William Clayton

[Steve Toth @SteveTothTX]

Texas Children’s Hospital need to be stopped. I can’t count the number of stories that I’ve heard over the years of what TCH has done to try and destroy lives all so that they can harvest more organs to make more money.
Laws in Texas and across the United States need to be changed to stop the perverse incentive to extract organs from children that want to live.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Starmer on Henry Nowak: "Don't exploit this for politics"

Starmer on George Floyd:

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Rest in Peace Henry Nowak.
May his memory be a revolution.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.

Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Livestock use 83% of the world's farmland and give back just 18% of our calories."

There it is. The killer stat, lifted off the infographic, courtesy of Poore and Nemecek's enormous 2018 study in Science: nearly 38,700 farms across 119 countries. Damning. Wildly inefficient. Somebody fetch the cow a P45.

One small question before sentencing. Where is that 83% of land?

It's grass. Worldwide, around two-thirds of all farmland isn't cropland at all; it's pasture and rough grazing. Fell, moor, steppe, marsh, scrub.

Marginal land, to use the term of art. Too steep, thin, wet, or cold to grow a single thing a human can chew.

In Britain, about 65% of farmland is good for grass and little else. You are welcome to plant lentils on a Cumbrian hillside. You will then watch them sit there, baffled, and die.

What that land does grow is cellulose, the most abundant biomass on Earth and a substance your gut regards as scaffolding. You cannot eat it. Nor can any pig, chicken, or vegan.

A ruminant can. That is the entire trick. She walks across the inedible two-thirds of the world's farmland and turns it into milk and meat.

So the cow isn't squatting on prime arable while the nation starves; she's working the land that grows precisely one crop, grass, which she eats, which is the whole point of her.

Calling that inefficient is like calling a fishing boat inefficient for its poor performance on the motorway.

Then there's the calorie sleight of hand, which is somehow the dafter half.

Yes, beef is a modest share of calories. So is a glass of cooking oil. You can get calories from a spoon of sugar. Calories are the easy part.

The hard part is everything else the steak is carrying. On DIAAS, the actual measure of protein quality, beef scores about 1.0 to 1.1, with milk and eggs a shade higher.

Wheat limps in around 0.45. Almonds manage 0.40. The FAO won't let a protein scoring under 0.75 make a quality claim at all, which quietly disqualifies most of the plant kingdom.

Then there's B12, of which plants contain essentially none, plus heme iron and zinc in a form your body can actually be bothered to absorb.

Ranking food by raw calories and declaring the steak a failure is like ranking a library by how well the books burn.

By that measure, petrol is the finest meal in Britain.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Ken Paxton’s opening campaign ad just ended James Talarico. I can’t believe Democrats nominated this dude. Jasmine Crockett would have been a much tougher opponent.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Memorial Day isn’t about barbecues or beach days—it’s about those American heroes who gave everything for our freedom.

THIS 70-SECOND VIDEO CAPTURES WHAT THE DAY IS TRULY ABOUT. 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

[💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm]

Gun facts! 2A shall not be infringed🔥

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

🇺🇸 This weekend we remember the ones who never made it home. No politics. No noise. Just gratitude for the men and women who gave everything so we could have everything.

Honor them today. Not just with words but with how you live.

God bless our fallen heroes 🇺🇸 🦅🫡

[TheLizVariant @TheLizVariant]

Christian Bible teacher, Ryan Miller, gets banned for “hate speech” because he explained the differences between the Bible and the Quran.

We used to call that religious discussion. Now platforms treat disagreement itself as dangerous if it challenges the approved narrative.

[Tony Buzbee @TonyBuzbee2]

I want you to listen carefully to this. Share it. This won’t play in Texas.

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

In Auschwitz, my mother taught me three rules.

Not stories. Not prayers. Rules. The kind that kept you alive.

Rule one: Never make eye contact with a guard.
Rule two: Never show that you are sick.
Rule three: Never, ever, lose your bowl.

I was five years old. I memorized them the way other children memorize nursery rhymes.

The bowl was a small tin thing. Dented. Scratched. It held whatever thin soup they gave us once a day. If you lost your bowl, you had no bowl. If you had no bowl, you had no ration. If you had no ration, you understand.

I guarded that bowl with everything I had. I slept with it. I held it against my chest during roll call. I knew where it was every second of every day.

Then one morning, I fell into the latrine.

There is no delicate way to say this. The latrines in Auschwitz were wooden boards with holes cut into them over a pit. The holes were large. I was very small. I was in a hurry. I slipped.

I went in up to my neck.

The smell. The cold. The rats. I do not need to describe it. Your mind already knows.

My mother tried to pull me out. She could not. I was slippery and she had no strength. None of us had strength. We had not eaten properly in months. She called out. Other women came. Together they pulled me free. Someone found a hose. They sprayed me down in the cold air while I stood there shaking.

I did not cry. Rule number one in Auschwitz was the same rule everywhere, do not attract attention.

But I got sick. Very sick. The kind of sick that comes from rats and filth and cold water and a body that has nothing left to fight with.

And I remembered Rule Two, never show that you are sick.

I hid it from everyone. From the guards. From the other children. Even from my mother, because I knew if she knew, she would do something. And doing something in Auschwitz got you killed.

But someone saw. I do not know who. I do not know why they helped me instead of reporting me. I never knew.

They took me to a room, a makeshift hospital. I lay in a bed, a real bed, not a wooden bunk, for the first time since we had arrived.

I do not remember much of what happened next. The fever blurred everything. Days passed like smoke.

When I came out, I still had my bowl.

I had held it even in the latrine. Even in the fever. Even in the dark when I did not know where I was or what day it was.

