Gregory Steimel

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

After perusing 25,000 comments in the past two days, most of which attempt to explain why Americans are voting for Communists, socialists, and antisemites in record numbers, I’ve done the only rational thing a man in my position can do; I’ve agreed to go on Real Time with Bill Maher this Friday to talk about it.

What could possibly go wrong?

I was also inspired by all the "sturm und drang" to make a quick commercial that highlights one of our many scholarship recipients who mastered a trade, and then went on to open her own business. Her name is Maryssa, and while I have no idea what her politics might be, I can assure you that her attitude, her initiative, and her work ethic are proof positive that the American Dream is still in reach, for any who would grab it and go.

Currently, we have $10 million in scholarships set aside to help people like Maryssa. People who want to build a prosperous life for themselves by learning a skill that's in demand and going to work. Apply at https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Here are the kind of families we help to get their kids back from state child traffickers.

Members of our team recently had dinner with Jaicobi and Kaliyah Freeman. After they finished eating, Jaicobi noticed a homeless man outside.

He quietly walked over, asked if he was hungry, brought him food, and then asked if he could pray for him. The man pulled out a hymnal and asked Jaicobi if he'd sing with him. So he did, and after they sang, they sat and talked.

Jaicobi and Kaliyah are fighting to get their own kids back after being falsely accused of abuse. A doctor at CHOA ignored evidence that their baby boy's injuries were caused by a medical condition.

Despite substantial evidence, Douglas County DFCS removed all three of their children. The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office is pursuing criminal charges, and their bond conditions don’t even allow them to know what’s happening with their own children.
Despite all of this, Jaicobi took time to pray, worship, and talk with a man who desperately needed it.

That’s who Jaicobi and Kaliyah are.

And I can't even say it's rare. The parents we help are some of the absolute salt of the earth. But thanks to federal incentive-based funding that pays state CPS agencies to seize and adopt out as many kids as they can, these innocent parents fight for months, sometimes years, to see their kids and not go to prison for a crime that never happened.

Imagine carrying that kind of heartbreak, anger and fear every single day.

And yet, Jaicobi and Kaliyah continue to love people. They continue to pray. They continue to show kindness to complete strangers.

These are good parents living through a nightmare no innocent family should ever have to endure.

Please join me in praying for this family. Pray that the truth to prevails, hearts are softened, for those in power to act to have the courage to do what is right, and most importantly, for these children to be safely reunited with their parents.

We've reunited many families just like the Freemans. In the comments, I'll tell you how you can help for free and just a couple minutes of your time.

[Gregory Steimel @GregorySteimel]

@BluebriarArts Family Matters wasn't necessarily gritty, but it was supposed to be way more serious than it evolved to with Urkel.

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

NEW: Ed Secretary Linda McMahon just released a "call to action" to university presidents and boards, pushing a list of reforms. In some ways, this is similar to earlier statements. But notably, several university presidents reportedly helped draft it.

Read along w/ me 🧵

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

The behavioral patterns of Muslim populations in non-Muslim countries change predictably based on their percentage of the total population:

0–2%

When Muslims constitute less than 2% of the population, they typically maintain a low profile.

This is the stage of da’wah, Islamic proselytization, and reputation-building.

Islam is presented to the host society as peaceful, rational, and ethical. The focus is on integration, tolerance, and charitable outreach.

Criticism of Islam is dismissed as ignorance or Islamophobia, while the community builds its infrastructure, mosques, community centers, and Islamic schools.

At this stage, Muslim communities leverage the language of Western liberalism to gain a foothold: religious freedom, civil rights, and anti-discrimination laws.

Political involvement is minimal, and confrontational rhetoric is avoided. Public engagement centers around interfaith dialogues, cultural exchange events, and educational outreach, designed to normalize Islam as a peaceful, constructive force in the multicultural fabric.

This phase is also marked by a strong narrative of victimhood.

Muslims are portrayed as an embattled minority needing protection from xenophobic majorities. Laws protecting hate speech and religious freedom are invoked to shield Islamic doctrines from public scrutiny.

In the early 1990s, Muslim populations in countries like Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway remained below this threshold. The communities focused on mosque-building and cultural integration. Violent incidents were rare, and the rhetoric was geared toward coexistence.

