L. G. Brandon 📟

BIPOC Genderqueer activist barista living the good life on stolen ancestral land of the Seneca (will cede for a good price). 2026 Gaza Pride Parade co-chair.

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

Well this sure throws a monkey wrench into our planning.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The World Cup kicks off today in the United States, and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is showing up, and something is happening that ought to make us pause. Their minds are being blown away by us.

https://t.co/9JUUg86dls

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

No widespread outrage from the “pro Palestinian,” “all eyes on Gaza” crowd tells you everything you need to know.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

I sold barren land for a profit.

Then someone developed homes on that land and massively increased its value.

I have seller's remorse.

I am the victim and I have a right to massacre everyone who lives on that land and steal it.

My name is Palestine.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

A Scandinavian economist once boasted to Milton Friedman:

“In Scandinavia, we have no poverty.”

Friedman replied:

“That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either.”

[Josh @_j0sh_a_]

🤦‍♂️ The BDS movement is a pathetic joke 😂

They published a PDF list of companies that should be boycotted.

Google is listed there as a “Pressure Target” - a company that should be boycotted when reasonable alternatives exist.

The tool they used to create this PDF?
Google Docs 😭😅

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Colonialism is bad, right?

Wrong.

The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.

India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.

India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.

Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.

The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.

Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.

Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.

Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.

Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.

Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.

If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old.

He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years.

Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions.

He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds.

Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@K_AminThaabet SO much. The singular voice who could learnedly and calmly make sense of the world’s chaos. When CK passed, I was utterly bereft. That hole was unlikely to be filled, and it hasn’t. @hughhewitt is the only voice who comes pretty close.

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@LagboatUK1 That’s what insurance is for, mate.

[Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter @yechielleiter]

Things to keep around your baby’s crib:

✅ Extra diapers
✅ Baby monitor
✅ Their favorite toy
❌ Weapons and ammunition

This is life under Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese people deserve to have nurseries free of weapons, houses free of terror, and lives free of Iranian proxy armies.

[Mj✡︎ Ⅱ @motivatedjoy2]

>be Ireland
>hate Israel as much as Arabs
>get one small taste of what Israelis deal with
>burns everything down

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays?

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Anybody who’s old enough will find a dark humor in seeing Gerry Adams calling for calm and denouncing people for being unhappy with people of non-Irish heritage being present in Ireland

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@robbysoave @EWErickson Such an easy answer. If someone even asks that question, the world is better off if his or her gene pool ends with them.

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 I'll be blunt: see this asshole on the right? The one with the spectacles? The one joining hands with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the U.S.-designated terrorist?

That's Badar Khan Suri. He's a professor at Georgetown University. He's from INDIA.

He's not a citizen of the United States. Let me say that again: HE IS NOT A CITIZEN, HE IS A CITIZEN FROM INDIA.

After Joe Biden stole the election, Khan Suri was handed a visa and allowed into the United States as a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown.

He was arrested by ICE for alleged ties to Hamas and promoting their propaganda, but released by one of Biden's commie judges.

He now speaks at events trashing our country. He whines about his time in ICE detention, and paints agents as Nazis.

His wife is the daughter of a former Hamas official.

He's still employed by Georgetown. The campus is about to receive over $1 BILLION in federal funding.

A Fox News investigation has uncovered that 90% of the H1-B visas given to citizens of India are obtained through fraudulent credentials.

If DHS had any sense, they'd look into this. Fast.

@DHSgov @SecMullinDHS @USCIS

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@SloanRachmuth @Notwokenow Norman Finkelstein would be my guess.

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@chriswithans @NYPop18 Congress (only Congress) has the power to tax. So if you call the Obamacare penalty a tax, which Roberts did (wrongly so), it’s okay because Congress is allowed to do that.

INA doesn’t provide for the $100K. So if it’s a tax, then President lacks authority to impose it.

[L. G. Brandon 📟 @ArtfulCodger007]

@beyondreasdoubt Okay, that’s pretty darned good.