Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing  — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!

#1 - Horror: Israeli Soldiers Discover Bodies of 40 Babies, Some Beheaded — by Bonchie

A mainline Israeli news station is reporting that the bodies of 40 babies have been found in the town of Kfar Aza following the invasion by Hamas militants on Saturday.

According to i24 news, the babies were being carried out on gurneys, with some of them having been beheaded. 

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REPORTER: David, it's hard to even explain exactly, just the mass casualties that happened right here. In fact, the Israeli military says they still don't have a clear number, but I'm talking to some of the soldiers, and they say what they've witnessed as they've been walking through these different houses, these different communities. Babies, their heads cut off, that's what they said. Gunned down, families completely gunned down in their beds. You can see some of these soldiers right now comforting each other.

#2 - WATCH: Horrifying Videos out of Israel, as Biden Administration Delivers Shockingly Grotesque Response — by Bonchie

The Biden administration is a moral abomination. By the time that post went out, there were already videos of civilians being held hostage and murdered circulating. Yet, the State Department's Office of Palestinian Affairs decided to denounce any retaliation anyway, even framing Israel's possible response as "violence and terror."

Israel should ignore any such future demands. The only way this stops is a full-scale response that leaves nothing to chance and no terrorism infrastructure in place.

#3 - Michael Hayden Apparently Just Called For the Death of a U.S. Senator — by Jennifer Van Laar

Former CIA Director and retired Gen. Michael Hayden seemed to call for the death of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) Monday night.

Quoting a Twitter post that asked, "Should Tommy Tuberville be removed from his committee? Yes or No?" Hayden wrote, "How about the human race?"

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Tuberville has been bullied by Senate Democrats and know-nothing pundits since last December over his opposition to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's creation of an "abortion tourism benefit."

#4 - Reporter Lights up State Dept. Spox After He Tries Blaming Trump for $6 Billion Biden Unfroze for Iran — by Sister Toldjah

Though the statement President Joe Biden gave Tuesday about Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians was far more pointed regarding the situation and supportive of Israel than the brief, bumbling remarks he gave Saturday, the overall response from the Biden administration to date has to many, to put it mildly, been sorely lacking and quite frankly unacceptable.

To further prove the point, we turn to a State Dept. briefing held earlier where spokesman Matt Miller and Associated Press reporter Matt Lee had a heated exchange on the issue of the $6 billion in Iranian assets Biden unfroze as part of a hostage-freeing deal with Iran that was first reported on in July, but which became official in September.

#5 - The Traditional Media Panics as Elon Musk's X Platform Destroys Their Ability to Control What You See — by streiff

This is the irony; actual OSINT accounts were never "verified" under the old system because most of them were sorta professional and not social media clout chasers. The problem this guy points to, and I follow him on my "Ukraine" reference list, is that he wants to be spoonfed. He's not willing to do the hard work of finding non-English speaking accounts that can be translated by a right-click in Google Chrome. The same accounts he allegedly followed in 2021 are still available. If your currency is accuracy and credibility, you take your time and verify information. If you want to be a YouTube commenter and yell, "First!!" you have a problem retaining your credibility. 

In fact, the information that appears on X gets batted down pretty swiftly, even when it is an alleged news organization with a history of fabricating stories (Hilarious: Twitter’s Community Notes Gets the Last Laugh After NBC News Hit Piece on ‘X’ Is Tweeted Out). And X has a mechanism allowing false and misleading information to be flagged. Unlike the old system that decided you "couldn't handle the truth," X provides a feedback mechanism to challenge possible misinformation without some green-haired they/them character deciding it for you.