2–5%

As the population crosses the 2% threshold, a noticeable change occurs.

Advocacy groups emerge with more aggressive postures. Demands are no longer requests but framed as civil rights: halal food in schools and hospitals, Islamic prayer rooms in public buildings, gender-segregated swim times, and recognition of Islamic holidays.

These demands are wrapped in the language of equality, but the subtext is unmistakable: Islam is not merely seeking parity; it is beginning to shape the host society.

At this stage, sharia-compliant accommodations are requested, not just in private religious life but in public institutions. Workplaces are asked to allow prayer breaks. Public schools are pressured to remove curriculum deemed Islamophobic.

Terms like “Islamophobia” become strategic weapons to intimidate critics and silence public debate.

Ontario, in the early 2000s, witnessed a push to introduce sharia arbitration in civil and family disputes. Though it was ultimately defeated due to public backlash, the initiative revealed the ideological thrust: the attempt to institutionalize Islamic jurisprudence within the Western legal system. Similar efforts have appeared in Australia and the U.S.

5–10%

Between 5–10%, Muslim communities transition from integration to parallelism. No-go zones begin to form, urban enclaves where state law is either ignored or actively resisted.

Police avoid intervention, and informal sharia enforcement takes hold. Honor killings, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and forced marriages begin to appear, not as isolated events, but as features of a separate legal order within the host nation.

This stage also sees increasing legal jihad, efforts to redefine blasphemy laws, criminalize criticism of Islam, and pressure media, academia, and politicians into compliance. Islam’s totalizing nature refuses compartmentalization.

Everything must bend to its divine law, including speech, gender relations, and governance.

More than 80 sharia courts operate unofficially in the UK, issuing rulings on everything from divorce to inheritance, often disadvantaging women and violating national law.

Efforts to investigate or criticize these courts are met with accusations of racism and Islamophobia.

Banlieues surrounding Paris, such as Seine-Saint-Denis, have become synonymous with lawlessness and Islamic radicalism.

Police do not patrol without backup. Civil authorities are unable, or unwilling, to enforce French secularism. Samuel Paty’s beheading in 2020 after showing a cartoon of Muhammad was not an aberration; it was the fruit of a system where sharia sensitivity overpowered state sovereignty.

In Sweden, Muslim immigration has contributed to the creation of over 60 “vulnerable areas” where government control is minimal. Rape statistics have climbed, often linked to men from Muslim-majority countries. The Swedish state’s response has ranged from denial to appeasement.

In Belgium, the Brussels district of Molenbeek became a safe haven for jihadists, including those who coordinated the 2015 Paris attacks. Radical imams preach freely, and efforts to clamp down on extremism have been paralyzed by political correctness.

10% and Beyond

At this point, the Muslim community ceases to be a subculture and becomes a rival culture. Integration is abandoned for Islamization.

Political parties with explicit Islamic agendas rise. Muslim representatives in parliaments begin defending jihadist regimes and condemning Western foreign policy not from a critical citizen’s perspective, but from the standpoint of civilizational opposition.

In this phase, open threats replace veiled demands. Cartoons of Muhammad are no longer protested, they are punished. Attempts to defend secularism are denounced as hate. Criticizing Islam becomes a criminal or even suicidal act. Entire sectors of society, media, academia, politics, are paralyzed by fear.

The Muslim community, now entrenched and numerically significant, weaponizes democracy against itself. It uses freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly to dismantle those very freedoms. The goal is not coexistence.

The goal is submission, the literal meaning of the word “Islam.”

Why Doesn’t This Happen with Other Immigrant Groups?

Why do these patterns not emerge with Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Ethiopian, or Jewish immigrants? Why don’t Sikhs or Hindus or Confucianists demand parallel legal systems, segregated public spaces, or censorship of perceived blasphemy?

Because none of those systems contain a theological mandate for global supremacy. Islam does. Islam is not just a private set of beliefs, it is a geopolitical doctrine, a legal code, a social order, and a totalizing ideology.

The behavior of Muslim populations is not a deviation, it is a logical extension of Islam’s core teachings when it gains numerical strength.

Based on Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

[Gregory Steimel @GregorySteimel]

@wiscoreviews HBO. Everything must be Mature on that channel

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

How does a country make itself safe and productive?

