Blog Wind and Truth Revealing the Cover of Wind and Truth, the Fifth Book in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive By Reactor | Published on August 29, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The wait is finally over, Stormlight Archive fans! Brandon Sanderson’s epic Stormlight Archive fantasy series will continue with Wind and Truth, the concluding volume of the first major arc of this ten-book series. A defining pillar of Sanderson’s “Cosmere” fantasy book universe, this newest installment of The Stormlight Archive promises huge developments for the world of Roshar, the struggles of the Knights Radiant (and friends!), and for the Cosmere at large. Check out the full cover art below, and then head over to the Dragonsteel blog for a conversation between artist Michael Whelan and Dragonsteel’s art director Isaac Stewart. Wind and Truth arrives December 6, 2024 from Tor Books—Read new chapters every Monday here on Reactor![end-mark] Cover art by Michael Whelan Buy the Book Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Book Five of The Stormlight Archive Buy Book Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Book Five of The Stormlight Archive Book Five of The Stormlight Archive Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The post Revealing the Cover of <i>Wind and Truth</i>, the Fifth Book in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive appeared first on Reactor.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—University presidents are responsible for keeping Jewish students safe on campuses this fall if pro-Hamas rioters return, according to a letter from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. Executive Vice President of Advancing American Freedom Paul Teller wrote a letter to the presidents of New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and George Washington University on Aug. 27 urging them to make sure their campuses “do not once again devolve into cesspools of rancid antisemitism.” Founded by Pence in 2021, Advancing American Freedom is a conservative think tank dedicated to promoting the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, according to the organization’s website. The letter has 11 signers, including Teller, the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, the co-chair of Young Jewish Conservatives, the president of the Middle East Forum, and Vice President for Free Speech at The Media Research Center. AAF University Presidents Anti-Semitism LetterDownload Anti-Israel protests have already resumed at George Washington University, with a coalition of anti-Israel, pro-Palestine groups leading a march through the campus Thursday night. Last spring, George Washington University students joined outside anti-Israel groups to establish an illegal encampment in University Yard from late April to early May. They’re back ??@DMVSJP leading a pro-Palestine procession through George Washington Univerity’s campus right now. The fall semester started TODAY. pic.twitter.com/1mN6fptn1A— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 22, 2024 “Last school year, university campuses across the United States were marred by antisemitic riots that shocked the American public,” Teller wrote in the letter. “Images of swastikas, public threats against Jewish students, and blatant antisemitism should evoke memories of Nazi Germany, not American universities in 2024.” More than 60% of Jewish students reported feeling less safe on campus, and 40% felt compelled to conceal their Jewish identity due to the harassment they encountered, according to recent data from Hillel, a Jewish campus organization. “Jewish students are preparing to return to campuses where their safety and sense of security have been compromised,” Teller wrote. “It is the responsibility of university presidents to ensure that campuses do not descend into cesspools of rancid antisemitism.” Students should not be afraid to wear a yarmulke or Star of David, Teller said. “When pro-Hamas rioters once again attempt to turn your college campuses into hives of antisemitism this fall, you must respond swiftly and without hesitation,” the Advancing American Freedom executive wrote. “Our schools must be safe for Jews.” The post University Presidents Urged to Combat Antisemitism as Students Return to Campus appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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CNN has been downright weird in covering Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg confessing he caved to Team Biden pressure to suppress dissenting views on Covid policy and “conspiracy theories” like Hunter Biden’s laptop was actually a treasure trove of detail on Biden family influence-peddling. We noted they called it an “election-year gift” to Republicans, because Who Benefits {cui bono!) matters more than what’s true. On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt pushed around Trump campaign aide Jason Miller on a Politico story regarding a book by Trump to be released next week. Hunt quoted Trump as saying that Meta head Mark Zuckerberg "would spend the rest of his life in prison." This is the actual quote, via Politico: “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.” Miller cited our 2020 MRC poll of voter knowledge of Biden stances and controversies.  