. It was the institutionalized rot of a public health establishment that has long preferred terror-driven consensus to rigorous, skeptical inquiry — an establishment Fauci built, nurtured, and came to embody. (RELATED: The Scientist Who Saw It Coming)

"I first learned of the man’s blatant dishonesty when I worked at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1986-87. As I wrote in these pages almost four years ago, I had invited him to testify at a hearing, and he accepted. I received his CV in the mail, and it was surreal. I think the New York City phonebook back then might have been thinner. (RELATED: Fraudulent Dr. Fauci Bows Out Way Too Late)" . . .    More...

Fauci’s Never-Ending Snow Day

Fauci’s Never-Ending Snow Day - Ann Coulter   

"Nope! Nearly two months after the EU ministers’ announcement about their success in opening the schools, Fauci wrote in his diary: “Trump wants to open the schools at all costs. Clearly he does not care about the safety of the children.” He added, “CNN continues to quote me in opposition to Trump and as the only person telling the truth.”

"After envy, the most self-destructive emotion is the desire to be on TV, destroying the reputations of, among others, Michael Avenatti, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Swalwell and—since the release of his diary—Anthony Fauci.

"Except in Fauci’s case, his fame-mongering was less self-destructive than simply destructive, as demonstrated by David Zweig’s amazing book, “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions” (MIT Press).

"As Zweig demonstrates, Fauci had to know the restrictive COVID measures he pushed would do enormous damage to the country—to little kids, dying patients, cancer victims, college students, restaurants, the travel industry, budding careers, the theater, symphonies, professional athletes, etc., etc., etc. Unless he’d had his brain removed, Fauci knew that his directives served no purpose, other than making him, as he wrote in his diary, “the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable persons in the world.”

"Zweig, a liberal freelance reporter, was in good standing with the MSM at the beginning of the shutdowns. In April, he had the most read article in The New York Times about a couple stranded abroad by the pandemic. But he became persona non grata the moment he began submitting pieces to the Times with hard data about the virus.

"What explains this? Only one thing: Fauci was the left’s most promising silver bullet to take out Trump. As such, the media would brook no dissent from his COVID edicts. Liberals would not only destroy the economy, but countless lives, in order to slay a pestilence worse than the virus: Donald J. Trump.

"Fauci performed as expected and was rewarded with extravagant praise, “A-list” parties, undeserved riches and celebrity friends—all meticulously documented in his diary.

"Perhaps the cruelest of Fauci’s decrees was his demand that the schools remain closed until a series of impossible benchmarks were met, e.g., no “community spread,” no students with sick family members, no unvaccinated kids, and so on. And yet, he insisted that his “default” position was to open them. But only if all eight major planets aligned in a straight line on the same side of the sun.

"Fauci’s stance on the schools could not have been at more odds with the data, devastatingly presented in Zweig’s book." . . .  More...

Fauci Leaves Maher STUNNED

The Week In Pictures: Winner and Still Champion   "Anthony Fauci is shaping up as the Choosin’ Texas of meme subjects–holding down the #1 spot week after week. He was our prime meme target again this week. Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened with regard to burritos, I don’t know what. But you will see some burrito memes. And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?"

Abdul El-Sayed

"This is the culture El-Sayed fosters. Virtually every day, the candidate spreads some medieval conspiracy about the "genocidal," "bloodthirsty" and "evil" disposition of world Jewry."   David Harsanyi

 Abdul El-Sayed Is an American Tragedy

"If this is true, and we have no reason to believe otherwise, there is something deeply wrong and un-American happening in this country." . . .

Heimish Humor

. . . "El-Sayed didn't adopt Third World Marxism because of his color or his circumstances. He is one of the luckiest people to ever live. He is an extremist by choice.

"Our meritocratic system, imperfect as it may be, offered El-Sayed the opportunity to parlay prodigious intelligence into a very good living, advancing Western medical science or caring for his community. Instead, he's chosen to degrade the nation.

Abdul with Hasan Piker

"El-Sayed's movement, the people who support him most vociferously, want to abolish not only constitutional governance, eliminating virtually every institution, but also to get rid of our capitalistic system, and import Third World bigotry and violence.

