Nevena Bobcheva

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

Heaven has walls, a gate, and strict entry.

Hell has open borders.

Think about it…

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇩🇪 “From Berlin to Gaza, Yalla Yalla Intifada”: Berlin’s Pride demonstrators chanted slogans calling for an intifada.

Shortly afterward, an IS terrorist, Abdul Ballut, drove a van into the Pride crowd, killing one woman and injuring 29 others.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

― G.K. Chesterton

[Balázs Orbán @BalazsOrban_HU]

Hungary’s new Prime Minister is clearly showing severe personality disorders. Every day he spends hours delivering endless speeches in Parliament about nothing, like Castro. Today he stole papers from the opposition benches, shouted, raged, denied opposition MPs the right to speak, and threatened them with prison without any legal basis.

Anyone who watches the video needs no further psychoanalysis. It is painfully embarrassing.

A pocket dictator.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Muslims on horseback carrying black Islamic flags in the middle east.

Joking, of course it's Manchester, England.

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Historic British castles are becoming mosques. It is like losing one's soul. Intolerable.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

The Muslim migrant who stabbed three women in Paris today, one of them pregnant, literally told police “it is Allah who commanded me”.

But our media are writing “there is no clarity regarding the precise motive of the perpetrator” and according to the French Minister of the Interior, “the man gave a strongly confused impression and uttered ‘incoherent language’.”

How is “Allah commanded me” incoherent and unclear?! We will never stop these attacks until we stop the traitors first.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The comment section of Al Jazeera on Facebook has become controversial after hundreds of Islamists openly expressed support for the recent car ramming attack against an LGBT parade in Berlin.

Around a third of the reactions to the post are laughing emojis.

Comments from users with visibly Arab/Muslim names are commetning with words like "Alhamdullillah", "Jihad" and "Thank God" in praise of the Islamist attacker.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” ​― Bertrand Russell

[Rob Roos 🇳🇱 @Rob_Roos]

Restore security, sign the @SaveEuropeAct and let’s make this a movement before it’s to late.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

3 women stabbed in Paris.

The attacker was recorded saying that he had been ordered by Allah to carry out the mass-stabbing.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Elon Musk: "At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people… a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue."

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Holy shit. It gets even crazier.

Abdul Ballout had already planned a terrorist attack once before. He then fled to his homeland Lebanon. Germany brought him back.

Abdul was reportedly scheduled to attend a "deradicalisation course" TOMORROW.

What in the Suicidal Empathy is this?!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

Here's something truly funny in the darkest possible manner.

The "unflattering" traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common:

They are all indications of—are you ready for it—the Big Five trait conscientiousness.

Conscientiousness is the best known personality predictor of life success after general cognitive ability (otherwise known as intelligence).

So this means that the idiot leftists who developed and promoted such material proclaim their antiracism by insisting that the very trait most associated with productivity, reliability, diligence, and success is a flaw, unique to white people.

Hard work is key to success.
Work before play.
Delayed gratification.
Future orientation.
Planning.
Punctuality.
Self-reliance.
Respect for authority.

Pure conscientiousness.

"Yo--those n-words shore are lazee..."
Sincerely,
The Democratic Socialists of America

You can't make this stuff up.

In truth, by the way, racial differences in the major personality traits are negligible.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

I took a break from X for several days. I discovered that the outside world knows nothing about what's actually going on. It's pretty astonishing actually — mainstream news is just a homogenized, sanitized, and corporatized information desert.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Watching short-form videos is associated with decreased cognition and increased anxiety.

[Ascend: The Great Books Podcast @TheGreatB00ks]

ODYSSEY BOOK ONE: FULL EPISODE🔥

Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Dcn. Harrison Garlick is joined by Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos of Wyoming Catholic College and Dr. Frank Grabowski of Holy Family Classical School to discuss BOOK ONE of the Odyssey--one of the greatest texts in the Western canon.

Check out our NEW 12-WEEK STUDY OF THE ODYSSEY.
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📚They explore why the epic opens with “man” (not rage, not a god), the meaning of polytropos (“man of twists and turns”), Telemachus’s urgent coming-of-age amid an absent father and predatory suitors, Athena’s masterful mentoring, and Zeus’ striking defense of human responsibility.

📚Along the way they illuminate Homer’s sophisticated anthropology, the poetic dialectic of Homer the philosopher, the haunting parallels with the House of Atreus, and why this ancient poem still speaks so powerfully to questions of masculinity, homecoming, virtue, and human greatness today.

📚Witty, learned, and full of “blood on the floor” interpretive energy, this conversation will leave you hungry for the next eleven weeks—and convinced that Homer is one of the greatest teachers you’ll ever encounter.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the Great Books Podcast
03:39 The NEW Odyssey: A 12-Week Study
09:29 The Importance of Reading Homer
17:01 Exploring the Opening Lines of the Odyssey
30:14 The Man of Twists and Turns: Understanding Odysseus
35:28 Exploring Odysseus: The Complexity of a Hero
39:26 Justice and Fate: The Role of Aegisthus
42:28 Divine Intervention: Zeus and Human Responsibility
55:30 The Journey Home: Odysseus and Telemachus
01:03:12 Coming of Age: Telemachus's Transformation
01:05:37 Exploring Penelope's Role
01:11:44 Telemachus' Journey to Manhood
01:24:56 Reflections on the Odyssey

More Resources

Intro to the Odyssey with Dr. Patrick Deneen (2024)
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The Odyssey Book 1 with Dr. Frank Grabowski and Thomas Lackey (2024)
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Do Christians Owe a Debt to Homer? The Ascent.
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Understanding Homer as a Philosopher & Theologian. The Ascent.
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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A major investigation by Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung reveals that Hamas spent years building an operational terrorist network across Europe, including weapons caches, bomb-making capabilities and sleeper cells preparing attacks against Jewish, Israeli and Western targets. Investigators believe the network had even selected October 7, 2025, the second anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel, as the planned date for an attack.