My mother looked at me when I came back. She looked at the bowl. She did not say anything. She just nodded, the way she nodded when something had gone the way it needed to go.

People ask me what survival looks like.

I tell them, sometimes it looks like a five year old girl climbing out of a latrine in a death camp, covered in filth, shaking with cold, still holding her tin bowl.

Because she knew that the bowl was the difference between eating and not eating. Between living and not.

Because her mother had told her. And she had listened.

I am Tova Friedman. I fell into a latrine in Auschwitz at five years old.

I came out still holding my bowl.

Tova.

#NeverForget #Survival #DaughterOfAuschwitz #ShesStillHere #TheirNamesLiveOn

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

another week, another village in Nigeria massacred and slaughtered by Islamists.

And as always, the world is silent.

No word from the Pope.
No word from the UN.
Nothing from France. UK. Italy. Spain. Anyone.

Just silence. So weird.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On this day in 1805, an American commodore parked a fleet outside a North African harbor and ended a war without firing a single shot.

Most Americans have never heard his name. He is the reason the United States Navy exists in the form it does today.

The First Barbary War had been grinding on for four years. The Pasha of Tripoli, Yusuf Karamanli, had been seizing American merchant ships and enslaving their crews for over a decade, demanding tribute from a young republic that could barely pay its own army. Thomas Jefferson, who hated standing militaries on principle, had finally decided enough was enough. He sent a squadron.

It went badly. The USS Philadelphia ran aground off Tripoli in 1803 and her entire crew was captured. Stephen Decatur famously snuck in and burned her at anchor to keep the Pasha from refloating her, which Lord Nelson called "the most bold and daring act of the age." But the war dragged on.

By spring 1805, the squadron commander Samuel Barron was sick, exhausted, and ready to quit. On May 22, 1805, he handed command to John Rodgers.

Rodgers did not waste time.

He had inherited four frigates, three brigs, a sloop-of-war, three schooners, two bomb vessels, and nine gunboats. The largest American fleet ever assembled to that date. Four days after taking command, he sailed the entire force directly into the harbor at Tripoli and dropped anchor in plain view of the Pasha's palace.

No bombardment. No threats. He just sat there.

The Pasha looked at his harbor, looked at twenty-two American warships pointed at his city, looked at his options, and sued for peace within the week.

The treaty was signed June 4, 1805. The American hostages came home. The Barbary states never seriously challenged American shipping again. And the United States Navy, four years old, had just forced a hostile foreign power to surrender by showing up.

Every great power moment since traces back to that anchor drop in Tripoli harbor.

221 years ago today. Almost nobody teaches this.

[William Clayton @Heyitismewill]

The chatbot on the @USAA website is useless. Also, there are links to the contact page that no longer work.

[William Clayton @Heyitismewill]

@USAA The chatbot on the USAA website is useless. Also, there are links to the contact page that no longer work. https://t.co/495AOQG20B

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

BREAKING: 16-year-old Texas student Marco Hunter-Lopez just EXPOSED how his high school censored conservative values while openly promoting Sharia Law.

His Republican Student Club faced much of the same that many of our chapters do; months of delays, poster removals, and hostile interrogations.

Yet the organization known as "Why Islam" got free rein during lunch to hand out "Understanding Shariah" pamphlets and Qurans with conversion cards while administrators watched and did nothing.

The principal even bragged about loving World Hijab Day.

In America, conservative students should not be castigated and harassed while Muslims and Islam promoted freely. This is an inversion of the social compact and it must be stopped.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝟒𝟔𝟑 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒. 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐒.

Every time someone trots out the Crusades to lecture Christians or the West, they leave out four centuries of history. I'm putting it back on the record.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲

Muhammad died in 632. Within three years, Muslim armies had taken Damascus (635). The next year, Antioch (636). The year after that, the entire Holy Land (637) — the spiritual center of Christendom, gone. Armenia became the first Christian nation fully conquered (639). Egypt, the Coptic Christian power, fell two years later (641). By 650, Muslim forces had reached southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴" and "𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴." Then came Spain — Muslim armies crossed from North Africa in 711 and overran most of Iberia by 715.

In roughly 80 years, Christianity lost the Middle East, North Africa, and most of the Iberian Peninsula.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 — 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲

This was not exploration. This was conquest. In 717, Muslim forces besieged Constantinople itself — the capital of Eastern Christendom. The siege lasted a year before they were repelled. Had it succeeded, the path into Europe would have been wide open.

In 730, they invaded France. Charles Martel stopped them at Tours. In 792, the ruler of Al-Andalus called for a second invasion of France. Repelled. In 848, a third invasion of France. Repelled again.

In 827, Muslims invaded Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks and pillaging Christian communities. Sicily would remain under Islamic rule for 250 years. In 846, they invaded Rome itself and forced the Pope to pay tribute. By 909, they had taken Sardinia.

This was relentless, coordinated, and existential.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭

In 937, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher — built over the site Christians believe is the tomb of Christ — was burned to the ground. More churches in Jerusalem were torched alongside it. In 1009, the Church of the Resurrection was destroyed. By 1012, Al-Hakim's oppressive decrees against Christians had begun in earnest.

Christian pilgrims could no longer safely visit the sites of Christ's ministry. The holiest city in Christendom was ruled by a hostile power systematically destroying the faith itself.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩

In 1071, Muslim Turkish forces shattered the Byzantine army at Manzikert and occupied most of Anatolia. Constantinople was now directly threatened.

In 1094, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent envoys to Rome begging Western Christendom for military aid.

In 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade.

𝟒𝟔𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲.