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[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

Party of corporate-funded old angry men using race abortion and gerrymandering to hold on to power.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Israeli settlements have massively expanded in the occupied West Bank under the current Israeli government – along with a major spike in violent attacks on Palestinians. @JDiamond1 reports on how the government has allowed this and whether elections could prompt any change.

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

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[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

us special envoy steve witkoff to president putin: “you talk so much about my president, president trump, being a humanitarian. you are a humanitarian also, sir, and i salute that.”

truly hard to watch.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

🚨Trump says he’s creating a denouncement system like the Bolsheviks and the Nazis used to hunt down political opponents. Says “people will be able to make millions turning others in.”

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Must watch: Andrew Neil explains the French protests in just under four minutes.

@Afneil | @StigAbell

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

I’m ready. To go back to Paris myself today if I could. They will never win!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A couple were spotted enjoying a drink on a café terrace near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday, close to where some of the main rioting took place in central Paris.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇱🇹 @d_foubert]

WHO DESTROYED FRANCE? 🇫🇷

Yes. EVERYONE did.

1. Emmanuel Macron, a man who thinks he's Jupiter but governs like a McKinsey intern who accidentally became emperor. He promised a French Renaissance and delivered a complete disaster. His solution to every catastrophe is another speech about the future of Europe.

2. The ENA Elite, Sciences Po, and the Grandes Écoles, the world's most sophisticated factories for producing highly educated incompetence. They can explain the collapse of French industry in seventeen PowerPoint presentations without ever having entered a factory. They invented a system where the same people run the state, destroy it, and then get promoted to investigate what went wrong.

3. François Hollande, the socialist who declared war on finance and then appointed Emmanuel Macron economy minister. His presidency was so spectacularly mediocre that even his own party eventually pretended not to know him. He managed to make political paralysis look like an exhausting full-time occupation.

4. Jacques Chirac, who promised reform, encountered a demonstration, and immediately discovered the virtues of doing absolutely nothing. He spent twelve years as president shaking hands with farmers while the national debt continued its agricultural expansion. His greatest political achievement was making immobility look presidential.

5. François Mitterrand, who tried socialism in 1981, and discovered economic reality in 1983. He nationalized companies, reversed course, and built a pyramid at the Louvre. Appropriate architecture for a president who occasionally treated the French economy like a pharaoh's burial chamber.

6. The Socialist Left, which believes money grows on government decrees. Their economic model consists of taxing the rich, subsidizing the poor, employing the middle class in public administration, and borrowing whatever remains. When the money runs out, they accuse arithmetic of being fascist.

7. The French Trade Unions, which defend public services by making sure nobody can use them. They stop trains to save the railways, close schools to defend education, and block refineries to protect purchasing power. Their greatest contribution to French productivity is ensuring that nobody produces anything without their permission.

8. The French Right, which has spent forty years promising to reduce public expenditure, reform the state, restore authority, and liberate the economy. Then it wins an election, appoints seventeen ministers, creates four administrative agencies, and discovers that cutting public expenditure might upset somebody. French conservatives defend free enterprise in speeches and administrative regulation in practice. They want a smaller state, provided nobody removes their subsidies, pensions, privileges, public contracts, or favorite government department. Their economic program was essentially socialism with better tailoring.

9. The French Boomers, who inherited affordable housing, expanding industries, and economic growth, then converted everything into pensions and real estate. They bought apartments for the price of a used Peugeot and now explain to young people that homeownership requires sacrifice. They spent their youth demanding revolution and their retirement demanding that absolutely nothing change.

10. Pétain and Vichy, who responded to the greatest military humiliation in modern French history by deciding that collaboration with the occupier was an excellent national recovery strategy. France had already lost the war. Pétain somehow found a way to make losing considerably more embarrassing.

11. The French Generals of 1940, who built the Maginot Line and apparently forgot to tell the Germans they were supposed to attack it. They prepared brilliantly for the First World War, only to discover that the enemy had inconveniently arrived in the Second.

