From Your Friend in the Shadows

  01/28/2026 10th of Shevat, 5786 05:00 hrs UTC-8 15:00 hrs UTC+2 Oct 7th +843 CLOCK STOPPED I will not be lengthy. As my previous statements have been. This will be my last as a student. For the past 843 days, it was so easy to shut up, scurry and hide. But for some, you stood up, spoke out and fought the good fight. I'm aware that West Point and Annapolis house and train our nation's finest. Yet you who saw the horrors of October 7th, the hate spewing on campuses, and chose to make this dark hour your finest. You are this generation's finest. For it was so easy to swept by this generation's moral depravity, and you stood. You were always the Few, and were Proud of it. Like the Maccabees and Men of Lexington before you, y ou did not yield. To Life, Love and Liberty Am Yisrael Chai. Your Friend…

  01/26/2026 8th of Shevat, 5786 07:00 hrs UTC-8 17:00 hrs UTC+2 Oct 7th +843 CLOCK STOPPED Ran Gvili is home... I still don't have words to express how I felt on October 7th. And further still, I don't have words to express how I feel. May Ran's Memory be a blessing May Ran's family find comfort. May we all find healing....  Maybe finally find words to ascribe to our feelings Today is Oct 7th +843 Today is October 8th… Am Yisrael Chai From a Friend…

01/23/2026 Oct7th +840 06:00 hrs UTC-8   Dear Reader,      This will be my last ‘update’ as a student. I still have some to write, but by the time I fully release it, I will no longer be a student. My time in higher education has been loosely defined by advocacy. I spent my community college years in student government trying to get a grasp of educational and university policies. When I transferred to university in Fall of 2023, I thought I’d leave that life behind. History had other plans.       The horrid events of October 7th 2023 and the stateside campus response to these events would prove too extreme for me to sit out, with the targeting of Tessa Veksler at UCSB proving my concerns and suspicions correct. Since then, my advocacy has looked different to that of my previous student government days. Gone is the neutrality, and any attempt to seem impartial. For the moment of history I find myself in no longer requires such n...

  01/17/2026 Oct7th +833 06:00 hrs UTC-8 “Under the yoke of the Islamic Republic, Iran is identified in your mind with terrorism, extremism and poverty. But the real Iran is a different Iran, a beautiful, peace-loving and flourishing Iran.”  –Reza Pahlavi, exiled Crown Prince of Iran, Jan 15 2026 “When we talk about Iran, I am talking about the radical Shia clerics and not the people. The people of Iran are people of an ancient civilization, an ancient culture with tremendous pride and advances, who take great pride in their Persian heritage and identity, and I do not know of any nation on Earth in which there is a bigger difference between the people and those who govern them than what exists in Iran, and that is a fact that needs to be made repeatedly.”  –US Secratary of State Marco Rubio at his nomination hearing Janurary 15th 2025 “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” –Article I, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789 “Give me liberty o...

  Disclaimer: I didn’t go to TPUSA-AmFest 2025, I merely watched the Rumble streams. Go look up these speeches, they’re all on Youtube and Rumble.      In December of 2025, in Arizona, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) hosted its annual America Fest (AmFest), which is an event where conservative minded students meet up, hang out, share ideas, learn from other campuses etc. However, this year’s AmFest was a bit different.      This past year’s AmFest was TPUSA’s first major nationwide conference since the Memorial Service in September of 2025 in honor of their late founder Charlie Kirk. Yet even as it celebrated Kirk’s life and legacy, a widening rift was apparent over the future of the American Right. Nowhere is this clearer than in the opening and closing keynote speeches of the whole event, those by Daily Wire Co-Founder Ben Shapiro, and the 50th Vice President, J.D. Vance, respectively (KWTX; AP News). Both men agree that the American Ri...

       On Janurary 1st, 2026, Zohran Mamdani as the newly elected New York City mayor began his work by annuling and revoking the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism that was signed by executive order by his predecessor, now-former mayor Eric Adams. This is strange for a multitude of reasons if one merely reads headlines or just the major themes, and that’s intentional.      Mamdani for the past year(2025) has been portraying himself as a communist/democratic socialist. Advocating for rent control, free transit, government run grocery stores, universal childcare, a raise on minimum wage to $30 by 2030, all to be paid for by ‘taxing the rich’. Again all classic leftist talking points that seem rosy and well meaning, which many youngfolk in America, especially university educated folk, are falling for. Mamdani also openly supported LGBT issues and ‘snacturary’ policies. He als...