Iran's attack on Israel is unprecedented. It is obviously and definitionally an act of direct war, after years of using proxies to attack Israel. The scale of the success of the allied defense against Iran's assault is near-miraculous. 🧵

And Iran should be grateful that defense worked. Iran is a terror state, and it is the leading cause of conflict in the region. Only the technological superiority of Israel's defenses, the intervention of the United States, and the coordination of Sunni states prevented the attack from starting World War III: if Iran had been successful, Israel would have had no choice but to devastate Iran.

1/ BREAKING: Following my reporting on rampant DEI in medical schools, U.S. Congressman Greg Murphy, MD, is introducing legislation to end federal funding — including student loan funding — for any medical school that practices DEI. 🧵

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195994123407577?s=20

2/ The bill, called the Educate ACT, would ban the anti-white admissions standards that Duke uses to hire surgeons, which I exposed last month. Murphy tells me that the DEI policies at Duke are “repulsive” and need to end.

1/ BREAKING: We've obtained internal emails from UCLA's medical school -- supposedly one of the best in the country. If you want to understand how DEI and anti-white, anti-American hatred have been mainlined into the medical profession, you need to see this.🧵 2/ These emails come from a mandatory class called "Structural Racism and Health Equity." UCLA med students are told to read about wars of “Indigenous resistance” – in which Native Americans killed thousands of white people – to “imagine what liberation could look like."

1/ DEI in medicine means that even if doctors injure patients, they might still be protected (even promoted). It means that top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons. And it means research by whites may be disregarded. Here’s what I've found… 🧵 2/ Sources tell me Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario – the med student who injured a conservative patient and bragged about it. Wake Forest allowed Rosario to lay low and take a voluntary leave of absence when this scandal broke.

1/ “Safe” and “unsafe” are dog whistles designed to enable censorship and demonetize “wrongthink.”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1689938510935887872?s=20

2/ GARM has subjective guidelines for what it considers “safe” for advertising, and its corporate partners seem to be interpreting these convoluted rules to fit a narrative. Here's their “Brand Safety Floor” - “content not appropriate for any advertising support.”

🧵Here’s how the World Economic Forum is quietly working to demonetize and deplatform right-of-center voices, including @realDailyWire, using authoritarian tactics and hall monitor “fact-checkers” like @NewsGuardRating. 2/ 90% of all global ad dollars are controlled by members of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which includes brands like @Hersheys @Disney @ProcterGamble. In 2019, they launched the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which was then adopted by the WEF.

The reason so many people agree with @joerogan is because those who have spoken in the name of "The Science" have spent the last decade absolutely wrecking any and all trust in actual science by cramming down anti-scientific nonsense while claiming "the debate is over."

https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1670221537742340099

And btw, I vociferously disagree with RFK Jr. on vaccinations generally, although I agree that the covid vaxx was wildly oversold by Pfizer and world governments, particularly to young and healthy people. That isn't really the issue.

The Surgeon General, after promoting social isolation for 2+ years, has released a report on the "Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation." Yep. Side note: every problem noted could be solved by robust religious community. Yet every solution recommended is government intervention. The government destroys social fabric by substituting itself for family, friends, and neighbors as the economic safety net, while promoting atomistic individualism as the highest good in place of community standards. Then they're shocked at cataclysmic loneliness and depression.

It's time to play, once again, the vile media game in which a statistically rare white-on-black racial crime is treated as emblematic of the entire racial situation in the US. That's why Joe Biden is inviting the Yarl family to the White House. The narrative is a blatant lie. The vast majority of racial crime in the United States is intra-racial. But when it does come to interracial homicide, for example, the chances that a white person killed was killed by a black person are far higher than that a black person killed was killed by a white person.

Today is the day. Trump turns himself in for indictment and pleads not guilty. This was always going to be part of the story; the media and the Left would not rest until Trump found himself in the dock. But criminalization of the political opposition on the flimsiest charges is going to backfire dramatically.

Donald Trump will turn himself in for arraignment on Tuesday. At that very moment, America will find herself in a brave new world -- a world in which the consequences of political defeat may mean legal prosecution. It's fascinating how so many on the Left will palaver endlessly about threats to democracy, even as they cheer the indictment of the leader of the opposition on the flimsiest of pretexts. And here's a problem just as big: turnabout is fair play.

The judicial reform fight in Israel is a proxy for the actual battle, which is really over the changing nature of Israel's political landscape. The Right’s case is procedural. The current coalition is fighting to prevent the Israeli judiciary from acting as a de facto dictatorship, selecting its own successors and providing few or no limits to its authority. This has been the case since Aharon Barak’s “judicial… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The 2024 primary is now beginning in earnest: Ron DeSantis has now opened up on Trump, pointing out his failures with regard to Anthony Fauci and his inability to properly staff the executive branch. Meanwhile, Trump has been attacking DeSantis as “Meatball Ron” and “Ron DeSanctimonious” and implying that DeSantis may be hit with sexual assault allegations from both men and women. Obviously, DeSantis’ critiques are correct and Trump’s are asinine.

This weekend, Trump announced he expected to be criminally indicted this week. An indictment on the basis of the Stormy Daniels payoff would be absurd, of course. It’s legally dubious, as everyone including the NYT understands. But it does provide the Left with wish fulfillment: a mugshot of the man they’ve wanted arrested since the day he declared for the 2016 GOP nomination.

It's hard to think of something more counterproductive and idiotic than the current San Francisco proposal for $5 million in racial reparations. How do you determine who ought to receive the reparations? Who ought to pay them? Why ought Asians (35% of the San Francisco population) be disproportionate payers of such reparations?

SVB's meltdown is indicative of the larger problem of central bank policy now acting as the prime mover for markets. The Federal Reserve and government blew out spending in 2020 and 2021 to an unprecedented degree. This meant a LOT of speculative investment in tech ventures, who then stored their cash with SVB.

Video has emerged of Andrew Tate endorsing sex with "Megan Fox"-looking trans "women" over biological women who are ugly. This raises some rather bizarre questions. Tate's popularity rests, in large part, on his embrace of the tropes of masculinity. So why would he endorse the notion that secondary sexual characteristics are more important than primary ones?

Last night, Tucker Carlson released new January 6 footage. And that footage utterly explodes two key narratives from the media and Democrats about January 6. First, the footage shows officers walking the so-called QAnon Shaman around the Capitol building. That doesn’t look like a violent insurrectionary on the verge of overthrowing democracy -- but that’s how QAnon Shaman’s behavior was originally (and for years!) promoted.

Chicago has now ousted Lori Lightfoot, the intersectional Sméagol who has used her race and sexual orientation as both sword and shield for her garbage policies. She was a hypocrite, a lockdown fanatic, a soft on crime dunderhead, and an off-putting emissary of wokeness. Political gravity is real, and she just hit the ground.

Yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted that the media were racist, particularly against whites and Asians. He was obviously correct. Something has happened in American society: the victory of the Left's definition of racism. We used to define racism as the belief that people were lesser because of their skin color or ethnicity. Now, the Left's definition -- racist ideas + POWER -- predominates.

We were banned from social media for talking about the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak. We were chastised by the fact-checkers. We were ripped up and down by advocates for The Science™. And it turns out it was probably true, of course. This is just another nail in the coffin of institutional credibility in our country. The very same people who insisted they knew best for us were actively covering up the truth. And that's enraging.