12. The Republican Idealists, who believe France isn't a country but a philosophical concept. Other nations build institutions. France proclaims Values. When schools fail, they organize republican ceremonies. When public order collapses, they deliver speeches about citizenship. When reality contradicts their principles, reality is clearly insufficiently republican.

13. Saint-Simon, Fourier, Cabet, and the French Utopian Socialists, who looked at humanity and decided the problem was insufficient central planning. Fourier imagined communities organized around human passions. Saint-Simon dreamed of society directed by enlightened productive elites. Their descendants now occupy French ministries, designing national happiness through administrative circulars. Two centuries later, the happiness is still missing, but the paperwork is magnificent.

14. The French Revolution, which promised Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, then introduced mass executions, revolutionary tribunals, civil war, and political terror. The revolutionaries liberated France from monarchy, discovered that citizens disagreed about liberty, and began executing one another. France has spent two centuries celebrating this as the birth of political enlightenment. Apparently, mass killing becomes progressive when accompanied by the correct slogans.

15. The Enlightenment, Libertinism, and the Marquis de Sade, who began by liberating humanity from superstition and ended by demonstrating that intellectual sophistication is no guarantee against moral insanity. Voltaire mocked religious authority, Rousseau dreamed of remaking society, and Sade turned transgression into an entire literary industry. Their descendants now believe that every inherited institution is oppressive and every new social experiment is automatically progress.

16. The English, who spent centuries sabotaging French ambitions, financing France's enemies, and preventing French domination of Europe. The Hundred Years' War was essentially a prolonged British property dispute conducted on French territory. Every time France attempted to become a continental superpower, England appeared with a navy, a coalition, and a remarkably enthusiastic willingness to pay somebody else to fight.

17. The Habsburgs, who surrounded France with territories acquired through marriage, inheritance, and a family tree resembling a biological experiment conducted without ethical supervision. They conquered half of Europe through weddings while French kings bankrupted themselves trying to escape the encirclement. The Habsburgs invented geopolitical domination through matrimonial administration.

18. The English, Again, because centuries of warfare were apparently insufficient. After defeating Napoleon, they conquered global commerce, international finance, and eventually the English language conquered French business. Today, French executives speak English to other French executives in Paris. England finally conquered France without deploying a single soldier.

19. The Romans, who conquered Gaul, introduced taxation, centralized administration, and the idea that provincial populations should be governed by distant officials convinced of their intellectual superiority. Two thousand years later, Paris continues to administer France like a Roman governor collecting taxes from barbarians. Rome collapsed. French bureaucracy survived. Live like Rome, die like Rome.

20. Darth Vader, the ultimate French technocrat. He believed every problem could be solved through centralization, intimidation, and an enormous publicly funded megaproject. His Death Star was essentially the French Ministry of Finance equipped with a superlaser. It cost a fortune, concentrated all power in one place, and exploded because nobody listened to the engineers.

21. Saruman and Sauron, the spiritual ancestors of French industrial planning and European centralization. Saruman wanted to replace forests with factories. Sauron wanted to unite the continent under one supreme administrative authority. Both believed that enough central planning could overcome reality. Both were eventually defeated by small provincial creatures who refused to follow instructions.

22. Satan, who has reportedly retired from corrupting France because the competition has become unbearable. He spent centuries encouraging pride, vanity, envy, and destructive political passions, only to discover that French politicians could produce the same results without supernatural assistance. He applied for a position at the Ministry of Finance but was rejected for insufficient administrative experience.

And the French people?

They have spent more than two centuries overthrowing kings, emperors, republics, governments, and presidents, convinced that the next political arrangement would finally solve everything.

They have tried absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, revolutionary dictatorship, empire, parliamentary republics, presidential republicanism, socialism, liberalism, conservatism, and technocracy.

