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And Saad's book leans hard into the problem of suicidal empathy for the Palestinians and how it creates an empathy deficit in relation to Israel.

Quote, "Since October seventh," he writes, "the world has witnessed an s- astounding amount of gaslighting meant to ensure that the Jewish people are never the recipient of any well-deserved empathy." So empathy per se is not the problem in this book.

It's about who gets it.

Yeah, and, and who he feels deserves it, right?

But listen to what he says about the activist anti-Zionist Matei family.

Uh, this is on Twitter.

Quote, "They are parasitized, useful idiots who would be the first to be exterminated.

Their infinite suicidal empathy is not an indulgence that will free them from the firing squad." I always sense a little bit of excitement in that, right? Like this-- Like they, they're gonna get what they deserve.

The one mind of Buddhism as expressed here by Zen Master Huang Po over a thousand years ago in China.

Quote, "All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the one mind beside which nothing exists.

This mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible.

It is not green nor yellow, has neither form nor appearance.

this next one.

Quote, have it your way is a slogan for which fast food company?

Burger King.

Burger King is the correct answer.

VP of Public Relations Roma Darabi cited the collapse as, quote, another example of the urgent need to close for renovation and revitalization as our chairman, President Trump, has championed.

Chris Raleigh of Hands Off the Arts Action Network had a different take.

Quote, the reality is President Trump and his loyalist board are happy that their neglect has produced an exploitable image to advance their false claim that the center needs to be remade in Trump's image or turned into rubble like the East Wing.

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Oper am Rhein is having to delay its season opening due to infrastructure concerns at the Dusseldorf Opera House.

The conservative media site The Center Square has called on the government to reexamine state funding for L.A. Opera and similar institutions after analysis of tax returns showed that the L.A. Opera had received $27 million in government grants over the past decade, while executive pay over the same period amounted to roughly $33 million, including $7 million paid to friend of the show James Conlon through a contract with his production company, plus housing and first class travel.

In response, L.A. Opera released a statement defending the organization's finances.

Quote, from 2015 through 2025, excluding extraordinary COVID-19 relief, L.A. Opera received an average of less than a million dollars annually in government funding, less than 4% of the company's average fundraising revenue.

They were asking him in particular, Sir, why is it so important that your name be on the building? This was his response.

Quote, For the Trump administration, for me, to get involved and to take that on long term, to carry it or to raise money to carry it, I think the Trump administration should certainly have recognition.

Because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close.

It'll end up being ripped down.

Well, Debbie had this to say about Rusty as a parent.

Quote, I'm not saying he didn't play with them or enjoy them, but as far as care for them, he didn't.

If the kids' faces or hands were dirty, he'd say, wait till your mother comes.

Which

jesus i've never i've never seen it but i have heard of it

quote i remember lifting up my head and seeing the mural of touchdown jesus on the notre dame library while in the football stadium i had to laugh within myself over the seemingly obvious divine destiny humor and personal touch of the living loving father And I guess touchdown Jesus really spoke to him because he said in that moment he met the living Jesus.

Quote, the grass and goalposts were the same, but I was changed.

Oh, my.

A compulsory course in philosophy convinced me that there was still much to learn, and I had a delicious hallucination in which I saw myself compiling a volume of commentaries on the various systems of this queen of sciences.

Quote, the grammar of agnostics, unquote, I think it was to be called.

It would be written in a neat and comely hand on thousands of pages of pure white foolscap.

I saw myself adding to it night by night, working on hast, on rast.

The, quote, wormy circumstance, unquote, of the pot of basil, the Indian maid nursing her luxurious sorrow, the congealing beadsman and the palsied beldame Angela, these and a thousand quaintnesses of phrase moved him to a gush of glorious mirth.

It was not that he did not appreciate the poet, but the unearthly strangeness of it all, the delicate contradictions of laws and behaviors known to freshmen, tickled his keen wits and emotions until they brimmed into puzzled laughter.

Quote, away, away, unquote, he would cry, for I will fly to thee not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, but on the viewless wings of poesy, though the dull brain perplexes and retards.

And he would shout with merriment.

This is from December 19th, 1944.

Quote, 12.15 p.m., Führer and Good Health injected 20 cc intravenous glucose solution plus vitamult and Forte, liver, and per.

Okay, and that's the important thing.

Per or something, P-E-R, and then it's illegible.

The honor came against a well-known backdrop of risks.

Quote, shooting Zon schools and campuses across the US are increasing.

The footnote is addressing gun violence on campus universities.

And as a result, campuses are less safe.