Great Britain did it with Christianity—and by executing or imprisoning the worst males in every generation for hundreds of years.

By the 1960s, the country was so civilized that policeman carried nothing but a nightstick, everybody queued without a second thought, and newspaper boxes were left unlocked on the high street.

Britain had become a so-called high trust society — less euphemistically, an honest society.

Something similar—without the Christianity—transpired in Japan.

What happens to such a country if it forgets how difficult that was to attain?

The Brits found out. And then denied it.

https://t.co/xbdCHNknd3

[Mark Poiler @mpoilerfx]

MIT put its full multivariable calculus course online in 2007 and charged nobody a dollar for it.

Lecture 34 is the final review. A professor in an orange sweater writes Unit 1 on a chalkboard and starts working through the whole semester.

The camera never moves much. No editing, no music, no production budget visible anywhere.

MIT OpenCourseWare launched in 2001 with 50 courses. The plan was to publish materials from every course the university taught.

Faculty were told they would get no royalties and no extra pay. Most agreed anyway.

The catalog passed 2,400 courses. Downloads run past 300,000,000 and the site draws millions of visitors a year from countries with no equivalent institution.

Universities charging 60,000 dollars a year watched a peer give the lectures away and kept charging.

The thing people pay for was never the lecture.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

One of my most enduring ideas for a message to convey that I've never figured out how to put out there is basically this one: the saturation of our professional and political life with actors reading lines from scripts.

You've probably heard the theater expression "breaking the fourth wall." What it means is that the actors directly acknowledge either the audience or that they're in a dramatic production. The stage has three sides ("walls"), and the "fourth wall" refers to the invisible and psychological wall on the front of the stage that separates the drama from the watching audience. The idea is that the drama is happening in a contained little world that doesn't acknowledge the fact of its own dramatization or the audience watching it, except when it does.

In some performances -- and maybe you've experienced some like this -- there's an even more profound way of breaking the fourth wall, which is to make the drama immersive within the audience. Actors are placed like plants among the audience and at various times shout out, heckle, or even join the performance, thus revealing themselves to be actors. Sometimes this is made explicit. Sometimes it isn't.

In this situation, the "fourth wall" isn't broken but dissolved. The audience becomes part of the drama, and the drama is happening from what appears to be, but isn't, the audience. I'm not talking about audience participation here. I'm talking about performers embedded in the audience without the audience realizing it, playing a scripted role while looking like part of the crowd.

Taking this another step is, in fact, indicative of the world we live in now. This part is the message I have thought about almost every day for years and never figured out how I wanted to say it. That step is that there's no theater at all, but the immersive act with a dissolved fourth wall goes on all around us.

Imagine a situation where a nontrivial proportion of people in public life around us are actually actors playing scripted roles. Maybe they're politicians. Maybe they're pundits and influencers. Maybe they're journalists. Maybe they're actors playing actors. They're all actors, though, pretending to be politicians, professionals, pundits, influencers, journalists, and who-knows-what else.

It's not just that the fourth wall has been dissolved but that the entire theater has been dissolved. "All the world's a stage," wrote the Bard, but now taken literally. Some percentage of our entire political, professional, and information universe becomes a scripted act, and the real professional bodies in which they are embedded are the audience unaware, as are we, except we're subject to the performance in the literal political sense.

I think this is the world we live in now.

I think many of our politicians and professionals, and most of our influencers and pundits, are not those things at all. They're actors playing those roles, but not on a stage or on a show, but in real life.

As in the "dissolved fourth wall" immersive situation, we, the audience, not watching but living this performance, might sometimes be dimly aware that some parts of what's happening around us are planted parts of the show, but we're not always sure, or maybe we're never sure.

The difference is, there's no theater. The show doesn't end but just rolls into another act after another act after another act. You cannot get up and leave the performance, should you get bored, tired, or disgusted with it, because the performance is actually real life itself. There's nowhere to go, not because you're trapped, but because there's literally nowhere to go, at all.

This is the world I think we live in today and have lived in for some time now.

Once you become even dimly aware of it, it makes you want to scream. It makes you want to escape. It makes you want to shake your neighbors and tell them, but you know you'll sound like you've gone mad. And you will sound that way.

