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[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

BOMBSHELL: Former AP correspondent @MattiFriedman says the "genocide" narrative wasn't a reaction to how Israel fought the war; it was already loaded before October 7 even happened.

- The same "machinery of condemnation" appears in essays he wrote in 2014, describing an identical dynamic on a smaller scale
- NGOs like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, plus the UN system, were already primed to supply the coverage
- By the evening of October 7 itself, protests in the West were already accusing Israel of genocide

"The genocide charge predates October 7, and this was all ready to go."

@Mr_Andrew_Fox
@JakeWSimons

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.

He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Two years later, it was over. 🧵

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Nick Freitas, American Green Beret combat veteran:

"The West has taught Hamas that the more civilian casualties you get, the more funding you get, and the more support you will get."

A very wise man who summed up this war perfectly.

Can we make this go viral?

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Dear U.S., UN, Western, and humanitarian officials and leaders: Please visit the Al‑Ahli Hospital in Gaza City and see the situation firsthand. Hamas’s intelligence operatives, internal security, and al‑Qassam fighters are using parts of the complex to interrogate and torture anyone they suspect of supporting the upcoming June 26 anti‑Hamas protests. Medical facilities in Gaza are not meant to be sanctuaries for Hamas. They are provided with necessary supplies and equipment, funded with Western taxpayer dollars, to treat civilians, not to provide cover for an Islamist organization that the international community designates as a terrorist group. Get them out of the hospital. Stop allowing a place meant for healing to be turned into a site of fear and abuse.
@UNRWA @UNReliefChief @UNICEF @uninvhrc @UNICEFinArabic @WHO @UNOCHA @ICRC_ilot @ICRC_ar @ICRC @RESCUEorg @amnestyusa @amnesty @UNHumanRights @UNDP @USUN @UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres @MSF @UN_HRC @MSF_USA @msf_arabic @UNICEFinArabic @UNarabic @OCHAFunds @UNHCR_Arabic @Refugees @UNGeneva @UNESCOarabic @UNNewsArabic @Oxfam @OxfamAmerica @oxfamgb @usembassyjlm @USEmbassyJLMPal @RapidResponse47 @PressSec @SecRubio @CENTCOM

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Seattle city council wanted to help "exploited" gig workers.

So they forced delivery apps to pay drivers MORE.

"I wouldn’t assume that prices are going to go up," said one politician.

But prices DID go up.

@judgeglock of @ManhattanInst explains how regulation backfired:

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.

People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.

Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.

Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.

Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.

A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.

So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.

Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.

Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

🧵Thread🧵

A quick side by side of things legacy media outlets will describe as Nazi-adjacent when they’re about Trump vs. how these outlets talk about Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, which an ex-gf of his confirmed to the NYT was deliberate.

Look ⤵️

[The Uri @uricohenisrael]

“Hey Seinfeld, can we get a ‘free Palestine’?”

Jerry Seinfeld: “It doesn’t exist”🤣

Jerry Seinfeld is the GOAT 🐐

[عبدالله موسولچی @Mosolchi]

After 3 months of internet outage
I connected from inside Iran
And I have only one message for the world
Don't believe the lies of the Western Ayatollah-loving medias
The Islamic Republic is not winning the war and has suffered a heavy defeat
Militarily, we witnessed the destruction of IRGC centers in cities every day
Economically, prices in Iran have exploded and we can no longer even afford to buy chicken and eggs
The regime has been controlling the streets with armed terrorists for more than three months in order not to fall
They cut off the internet for three months so that you wouldn't hear these words
Even if you hate Donald Trump
You have to accept that the decisive winner of this war is America
#IranWar‌

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Janaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnuary 6th, The Darkest Day of All Time, was in reality far less serious than the 750+ BLM riots.

These weren't small affairs, far from big cities and the halls of power. Rioters set up a city state ("CHAZ") in the literal Capitol District of Seattle. An ex-mutual of mine became an Armalite toting warlord. 7 (?) people died there.

Rioters sacked the Mag Mile in Chicago, and fought feds for 120 days in Portland. AN ACTIVE POLICE STATION WAS BURNED DOWN, after a medieval street battle, in Minneapolis. 35 people died; $2B in damage was done.