Ironic that in a discussion of the liberal media suppressing information, Kasie Hunt . . . suppressed information.   JASON MILLER: Well, President Trump's certainly had a right to be angry at the time, and especially looking back at those [clears throat], excuse me, the censorship that went on in 2020. I mean, they used this guise of Russian misinformation to outright censor a story that turned out to be very true, with the Hunter Biden laptop. And it did manipulate the election. In fact, a post-election study from the Media Research Center said that one out of every seven Biden voter would have looked to go a different way, possibly to President Trump, if they knew about the truth of the foreign business dealings and everything else on Hunter Biden's laptop specific to Joe Biden and the international, we would say, is corruption. The study revealed that 45% of Biden voters in seven swing states said they were unaware of the financial scandal involving Hunter and Joe Biden, and that had they known about it, 9.4% of Biden voters would have switched their vote to Trump. That would have been enough to flip six swing states to Trump, giving him a comfortable win of 311 votes in the Electoral College Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 8/29/24 6:38 am EDT KASIE HUNT: Jason, before I let you go, I want to ask you about one other issue, one story that, there was a Politico story about a new book that's set to be published next week from, from your boss, the former president. It says that Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, plotted against him during the 2020 election. And that the Meta chief executive would quote, spend the rest of his life in prison, end quote. We also of course, saw Zuckerberg sent a letter to Congress expressing regret about some of the things Facebook did during the last election around miinformation. Does the president, does the former president feel this way about Mark Zuckerberg? Does he believe that he should go to jail? JASON MILLER: Well, President Trump's certainly had a right to be angry at the time, and especially looking back at those [clears throat], excuse me, the censorship that went on in 2020. I mean, they used this guise of Russian misinformation to outright censor a story that turned out to be very true, with the Hunter Biden laptop. And it did manipulate the election. In fact, a post-election study from the Media Research Center said that one out of every seven Biden voter would have looked to go a different way, possibly to President Trump, if they knew about the truth of the foreign business dealings and everything else on Hunter Biden's laptop specific to Joe Biden and the international, we would say, is corruption. HUNT: I mean is that, is this a jailable offense in your view? In the former president's view? MILLER: Well, I'm not a lawyer. I'll leave that up to the lawyers to go and decide on that. But I do think that there was blatant election interference and there should be some accountability to that. It can't just be a talking point from the left. They're actually, people have to be held responsible, especially those 51 intelligence officers for intentionally, very specifically, knowing that that was a lie, and pushing this Russian disinformation hoax.

The assembled cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe joined former Obama State Department official and former managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, on Thursday in hailing Vice President Kamala Harris for supposedly taking back the mantle of American exceptionalism from Republicans. The basis for the segment was an article Stengel wrote for Time where he claimed that Harris’s DNC acceptance speech was “the most full-throated and sincere expression of American exceptionalism since the presidency of George W. Bush, and the most direct and unambiguous expression of that idea by a Democratic presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy.”     Co-host Jonathan Lemire claimed, “It was so striking last week in Chicago, I was there, just the flag was everywhere. The red, white, and blue was everywhere. Chants of USA were everywhere. It did really feel like Democrats who, to your point, for so long avoided that, not just reembracing it, but trying to take it back from Republicans.” Stengel naturally agreed, “I think it never should have been taken away, but, I mean, I'm old enough to remember when, you know, Democrats didn't fly the flag, didn’t put it up, didn’t chant USA and I think it's great there's a younger generation of Democrats who are re-embracing that.” In proof that the thesis may need some revisions, elsewhere in the segment, Stengel would dance around counterexamples, such as the anti-American, anti-Israel