"Marxists and the Islamists share a deeply illiberal and anti-Christian outlook, but they also share a near-universal antisemitism. In virtually every Islamic majority nation, even ones where there are no Jews, over 90% of the population is antisemitic.

"A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 44% of American Muslims expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas, a group that has murdered dozens of Americans.

"This is the culture El-Sayed fosters. Virtually every day, the candidate spreads some medieval conspiracy about the "genocidal," "bloodthirsty" and "evil" disposition of world Jewry.

"Yet, at the same time, El-Sayed won't take a public stand on the death of America's enemy, terrorist leader and mass murderer Ali Khamenei, for fear of insulting his constituents." . . .

Hamas-Tied CAIR Gave El-Sayed Over $100,000  

"Abdul El-Sayed won the Democrat Senate primary and will face Republican Mike Rogers in a key race in the midterm election. More ominously, between employees and leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), El-Sayed has raised over $115,000. But CAIR is little more than a front group for Islamic jihad, with close ties to Hamas."

Coca-Cola Blocks Jesus On Custom Cans

 The Dallas Express   

A report by The Daily Wire stated that the website cited restrictions on religious figures when rejecting “Jesus Is King,” “Holy Trinity,” “Virgin Mary,” and “Holy Spirit,” while allowing “Jesus is bad” and “Jesus is evil.”

Coca-Cola is facing backlash from Christians after claims that its personalized can feature allowed messages like “I love Satan” while not allowing phrases such as “I love Jesus” or “Jesus is King.”

11:15 AM · Aug 7, 2026

"Coca-Cola faces renewed backlash from Christian consumers after viral videos claimed its online personalized can feature allowed messages such as “I love Satan” and “Satan is King” while rejecting phrases including “I love Jesus” and “Jesus is King.” . . .

"History of Similar Claims

"A comparable controversy arose in September 2024 involving Coca-Cola’s personalized can service. Viral posts and videos claimed the tool allowed “Satan” or “Allah” while blocking “Jesus.” Independent tests by Snopes found that “Jesus,” “Satan,” and “Allah” all returned the same rejection message citing restrictions on religious figures.

Reuters Fact Check examined the tool in October 2024 and reported that “Jesus loves you” and “Allah loves you” triggered identical rejection messages. Coca-Cola told Reuters that the tool “does not approve names or phrases that are religious in nature or are for political candidates, trademarks, or celebrities.” The company stated the specific religious names and phrases had already been designated for denial.

Lead Stories also tested the site in September 2024 and confirmed neither “Allah Loves You” nor “Jesus Loves You” was permitted, with the same rejection language applied.

Reports indicate that after the August 2026 videos spread, the moderation system began rejecting a broader range of previously accepted phrases, applying restrictions more consistently. Users noted the change in subsequent tests. The tool’s automated filter continues to operate under the company’s stated policy of neutrality on religious and political content."    More...

"The Dallas Express delivers Dallas and national news with independent, fact-based reporting. Founded in 2021, we provide direct, unbiased coverage. Truth lives here."  One always hopes. td

The wind appears to be shifting in Oregon

 "Oregon is primed for a flip."

John Woods-American Thinker  

"The results of the peanut poll definitely signaled that Oregonians have had enough of the Democrats’ 40-year hold on power. One week later, we did the Washington County fair, and the results were the same: overwhelming votes for Drazan."

"In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks’s character Chuck Noland needed something more than the flimsy rubber life raft he had when he arrived on the island to escape the pounding waves and coral reefs. Eventually, the ocean provided him with a sail when a broken porta-potty washed up on the island. He started planning his escape from the island with the help of the sail, but he also needed to wait until the prevailing winds changed direction, from blowing onshore to out to sea.

"In Oregon, there has been a shift in the prevailing political winds. 

