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[Cate @CateWaits]

This is worth 20 minutes of your time.
https://t.co/aqsidMIQYb

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The behavior of the head of the Smithsonian's Museum of American History at yesterday's hearing was appalling. She made clear she'll keep smearing the US as racist and genocidal, and denying biological sex. If she and @SmithsonianSec don't resign, Congress must defund it.

[Tom Cotton @TomCottonAR]

The alliance between Marxists and Islamists is taking over the Democratic Party, not just in New York, but across the country.

The best way to stop it is to vote Republican this fall.

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

No, I’m not Jewish. I was raised as an Irish Catholic. You don’t need to be Jewish to support Israel against Islamic jihad. You just need a moral compass.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

It’s not a war crime for Jews to defend themselves from mass murder, and it’s not genocide just because you’re losing a war you started.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Liberals Are the Most Dangerous and Inherently Evil Threat to America (THREAD🧵)

The liberal is not merely mistaken, misguided, or simply wrong; they are soulless creatures lacking any moral compass or human empathy, a fact proven by their cold indifference to the millions of lives destroyed by their policies. They are predatory hunters, stalking the vulnerable not to help them, but to secure their votes and feed their insatiable hunger for power, treating the poor as pawns in a game of political chess while they themselves live in gated communities. This is a depraved ideology, morally corrupt beyond redemption, that has normalized the murder of the unborn and the mutilation of children, celebrating these atrocities as progress while claiming the high ground of compassion.

They are treacherous by nature, betraying their country and their neighbors at every turn, from selling our secrets to foreign adversaries to opening our borders to invaders who threaten the very fabric of our society. They are parasitic entities, feeding on the success and labor of hardworking Americans, draining the wealth of the productive to fund their corrupt machine and enrich their donor class. Their actions are malicious, acting with intentional harm and ill will against the very people they claim to serve, as seen in their deliberate destruction of our energy independence which drives up costs for the working class....

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Most people who read ‘The Communist Manifesto’ probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of ‘the workers.’”

— Thomas Sowell

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Gazans are such fascinating people! During ceasefires they're all Hamas but during war they're all civilians.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Seems like a good day not just to talk about the DSA platform, which is (a) Communist af, (b) retarded, (c) unrealistic as hell, (d) childishly presented, and (e) extraordinarily radical -- calling for a new Constitution even -- but to do a thread showing its stupid points. 🧵

[Simon Wiesenthal Center @simonwiesenthal]

Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Zohran Mamdani should be criminally charged under the Logan act

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The thing about people pushing vague conspiracy narratives without specifying any particular one is that, should the case turn out to be even slightly more complex than previously thought, they will declare victory and allude to their superior intuition.

But the reasonableness of a claim is fixed at the moment it is made, based on the evidence and reasoning available at the time. If you had terrible reasons for believing something, but you somehow turn out to be correct, those terrible reasons don't magically become good ones. Your belief doesn't become retroactively reasonable. You were still wrong in how you arrived at it. You just got lucky.

Many people fail to grasp this. They mistake someone who happened to be right by chance for someone who was truly insightful or prophetic.

That's why conspiracy-minded people avoid making specific, falsifiable claims. They know that if the current story changes even a little as new facts emerge, they can take a performative victory lap, and many people will applaud them for it. Worse, those people will place much more trust in them going forward, even though that trust is completely undeserved.

That's the conspiracist's gambit: keep your claims vague and refuse to be pinned down. The odds of correctly predicting any specific conspiracy are tiny compared with the odds that some unexpected development will emerge in a complex case. When that happens, they'll try to take credit for having made a successful specific prediction they never actually made.

Keep in mind that critics of knee-jerk conspiracism, myself included, don't reject the possibility that conspiracies occur. That would be absurd. Conspiracies are common! I wouldn't be especially surprised if it eventually turned out that someone else knew about or assisted Tyler Robinson. Perhaps Lance Twiggs or someone from the Discord chat. I have no idea. But that sort of conspiracy would hardly be unusual in a murder case.

The point is that the burden of proof is on the person making the specific conspiracy claim. They need to specify exactly what they're alleging and present evidence for it. No particular conspiracy should be believed until the available evidence justifies that belief.

And don't let people get away with staying vague. If they won't commit to a specific claim, they shouldn't get credit later for a prediction they never actually made.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Liar

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

I used to think Zohran Mamdani was a ‘cultural Muslim’ who didn’t really care much about religion, and was just a third-worldist using his Islamic background for identity politics and votes. I was wrong.

It is becoming increasingly more obvious by the day that he’s actually an extremely radicalized Shia Muslim practicing taqiya all along.

Remember a couple months ago when relatives of Iranian Regime officials were arrested across America? They were all pretending to live secular lives, the women even wore provocative clothing. They were all practicing taqiya.

While all Islamic sects allow you to lie in order to advance Islam, this is even stronger in Shia Islam. You can live a completely different life.

Well, I believe this is the same situation. Zohran Mamdani is not only a Muslim, he’s a Twelver Shia Muslim. He belongs to the exact same sect as the Islamic Regime in Iran, Hezbollah, and Houthis.

His ‘progressive’ persona is all an act. The only thing he cares about is advancing Islam. This is why he pretends to care about the LGBT and other useful idiots. Taqiya allows him to do that.

Just like during the Islamic revolution in Iran, when the Muslims and leftists were allies, and we all know how that ended for the leftists when the Muslims got to power.

This man is a monster.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

Take note, sir:

Suicidal empathy was literally the sin of Judas.

Think of what that money could have done for the poor, says the man who turns Christ over to the Roman authorities, and later hung himself in despair.

He makes the statement when Lazarus's sister Mary annoints the feet of Jesus with a costly perfume.  

The wisdom in making a misapplied, deceitful and narcissistic empathic altruism the sin of the betrayer of Christ Himself is breathtaking.

It's another example (along with bottomless depths of the story of Cain and Abel and the brazen serpent who is also Jesus) of the truly incomprehensible literary genius of the Biblical canon.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I am once again, with 100% sincerity and meaning it as fully as it can be meant, telling whoever has the power in the United States of America to do it, bar holding public office or any office in the public trust, along with naturalization, for all members of ideologies, including the DSA's, that are openly stated to be in conflict with the oaths required to hold those positions or to have been granted that citizenship.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Your wife quite literally celebrated War Crimes on October 7th. Sit down and shut the f*ck up.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

A prominent, major and mainstream conservative politician in the UK was recently beaten to death with a hammer

Feel like that should probably be getting more attention

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

There has never been a genocide or famine in Gaza.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

2025: the Charlie Kirk assassination made everyone crazy, lots of people I love in media have been disappointing, but I’m sure they’ll come around…

2026: roughly 80% of people in media & podcasting have lost their minds and are dead to me