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Truth and justice should be the American way and are worth fighting for. #AlliesAgainstAntisemitism #GunReform #ClimateCrisis

[Citizen @Citizen190]

What would repealing the Affordable Care Act without more than a concept of a plan look like?

Before the ACA became law in 2010, insurance was expensive and often hard to obtain. Most policies didn’t cover pre-existing conditions.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

While legacy media covers Trump's disgraceful UFC fight as if it's normal and his capitulation to Iran as if it's a real cease fire, Democracy Docket is exposing Trump's plot to undermine free and fair elections.

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[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Interesting. When Jewish students complained about intimidation on campus, many of these same politicians found nuance, context, and procedural hurdles. For Mahmoud Khalil, they found a pen.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

The People’s House has entered its sponsorship era.

The president owns UFC stock. A million-dollar fundraiser is tied to the event. Commemorative merchandise is already being sold.

Is the Hatch Act just not a thing anymore?

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane waving the Munich Agreement, declaring “peace for our time.”

Chamberlain thought he had avoided war when he negotiated the deal with Hitler; in reality, he had postponed it, while empowering Hitler in the process.

Hitler wasn’t looking for peace, he needed time, and the desire for diplomacy only fed his momentum.

He signed deals not to keep them, but to rebuild.

Today, the U.S. is making the same mistake.

The Islamic Republic is not a nation with nuclear ambitions; it is a regime animated by a theological mandate. “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” are its policies.

Iran’s nuclear pursuits are not just strategic. They are messianic.

The regime’s belief in the return of the Mahdi is entwined with a doctrine that views chaos as a sacred precondition for divine intervention.

To believe that such a regime can be neutralized through treaties is to repeat Chamberlain’s mistake.

Any deal that fails to dismantle Iran’s terror infrastructure is handing time, money, and legitimacy to a regime that sees a truce as a phase of warfare.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Israel:
- was invaded by an explicitly genocidal army that is larger than most European armies
- fought a war against an enemy that embeds in civilian homes and doesn’t wear uniforms
- issued evacuation notices
- paused the war for vaccinations
- facilitated humanitarian aid
- kept the internet on
- has more rigorous rules for engagement than NATO
- has lawyers who review every single military engagement decision
- primarily inflicted casualties on fighting-age males, with women and children vastly underrepresented
- ended the war the instant they got their hostages back

"Gaza genocide" is a conspiracy theory that requires you to believe that none of the above is true.

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@havivrettiggur Is this 'deal' any better than the JCOPA?
https://t.co/jrbcGOdJKu

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Reminder that Doctors Without Borders spent two years at Nasser Hospital before admitting Hamas was using it as a terror base.

During that stretch, the group refused to treat 20 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid workers wounded by Hamas, leaving them to die in the courtyard

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Another revealing report by @UNWatch

A 104-page investigation has just been released, showing that the United Nations’ top human rights experts have abandoned the role of independent monitors and are now political activists or corrupt individuals paid by dictatorships to undermine democracies.

The report profiles 13 of the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteurs. Here are just a couple of examples:

- Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women, has refused to acknowledge the October 7th massacre, denied Hamas sexual crimes against Israeli women and amplified Hamas-aligned propaganda.

- Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, received $1.3 million in funding from China, Russia, and Qatar.

- Ben Saul, the UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism, received $150,000 from China. Though he routinely castigates Western states, he has refused to issue any statements on China’s persecution of the Muslim Uyghurs, which Beijing justifies as “counterterrorism.”

- Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, said “Hamas are not terrorists,” and endorsed “the legitimacy of armed struggle.”

- Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, accuses Canada of committing genocide. Though Venezuela routinely bars UN monitors, Fakhri was specifically invited for a visit, which he used to lavish praise on the Maduro regime.

- George Katrougalos, a former Greek foreign minister serving as the UN independent expert “on a democratic and equitable international order,” received $100,000 from China in 2025.

In the same year, he promoted Xi Jinping’s book and praised the Chinese dictator’s “vision of openness, development and dialogue” and “shared future for humanity.” He also traveled to Tehran that year, where he met with the regime’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi to jointly lament “Israeli and American crimes.”

- Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, turned a blind eye to gross and systematic violations of free speech by the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Myanmar, as well as internet shutdowns by Iran and Turkey, yet she devoted an entire UN General Assembly report to condemning Western states for allegedly repressing pro-Palestinian protests.

@unwatch founder @HillelNeuer comments:

“Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures, who defines Western sanctions on dictatorships as illegal, received $1.3 million from China, Russia, and Qatar. No one is even checking how this money is being used.

If a judge took $1.3 million from one of the parties, they would be immediately disqualified and removed from the bench.

If a journalist openly endorsed a terror group on social media, they would be fired on the spot.

Yet the UN’s rapporteurs operate without ethical constraints or consequences — and there’s not even a procedure to remove them. The result is a powerful bloc of compromised officials who enjoy not only diplomatic immunity, but complete impunity”

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Trump rushed into this confrontation aggressively without calculating the real cost. Now he’s rushing to get out of it without understanding the cost of backing down.

He’s making the same mistake twice:

first underestimating the enemy, and now underestimating how much credibility America is losing by appearing weak and desperate.

[Citizen @Citizen190]

🌞Despite Trump's best efforts, in May, for the first time in US history, solar generated more of the nation’s electricity than coal—12.8% to coal’s 12.2%, according to energy think tank Ember. 🌞
It was coal’s fourth-lowest monthly share ever recorded.
https://t.co/aIAHR3wleu

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@cressmasonxxx @archeohistories @histories_arch Thomas Jefferson acquired his copy of the Qur'an in 1765—over a decade before writing the Declaration of Independence and more than 30 years before he became president and confronted the Barbary pirates.

https://t.co/nJDbHImLdZ

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@archeohistories This article explains when Jefferson acquired the Qu'ran, decades before the Barbary Wars, and also describes enslaved Muslims in America in the 1700s.
https://t.co/IQMYiBwATH

[Prof Gerald M Steinberg @GeraldNGOM]

@JamieMetzl @TheLancet https://t.co/qeLDc62jba

[Daniel Bernard @oldscottyb]

@havivrettiggur @TreyYingst, adding you for visibility. This deserves coverage.

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@havivrettiggur @hahussain Well, I tell everyone I know. @nytimes @AP @Reuters @latimes @USATODAY @MSNOWNews @CNN @BBCBreaking should not only correct all columns online and in print, but also publish new stories with the corrections (in the same prominent positions as the previous stories).
@CAMERA4Truth

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks.

It's dozens now. Maybe more.

But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media.

Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases.

No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@archeohistories This article explains when Jefferson acquired the Qu'ran, decades before the Barbary Wars, and also describes enslaved Muslims in America in the 1700s.
https://t.co/IQMYiBwATH

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@archeohistories Smthsonian Magazine confirms☝️, Jefferson intended the “Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom” to protect “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.”

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Quran long before he became president of the United States. He purchased it in 1765 while studying law, alongside books on Christianity, Judaism, philosophy, and ancient history. Jefferson was deeply interested in understanding different belief systems, not because he agreed with all of them, but because he believed knowledge of religion, law, and culture was important for building a nation based on liberty rather than enforced faith.

Jefferson often criticized organized religion, including Christianity, and questioned many traditional religious doctrines. He believed religion should remain a private matter between a person and their conscience. Despite his personal criticisms, he strongly defended the idea that people of all faiths should have equal protection under the law. His Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, passed in 1786, became one of the foundations of religious liberty in the United States and later influenced the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Years later, Jefferson’s Quran would gain symbolic importance in American history. In 2007, Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, used Jefferson’s very own Quran during his ceremonial oath photo session. The moment was seen by many as a reminder that religious freedom in America was intended to apply even to beliefs the founders themselves may not have shared.

#archaeohistories

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@kthalps @SinaToossi Didn't the Iranian regime admit that Trita Parsi acted as an unregistered lobbyist for Tehran. He’s been one of the main forces spreading pro-regime propaganda in the U.S.,

[Citizen @Citizen190]

@TheJenniWren @jilevin 🤬🤬🤬