"The shift started when Governor Kotek and the supermajority Democrats proposed and passed the Transportation Package bill, which would allow Oregon Democrats to tax ordinary, hard-working 40-hour-a-week Oregonians $4.3 billion dollars to reward the Oregon Department of Transportation, or ODOT as it is known in Oregon. Without any vote or voice in the process by the taxpayers in Oregon, two Republican Senators and lots of upset people across Oregon challenged the tax proposal; they joined with hundreds of volunteer workers who carried thousands of pages of a petition to put the tax on the ballot for working Oregonians to sign so they have a voice on how they were being taxed. In about a month, there were 250,000 signatures on the petition, and the tax initiative Measure 120 was placed on the ballot for a vote May 19 2026. The May election results were 82.3% No and 17.7%.

"Yes, a staggering 4-to-1 margin defeat of the Democrat tax initiative.

"This was the first noticeable shift in the political winds in Oregon." . . . More...

Global Greening Hits New Record as Climate Emergency Fails to Materialise

The Daily Sceptic  

"Widespread catastrophic desertification and system wide crop failure have largely failed to materialise. Instead, the broader trend has been of increasing agricultural yields and vegetation density."   Jordan Peterson

"Global mean vegetation greening reached a record high last year, extending an already significant multi-decade upward trend, according to recent findings published in Nature. In fact, 2025 set a record for global vegetation greening with a steepening of the average trend. Top of the list with 77.6% showing extra greening was croplands, meaning more food is becoming available to boost global diets.

"This greening story – a tale that gets more impressive every year – is largely absent from the mainstream media. It was certainly missing from a recent climate contribution from Sandwich-board Stanley (a.k.a. Tim Stanley of the Telegraph) who made an unsourced claim that one third of the agricultural production of Bangladesh “is feared to vanish by 2050”. Happily, there is no sign of that invented fear coming true since agricultural production has more than doubled in the country since the turn of the century. Notes Stanley: “The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows,” a comment that suggests journalists hired to broadcast opinions and beliefs should steer well clear of science where data and facts are given a higher priority.

"Back in the real increasingly verdant world, the Nature-published scientists note that herbaceous ecosystems such as grasslands and crop fields dominate the greening signal. 72.1% of grasslands showed greening while the overall satellite data reveal 68.% of the total vegetation area showed improvement, up from the previous record set last year of 67.7%. Greening ‘hotspots’ were observed in southern Africa, southern South America, northern Australia, Europe, central North America and northern China. Some ‘browning’ was observed in eastern Siberia, and this was attributed to anomalously cold growing-season temperatures.

"Two different satellite measurements are commonly used to track global greening. The recently published study used Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which measures how green the land surface appears. Other studies use the Leaf Area Index (LAI), which estimates the total leaf area covering the ground, and therefore provides a measure of the amount of vegetation. Although they measure different aspects of plant growth, both datasets help point to a significant increase of more than 15% in global greening over the past 40 years, with around 70% of the increase attributed to carbon dioxide fertilisation.

"Current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are very low compared with amounts seen in the past going back 600 million years. In fact, the recent increases in plant growth are unsurprising as the planet moves away from the dangerous and near denuded CO2 levels of the recent past. " . . .  More...

Progressive challenger ousts Rep. Shri Thanedar, who tried to impeach Trump

 

Just The News   "Democratic socialist candidate Donavan McKinney was projected to win the Democratic primary to represent the Michigan 13th Congressional District on Wednesday morning.

"The Associated Press called the race at 9:59 a.m. on Wednesday morning, at which time McKinney held 51.9% of the vote to Thanedar's 48.1%, with 95% of precincts reporting.

"His victory marks the ouster of Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., who attracted national attention for introducing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump early in 2025.

"Though Thanedar had the support of AIPAC, a pro-Israel group that has attracted scrutiny from the progressive left, and McKinney is a Democratic socialist, analysts generally did not view the race as a proxy battle for the progressive left and the establishment.

"The 13th District includes much of Detroit and Thanedar previously secured the Democratic nomination in part due to a divided black vote in the primary."   More...

Dem congressman calling for Trump’s impeachment was once accused of indescribable act involving 118 beagles in his pharmaceutical lab

Daily Mail Online reported:  . . . "Rep Thanedar told DailyMail.com on Thursday: 'These attacks are completely false and have been repeatedly litigated. When the lab was closed all of the animals were given to happy homes. In my long business career, I am proud to report that no animal was hurt or died under my watch.

