This is just awful. From Anna Moore at the Guardian: October marks the 10th anniversary of the murder of Claire Throssell’s two sons, Jack and Paul, by their father. He had lured them to the attic with sweets and a new train set, then barricaded the house and started 14 fires. He’d locked all the…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "Cajon, California. Indian section gang working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad track." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano, Office of War Information]

We've already seen some of the eulogies that Nasrallah's, um, untimely death has prompted in the Western media. Siam Goorwich at the JC has more: In Saturday’s FT, it was noted that the ‘charismatic’ Nasrallah – who was eliminated on Friday by an Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s subterranean headquarters in Beirut – was described as ‘courteous, perceptive…

Sometimes you get a slow news day, and sometimes you get a day like today with two huge developments: 1) Hamas' announcement that its leader in Lebanon Fatah Sherif al-Amin was killed. 2) The murder of the head of UNRWA's teachers union Fatah Sherif al-Amin. pic.twitter.com/uIiAxq7JIs — Shany Mor שני מור شني مور (@ShMMor) September…

This is good: I was born in Lebanon and was displaced by the terrorists. I have been an American citizen for a long time now. I realize that when I speak my mind as a free human being, there will be responses. I can handle that. However, people who are of the opposite conviction (mostly……

Another white guy calling Badenoch a racist because she objects to child brides, stoning of women, execution of gay people etc https://t.co/V9ltRsDHeh — Graham Linehan (@Glinner) September 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The Times obituary: As well he knew, Kris Kristofferson could have been describing himself when he wrote the lyrics for Pilgrim, Chapter 33: “A walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home.” He wrote hits for other artists but was ignored when he tried to record…

From the Times: The BBC has been accused of being “institutionally hostile to Israel” by three prominent Jewish organisations, which have criticised its coverage of the Middle East conflict. Danny Cohen, who was director of television at the BBC from 2013 to 2015, has compiled a report accusing the corporation of making “false and damaging…

While many (most?) Lebanese, and others across Syria and Iran, are very happy to see the back of this genocidal antisemite who's had his foot on Lebanon's throat these past decades, much of the western press are busy making idiots of themselves: Are you kidding me, @nytimes? pic.twitter.com/XL08ksucoD — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) September 29, 2024…

On behalf of the millions of Lebanese Christians around the world, THANK YOU Israel! If we want peace between Lebanon and Israel, Hezbollah must be completely destroyed! pic.twitter.com/80mbiJxcYc — Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) September 28, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js