The latest arrests began in Greece and Cyprus. Greek special forces detained a 37-year-old Egyptian man of Palestinian origin, identified by some local media as Motasem, after investigators reportedly found chemicals, a precision scale and equipment that could be used to manufacture explosives in his Athens apartment.

Authorities believe the Greek-Cypriot cell was preparing to attack an Israeli cruise ship that regularly docks in Greece. The suspect and another Palestinian traveled through Switzerland, Qatar and Indonesia to Malaysia in 2025, where investigators believe they received bomb-making training.

The investigation connects the plot to a wider network spanning Germany, Austria, Denmark, Britain, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece. Since October 2025, Germany's federal prosecutor has ordered the arrests of nine men in Germany and abroad.

The network transported at least 13 handguns, an AK-47 and more than 900 rounds of ammunition through Scandinavia, Germany and Austria. Five Glock pistols were moved from Denmark through Berlin to Vienna, where Austrian intelligence later discovered a weapons cache.

German investigators say Hamas had been creating weapons depots in Europe since at least 2019. In December 2023, Bulgarian police uncovered a suitcase containing weapons and ammunition buried in woodland near Plovdiv after German authorities found photographs of the cache on a suspect's phone.

In February 2023, eight months before the October 7 massacre, the German cell received orders from Hamas officials in Lebanon to prepare attacks against Jewish, Israeli or American targets. Suspects reportedly surveilled Ramstein Air Base, the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and Tempelhofer Feld.

Investigators believe the operation was directed by Hamas commanders in Lebanon, including senior military figure Khalil al-Kharraz, who was killed in an Israeli strike in 2023. Several members of the German cell were filmed attending his funeral in Lebanon.

The investigation concludes that Hamas may no longer view Europe merely as a fundraising and logistical base, but as a potential battlefield for attacks designed to bring the Middle East conflict directly onto European soil.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Nuclear Family is a Technology of Western Civilization – So It Needs to Be Destroyed With All the Others.

The nuclear family is not a natural unit. It is a technology – the most successful child-rearing, wealth-transmitting, civilization-building technology ever developed. And like every other Western technology that works, it is currently being systematically dismantled.

1. Every society in history has organized reproduction and child-rearing somehow. The Eastern clan, the tribe, the loyalty network – these are the alternatives. They work, up to a point, for the societies that run on them. They produce strong internal solidarity and fierce external competition. They also produce nepotism over meritocracy, loyalty over competence, the network over the individual. Low-trust societies stay small and family-based – unable to build the large institutions, the corporations, the rule of law that require trust between strangers. The nuclear family is the Western solution: small enough to invest maximally in children, open enough to produce citizens who can cooperate beyond the clan.

2. It is a technology in the precise sense: a solution to a problem, developed through trial and error over millennia, encoding accumulated wisdom that is not immediately visible to those who inherit it. It aligned incentives with extraordinary precision – the man invested in children he was certain were his, the woman had a committed partner for the most vulnerable years, the children had two adults with maximum skin in the game. And crucially: it introduced a free market for mating rather than arranged marriage. Individuals chose their partners – which meant attraction, compatibility, and genuine commitment rather than clan negotiation. The most intimate human bond brought into the competitive, meritocratic framework that produces everything else the West does well.

3. The attack follows the standard pattern. Reframe the technology as oppression. Celebrate the alternatives as liberation. Restructure the incentives – welfare systems that replace the husband, legal systems that make marriage a liability for men, cultural systems that mock the committed father. Then watch the institution dissolve.

4. The data is not ambiguous. Children raised by married biological parents outperform children from every other arrangement on every measurable outcome. This is one of the largest and most replicated findings in social science. The nuclear family is not one lifestyle choice among many equivalent options. It is the arrangement that produces the best human beings at scale. Which is precisely why it had to go.

5. The deepest damage is not measurable. The nuclear family was the primary transmission mechanism of civilization – values, habits, language, culture, and identity passed from one generation to the next in the most intensive possible environment. Destroy this transmission mechanism and you don’t just produce worse outcomes for individuals. You break the chain. The torch cannot change hands if the hands are gone.

6. The replacement is the state. When the family dissolves, the state expands to fill the functions the family performed. This is not a coincidence. It is the design. Tocqueville described it: the soft despotism that replaces every horizontal bond with a vertical dependency on the government shepherd. The nuclear family was the primary horizontal bond. Its dissolution is the prerequisite for the complete vertical dependency the administrative state requires.

7. The nuclear family is not a conservative preference or a religious requirement. Defend it not because it is traditional. Defend it because it works – and because what is offered in its place doesn’t. The clan and the tribe produce loyalty. The administrative state produces dependency. The nuclear family, with its free market for mating and its maximum investment in the next generation, produces citizens. That is the one thing the system replacing it cannot afford to produce.