All this would be presented as - per trained AI - 5-30x J6 were the parties reversed. Just a reminder.

[Handre @Handre]

Socialist: "Nordic countries prove socialism works."

Economist: "They rank higher on economic freedom than the US."

Socialist: "But they have universal healthcare."

Economist: "Funded by 25% VAT taxes on the poor and 180% car taxes."

Socialist: "They're more equal."

Economist: "Sweden has more billionaires per capita than America."

Socialist: "That's not real socialism."

Economist: "Correct. Real socialism is Venezuela, where toilet paper costs $100."

Socialist: "That's different."

Economist: "Is it."

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

SURREAL🚨: A 17-year-old teenager discovered a planet about 6.9 times larger than Earth on just the third day of his internship at NASA

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

All-time line by Javier Milei…

"The leftists can't applaud me because their hands are stuck in other people's pockets."

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain

Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Zohran Mamdani just proposed a preliminary budget of $127 Billion for NYC…

The entire state of Florida is $117 Billion.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Kenny Burgos @KennyBurgosNY]

Everyone’s talking about a $12B budget gap but let me show you why the law capping renovations at $50,000 doesn’t work today.

There’s some math here, stay with me.

[The Long View @HayekAndKeynes]

What is the purpose of Trump's tactics in Greenland?

TLDR - Europe is too bureaucratic to actually make big changes on their own. Someone has to shake up the snow globe to get them to act. Trump, is again, using a madman facade to make the US look fickle in order to nudge Europe to spend more on defense (including North America) like he did with Zelensky/Ukraine.

How would this actually happen?

Make U.S. support feel conditional
If allies believe “the U.S. might not reliably carry this,” they’re more likely to (a) spend more, (b) commit multi-year Ukraine aid, and (c) build the missing “enablers” Europe often leans on the U.S. for (ISR/intel, air/missile defense integration, logistics, etc.). The goal is to shift costs and political ownership onto Europe. Because of a similarly chaotic meeting with Zelensky, Europe is already ramping defense spending—EU member states have massively ramped up defense spending ( now >€375B [~2% of GDP]).

Use “controlled chaos” to accelerate European action on Ukraine specifically
European military to Ukraine was small to offset a U.S. halt, with only a few billion in spending (vs $100bn for the US). Now we see Europe trying to fill gaps: Reuters reported an EU plan announced Jan 14th to split €90B in support (€30B budget, €60B military)—explicitly pushing procurement via EU/EFTA suppliers. This is Europe's war. It's time for them to chip in.

Push Europe into “doing the hard stuff,” not just writing checks
Reuters also reported that after Washington suspended intelligence sharing in March 2025 (to pressure Kyiv in talks), Macron said France is now providing a large share of intelligence support.
Whether or not you buy Macron’s exact rationale, the direction is the point: get Europeans to cover functions they historically outsourced to the U.S.

Greenland is similar to Ukraine in that regard - basically, “you fund the backyard; we’ll maintain the security umbrella, but you have pay/produce more.”

Again, my basic theory is that Trump (unlike other politicians) doesn't actually care how others perceive him and his actions are generally leveraging this for the strategic interests of the US - especially when it comes to geopolitics. I also assume his decisions are made after long discussions with his staff and these seemingly random actions are intentional. I also know there is a ton of back channel communication going on that keeps things from boiling over. This may be too charitable but seeing the noise and then the outcomes 2-3m later (ex. VZ, Panama, Iran) has given me confidence in this right way of assessing geopolitics in the age of Trump. I also think the "Trump is retarded - he's going to blow up NATO" takes are just a bunch of mid-wits who aren't thinking critically and have a very 1-dimensional view of the administration. Ignore them.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

😂 Kamala in deep thought after Maduro’s capture…

“ Venezuela is a country, but we don’t live there… so it’s not our country… and when we go there, we are in another country.”

Spot on Dahlia!

[Ajit Pai @AjitPai]

OTD in 2017, the Internet as we knew it came to an end.

For those reading this, congratulations! You are among the few who have survived the digital hellscape predicted by countless politicians, celebrities, activists, and others (who've since moved on to the next moral panic).