Every generation announces that France needs a revolution.

Every revolution promises to put an end to the failures of the previous regime.

And every new regime eventually discovers that it has inherited THE FRENCH.

[🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Borg Fella 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @BorgFella420]

Who profits from riots and unrest in Europe?

Who has a giant disinformation and propaganda network all over Europe to spread hatred about Europe?

Who has a vast network of saboteurs in Europe?

Who has a massive stake in getting the far right elected in Europe?

Who?

[Skip Westfall @Swestfall]

Having traveled for work every week - sometimes several times a week - for years, this guy gets it and he’s absolutely right.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

On Friday, masked Israeli settlers attacked a Washington Post photographer and Palestinian villagers harvesting olives in the West Bank. Videos of the disturbing incident and the American photojournalist screaming as she flees are now circulating on social media.

Last week, 60 Minutes aired a report on the increasingly violent confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank, in which Lesley Stahl witnessed a confrontation firsthand.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The meat industry tries very hard to keep cameras out of factory farms and slaughterhouses -- and a new undercover video shows why. Some day, our descendants will wonder about our collective blind spot to animal cruelty. A gift link to my column: https://t.co/pDSq54fhav

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

A decade ago, a few of us tried to get across the significance of Putin’s patronage of Trump. Here’s my book, "Road to Unfreedom," which puts that relationship in the larger setting of oligarchy vs democracy.
https://t.co/ulZkq6FPfp

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

And he’s up and at ‘em—Thank God!! 🙏 Let’s go, your Holiness! Let’s go! 👏

[Hugo ☀️ NOgymNOlimits @NOgymNOlimits]

Jennifer Aniston de 57 años entrenando con mancuernas. Una rutina de 30 minutos que cualquiera puede hacer en casa sin problemas. Elige un peso que puedas manejar y haz cada repetición controlando. Lo importante es ser constante y mantenerlo en el tiempo.

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

I think he is in Russia, actually.

[Peace, Love, and Justice for all @mray2b1]

the right wing again threatening violence and death to a sitting congress person. FBI where are you?

[#Anonymous @TheStripesGirl]

This is what happens when you are dealing with a massive Kelvin wave...

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

I believe you are 💯correct Sandi.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

🚨🚨🚨 I want you to realize how good the stagecraft of Butler was. I know several of the photographers who were there a couple of them Pulitzer winners, before and after.

They shot what they saw, including one of them, capturing a bullet in thin air because he was using such high shutter speed.

But these people who created this kabuki are filmmakers they’re television producers they know how to fool the eye with special effects. I’ve been producer my whole life. I know what it takes and the more you watch it the more you know it has to be fake. I mean Trump is such a coward, watch him flinch when the plane flew over recently.

I was covering a Trump rally a few weeks before also in Pennsylvania and exactly the same physical situation. It was a farm in the middle of nowhere with one building one story high and when you look at the two locations, they look the same. This was in Schnecksville. Identical layout to Butler.

I believe that was a rehearsal just like I believe that the first two stop the steal rallies were the rehearsal for January 6

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

As expected, @mehdirhasan's "Hannibal Directive" piece pissed off all the right people. Good news: you can watch the FULL 22-minute exposé on the Israeli military's secretive order that saw Israel kill its own civilians on October 7th on Zeteo's YouTube.

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

Agreed.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Literally the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

📻 NEW PODCAST: Gil Durán says explaining our politics without Thiel, Yarvin and the network state is like explaining 9/11 without Al-Qaeda. He joins me to talk tech fascism, crypto corruption, and the midterms.
https://t.co/1K0hGhPGzU

[Kara soufer @Karagirl27]

And nothing will happen to her. No consequences. We will all move on and forget this. Just like Susan Collins

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“‘Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,’ Guilfoyle responded. ‘It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal.’

…A U.S. ambassador lecturing her briber on bribing best practices.”

https://t.co/JniDHruxbv