🚨 Dad Bod – August 04 2025

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Lead: Julian Assange Leads 90,000 in Sydney March for Gaza

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Tens of thousands marched in Sydney, Australia, calling for an end to the war in Gaza, with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leading the crowd—his first major public appearance since his release from prison in June 2024. He appeared to be in good health (we certainly hope so).

Assange has rarely been seen in public since his release, but the war in Gaza ties directly to the U.S.–Israel militarism he’s warned about for years.

Police estimated that around 90,000 people joined the protest. Authorities described the crowd as “very well behaved,” though at times they were “really concerned about a crowd crush.”

Meanwhile, in New York City’s Times Square, the Israeli embassy ran a digital billboard claiming that reports of starvation in Gaza are “fake news.” Israel asserts there is plenty of food in Gaza—except for the hostages, who they say are being deliberately starved by Hamas.

But Israel has had multiple opportunities to rescue its hostages and declined. Hamas has offered to release all of them—repeatedly. It stands to reason that if Israel is blocking aid to Gaza, everyone suffers: civilians, children, and yes, even the hostages.

With Friends Like These: The Strange Bargain of Christian Zionism

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Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson is on a summer break and he spent it with his constituents… Not in Louisiana. In Israel.

Speaker Johnson led a delegation of House Members on a visit to Israel this weekend along with U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his daughter, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

He said, “Our prayer is that America will always stand with Israel. We pray for the preservation and the peace of Jerusalem. That’s what scripture tells us to do. It’s a matter of faith for us and a commitment that we have.”

Why do older members of the religious right say this about Israel?

It’s rooted in Christian Zionism—a theological belief that Jews must return to the land of Israel to fulfill biblical prophecy. According to this interpretation, their presence sets the stage for the final battle at Armageddon, after which Jesus returns, defeats evil, and establishes His kingdom.

In this view, modern Israel isn’t just a nation—it’s a prophetic countdown clock. But after the final battle, the land is no longer Jewish. Those who convert are saved. The rest… are not.

So Christian Zionists support Israel—for the Jews, but only temporarily.

Why, you might wonder, would Jews want an alliance whose end goal is for them to stop being Jewish?

Some say Israel needs every friend it can get. Others say that since Jews don’t believe in the second coming of Jesus, the whole prophecy is irrelevant. Either way, it’s a strange bargain—faith-based support, with an expiration date.

And here’s the twist: younger Christians aren’t buying it.

Support for Israel among young evangelicals has collapsed in recent years. Studies show it dropped from 75% in 2018 to just 34% by 2021—while sympathy for Palestinians quadrupled during the same period.

They’re rejecting Armageddon politics—and questioning why faith should come with a foreign policy agenda.

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The Pentagon’s Disinformation About Disinformation

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We are being told that Russia and China are engaging in “Anti-US Messaging” in Africa. The Epoch Times cites research from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) to say that African influencers are being paid by Russia and China to disrupt democracy in Africa.

Not only do they lack proof, they also fail to inform the reader that ACSS is an arm of the Pentagon. It’s own Website shows that it was founded by the U.S. Congress and run under the Department of Defense. Isn’t it funny that the article fails to mention that this “disinformation” research blaming Russia and China comes from the U.S. government?

So when ACSS blames disinformation campaigns on Russia and China—without providing a shred of evidence—they’re not reporting. They’re engaging in military messaging.

One of the alleged “anti-U.S.” narratives they complain about is something called Western Hypocrisy—accusations that the West holds double standards on foreign policy.

But here’s the thing:

We do.

That’s not disinformation. That’s… information.

Aren’t we tired of hearing that Russia and China are “undermining democracy” every time someone questions Western foreign policy? Now that the Russiagate hoax has been debunked by U.S. intelligence, you’d think we’d see through this by now.

What’s Trending?

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BTS × Michael Jackson is trending because K-pop band BTS is reportedly participating in a tribute album featuring unheard tracks by the King of Pop.

Sydney Sweeney is trending because this footage of her at a shooting range was posted online and for whatever reason, people care that she is registered as a Republican voter.

Hip Drop Tackle is trending because that illegal move resulted in an injury for Indianapolis Colts running back Salvon Ahmed in training camp on Sunday.

Delta Airlines is trending because the airline walked back a plan to use AI to personalize ticket fares after lawmakers expressed concerns about the idea.

News By The Numbers

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$28.5 million. That is how much The Naked Gun made internationally at the box office this weekend, a record opening for a comedy in the last 10 years. The film has received rave reviews and has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

3.0. That was the magnitude of earthquake that hit New York and New Jersey on Saturday evening.

20. That is how many people were injured when this amusement park ride snapped in half in Saudi Arabia this weekend. The video is harrowing!

Sex And The Pity

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HBO announced that it would end the Sex and the City reboot called And Just Like That. Thus ends decades of sexual propaganda, originally designed to “empower” women to be sexually promiscuous and lead full lives without men – ending up as cautionary tales of youth obsession, biological denial and social decay.

How sad.

The original show taught a generation of women that men would let you down, that wanting a husband or child was pathetic, and that casual sex carried no emotional or physical cost. All evidence to the contrary. And what did it leave behind? A cohort of women facing unintended childlessness, chronic loneliness, and deep regrets.

Can we make a direct causal link between Sex and the City and declining fertility rates? Of course not. But I’ve heard from many middle-aged women who feel the show lied to them—and who now hope their daughters are smart enough to ignore it.

And then came the reboot: a desperate attempt to prove that the party never ends. The characters are now in their 50s, but the messaging remained frozen in time. We were expected to believe:

• That their sex drives are unchanged since age 30—biological denialism at its peak;
• That affirming a child’s gender transition is progressive—despite mountains of evidence to the contrary;
• That abandoning your husband and children for a non-binary partner is an act of brave self-discovery;
• That sexual desirability should still be a defining goal of a woman’s life after 50.

But in a culture that scolds older women as “Karens,” the answer is not to act like JLo and show more skin to prove you’ve still got it. Where does wisdom fit in? What does life experience count for?

Humans are the only species that live decades beyond our reproductive years. These “extra” decades should be used to guide the next generation, not to cosplay relevance with Botox and one-night stands.

And Just Like That never got the message.

Good riddance to a truly socially corrosive piece of media.

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