For those just below that level of dim awareness, no such good fortune is available. They slowly do go mad. They wonder if they're going crazy, and they are. They're inside the spell of the drama around them but think it's real.

Below that level of awareness, this is just business as usual, and everyone seems to be losing their minds over histrionic nothing.

And the situation presents an evil dilemma to those aware: play the game and become part of the scripted drama yourself, because it's the game and it can be played, or slowly boil in your own frustration at being unable to articulate with proof what you realize is going on all around you.

Most of these latter kinds do the most sensible thing they can. They scream for a while, realize the futility, and withdraw, which is the closest thing anyone can do to leaving the theater. They willfully submerge themselves to the level of the unwitting rubes, except they aren't unwitting; they've ceased caring. It is what it is.

I don't know what to call this state of affairs except to say it's "there is no fourth wall" like The Matrix or "where we're going, we don't need theater walls" like Back to the Future. I also don't know what to do about it.

I do think it's our reality, though.

I don't think we're ruled primarily by fools. I think we're ruled primarily by actors, all our world's a stage, and the production, frankly, SUCKS.

[Gregory Steimel @GregorySteimel]

@WomanDefiner Like a year or so ago there was the TikTok trend of leftist women going "OMG! Bin Laden was right!" as they read excerpts of his speeches that sound just like Leftist professors.

[You Are The Power @YATPOfficial]

"We should be harder on the government."

It's a criticism we've heard recently. And we understand the frustration.

When government officials abuse their power, it's easy to believe the answer is meeting it with anger.

But by staying grounded in the Principle of Human Respect and holding people accountable without dehumanizing them, we've achieved a 99% success rate helping families, and individuals push back against government abuse. Our approach is built on solving problems, not scoring points.

Respect isn't weakness. It's a winning strategy.

[🥷🦅Austin Wade Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 @AP4Liberty]

In 1844, sending a letter from Boston to New York cost more than a day's wage for some workers. That's because the law made it a federal crime for anyone but the Post Office to carry it.

A radical named Lysander Spooner called the bluff. He founded the American Letter Mail Company, charged a fraction of the government rate, delivered faster, and dared them to explain why competition was illegal.

Washington's response wasn't to out-compete him. It couldn't. It buried him in prosecutions until the company died... and then, faced with a public that had SEEN cheap mail exist, Congress slashed postal rates anyway. The stamp you grew up with was Spooner's tombstone and his trophy at the same time.

One man with a better price did what no committee hearing ever has: he made the monopoly justify itself. It couldn't then. Its descendants can't now.

Every "natural monopoly" is one Spooner away from being exposed.

[Gregory Steimel @GregorySteimel]

@RNCResearch It was so they could do a rug pull and swap in a candidate that wouldn't get 10% of the primary vote regularly.

[Fatherhood Reforged @fathersreforged]

Society has done an excellent job at disempowering parents and shaping what we believe parenting should be.

I engage with many people who believe they could never homeschool, both online and real life.

But what they don't understand is that education is just an extension of parenting, and by confessing this belief they are unintentionally admitting they don't feel like they could take on the full responsibility of parenting their own kids.

This isn't a post condemning those people. I fully believe that they ARE capable, but so much of society has convinced them otherwise and it is a disheartening state of affairs.

[You Are The Power @YATPOfficial]

It all started with sepsis, not abuse...

Newborn Harper Downey survived sepsis and emergency bowel surgery to save her life, but when a liver injury appeared on a scan the very next morning, hospital staff alleged abuse instead of recognizing a complication of the surgery she had just undergone.

The operating surgeon had examined Harper's liver with his own eyes during that surgery and documented it as completely normal; she never left the hospital before the injury was discovered.

The family court case has since closed, but Taylor still faces a felony charge and a pending criminal trial, leaving an innocent father under a cloud of suspicion that a fair look at the medical evidence could lift for good.

We are going to get the charges dropped, head to our website to find out how you can help.

Link in the comments.

[You Are The Power @YATPOfficial]

When we put a spotlight on real people facing government abuse, we create pressure officials can't ignore.

They back off. Others see what's possible. They come to us for help. We help them too.

That's how a movement grows

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

For my whole life I just took it for granted that everyone saw that Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust were horrifically evil. Continuing to learn and rehash that history seemed like a formality. Everyone knows this, right? Everyone gets it?

