The web of anti-terrorism

In roughly the same decade-long period of the cancel culture counterpart, that number is 200—almost double the number of people who were fired during the Red Scare. This is historically unprecedented. Historians will be looking back someday, recognizing that firing 200 professors, many of whom were actually tenured, is shocking. 91% of professors say that they self-censor, which is shocking to me. 16% had been disciplined or threatened with discipline for their speech, and 7% say that they've been investigated for their speech.--schlott

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Hamas killed 31 Americans that we know about. That death toll of Americans on the October 7 massacre ranks as the eighth-highest death toll of any terrorist attack against Americans — more dead Americans than the Fort Hood shooting, the San Bernardino attack, or the Pittsburgh synagogue attack.

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A former FBI counterintelligence chief who played a pivotal role in launching the Trump-Russia probe was sentenced to just over four years in prison for assisting a sanctioned Russian oligarch after leaving his post in 2019.

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The web of anti-terrorism


An alleged plot to attack Jews in Brazil has been foiled following the arrest of two men suspected of being linked to the Islamist group Hezbollah.

The arrests were made in São Paulo on Wednesday during what police said was an operation to "disrupt the preparation of terrorist attacks".

Brazilian authorities added other raids were carried out across the country.

The Israeli Prime Minister's office said its spy agency Mossad worked with Brazilian law enforcement.

So an Israeli Special Forces unit was running a Brazilian police crime operation?