https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-announces-plan-make-america-party-2095031
Billionaire business owner Elon Musk said he is starting a new political party, which he dubbed the 'America Party' in a post on X Saturday.
"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom," the post said, citing a poll he had previously posted on the platform.
Have not found any comments about how Trump's new Bill will impact Kollel life?
Rabbi Auerbach undertook to analyze the topic and express his "humble opinion." He concluded that this legal device could not be accepted in practice
https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-860073
A newly published Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) study found that the well-meaning environmental tax turned into a cultural flashpoint. The 2021 tax on disposable plastics – widely used by haredim with large families and in many family celebrations, made easier by throw-away utensils, plates, and the like – caused a sharp and lasting decline in climate support among the ultra-Orthodox community. It was driven by a deep sense of political victimization – not a financial burden – as many saw the tax as an attack on their way of life. Even years after the tax was repealed, the damage to environmental trust still lingers, the researchers declared.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/europe/kyiv-ukraine-strikes-trump-putin-talks-intl-hnk
The massive aerial assault stuck multiple buildings and residential areas in the capital in what has been described by Ukrainian officials as one of the worst attacks of the three-year conflict.
President Donald Trump complained Thursday that the United States provided too many weapons to Ukraine under the previous administration, his first public comments on the pause in some shipments as Russia escalates its latest offensive.
Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a flight to Iowa, Trump said former President Joe Biden “emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves.”
US President Donald Trump says he didn’t know that the term “shylock” has antisemitic connotations, after he lambasted “shylocks and bad people” in a speech last night celebrating passage of his massive tax-cut and border security bill among supporters at the Iowa State Fairground.
The term “shylock,” used as a stand-in for aggressive moneylender or loan shark, is considered by many to be antisemitic, as it is the name of the Jewish moneylender and villain in William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” which draws heavily on antisemitic stereotypes of Jews being stingy and greedy.
Lauding his “big beautiful bill,” Trump said that the tax cuts included within it meant that there would be “no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people.”
https://time.com/7264811/trump-free-speech-joint-address-essay/
In President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, he bragged about restoring “free speech” to the United States. “I’ve stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” Trump said. “It’s back.”
But this claim couldn’t be further from the truth. Trump has consistently rewarded speech he likes while punishing speech he doesn’t. That kind of “viewpoint discrimination” is exactly what the First Amendment seeks to prevent. In fact, Trump’s actions run counter to the spirit—if not the text—of the First Amendment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/us-free-speech-rights-trump
Experts say free speech under attack in ways not seen since Nixon – and critics of president’s agenda are being targeted
Prof Halberstam has an interesting insight regarding the Vietmam War. This was a waste on many levels so why did the government run by the "best and the brightest" keep fighting and expanding what was clearly a losing endeavor. He says the these men were super achievers and they couldn't conceive that they were making a mistake since they were always successful and never failed. So they simply kept doing what they had planned with increased effort.
This applies in the spiritual realm also. The Baal Shem notes that Jesus and Adam are together in Hell because both thought they were god like and thus infallible. As we see also with the Spies anf Korach.
Wisdom comes from experiencing and learning from failure. One who is always very successful at some point stops thinking he might be making a mistake and ends up doing something really stupid. Pride comes before the fall.
Congressional Republicans are making a habit of taking bold, theatrical stands before meekly capitulating in the face of political pressure — particularly from President Donald Trump.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-859785
The Petah Tikva Magistrate Court extended until next Thursday the detention of a man said to be a senior figure in the Shomrim organization in Bnei Brak by eight days, on suspicion of dozens of rapes of children and adults over serveral years. He was apprehended by Israel Police at Ben-Gurion Airport late Wednesday night.
President Trump has taunted the media for years, and some of his jibes are deserved given the groupthink in most newsrooms. What’s happening now, though, is different: The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like. It’s a low move in a free country with a free press.
