German police and a Polish Citizens Patrol stare each other down on the Polish-German border.
As the German police tries to blind the Poles with a flashlight, one of the Poles says “they have opened a second front against us” (after Belarus).
The Citizens Patrol movement is a grassroots movement started a few weeks ago and groups together Polish volunteers patrolling the border to stop the German police from pushing illegal migrants across the border into Poland.
@thomas_spaas Iedereen die ziet dat mensen keer op keer in grote meerderheid VOOR meer migratie stemmen en dan denkt dat er ook maar iemand zal uitgezet worden, kan best eens naar de huisarts Thomas,
German police using their flashlights in an attempt to blind a Polish Citizens Patrol that’s guarding the Polish-German border from the German police trying to push illegal migrants across the border into Poland.
Interestingly, Belarusian border guards also use their flashlights to blind Polish border guards when they are pushing illegal migrants across the border into Poland from Belarus.
Poland is now facing a two-front battle on its western and southern eastern borders against illegal migration.
@thomas_spaas Dit zijn toestanden waarbij de jongen het aan zijn theewater voelde wat er ging gebeuren gezien hij het entourage van het meisje kent. Zal niet hun eerste keer geweest zijn.
The next attempt came from a reporter pressing Leavitt on reports of Israeli forces firing on Palestinians in Gaza.
It was an obvious setup—another opportunity for the media to paint the administration as either complicit or indifferent, even for something happening beyond American borders.
“There are now reports that Israeli forces are firing on Palestinians trying to get aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” the reporter said.
“Is this administration aware of this? And what is being done to address this situation?”
Leavitt immediately flipped through her notes, she was ready and she had the receipts.
She responded by turning the media narrative on its head—reminding the press that some sources don’t deserve automatic trust.
“The administration is aware of those reports and we are currently looking into the veracity of them, because unfortunately unlike some in the media, we don’t take the word of Hamas with total truth.”
Then she laid out a brutal example of how media outlets had already run with unverified—and ultimately false—claims.
“We like to look into it when they speak, unlike the BBC, who had multiple headlines: they wrote ‘Israeli tank kills 26,’ ‘Israeli tank kills 21,’ ‘Israeli gunfire kills 31,’ ‘Red Cross says 21 people were killed in an aid incident’—and oh wait, they had to correct and take down their ENTIRE story.”
She paused, then added:
“Saying we reviewed the footage and couldn’t find any evidence of anything. Oh, okay!”
Leavitt used the moment to drive home a point not just about this story—but about media behavior more broadly.
“So we are going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium and before we take action.”
And she had a final message for those pushing falsehoods:
“I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the amount of misinformation that’s going around the globe on this front.”
“His name was - PEANUT. And they killed him, Joe. Killed him like a dog. These are sick people, Joe, they’re sick people. And Peanut was totally innocent. But they killed him like it was nothing.”
@ParketAntwerpen@PZAntwerpen Wat een prachtig signaal aan zowel de bevolking, de ambulanciers en de crimineel. Want te ver is duidelijk niet ver genoeg.
We need to make viruses more dangerous to protect you from viruses.
We need to suppress dissident scientists to preserve science.
We need to suppress free speech to preserve democracy.