How wrong I was.

Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people have a right to exist and self-determine in their ancestral homeland, which is Israel. In pursuit of that belief, Jewish individuals and organizations purchased massive amounts of land in the British territory known at the time as the Palestinian Mandate. No land was stolen. However, when the independence of the state of Israel was declared in 1948, the Jews there were attacked by their Arab neighbors with the intent of killing them all. The Arab Liberation Army was led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji, who had literally served as a colonel in the German Army during World War II.

That is the intifada. That is the liberation they speak of. That is exactly what they mean when they say "dismantle the Zionist war machine." They mean kill all the Jews. That's what it has always meant, and that's what it will always mean. They don't want to share the land. They never did. Ask anyone in Gaza today, and you'll get the same answer you would have gotten a year ago, or 10 years ago, or 30 years ago - they don't want a two-state solution. They want to kill all the Jews.

I'm an American. I care about the future of my nation. I've spent much of my life fighting the Leftists who seek to tear down our great country. When @realDonaldTrump won in 2024, I felt like we had the enemy on the ropes. I saw the opportunity for change, for real, lasting change.

What I got, instead, was an artificially manufactured schism in our party and in our nation due to foreign propaganda aimed at getting people to hate Jews and Israel.

The photo in the below post is in London, but it could just as well be in New York City. Just a few years ago 41% of Americans had a negative view of Israel. As of April of 2026 60% now have a negative view of Israel. Europe is certainly more advanced in its anti-Israel, and yes, antisemitic sentiments, but the US is not that far behind.

I'm sickened that this is something we even have to think about in our nation today. But it's here, and it cannot be ignored. We must not ignore it.

Every day I pray for repentance, reformation, revival, and equal protection for preborn babies in our nation. I long for that day. Lately I've also prayed that God will decrease the antisemitism that is growing in our nation too.

I don't know what it will take, but I know that it'll take a miracle.

Please pray with me for that miracle.

In the meantime, don't be blind to the truth. And don't fail to speak up.

God help us.

[Cody Libolt @CodyLibolt]

The culture war is not ultimately a battle over how people may self-identify or what they may say is moral or immoral.

Instead, the culture war is a battle over who will get to use the government to implement his vision of justice.

This war has ballooned to its ridiculous prominence because people have the power to vote—and because, currently, people have the ability to vote for someone to control others, even those who are not criminals and simply want to mind their own business.

Where there is a means to force others to pay to subsidize depravity, and where that means costs them very little to employ, depraved men and women will employ it.

The culture war would mostly evaporate, were it to become clear to this nation’s depraved citizens that no amount of cajoling and campaigning and grandstanding from such morons will ever lead to change in public policy.

Where there is little to no public policy that is capable of being manipulated by dishonest tactics, dishonest tactics become less prevalent.

The culture war will exist in proportion to the power that government has to shape social institutions.

If you are actually interested in defeating the radical left and the socialists and Marxists, you should be asking whether there is a way to take their favorite card off the table.

There is an answer:

Teach those who already understand these dynamics to speak about them loudly and to recruit others to do the same.

The necessary message is that the government must be separated from economics and from communication and education and health and any other areas that are so prone to being captured by social engineers.

The only way to accomplish this is to propound a positive vision of a government strictly limited in principle to police-type activities. It must be a night-watchman government, and it must be that in principle—or it will eventually morph into a welfare state that feeds culture wars.

Propounding the truth will not, in itself lead to reform, but it is the necessary first step. Until 10% of the adult population firmly understands and advocates the principles of limited government and individual rights, the other steps have no chance to succeed. We must reach a social tipping point before we can begin to reach a political one.

Our means of reaching the social tipping point is this: Become a culture warrior, and teach others to do the same. But become the right kind—the kind obsessed not merely with “owning the libs,” calling out hypocrisy, and painting our enemies as the monsters they are. You must become a champion of true principles.

[You Are The Power @YATPOfficial]

If you're at @TheFreedomFest this weekend, come say hello! 👋

Stop by our booth to learn about the work we're doing to defend individuals and families from government abuse.

We'd love to meet you!

[Gregory Steimel @GregorySteimel]

@CAgovernor It's illegal to have ballots? So Democrat's shouldn't have any in their offices, right?