demonstrators. As it was, after Stengel claimed the Iraq War alienated many Democrats from the idea of American exceptionalism, he turned his attention to Donald Trump, “I mean, the other thing, the flip side, the fact that Republicans are embracing American exceptionalism, when their own candidate has basically derogated the term when he said the American dream is dead and has run as a declinist, as political scientists call him, someone who thinks America is in decline.” He added, “I mean, there's never been a president before who was elected who, you know, who was saying that, and I think people are beginning to realize, well, really, he's not USA, USA. He actually says that we're a country that is a failed state. I mean, that's not very inspiring to voters.” Neither is the idea the country is still infected with systemic racism, but Democrats are desperately trying people to forget what they have said about America, not during the Iraq War, but in the last few years. Here is a transcript for the August 29 show: MSNBC Morning Joe 8/29/2024 6:41 AM ET JONATHAN LEMIRE: It was so striking last week in Chicago, I was there, just the flag was everywhere. The red, white, and blue was everywhere. Chants of USA were everywhere. It did really feel like Democrats who, to your point, for so long avoided that. RICHARD STENGEL: Yeah. LEMIRE: Not just reembracing it, but trying to take it back from Republicans. STENGEL: Yes. I think it never should have been taken away, but, I mean, I'm old enough to remember when, you know, Democrats didn't fly the flag, didn’t put it up, didn’t chant USA and I think it's great there's a younger generation of Democrats who are re-embracing that. LEMIRE: Yeah, there was at least, there was a video the Trump campaign put out, maybe a month or so back, where they had staffers walking around even saying, “Well, if you see an American flag, you know who that person is voting for,” suggesting it is Donald Trump and that is, just simply, not the case.” … STENGEL: I do think part of the, sort of, blemished record of American exceptionalism was the invasion of Iraq that was justified using these kind of grand terms, providential terms and I think that’s one reason it went into hibernation among Democrats. I mean, you know, Obama ran opposed to the invasion of Iraq, but I just want to pick up on what you were saying. I mean, the other thing, the flip side, the fact that Republicans are embracing American exceptionalism, when their own candidate has basically derogated the term when he said the American dream is dead and has run as a declinist, as political scientists call him, someone who thinks America is in decline.  I mean, there's never been a president before who was elected who, you know, who was saying that, and I think people are beginning to realize, well, really, he's not USA, USA. He actually says that we're a country that is a failed state. I mean, that's not very inspiring to voters.

As the September 10 presidential debate looms closer, Kamala Harris can’t stop challenging the ABC debate rules. Former President Donald Trump has announced that he’s fine with the set rules, writing on Truth Social that “the rules will be the same as the last CNN debate, which seemed to work out well for everyone.” The rules will be close to the terms used by CNN for the June 27 debate, which includes that microphones will be muted as the other candidate speaks and no studio audience will be present. However, Harris doesn’t want the muted mic. “On the one side, you have Harris claiming we need to change the rules, there’s a live mic, and the Trump campaign right now saying, 'No, we’re not going to change the rules,'” Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson explains. Center for American Liberty founder and Trump campaign surrogate Harmeet Dhillon believes this is telling of Kamala’s strategy. “What it does tell you very clearly is that Kamala Harris intends to rely on gimmicks to get herself past this debate. I'm sure it terrifies her to sit down with or stand up with and have to debate the master of debating in this particular format,” Dhillon tells Jill Savage and Peterson. “In this case, what she wants with the open mic is to be able to do her tired girl boss trope, to interrupt him when he makes a comment about her and say, ‘I’m speaking, it’s my turn, I’m claiming my time,’ whatever platitude you want to plug in there,” Dhillon explains. “She’s also relying on having to need notes, be seated,” she continues, noting that Kamala also likely wants to have her “comfort governor Tim Walz” around to “help her out and hold her hand.” “No, she’s a big girl, and the president of the United States is expected to stand toe to toe with the worst despots, demagogues, dictators, and evil people in the world. And they have to be able to do that without crutches, without gimmicks, without props, and without calling a lifeline,” she adds.To hear more, watch the video below: Want more from Blaze News Tonight?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.