'In Congress, I have made animal rights a top priority. I have a 100% record in protecting animal rights as a lawmaker, and I was honored to be awarded the Humane Society's highest legislative award not just once, but two years in a row. I look forward to building on my strong animal rights records this Congress and for years to come.'

"The Democrat previously told the HuffPost that the lab had been under the control of Bank of America after it was seized in the bankruptcy case." 

Victor Davis Hanson: Israel’s Critics Have a History Problem

 Victor Davis Hanson

"Do you really believe that if you were of a trans community, you could start a movement in Iran? Could you have a Mormon chapter on the West Bank? Could you build a new cathedral of Christian worship in Istanbul today under [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan? You think there’s a gay rights parade going on in Gaza? No, no, these are apartheid. They eliminate and marginalize communities."

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. . "How about the Muslims of Nigeria who are killing thousands of Nigerian Christians? Are they targeted when they come to New York? No. 

"So, what’s going on? 

"Well, first of all, much of this rhetoric, most of this rhetoric, comes from young people who are in the universities, and they’re both ignorant and arrogant. They don’t take history. They don’t take languages. They know nothing of the Middle East other than what they are told by Middle East propaganda departments. 

"And first- and second-generation immigrants from the Middle East who fled horrific conditions came to the United States, were generously treated by their host, and offered prosperity, freedom, and security. And in exchange for all of that, they were ridiculed and called all sorts of names and damned for their support of Israel. 

"In other words, this is sort of a joke.

"And I would go further and say it’s a projectionist experience. The degree to which someone in the leftist-Islamist, this new coalition, accuses Israel of being an apartheid nation, a settler colonialist nation, an ethnically cleansing nation, a genocidal nation, and a war criminal nation suggests that the nations they come from, whether it’s Ilhan Omar’s own family, her father was a colonel in the Siad Barre genocidal regime, whether it’s that or people who come from Turkey, which has a long history of genocide, it’s a projectionist experience. 

"They project their own sins onto tiny democratic and free Israel.

"Why? I don’t know, but I have a suspicion it’s because Israel is predominantly made up of Jews." 

 

Many Democrats are still down on the Democratic Party

 

The Democratic Party is changing. And not for the better | Opinion

. . . "Only about a third of Democrats like political leaders who identify as democratic socialists. But the climate is right for Democrats to lose their party to the fringe.

"Voters are already revolting against the establishment, and the success of these candidates could reshape the party entirely and propel an outsider to the White House."

Many Democrats are still down on the Democratic Party, a new AP-NORC poll finds | The Associated Press   . . . "Only about 7 in 10 Democrats have a positive view of the Democratic Party, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. While the overwhelming majority of Democrats still feel good about their party, they’re much less positive than they’ve been in the past.

"The midterm elections are still many months away, and lackluster favorability doesn’t spell electoral doom. Other factors could benefit Democrats this year, including broadly negative views of Trump and other Republicans. Additionally, recent polling has found that independents tend to identify more with the party that’s out of power, which could boost Democrats this year too. Historically, the party not in the White House has picked up seats in Congress in midterm elections.

"But the lack of enthusiasm could be a longer-term problem for the party. Democrats’ favorability of their party plummeted after the 2024 election, from 85% in September 2024 to 67% in October 2025. And despite overwhelming victories in November’s off-season elections and a string of wins since then, those views haven’t recovered. Other polling indicates that Democrats are deeply frustrated with their party.

"At the same time, there’s some potential good news for Democrats in the new poll." . . .

Now We Have Proof the Democrats' Anti-Trump Lawfare Was Never About the Law  . . . "California alone has burned through $19 million in taxpayer money on this litigation crusade, with another $25 million already authorized. New Jersey tucked $1 million into its fiscal year 2026 budget just to fund two new staff positions dedicated to the coalition's work. That’s right, taxpayers are literally footing the bill for a legal ambush that was planned before Trump even won the election. Imagine all the other things California could have wasted more money on. Democrats can claim all they want that this is about accountability and the rule of law, but it’s just blanket resistance.

?And if you live in a blue state, you’re paying for it." . . .